CHRONICLE. 
Holt wood, his foot slipped into a 
ditch, and stracke upon a glass urn, 
¢ontaining 230 pieces of silver Ro- 
man coins, in the highest state of 
preservation. Among this number 
were one of Gratian, one of Julian, 
‘one of Theodosius, and one of Ar- 
cadius, Roman emperors. 
3ist. A new institution has been 
established in London, under the title 
of ‘¢ The British School.” Its pur- 
port is to afford an opportunity for 
artists to display such of their pro- 
ductions as they intend for sale, and 
to contribute to support themselves 
and families in case of sickness, or of 
death. 
A second voluminous, but curious, 
report on the crown lands has been 
published, in conformity with the 
directions of the act of the 34th of 
the present king, for the better ma- 
nagement of the land revenue of the 
crown, and for the sale of fee-farm 
and other unimproveable rents. Mr. 
Fordyce, of the land revenue office, 
is the author of this report, which, 
after a variety of statements on the 
improveable rents, proceeds to those 
not of an improveable nature.—In 
the progress of the report, we notice 
the mooring-chains of the river 
Thames, held on lease of the crown 
by the Gwydir family ; likewise the 
sunk island in the Humber, as highly 
improveable. But all we can say 
within our narrow limits will convey 
but a faint idea of the great mass of 
matter brought forth in this report. 
—As many of the holders of the 
crown lands had obtained them un- 
fairly, and by various encroach- 
ments, so, of course, a variety of 
complaints have been made against 
the new regulations and reclaims on 
the part of the crown: indeed, we 
are not a little surprised to see, 
among the papers forming part of 
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the report, a copy of a memorial 
presented by a number of the tenants 
of the crown, complaining of the ge- 
neral hardships of leases granted in 
the manner now adopted, and put- 
ting several extreme cases of distress 
which may oceur. It is rather re- 
markable, that, among the tenants 
complaining of these great hardships 
and possible distresses, the greatest 
number of names are those of peers, 
of the highest rank, members of par- 
liament, and private individuals of 
high distinction and fortune. ‘The 
titles of Richmond, Marlbororgh, 
Leeds, Queensberry, Essex, Har- 
rington, Gower, Fife, Sheffield, and 
Whitworth, are not the only remark- 
able ones. The answer of the lords 
of the treasury to these was, that it 
was impossible to make any general 
regulation, where every two indivi- 
dual cases were different; but that no 
individual, who had a real cause for 
distress, should suffer hardship from 
the crown. 
The following is a copy of a letter 
from the society of agriculture, at 
Paris, to William Marshall, esq. 
in London, the well-known author 
of several useful volumes on the ru- 
ral economy of England: 
“¢ Sir—The agricultural society of 
Paris, ever since their installation, 
have been desirous to give you a 
proof of the very high esteem with 
which they regard your useful la- 
bours. But the war, which so long 
separated two nations formed to ap- 
preciate and assist each other, had 
broken the chain which unites the af- 
fections of men, of whatever clime, 
whose exclusive employments are the 
improvements of the useful arts, and 
who devote their study and experi- 
ence to increase the happiness and 
prosperity of their native country. 
The society of Paris, now availing 
themselves 
