At Elmstead, in his 79th year, Mr. Impett, of Wye Aged 47, Mr. L. Kennett, of Braybourne, Aged 23, Mr. W. Greene, yeoman, of Stockbury. Lately in India, H. I Darnell, efq. of the Bengal civil fervice, fon of H. Darnell, efq. of Cale-bill, in this county. At Stanford, Mr. 1. Cooper, mafter of the Drum public house. Suddenly, near London, of a paralytic troke, Mr. J. Jeuduryne, furgeon, late of Hollingbourne. Near Ramsgate, Mrs. Fox. SUSSEX. Lately, at Lewes, on pulling down an old houfe, at the Eaft corner of St. Martin's-lane, the workmen difcovered under the hearth of the kitchen, in a chalky foil, a hole about four feet fquare, filled with wood afhes and light mould, on emptying which, they found at the bottom, at the depth of 15 feet, a filver ring, ornamented with a heart, beneath a rofe or fome other flower. They likewife discovered the mouldering remains of the coffins of two children, which, as the building was very antient, must undoubtedly have lain there for several centuries. On removing the rubbish from other parts of the aforefaid premiles, two filver coins were found, one of Edward VI. and the other of Elizabeth. Married] At Lewes, Mr. T. Figg, fad dler, to Mils S. Kidd. The Rev. I. Pratt, rector of Seddlescombe, in this county, to Miis M. A. Berens, eldest daughter of J. Berens, efq. of Kevington in Kent. Rogers, of Sun-court, Cornhill.--Mr. I. Hunt, brewer, to Mifs Dancafter, both of New Alresford Died.] At Winchester, Mr. Weddell, ftone-mafon. At Portsmouth, T. Larcum, efq. a Captain in the royal navy: during a term of forty years continuance in the fervice, the time spent by the captain, on thore, was but little more than two years. WILTSHIRE. Married.] At Cortham, Mr. Ward, inítrument-maker, of London, aged 23, to Mifs Gantlett, aged 43. Died.] At Marlboro', Mr. Mortimer, shopkeeper. At Malmbury, in his 78th year, Edm. Wilkins, efq. 40 years receiver-general for this county, and high steward of Malmbury. At Melkham, Mifs Bruges. At Bremhill, the Rev. Mr. Hume, rector. In his 76th year, the Rev. H. Still, rector of North Wraxhall; a clergyman of or thodox fentiments, but farcastical character his wit, however, was genuine, and his spirit liberal and independent. BERKSHIRE. Married.] At Bampton, Mr. W. Stephens, Dewe, lecond daughter of W. Dewe, gent. of St. James's, Weftminster, to Mifs H. of Charney, in this county. At Reading, Mr. W. Williams, druggist, to Miss Berry, of Caversham, Oxon. Mr. J. Hawkins, flour-dreffer, to Mifs A. Pither. -T. J. Straker, efq. to Mifs Valpy, eldest daughter of the Reverend Dr. Valpy. At Abingdon, J. Bunce, jun. efq. of Marcham, to Mifs Child, daughter of Capt. Child, of the Abingdon troop of cavalry. Died.] At Reading, Mr. Moult, of the Crown lon. At Windfor, aged 27, Mrs. Ramsbottom, wife of J. Ramsbottom, jun. efq. a lady of elegant manners, unaffected fincerity, and engaging sweetness of temper. At Hungerford, Mrs. Viner. At Workingham, Mrs. Orne. She had only a few weeks before received the melancholy news of the death of her brother, Lieutenant Ormfby, who was maffacred at Ceylon, in the East Indies. SOMERSETSHIRE. The works on the intended Cut for alter. ing the courfe of the river Avon, according to the adopted plan for the improvement of the harbour and port of Bristol, was lately begun at Wapping in that city, near the ship-yard of Mr. Teaft, under the direction of Mr Jeflop, engineer to the Bristol Dock Company. It is intended to form a company at Bath, under the ftyle or firm of the Batheafton Mining Company, for the establishing and advancing of a mine for coals or other mi nerals; the works of which are to be carfies on in the paries of Batheafton and >want'wick, 302 Swainfwick, near Bath, under a leafe for ninety nine years (granted by T. Walters, efq), fubject to the payment of the clear annual value of one-eighth part of the actual produce, and with a power to renew the faid leafe for a further term of ninety-nine years, on paying a fine of 1,000l. Two fhares are to be reserved for the following purpofes:one to be prefented to Mr. William Smith, mineralogift, for his able affiftance and advice, and the ather to an eminent mineralogift, to be appropriated to the benefit of any charitable inftitution in Bath, he may think proper to appoint, as an acknowledgement of has fkill and attention to the interefts of * the concern," &c. Married.] At Bristol, Mr. Adams, bookfeller, to Mifs M. Ball.