Eliza Dorothy, only daughter of Charles
Lamb, esq. of Higham.

Died.] At Tarring, Mrs. Somers, wife of Edmund S. M.D. who is now with the army in Portugal.

At South Stoke, the Rev. Mr. Wilson, rector of that place.

At Midhurst, Mr. T. Rudwick.

At Brighton, Mrs. Byfield. Mrs. Martin.
At Lewes, Mr. Thomas Harman.

At Chalvington, Mr. James Carpenter, 79.
At Alfriston, Mr. James Marchant, 75.

HAMPSHIRE.

Married.] At Ealing, the Rev. W. Bus, cawen, to Miss Leicester.

At Winchester, Mr. Richard Newlyn, attorney, to Miss Hedger.

At Ringwood, Mr. J. B. White, of Salisbury, to Miss Sarah Sophia Warne, of Hurn, near Ringwood.

Died.] At Newport, Mr Shatford, manager of the Salisbury, Guernsey, Jersey, New, ort, and Cowes company of performers. At Woolley Green, near Romsey, Mrs. Wade, relict of Charles W. esq.

WILTSHIRE.

Married.] William Robbins, esq. of Man-, ningford Abbots, to Sarah, second daughter of james Hayward, esq. of Beachingstoke.

At Appleshaw, James Edwards, esq. of Horsebridge, to Miss Butcher, only daughter of the late John B. esq. of Appleshaw.

At Harnhain, Mr. Edward Cooper, of Bradford, youngest son of the Rev. Edward C. of Yetminster, Dorset, to Miss M. Brodie, youngest daughter of the late Rev. Mr. B. of Winterslow.

At Bath, the Rev. E. Sheppard, D.D. to
Mrs. Smith.

Died.] At Bath, John Monck, esq. 74.
He was a lineal descendant of Anthony
Monck, the grandfather and common ancestor
of General George Monck, who was the
principal instrument of the restoration of
King Charles I.-Mrs. Perry, relict of
Henry P. late commissary of Prince Eward's
Island, Mrs. Parks, wife of Richard P. esq.

At Bristol, Mrs. Baker, relict of Jeremy
B. esq.-Edward Bromley Wright, gent 34%

At Clifton, Harriet, second daughter of
Lieut.-Col. Bird, of Goytrè, in the county of
Monmouth, and late of the 54th regiment.
Her uncommon suavity of manners, and
truly amiable disposition, must ever render
her memory most dear to all who had the
happiness to know her.

DORSETSHIRE.

Married.] At Wareham, Giles Diston
Barker, esq. to Miss Hill.

At Glanville's Wootton, J. B. Knight,
to Elinor, youngest
esq. of Anderston,
daughter of the Rev. H. Evans.

Died.] At Dorchester, Mrs. Chaffer, sister to the Rev. Mr. C. of Canterbury.-Miss C. Lock.-Mr. Jacob Parsons.

DEVONSHIRE.

Married.] At Exeter, John Stevenson, esq. second son of Robert S. esq of Binfield Place, Berks, to Eliza, youngest daughter of John Newcomb, esq. of Star Cross.

His

Died.] At Stoke, near Plymouth, Benjamin Cosway, esq. father of William Cosway, esq. secretary to Lord Collingwood. death was most awfully sudden: he had been Died.] At Wilton, Mr. Kerley, of the spending the evening in a circle of friends, Greyhound Inn.

At Devizes, Mr. John Young. At Bradford, Thomas Bush, esq. a magistrate for the county, and who served the office of high sheriff in 1801.

BERKSHIRE.

Married.] At Wallingford, Mr. Thomas Wells, to Miss Parker.

Ar Bisham, Fulwar Craven, esq of Chilton, Wilts, to Laura, second daughter of George Vansittart, esq. M.P. for this county, At Aldermaston, Mr. Benjamin Roberts, to Miss Elliott.

Died.] At White Waltham, Mr. Basset
Lee.

At Englefield, Mr. John May.
At Bagnor paper-mill, Mrs. Elizabeth
Wickwar, 82.

At Speenhamland, Mr. John Hatton, 59.
At Abingdon, Miss Elizabeth Castle, 20.

SOMERSETSHIRE.

Married.] At Bristol, James Bury, esq. of Pendle Hill, Lancashire, to Patience, eldest daughter of the late Martin Petrie, esq. Commissary of Accounts.-Rowland Williams, esq. of the Royal Carmarthen Fusileers, to Miss Price, daughter of Mr. P. merchant. MONTHLY MAG, No. 195.

and retired to rest about ten o'clock; shortly
after which he rang the bell, and called for.
Mrs. Cosway, who immediately sent for me-
dical assistance, but be:ore its arrival he was
a corpse.

