in England and Wales, according to the 
returns received in the week ending the 
16ch of October, as published i;i the Lon¬ 
don Gazette of the 2d November, are as 
follows: 
Wheat...10.1s. Od. per quarter. 
Barley ...._ 47s, 4d. 
Oats'. 29s. lOd. 
which equal, and in sever*! instances exceed, 
the prices at the different periods v. h.en the 
legislature, in their wisdom, thought fit 
to interpose to prevent the Dlsfiliation of 
Spirits from Grain, (.he year of extraor¬ 
dinary scarcity only excepted,) as udll- ap¬ 
pear from the tollowing cemparstive state¬ 
ment, taken from the official returns: 
Average Price of Wheat, Barley, and 
Oats, in England and Wales, according to the 
weekly returns, nearest to tire following 
periods; 
Nearest Weekly 'Return. 
Date. 
Distillation. 
Wheat 
Barley 
Oa 
ts. 
s. 
d. 
s. 
d. 
s. 
d 
1795 
Prohibited 
9S 
10 
45 
0 
29 
2 
, 1797 
Removed 
52 
O' 
23 
a. 
-• 
15 
10 
i8t)()|Prohibicion 
133 
0 
76 
7 
41 
8 
1802j Removed 
76 
9 
44 
1 
23 
4 
luOSiProhibicion 
81 
6 
44 
38 
10 
1 GOsjContir.ued 
92 
7 
45 
10 
33 
8 
1899 Prohibition 
95 
7 
16 
61.34 
4 
1809 
Prohibition 
101 
Q 
50 
7 
31 
11 
flSlO Prohibition 
101 
r- 
( 
46 
6147 
5 
'.1811 
i he last .re urp 
101 
6 
47 
4 
29 
10 
That on these grounds your Petitioners 
humbly conceive there exists an urttent ne¬ 
cessity for the interposition of the Royal 
Prerogative before the Aleethig of Parlia¬ 
ment, more especially as, should the measure 
be deferred till that piriod, the distillers 
will have laid in their stocks of grain for 
the season, a large proportion of which will 
either be distilled, or converted into a state 
unfitting it for she food of man. 
[And your PetitionersWill ever pmy. 
Live pool during the last month has exhi¬ 
bited the extraordinary Spectacle of an 
TrALi.'iN Opera, which was performed 
in that northern metropolis during three 
nights, and was the first performance of the 
kind out of London. 
Num'eel] At Man Chester, Mr. Robert 
7’ay!()r, 6! Faiisworth, to Hannah, daugiiter 
of Mr. William fiarrow.—Mr, Z.'phaniah 
Fletcher, to tMiss TUzabeth Roheits. — Mr. 
A- Lsviiigiton, to Mrs. S.^ruh Edwards, 
relict of the late William E. esq —Mr. John 
Dick, to Miss Ann Crooke.—Mr, William 
FidJin, to jMiss Darlow.- 
Mr, Edward Swarhvick, Nateby Ifouse, 
near Gaistiai'g, to Miss Newsham, of Bell 
Fold, near Broughton. 
Mi William Jones, of Liverpool, to ]Miss 
Ann Harvey, of London. 
Mr 'rhciTt’.' Barker Hope, to Miss Eelty 
Tov.crr, of Preston. 
[Dec. 1, 
Mr. Thomas Vose, to Miss Nancy Richard¬ 
son, both of W'igan. 
Mr. Thomas Whiteley, of Leigh, to Miss 
Fox, of W igan. 
Willlan Hamilton, esq. to Miss Cheyne, 
Tvlr, William Bullock, of Liverpool, to 
Miss Catharine Haslingden, of .Manchester. 
Mr. James Win.stanley, to Miss Hannah 
Tubman, both of Wigan. 
Mr. Joseph T! relfall, to Miss Jane Jones, 
of Liverpool. 
Mr. George Rowe, of Liverpool, to MisJ 
Dorothy Potter. 
Mr. John Colquhoun, to Miss E. Lyon, ot* 
Preston. 
Captain Robert Crawford, to Miss Jane 
W'i! son, of Brownlow hill. 
Mr. V/, Borland, artist, of Liverpool, t© 
Miss Margaret Town. 
Mr. Robert Hibbert, of Manchester, to 
Marian, eldest daughter of William Craven, 
esq. of Wigan. 
At Manchester, Mr. Michael i\shton, of 
Liverpool, to Hannah, only daughter of 
Joseph Yates, esq. 
Mr. William Ward, of Liverpool, to Mrs. 
Annabella M.ickenzie Kendall. 
Mr. Symonds, merchant, of Liverpool, to 
Miss Eld, of Trezel. 
Mr. Janies Brunton, of Lancaster, to Miss 
Hannah Davison. 
At Presc itt, Mr. Thomas Baines, of Ince- 
B'undcll, to Miss Liotrot. 
Mr. J. f-hewer, to Miss Margaret Sadell, 
both ot Preston. 
Mr. Richard Hall, of Leyland, to Miss 
Sarah Riddiuugh, cf Liverpool. 
'I'homas Aspinall, esq. of Fishwick-pjall, 
ne.ar Preston, to Miss Ann Gough. 
Lieutenant Jones, of the 6.5th regiment of 
foot, to Miss Sleddon, of Preston. 
Mr. William Bentlev, printer, Liverpool, 
to Miss Mary Ray, of Ulverstone, 
Died ] In ihe 27th year of his age, on 
hiS way to Siumouth, whither he was gohg 
for the benefit of his health, the Rev. 
George Phillips, A. M. Minister of a (lis*enC- 
ing congregation near Manchester, and Clas¬ 
sical Tutor of the Lancashire Independent 
Academy. The premature death of this 
excellent man is an affecting instance of the 
uncertainty and fluctuation of the present 
Elate. He was ord..ined last May to the 
pastoral offi. c, and married the following 
month. His virtues and talents were of 
the first order. Possessed of high attain¬ 
ments in literature and science, and adorned 
by piety as decided and feivent as it was 
rational and sincere, he was peculiarly fitted 
-for the impoicant station he occupied at Man¬ 
chester, .Flis very countenance was the in¬ 
dex of a Supeiior soul, and his life and con¬ 
versation exemplified the influence of those 
divine principles he believed und taught. 
His friends, novv sorrowful and afflicted, 
ar.ticij)Hied with pleasurable feelings tlie 
l-4;i< continuance of his useful labors in tlie 
rising 
Lancashire. 