-Mr. J. Parfons, jun. fecond fon of Mr. Parfons, London carrier, of Bath, to Mifs M. Edgell. At Bath, Mr. Pocock, clothier, to Mifs Chafe.-R. Orlebar, efq. of Hinwick house, Bedfordshire, to Mifs M. Longuet. Died.] At Bristol, in his 21ft year, Mr. Edward Gray Harford, eldeft fon of J. S. Harford, efq. banker.-Of a decline, Mr. G. Feare, of Knowle Hill, near this city. At Bath, in her 634 year, Mrs. J. Walton. -In her 85th year, Mrs. Martyn-Edmund Jordan, efq. late of Jamaica.-Mr. Aaron Pithwick. Spicker, efq.-Mrs. Bartley, wife of Mr. Bartley, box-book keeper at the theatre-Mifs Axford.-Mrs. Jones-Aged 42, Mrs. E. Hooper, wife of Captain R. Hooper-Aged 75, Mrs. Mafon. In her 98th year, Mrs. Corbett, widow of the late Capt. Corbett, of Shropshire.-Aged 69, Mrs. Bowen, widow of the late Mr. Bowen, grocer. Mr. Bathurst, of Lidney Park, Gloucefterfhire. DORSETSHIRE. Married.]. At Melbury Sandford, Mr. W. Rogers, of Melbury Ofmond, to Mifs J. Cox.-Mr. T. Sabine, attorney, of Dorchefter, to Mifs Taunton, of Frome. In London, the Rev. T. Mallands, of Eaft Dulworth, near Wareham, to Mifs Fofter, eldest daughter of Mr. Fofter, of Bartlett's Buildings, Holborn. At Whitechurch Canonicorum, Mr. R Hodder, farmer, of Hawkchurch, to Mifs S. Hodder, of Marthwood. Died.] At Dorchester, in the prime of life, of a broken heart, univerfally regretted by all who knew her, Mrs. Gordon, wife of the Rev. Lockhart Gordon, (Sherborne Journal, May 4)-Mrs. Blye, mother of M. Blye, baker to her majesty. DEVONSHIRE. Married.] At Plymouth, Mr. Fortescue, furgeon, to Mifs Herbert, daughter of Mr. Herbert, banker.-Mr. W. Amey, of Bath, to Mits S. Hue, of Plymouth Dock. Died] At Exeter, Mr. J. Jacobs, landlord of the Falcon inn.-R. Adve, efq. of the inland of St. Chriftopher, Weft Indies.-Mrs. E. Player, wife of Mr. Player, fruiterer. At Plymouth, aged 76, Mrs. White, wife of S. White, efq. one of the oldest aldermen of the borough.-Mrs. White was a lady of a focial, cheerful, and truly charitable dispoßtion, and a pious, fincere Chriftian.-Lieutenant Governor Campbell, of the citadel; justly lamented by all who knew him, as "the foldier's friend." IRELAND. The linen trade, the ftaple branch of Ireland, is on the decline, under the laft duty. There was not fo much manufactured laft year, by eight millions of yards, as in the year preceding. The emigrants from this unfortunate country to America, during the last twelve months, amounted to twenty-seven thou fand! Died.] In Dublin-row, J. Ferrar, esq.In Leefon-street, aged 77, R. Waller, cfq. of Caftle Wailer, Tipperary. DEATHS ABROAD. At Geneva, in the ftate of New York, in January last, much lamented by all who knew her, Mrs. Dana, wife of William Pulteney Dana, efq. and daughter of Peregrine Fitzhue, efq. At Trinidad, on the 21st of Auguft laft, William Hoare Lewis, eiq. born at Gibraltar, in 1777. He was the fourth and laft furviving fon of the late Colonel George Lewis, of the royal regiment of artillery, who fo eminently distinguished himself by his acti vity and fervices during the ege of Gibral tar, when the artillery under his command destroyed the combined floating batteries of France and Spain, on the memorable 13th of September, 1782. A liberal education of ten years, at Etan, completed under the tuition of his excellent and refpectable uncle, the Rev. Bertrand Ruffel, formed him both a fcholar and a gentleman. In him was confpicuous every amiable quality of the heart, the most placid difpofition, propriety of conduct, and exemplary firmnefs in the discharge of every duty of