WALES.

Married.] At Llandyllin, Montgomeryshire, John Humfrys Party, esq. to Hannah, third daughter of John Thomas, esq.

Died.] At Carmarthen, Samuel Justice, esq. former y an eminent Russia merchant in London.

At Llangattock Vibonavel House, near Monmouth, Mrs. Philips, relict of Herbert P.

esq.

DEATH ABROAD.

On board his Majesty's ship Undaunted, off Vera Cruz, Percy Watson, aged 17, acting lieutenant of the Haughty gun-brig, son of the Rev. Dr. Watson, of Shooter'sbill, Kent. He was seized with the fever of the climate on the 17th, the day on which his elder brother, George Watson, lieutenant of the Royal Engineers, died at Limerick, aged 20, of water in the chest, occasioned by a violent cold caught on the Shannon, in the discharge of his duty. N

MONTHLY

MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT.

FAST INDIES AND CHINA-Since the publication of our last Report, three vessels are arrived from Bengal, on account of the East India Company. The names of the vessels are the Earl Spencer, Monarch, and Lord Keith. The following are the particulars of their cargoes. Company's goods. Salt-petre, 7,500 bags, 10,000 cwt. and Sugar 4,500 bags, 5,989 cwt.-Privilege goods. Indigo, 5,587 chests. Raw silk, 179 bales. Piece goods, 40 bales. Lac Lake, 49 cwt. Gum copal, 48 cwt. Safflower, 28 bales. Lack colour, 32 chests. Madeira wine, pipes. Besides several other parcels of goods the particulars of which are not yet known. The news of some disturbances of an alarming nature having taken place in the territories of the Company, has had a very sensible effect upon India stock, but as we understand that the accounts of the commotion are somewhat exaggerated, we trust the alarm which has been spread among the holders of the Company's stock shares, will be of trifling duration. Teas sell at the following market prices, viz. Bohea, 15.7d. to 25. Singlo and Twankay, 3s. 6d. to 3s. 10d. Cougou, 3s. Id. to 3s. 103. Souchong, 3s. 94. to 5s. Pekoe, 4s. 3d, to 4s. 84. Hyson, 3s. 7d to 6s. Campoi, 3s. 6d. to 3s. 10d. Sugar fetches from 31. 15s. to 41. 10s per cwt. Cotton-wool, from 1s. 3d. to 1s. 6d. per lb. Cochineal, from 6s. to 8s. per lb. Copper-indigo, from 4s. 6d. to 9s. Copper and purple ditto, from 6s. 6d. to 10s.. Blue and purple ditro, from 113. to 12s. 6d. per lb. It is to be observed, that the value of East India indigo has experienced a considerable increase since our last Report, and it will most probably be further enhanced in proportion as the article becomes known to British manufacturers. The prices of hemp vary from 701, to 801. per ton. Of ginger, from 31. 15s. to 41. 6s. per cwt. Of opium, from 11. 6s. to 11. 8s. Of Jambee pepper, from 10d. to 10d. Of Billapatam ditto, from 10d. to 101d. and of white ditto, from 2s. d. to 3s. Turmerick is a scarce article; it fetches from 51. to 61. 8. per cwt.

WEST INDIES.-On the whole, West India produce has not experienced any considerable depression within the current month. The stock on hands of the leading articles is still heavy, and the buyers appear extremely backward. Sugars have been drooping. Antigua, Dominica, and Tortola, fetch from 31. 14s. to 41. 4s. Grenada, St. Lucia, and Trinidad, from 31. 13s. to 41. 4s. and Jamaica, Montserrat, Nevis, St. Kitt's, and Tobago, from 31, 15s. to 41.6s. Coffees are very flat, but cannot be called cheap. The prices of the fine, are from 51. 15s. 10 61. 5s. of the good, from 51. 5s. to 51. 15. of the middling, from 41. 10. to 51. 5s, and of the ordinary, from 31. 8s. to 41. 10s. In the London and Liverpool markets, the prices of Jamaica rum are stationary, and the article is little enquired after. Common leewards are in demand, principally on account of the advertised navy-contract; but the holders are unwilling to sell freely at the present prices. Leeward Island rum may be quoted from 38. 10d. to 4s. 6d. per gallon. Cotton-wool is one of the most saleable articles that the islands furnish; it sells at prices from 1s. 6d to 2s. 6d. per lb. according to place of growth and quality. The outward-bound fleet sailed from Portsmouth with convey oa

