the subject. If the sense of shame, as well as duty, be not extinguished in this land, I presume there is not a man in Britain, even now, capable of contending that any trust can be morally or lawfully exercised to the ruin or disgrace of him, from whom it is derived. In former times, when I had the honor of being known to the Prince Regent, and when, I think, he had no doubt of my attachment to him, I am sure he would never have spoken to me again, if it had been possible for me to have proposed it to the Prince of Wales to unite himself, on any terms, with such a person as Bernadotte. I look back particularly to those honorable days, when an invasion was expected; when He solicited a military command, and when, failing in that just pursuit, he declared that he was determined, if the case occurred, to appear a volunteer at the head of his regiment, with Lord Moira on his right hand and Lord Hutchinson on his left; and that no authority, without positive force, should prevent him. In the present instance then, I am sure, he must have been misled by vile, if not treacherous counsels, or perplexed by political sophistries, or he may not have sufficiently considered the subject. But that, so informed and advised as he may be now on the whole merits of the question, he would have suffered his ministers to take the part they have done, and involve him in it-I no more believe it possible of him, than of the king. His royal highness's kindness to me has been for some years interrupted; but I have yet no positive reason to believe that it is totally effaced. If he should not take in good part this last unquestionable proof of my unabated disposition to serve him, the loss, if any, will be his own. To myself, there is nothing left to hope or to fear from the events of this world. When favor is not expected, fortune has no power. PHILIP FRANCIS. REPORT, &c. OUR Wool fair, which was held at the Star Inn, in this town, on Monday, the 26th inst. was never more numerously attended by the respectable and principal Wool-growers of the county, and also by several principal Wool-staplers or agents from London, Yorkshire, &c. After dinner, and the usual toasts given, Mr. Shiffner, rose and proposed the health of Lord Sheffield, with three times three; observing how much indebted the Meeting and the Wool-growers of the United Kingdom were, to his lordship, for the information he so ably collected, and his observations, on the subject of Wool. Lord Sheffield then read his Annual Report as follows: I have much pleasure in observing, that since I last had the honor of addressing you, the difficulties respecting our foreign trade in woollens, are, in a great degree, removed; and, at present, there seems to be no greater impediment than heretofore in finding markets for our manufactures. I stated at the last meeting, from authentic documents, that notwithstanding the embargoes, and non-importation restrictions of the American States, there was an increase of the general export to all America; and that the deficiency in the direct exports to the American States was more than compensated by an increased exportation to other parts of America, whereby it appeared that very nearly half the exports nominally sent from hence to the American States, were not consumed there, but conveyed by the Americans to the West Indies, South America, or elsewhere, which we now supply to those places ourselves direct in British ships. In respect to our general trade, we have the prospect of exporting as much of our woollen manufacture as we did previously to the extraordinary measures of the enemy; for it appears that the export of woollens is increased, and that the quantity of cloth manufactured in the West Riding of Yorkshire in the last year, exceeds that manufactured the preceding year, by 815,535 yards. The quantity milled in the year ending the 25th of March, 1812, was 14,251,093 yards. The quantity milled in the year ending the 25th of March, 1813, was 15,066,628 yards, which is 6,423,912 yards more than was milled on an average of five years, ending the 5th of April, 1789. And it may be observed, that since the latter period, viz. the commencement of the French Revolution, the quantity of cloth milled, taken on averages, is nearly doubled. The official value of woollen manufacture exported in 1811, was 4,376,3971. Ditto exported in 1812, 5,084,9917. being an increase of 768,4941. At the same time it is well known that the woollen manufacturers in the West of England, viz. Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Somersetshire, and the adjacents, have been fully employed during the whole of last winter, and scarcely an idle hand to be found in any of the manufacturing towns; and that there has been very little variation between the state of the trade this and last year. And it is with much pleasure I learn that the large quantity of wool on hand, in many instances two or three years' growth, has, in general, been disposed of; and latterly, at very fair prices, considering the quantity on sale. The superior management and attention of Mr. Coke, of Norfolk, obtained for him the last spring 2s. 7d. per lb. The Duke of Bedford, notwithstanding the excellence of his fleeces, having disposed of his two or three months earlier, and before the rise, got only 2s. 3d.; and Mr. Ellman might have had the same price if he had not mixed the fleeces of another flock with his wool. He sold at 2s. 2d. and others sold at 2s. 1d. In general, a great proportion of the large stock of wool on hand in different parts of the country, was sold, previously to |