life. He entered on the ftudy of the law, to which, for near five years, he clofely attended; when his health fuffering by fedentary application, he relinquifhed that profeffion; and, after the dif treffing lofs of his elder brother, Captain George Lewis, of the corps of royal engineers, on his paffage to England from Trinidad, for the recovery of his health (leaving two infant fons) undertook a voyage to that island, to arrange affairs devolving on him there. He for fome months found himself quite invigorated; till a violent cold, from being wet, brought on a dreadful fever, which, baffling the utmost exertions of medical kill and every human effort, in a few days put a period to his life; and deprived his afflicted mother and fifters of their kind protector, the best of fons and brothers, his two infant nephews of an affectionate relative, and all who knew him well, of a fincere and valued friend. MONTHLY MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT. T HE bank of England has, at length, found a mode of accommodating the public with filver, without the fame danger of lofs to itself which attended its firft iffue of dollars. It has had a large quantity of genuine dollars, ftamped at Mr. Boulton's mint, at Soho, near Birmingham, with entirely fresh impreflions, exceedingly elegant. This re-coinage cofts about a farthing for each piece. It is not easily to be counterfeited in fecret. The difference between the current value of five fhillings, for which each of thefe pieces is a bank-token, and the true value of the piece, as bullion, is fufficient to hinder thefe dollar-crowns from being clandeftinely withdrawn out of circulation. Yet thefe pieces are in bullion, more nearly equal to their nominal value, than our fhillings and fixpences to that for which they pafs. Some embarraffment has arifen between the bank and their customers, the public at large, in the recall of the dollars which they had, before, iffued, with the light octagon impreffion. That impreffion was very easily counterfeited. There was temptation to counterfeit it; because, dollars put off for five fhillings each, were difpofed of to better advantage, than when fold, fimply as bullion: the bank muft foon have been a lofer to a large amount, if it had continued to take, for five fhillings each, all the dollars which might have been brought in to it, bearing the octagon impreffion. On this confideration, it had recourfe to the recoinage. Its notices to the public, that all dollars bearing the octagon impreflion, would be received at the bank, for five fhillings each, till the 2d of June, brought instant returns which threatened before that date, to load the bank with twice or thrice the quantity of dollars, which it had issued with the octagon stamp. A rigorous examination of fuch as were offered, became neceffary. The counterfeit was easily diftinguished, in most cafes, from the genuine bank-stamp. There were other instances in which the fervants of the bank, with whatever candour, and whatever care, might be liable to decide even against its own stamp : but, it was evident, that unless the bank should be very much upon its guard, a vast number of dollars might be privately marked with the octagon, merely to be given in at the bank for five fhillings; upon the recall, in confideration of this, a prodigious number of the dollars fent in, have been refused at the bank. The public murmur, that many of those which are refufed unquestionably bear the genuine ftamp; fome perfons tell that the very dollars refused from one, are accepted, when fent in by another; ignorant and ill difpofed perfons endeavour to raise an ill-natured clamour, upon this occafion, against the bank, while the difcerning and the well-meaning only regret, that a little mifchief of this fort fhould not have been feparable from the plan which the Directors of the bank in the first inftance conceived for accommodating the public by an iffue of dollar tokens. The prices of West India goods, in