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Wales-Scotland-Ireland-Deaths Abroad.

nent utility. Sir John St. Aubin, Sir Christopher Hawkins, Davies Giddy, esq. M. P. and upwards of seventy gentlemen of the first respectability attended, and gave their sanction to the establish ment.

Died.] At Gwiner, 76, Captain Hodge, universally regretted, and one of the first miners in the county. At Pleynt, 106, Mrs. Hick. At St. Columb, Capt. Smith, R.N.At Trewalder, near Camelford, Mr. John Taylor-At Falmouth, Mr. John Cummins, of the Hotel. Mrs. Treleaven, widow of the late Mr. F. T. of Falmouth, hatter. At Fowey, Mrs. Moody.-74, Mr. Wm. Pascoe.—At Treglesson, in Phillack, William, son of William Jenkin, of Treworgie, esq.At Delanooth, near Camelford, Mrs. Clarke, a widow, much respect ed.--At Penryn, 83, Mrs. Williams, formerly of Gosgarue. At Truro, 68, Walter Reed, esq.-At Tredrea, 30, the Rev. Edw. Gibby, late of Pembroke College.

WALES.

The new Chapel of Saint Mary, in the town of Carnarvon, has been opened for public worship. In point of architecture this building is superior to any edifice within the principality, and when the organ given by the Earl of Uxbridge is completed, it may be considered as unique.

Lately was launched from Roberts's Yard, in Hubberstone Pill, the new PostOffice Packet, called the "Francis Freeling" burthen about eighty tons, intended to be employed between Milford and Waterford.

Lately arrived at Milford, his Majesty's ship Pearlin, fitted as a lazarette, for airing goods at that port; she was convoyed thither by the Conquest gun-brig.

The line of the intended new road from the Swansea Canal to Llangadock, has been surveyed and marked out by Mr. Evan Hopkin. It will be made with every possible expedition, and, when finished, will be a beneficial communication for Llangadock, Llandovery, Lampeter, &c.

Died.] At Briton-Ferry, near Swansea, Mrs. Bowzer, wife of F. W. B esq. leaving a mumerous family to deplore her loss.

In her 80th year, Anne, wife of the Rev. John Lloyd, rector of Caerwys, and daughter of David Thelwall, esq. of Blaenyale; and, a few weeks after, in his 81st year, the Rev. John Lloyd.

At Tenby, Mrs. Baylis, wife of Willian B. esq.-50, John Phelps, esq.-At Brecon, Mrs. Price, widow of the late Samuel P. esq.-84, Joseph Williams, esq. of Glan-yr-afon, Carnarvonshire.

SCOTLAND.

Died.] In the 109th year of his age, John Hay, cottager, in the parish of Tibbermore, Like most of those who have outlived the ordinary “lease of nature," he was always

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sober and temperate, and, even among the very industrious class, to which he belonged, was remarkable for his industry: when in the best of his years it was not unusual for him to reap for hire to a master, during the day, and to reap the crop of his own few acres, while other mortals recruited their exhausted strength in sleep. He has been often seen, thus employed, upon his knees, when the rigidity of age would not let him otherwise use his sickle.. He seems, however, to have been always poor. But the Earl of Kinnoull, on whose estate he lived, provided, with his characteristic benevolence, for the comfort of his declining years. He retained to the last the use of all his faculties, and was not without some enjoyment of life till within a few weeks of his decease.

IRELAND.

At Galway, aged 100, Thomas Wilkins, M. D. many years surgeon of the Galway County Infirmary. It was in his arms the celebrated Wolfe breathed his last.

DEATHS ABROAD.

At Berlin, the Duke of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, brother to the Queen; he was expected in the spring on a visit to his royal sister in this country, but was cut off by the hand of death on the 2d of Marcli.

Robert Hamilton, esq. of Vineyard Pen, in Janraica, late Colonel of the Kingston Militia, and Acting Magistrate of the parish of St. Andrew, in that island.

At Lisbon, in consequence of throwing himself out of a window in a fit of delirium, which caused instant death, LieutenantGeneral Sir Wm. Erskine, commander-inchief of the cavalry under the orders of Sir R. Hill.

At Kingston, Jamaica, Aaron Delesser, esq. grand master of the Antient York Masons for that island and its dependencies. He was interred with masonic. honours.

At Tokat, Persia, on his return to England, the Rev. Henry Martyn, B. D. fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, This distinguished scholar took his Batchelor's degree in 1801, then under the age of 20, and attained the high honour of Senior Wrangler. His classical, as well as mathematical attainments, were very consider able. But he also possessed still higher attainments-those of genuine piety and active benevolence. Under the influence of zeal for the best interests of mankind, he embarked for India as Chaplain to the Company, in the summer of 1805, and at the several stations assigned to him, devoted himself so diligently to some of the lauguages of the East, that he superintended translations of the New Testament into the Persian and Hindostanee languages; and, with the assistance of Sabat, a learned Arabian of rank, and a convert from Ma. hometanism, made considerable progress in 2P 2

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an Arabic translation. With a view to render the Persian translation more perfect, he made an arduous journey to Shiraz, where he resided for some time. For a similar purpose he resolved to visit Bagdad; but, being compelled to take a circuitous route by Tebriz, near the Caspian Sea, his health, which had long materially suffered, became at that place so impaired, that he resolved to return by Constantinople to his native country. On reaching Tokat, about 600 miles from Tebriz, and 250 from Constantinople, he found himself unable to proceed further; and, on the 16th of October last, it pleased an all-wise Providence to terminate his important la bours. Thus at the early age of 31, the Church of England has lost a distinguished ornament, and the British and Foreign Bible Society a most valuable associate.