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NORTH AMERICA.-Our negociations with this part of the world still hang in unpleas ing suspense, and as it must naturally be supposed, most articles of American produce are either kept back by the holders, or transferred from hand to hand at high prices. New Or leans cotton letches from 1s 98. to 1s. 10d. and that of Georgia, from is. 84d. to 3s. 6d. Potashes sell at prices from 21. 8s. fo 31. 5s, and pearl-ashes, from 31. to 31 13s. per cwt. Maryland tobacco brings from 7d. to 17d. and Virginia from 9d. to 15d. per lb. Wax, from 141. 53. to 151. per cwt. Oak, from 10l. to 151. 10s, Ditto plank, 111. 10s to 151. Pine, from to 101. 15s. Ditto plank from 111. 10s, to 161, per last. Tar, from 21, 48, to 21. 65. per barrel. Pitch, from 17s. to 18s. per cwt. Linseed, from 41. 55. to 41. 10s per quarter. Beaver, from 10s. to 28s. per lb. Black rosin, from 14s, to 16s. and yellow ditto, 15s. to 17s. 6d. New England castor, 11. 13s. to 11. 16s.

SOUTH AMERICA -It is not in our power to make a very favourable report on the subject of South American commerce. The governments of this part of the world seem to regard, with a jealous eye, every attempt of the English to place the trade between the two countries on a firm basis; and indeed the inhabitants themselves have been so completely surfeited with our goods that they do not appear at all inclined to contravene the designs of their rulers in respect to us. Certain, however, it is, that when once the South A ́nericans shall have had a sufficient opportunity to ascertain the superiority of British manufac tures over those to which they have hitherto been accustomed, the scene will be changed; and, what is now rejected, will then be eagerly coveted. Experience alone can them to know the true value of our manufactured goods, such as ironmongery, woollens, &. and this experience will doubtless be acquired before their present stock is consumed. The prices of the principal articles furnished to the English, markets by this productive part of the earth, are as follow: Brazil cotton-wool, 2s. 244. to 2s. 6d. Pernambucca ditto, s. 41. to 2s 6d. Maranham ditto, 2s. d., to s. 33. Cochineal garbled, 11, 14. to 11. 19. Guatimali indigo, 5s. to 11s. 9d. Caracca: ditto, 5s. 6d. to 11s. Brazil ditto, s. 61, to 5.

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per lb. Tallow of Buenos Ayres, 41 3s. to 41. 4s. per cŵt. "Brazil tobacco, 6d. to 10d. per lb. and Jesuits' bark, 4s. 3d. to 11s. 9d, per lb.

AFRICA. The island of Bourbon was taken possession of by the British troops in September last; but it has since been confidently reported that the place was after a short period abandoned by the captors. The island of Bourbon could, in a commercial point of view, prove of little importance to the British nation. It is true, that the cotton wool which Bourbon produces is admirable in its kind, and, that the coffee cultivated in the district of St. Paul, cedes only to the coffee of Mocha, in point of odour; yet, we ask, would it be politic, would it be generous, to introduce those dangerous rivals into the English market among the articles of a similar description furnished by the West Indies?-Our West India merchants find their stock heavy enough in all conscience, even as matters are now situated; large quantities of colonial produce superior to their but, what would be their situation own, were submitted to the trade at such prices as they cannot pretend to sell at?-Guinea Elephants' teeth, from 241. to 301. 10s. and scrivelwax fetches from 91. to 101: per cwt. loes from 121. 10s. to 201. per cwt.

BALTIC By the treaty between France and Sweden, Pomerania is said to have been restored to the latter power. The permission to import colonial produce was indispensable to the Swedes, with whom sugar is as essential and universal an article of culinary use as salt. It was necessary, moreover, that Russia and Prussia should be supplied with that and other articles of colonial produ e, which they can receive only through Sweden. Our government will not, it is understood, protect the exportation of colonial produce from the SweRussia tallow sells at prices from 41. 1s. to 41. 5s. per dish to the other ports of the Baltic. cwt. Archangel tar, from 21. 8s. to 21. 10s. Stockholm ditto, from 2 13s. to 21. 15s. per barrel. Swedish pitch, from 235. to 24s. 6d. and Archangel ditto, from 19s. 6d. to 21s. per Stockholm deals, from 671. to 701. cwt. Dantzic fir, and Memel ditto, from 121. to 141. per fast

Russia hemp, from 301. to 341. per ton.