general, have rifen. Sugars fell 2 per cent. at Briftol, in the beginning of last month; but the late news from the Weft Indies, and ftill more the renewal of Mr. Wilberforce's motion against the Slave Trade, have contributed to this change. The prices of lean cattle, fo important in their indication of the ftate of the country, and fo interefting in regard to manufactures, have, at all the country fairs, risen confiderably in the course of the month of May. The traders of the American States continue to enlarge their traffic with the East Indies; but there is no reafon to fear, that they should injure the trade between England and the Eaft, unless the price of freight from England to India should be enhanced enormously above what it is even at prefent. The demands of goods for the Weft Indies are, for the prefent, rather increased by the new independence of the Negroes in St. Domingo. Throughout the fouth-west of Scotland, the cotton manufactures are in a very thriving condition. The works of the Caledonian Canal have already much increased the ftir of business at Inverneís. The arrivals from the Baltic begin to have a fenfible effect in diminishing the prices of naval stores. The ftocks have fuffered little fluctuation from either political or commercial events in the course of last month. The 3 per Cents. fluctuate about 56. The French 5 per Cents. are at 55. We have reafon to believe, that, in confequence of the late military tranfactions in India, the market for British manufactures on that Continent may be confiderably enlarged. Large feizures of English goods have been lately made in Flanders and in Switzerland, but at the expence chiefly of the foreign purchafers. It is expected that there will be an alteration in the Corn Laws, by which the highest average prices for the maritime counties will be made to determine the importation; the lowest average price for the fame counties, to regulate the exportation. An ACCOUNT of the Value of all IMPORTS into, and all EXPORTS from GREAT BRITAIN, for Eighteen Years, ending the 5th of January, 1804; diftinguifbing each Year, and diftinguifbing the Value of Imports from the EAST INDIES and CHINA from the Value of all other Imports; and diftinguishing the Value of BRITISH PRODUCE and MANUFACTURES exported, from the Value of Fo REIGN Articles Exported; together with the Difference between the Official Value and the declared Value of Britijb Produce and Manufactures exported in the Year ending the 5th of January, 1804. Note.—The real value of British Produce and Manufactures exported to all parts of the world, as afcertained under the Acts of the 42d and 434 of his Majesty, Cap. 43 et 70, and from other correct fources of information, amounted, in the year ending the 5th of January, 1803, to £48,500,683, and in the year ending 5th of January, 1804, to £40,100,870. In the Account of Foreign Merchandize, the Official Estimates are in general under the real Value, but in the Inftance of COFFEE EXPORTED, they greatly exceed; and, therefore, in order to fhew the true Comparative State of this Branch of our Trade, the Price of Coffee is reduced to its real Value, as follows; viz. An ACCOUNT of the OFFICIAL or RATED VALUE of all IMPORTS into GREAT BRITAIN (exclufive of IMPORTATIONS from the EAST INDIES and CHINA) during the last FIVE YEARS; distinguishing each YEAR, and the principal ARTICLES IM Yarn, Linen, Raw 1,900,935 2,069,088 | 2,265,416 2,452.311 TOTAL 22,552,627 25,628,329 |27,371,115 25,647,412 21,646,968 Deduct Corn and other Grain.. Total (exclufive of Corn and other Grain, and exclufive of Iniportations from the Eaft Indies and China) .... 1,166 377 2,907,665 2,225,615| 1,233,939 1,012,869 21,386,250 22,720,664 24,145,500 24,413,473 20,634,099. 209,999 356,138 !55,778 170,864 3,926 57,373 111,709 138,893 119,839 70,358 96,727 33,180 191,054 212,038 1,226,811 1,663,375 1,788,856 2,002 309 1,777,371 332,674 503,169 395,044 525,36 595,978 423,214 417,829 375,398 2,162,738 MONTHLY |