At Paris, at a very advanced age, H. Larcher, the translator of Herodotus, and patriarch of French literature.

At Antigua, George King, esq. of Southampton.

At Batavia, Brigade-Major W. Bowen, eldest son of Wm. B. esq. of Pibor, Carmarth en.

In America, the Hon. William Villiers Mansel, second son of the late Lord Jersey, and the successor to the Briton-Ferry estate, on the death of the late Lord Vernon.

At Alicant, of a pulmonary complaint, that accomplished young nobleman, Lord Montgomerie.

At Paris, aged 70, the Abbé Geoffroy, one of the Editors of the Journal de l'Empire. He was considered the best theatrical critic in France; he was even supposed to be superior in that branch of literature to Freron, the antagonist of Voltaire. Geoffroy, like Freron, combated the modern philosophy: in all his criticisms Geoffroy constantly attacked the Revolution, which occasioned the Journal de l'Empire to have a greater sale than any other French Journal. Its sale was 22,000 daily, but the price of a French newspaper is only three-halfpence sterling. He was a very excellent Greek and Latin scholar, and was well read in the Belles Lettres; yet, with all his knowledge, was very intolerant.

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Of a fever, under Lord Wellington, Sir T. Stiles, Bart.

At Providence Grove, St. John's, Jamaica, on the 20th Sept. aged 140 years, Sarah Anderson, a free black woman, a native of Guinea, of the Congo country: she arrived on that island in 1687, during the government of the Duke of Albemarle: she was bedridden for the last three years, but retained a good appetite, could hear, see, and converse with cheerfulness, to the last moment of her existence: she had 55

children, grand children, great grand child ren, and great great grand children; 25 of whom attended her to the grave.

In consequence of carrying too heavy a load, which inflamed a rupture he had had for the last 83 years, aged 105, F. H. Robersay, of Haillot, department of the Sambre and Meuse. His ordinary and favourite food was potatoes, and bread and milk.

At Gouveau, Portugal, 38, LieutenantColonel Richard Collins, 83d regt. colonel in the Portuguese service, and command ing a brigade in the 7th division of Lord Wellington's army. Perhaps the military archives do not record the name of a man who united so many rare qualities, or in whom was found combined such a variety of endowments. His attainments were various; he spoke the German, French, Spanish, and Portuguese languages, not only fluently, but eloquently; he was a good draftsman, and well read in the mi litary history of all the great generals who flourished in the last century. He com menced his military career in the West Indies, in the year 1795-6, under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby; he concluded a seven years' service in that country under the present Sir Thomas Picton, K.B. At the storming of Morne Fortunée, in St. Lucie, under the command of the former, he was struck by a musket-ball in the breast, and was, after lying for some hours on the spot, taken up as dead: he was, however, present at the capture of the island of Trinidad soon afterwards, remained in the family and confidence of Sir Thomas Picton during the whole of his government there, and now rests in his memory, and yet lives in his heart. He com manded his regiment at the capture of the Cape of Good Hope; and, during a five years' resideuce there, no man ever enjoyed a larger share of general esteem and admiration. At the memorable and sanguimary battle of Albuera, his leg was taken off by a cannon-ball, and, in consequence of a succeeding mortification, his thigh was obliged to be amputated very high up; he languished for some time, but the resources of a mind never to be subdued turned the balance; his stump healed, and here he gave an instance of heroism never paralleled, perhaps, in military annals: he returned to this country in the month of July 1812, in this mutilated state; aud was found again at the head of his brigade, as active as any man in the Peninsula, with a cork leg and thigh, in the beginning of the month of October following. The brigade which he had the honour to command, as a mark of their high opinion of his talents and worth, have agreed to erect a monument to his memory.

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The diseases of the last have been very similar to those of the preceding month. Num bers have perished from the long continued severity of the season. Those persons who have heretofore been afflicted with cough and difficulty of breathing, during the winter, have found it more obstinate and severe this season than on former occasions, and many for the first time have acquired a complaint which will probably attack them at future periods. There appears to be a great habit in certain diseases, a strong disposition in them to occur at certain intervals: and this has been noticed and made use of by the advocates for nature being the only physician. Hence the appearance of gout at particular times is regarded as a beneficial change, a sort of parifying ordeal, from which the sufferer comes out renovated and gay. The habit is also observed in cough, in ague, and some other fevers; in head-ach, aud various chronic affections.