GERMANY. By the sketch of the new constitution of the Hanse Towns given in the Dutch papers, we find they are to be converted into what is termed free imperial cities under the protection of France; and nothing coming from America, either directly or indirectly, can be admitted without an express order from the Emperor Napoleon. By letters received from Hamburgh, we learn, that sugar, and other West India articles, are permitted to be sent into the interior, notwithstanding the rigour of the new custom-house regulations, HOLLAND The political revolution in Holland has produced an alteration in the policy recently adopted by out Board of Trade. Licenses were, on the 3d ult. after a cessation of two months, granted to ships proceeding in ballast to France, and returning with grain, flour, and burr-stones: Licerises were also delivered for the use of such foreign vessels as had oefore brought these commodities, permitting them to load with British manufactures, and British or foreign colonial produce, and to depart with such eargoes to Holland and France.

FRANCE-Several Decrees on the subject of External Commerce, have been published in France. The following, dated January 3, 1810, has reached our hands:

D.cree." The ports of France, and all those under her controul, are open for all vessels furnished with proper licenses; that is to say, they must be new ones, of a date posterior to this decree.

"Articles of Exportation-Vinegar, paper, paste-board, silks, embroidered stuffs, verdigris, oils, honey, perfumery, corks cut and in piece, turpentine, licorice, pitch, rosin, juniper-berries, worsted, lamb and kid skins tanned and tawed, linen of Britany, cloths and woollen stuffs in general, velvets and cottons, hosiery of every kind, cutlery, trimmings, chíná, wrought leather, and skins. These articles are to constitute the fourth part of a cargo only, the remainder is to be composed of corn, wine, brandy, and fruit.

"Importation.-Russian tallow, wax, matts, sail cloth, deals, sulphur, pot ash, staves, row for fishing, Spanish, dollars, black-lead, lead, pewter, litharge, logwood, pitch, tar, barilla, sumach, arsenic, fish-oil, hides, and lignum vitæ."

IRELAND. Most of the linens bought last year on speculation, still remain unsold in the warehouses of London. The linen trade was materially injured by this speculation. The prices of brown linens advanced so rapidly, that the purchasers of white goods declined to buy on high terms, and a very considerable portion of the present year's stock, especially of the finer kind, remain unsold. An unexampled stagnation in the linen-trade has been the consequence. The Irish growers entertain hopes that they may have a more adequate supply of linseed for next season, owing to the quantities of Riga seed lately importen by the London merchants, and from an expectation that some of the American article may find i's way through neutral ports, as well as on account of the petty farmers in several parts of the country itself, having saved a considerable quantity of seed. Prices of provisions not very different from our last month's quotations.

Prices of Canal, Dock, Fire Office, and Water Works Shares, &c. at the Office of Messrs. L. Wolfe and Co. No. 9, Change Alicy, Cornhill, January 22, 1810.-London Dock Stock, nal 1361. per cent.-West-India ditta, 1811. ditto.-East-India ditto, 1351. ditto.-Commercial ditto, 901 per share, prem.-East-Country ditto, 851. per share -Grand Junion Shares, 2401. per share.-Grand Surrey ditto, 851, ditto.--Grand Union ditto, subscri on, 121. per cent. prem.-Bath and Bristol ditto, ditto, 61. 65. ditto.-Thames and Medway ditio,

421. per share, prem-Kennet and Avon ditto, 481. per share.-Globe Fire and Life Atsurance Shares, 1301. ditto.-Albion ditto, 601, ditto.ondon Assurance Shipping, 251. p share. Rock Life Assurance, 5s. per share, prem.-London Institution, 841. per shares.Surrey ditto, par-South London Water Works, 1501 per share.-East London ditto, 2271. West Middlesex ditto, 1421. ditto.-Kent Water ditto, 421. per share, rem.-Colchester dicto, 551. ditto.-Portsea and Tarlington ditto, 401. ditto-Portsea di to, by Nicholson, 501. ditto.-Wilts and Berks Canal, 531. per share.-Huddersfield, ditto, 421.

DECEMBER.

Dead-winter Month.

When now, unsparing as the scourge of war,
Blasts follow blasts, and groves dismantled roar,

Around their home the storm-pinch'd cattle low.

