THE

AGRICULTURAL REPORT.

HE seed wheats in most parts have been got in as early this season as in any other remembered. An increased quantity has been sown throughout the whole island. The turnip crops have been very greatly improved by the late rains -The clover layers have in general worked remarkably well. A considerable breadth in the Isle of Thanet, in Kent, and the eastern counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex, some weeks since, exhibited fine and luxurious plants.-The potatoe crops have every where turned out most abundant, and are generally secured in good condition-If the barleys have been generally thin, oats rise well. In some counties where turnips did not promise well at first, a large extent of winter barley, tares, and rye, have been sown as substitutes. Grey-peas, beans, and oats look well.-Merino sheep have fallen considerably. Mutton is considerably cheaper: veal and pork dearer. The wool trade, on account of the unfavourable change in Spanish affairs, is rather slack.

Meat in Smithfield market:-Beef, 4s. to 4s. 8d., mutton, 3s. 4d. to 4s. Gd.; veal, 53. 6d. to 7s.; pork the same.

Middlesex, November 25.

AVERAGE PRICES OF CORN,

By the WinchesterQuarter of 8 Bushels, and of OATMEAL per Boll of 140lbs. Averdupois, from the Returns received in the Week ended Nov. 19, 1808.

BILL of MORTALITY, from OCT. 26, to NOV. 22, 1808.

2 and 5 17860 and 70 111

Whereof have died under two years old 428

Peck Loaf, 55. 24. 5s. 2d. 55. 2d. 55. 2d.
Salt, 20s. per bushel, 41 per lb.

NB. In the 2 per Cent Consols the highest and lowest Price of each day is given; in the other Stocks the highest only.

EDWARD FORTUNE, STOCK-BROKER and GENERAL AGENT, No. 13, Cornhill.

THE

UNIVERSAL MAGAZINE.

No LXI. VOL.X.]

For DECEMBER, 1808.

[NEW SERIES.

"We shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in any other cause, if we can be numbered among the writers who have given ardour to virtué, and confidence to truth."-DR. JOHNSON.

SKETCH of the LIFE of Sir HBW

DALRYMPLE.

HEN we resolved upon the

the tongue of slander has so loudly opened against Sir Hew, it does not appear he has ever degraded. If he hitherto

Magazine, we left our readers to con- self as a military man, it is but candid sider the measure as final and unal- to impute this failure to a want of terable; while to ourselves we re- opportunity. The circumstances of served the discretionary power of Sir Hew making a short trip to Flanpresenting them with that embellish- ders with the Duke of York, his subment, as often as circumstances might sequent appointment to be a district arise, by which individuals became General in the north of England, and objects of public enquiry and curio- his nomination to the lieutenant gosity. This determination perfectly vernorship of Gibraltar, from whence accords with the principle laid down he was called to take an active part in our address, (See Univ. Mag. for in the recent affairs in Portugal,July, p. 3) and by which, while we were not objects the best calculated are exonerated from the necessity to obtain celebrity. But though forof hunting out the obscure, we are at bidden to figure in the great world, liberty to avail ourselves of the emi- we understand Sir Hew, as a true nent. The present plate therefore, friend to discipline and improvement or any future ones which may occain the army, has always lent his adsionally be given, are to be regarded vice and concurrence to every plan as gratuitous, by which we wish to of amelioration which promised any meet, as far as possible, the expectashare of success. To judge of these, tions and approbation of our readers. Sir Hew's habits of intimacy with a Sir HEW WHITEFORD DALRYM- number of enterprizing and profesPLE who is, we hope, upon the point sional men, joined to his own abili of emerging from one of the thickest ties as a scholar, have eminently quaclouds of calumny and popular prejudice that ever perhaps obscured individual of eminence, seems to have been, advantageously for himself, reserved for this singular occasion. Tho' born, as it were, a gentleman and a soldier, hitherto all opportunities of exhibiting himself to advantage as a public character seem to have shunned him. Sir Hew was born at Ayr, in North Britain, on the 3d of December, 1750. He is the only son of John Dalrymple of Ayr, a captain of the Enniskillen regiment of Dragoons. His father was the third son of Sir Hew Dalrymple, of North Berwick, Bart. who was the third son of James, Viscount Stair.

any

This honourable descent, though
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lified him.

Though he did not accompany General Sir David Dundas to Prussia, shortly after the peace of 1783, when the great Frederick, to whom all Europe more or less was indebted for the discipline of its armies, and when that monarch had ordered a grand review of the whole of his forces;yet he is known to have been extremely partial to that General's tactics, and to have approved of his "Principles of Military Movements, chiefly applicable to Infantry."

It must, however, be acknowledged that the writer in question borrowed largely from the " Elements of Tactics for the Prussian Infantry, by General Saldern," translated by 3 P