HITHERTO, with the exception of three or four days in November, the weather has been much more mild than, for so late a season of the year, we have had any reason to expect. Christmas is now past, and on the sea-coast of Hampshire there has not, that I - have heard, been yet any snow.

On the 1st, 20, and 3d of December, the wind was north-west. On the 3d it changed to south-west, and again on the 4th to north-west. On the 7th and 8th it varied betwixt these two quarters; and from the 10th to the 13th it was directly west. On the 19th it was

north north east; but it afterwards, towards the end of the month, became westerly. There were fresh gales on the 1st, 2d, 6th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 15th, 18th, and 19th, and. strong gales on the 7th, 12th, and 17th. The weather has been very variable. On the 1st and 2d it was fair. There was some rain on the 3d, and the 6th was a dark, hazy day throughout. From the 6th to the 12th, there was more or less rain every day. In the night of the 11th we had a violent storm of wind, rain, hail, and thunder; and, on the two suc ceeding days, sudden and frequent storms of rain and hail, with violent gusts of wind. During the night of the 13th there was a strong frost. The night of the 14th was one of the most tremendous I ever heard for wind, rain, and hail. We had much rain on the 17th, and, about twelve o'clock at night, thunder and lightning. The 21st and 22d were extremely mild days; and on the 23d we had a heavy fog. We had little or no frost from

the 14th to the end of the month.

December 8th. Lamperns (petromyzon branchialis of Linnæus), are now found about the gravelly bottoms of our rivers and streams. They are generally observed in the act of ad

bering to the stones by their circular mouth; and are easily caught by school-boys and others, who wade into the water and seize them with their hands.

The common wagtails continue to fly about the shallow places of the rivers and ponds. Kingfishers are occasionally seen amongst the bushes, and about the banks of the rivers. December 11th. Among some sprats which I this day saw, there was a single pilchard; but it is the only fish of the species that I have heard of, as having been caught here this

year.

The flounders have now their ovaries distended with spawn, and are in season for the table; but on these coasts they are, at best, a tasteless and insipid fish.

Woodcocks are found in our copses and woods, but they are by no means plentiful. December 14th. A very large individual of the long eared bat was brought to me this day. It appeared to be as full of animation, and was as active in flight as I ever saw a bat in the middle of summer.

A few florets of the woodbine are s'ill left, in warm and sheltered places; and some of the autumnal garden plants are yet in flower.

December 22d. I this day siw two or three lambs; and am informed that several ewes have yeaned some days ago. I likewise saw a eweret of a second brood, which was scarcely half grown.

The berries of the holly and ivy are ripe.

December 31st. The weather is so unusually warm, that some of the house-flies, which more than a month ago, had retired into their hiding-places for the winter, have revived. and are buzzing about my room.

Hampshire.

Erratum in the last month's Report: for “rhamnus grangula”, read "rbamnus frangula."

P.S. Your correspondent Philo Botanicus will, I have no doubt, be perfectly aware he! difficult it is for a person who has not sufficient leisure, to be in the fields for a considerab length of time every day, to ascertain the precise periods at which a great variety of plan come into flower. As far however as my leisure and my knowledge permit, I will ende vour to supply the information which he is desirous to receive.

The following indigenous plants were observed near Warrington, in a state of inflorescen on the first of January, which is a striking proof of the unusual mildness of the present sease,

Callatriche aquatica.

Poa annua.
Primula vulgaris.

B Viola odorata.

I have been led to this observation, from having composed last year a Calendar of for 1809; which will make its appearance in the course of this month.

Your's, &c.

G. CROSFIst.

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BELONGING to No. 274 of the Botanical Magazine, reviewed in our last Report, w ceived, in the following number, the figure of Nymphæa kalmiana, a Canadian spe very nearly resembling the Nymphæa lutea of Europe, but much smaller in all its parts. do not think that the circumstance mentioned by Dr. Sims, of the veins on the und ge of the leaf being furrowed out, instead of being raised as in lutea, and perhaps in every ibler species, if constant, is so expressed by the draftsman; whose figure appears to us to the veins raised as usual.

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No. 275 of the same work, contains a beautiful figure of Trichonema pudicum, intro the by Miss Symonds, sister to the late Lady Gwillim.

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Eustrephus latifolius: a New Holland genus, the name and character of which are y Lowed from the unpublished work on the plants of that country, by Mr. R. Brown. a near affinity with Asparagus and Mediola, and has been mistaken for the narrow-ints, species of the latter.

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