"The difference between the efforts of nature and the interference of art, in the cure of diseases, is simply this: in the one case the disease runs its course with as much violence as its type and the constitution of the patient will allow, till it destroys life, or gradually subsides into health; in the other the disease is at once cut short, or its paroxysms are rendered milder, or the inevitable approach of death is made more tolerable and more distant. To those who know the value of friendship, the bliss of domestic enjoyment, and the satisfaction of doing good, a single hour's delay in obeying the awful summons is no trivial blessing. To talk of nature then effecting much in the cure of disease is speaks ing idly; and to suffer morbid action to continue when it is in the power of art to destroy it, is acting madly. If a patient recovers, it will be found that the longer the disorder has continued the weaker it will leave him, and in general will be more disposed to recur, till finally it proves fatal.

Gout in some instances is an exception to the expediency of checking diseased action, whenever it is within our power; but where is there a general rule without an exception? In gout too there are many occasions when it may be both prudent and necessary to assuage the paroxysms and check the disorder, which is not difficult to accomplish, even without resorting to the miserable expedient of a French nostrum, of which we know little, unless that its effects are violent, and its consequences sometimes fatal.

Savage nations and ignorant people universally are fond of strong remedies. Our dogs and horses experience gentler treatment in the present age than the common people did formerly; some of whom indeed, in the neighbourhood of Seven Dials, still place considerable reliance on gun-powder and brandy, and camomiles and gin, in various complaints internal and external. SAMUEL FOTHERGILL, M.D.

Craven-street, March 26, 1814.

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MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT.

T an extraordinary meeting of the Chamber of Commerce and Manufactures of Edinburgh, held on the 23d of February, there was produced and read the report of the Committee on the Bankrupt Bill, the tenor whereof follows:-That they found, that although there are a few verbal corrections on some of the clauses, and others of them transposed, yet that the grand and fundamental objections which so forcibly apply to the bill formerly transmitted, still apply to this, and remain unobviated, particularly that no time is fixed for the termination of the law, which would of course render it perpetual if passed into an act: that the period for electing the trustee is as much abridged as before: that it contains none of those important regulations which are contained in the bill prepared on the recommendation of this Chamber, a printed abstract of which was laid be

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fore them, as well as all the mercantile associations in the towns of Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds, Birmingham, and London; and who, as well as this Chamber, consider these regnlations to be essentially necessary to the establishment of a wholesome system of Bankrupt Law in Scotland, and without which any law on this subject must be very defective. that as the extending the sequestration law to landholders, &c. was not considered an advisable measure to be attempted at present, it would be proper to alter the bill in that respect, as well as to introduce some additional clanses, which were considered to be improvements, and which had occurred since it was first prepared; and that the clause which provides that the money shall not be lodged in any private bank, or banking house, who are creditors of the bankrupt; as also the clause prohibiting a partner of a bank or banker from being elected a trustee, should be expunged.-The meeting expressed their sense of the great and essential services which Mr. CAMPBELL has rendered to the commercial interest and the public in general, by the salutary provisions that are contained in the bill he has prepared at the request of this Chamber.

There has been a revival in the demand for cottons during the last week. The sales were estimated about $700 packages, chiefly taken on speculation. The greater proportion of the sales are in Brazil cottons, and there is no other description at market, with the exception of East India, which remains without enquiry. The sales of the last week -1600 Pernams, very ordinary to fair, 2s. 104d. a 2s. 111⁄2d.; 1300 Bahias, very ordinary to good, 2s. 84d. a 2s. 104d.; 390 Maranhams, 2s. 10žd.- 130 Boweds, fair to good, 28. 8d. a 2s. 94d.; 74 damaged, 2s. a 2s. 6d.; 90 good Cayenne, 2s. 9d. ; Surinam, ordinary to good, 2s. 84d. a 2s. 10d.- -70 Surats, fair, 21d.

Cotton Twist unvaried in the prices-little business doing.

Liverpool market experienced a very fair demand for cottons last week, principally from the trade, who, being lightly stocked, had been compelled to purchase freely. The sales of the week consist of 400 bags Boweds, middling to good, 2s. 8¦d. a 2s. 10d.; 200 Demeraras, fair to good, 2s. 10d. a 2s. 11d. ; 2260 Pernams, ordinary to fine, 2s. 114d. a 33. 1d.; 1650 Maranhams, middling to good, 2s. 94d à 2s. 11d.; 600 Bahias, ordinary to good, 2s. 8žd. a 2s. 11d.; 128 Bengals, fair to good, 20žd. a 21d. per lb. ; amounting to about 6000 bags, mostly Brazils.

Tea. The prices uncommonly high; yet the purchases bear a profit of 2d. per lb. in the market.

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Spices.-Pepper continues to decline, it may now be quoted 187d.-There has latterly been no Pimento put up to public sale; last week a small parcel taken in without offers being made at 16d.; the prices continue to decline, and the sales very li mited.

Rice continues in considerable request.'

Fruit. The export demand for fruit continues very considerable. Turkey figs and red Smyrna raisins continue in request.

Sugars. The demand for Muscovades last week continued limited, but apparently some revival in the enquiries; the purchases made were about 1s. below the quotations of the previous week.--The demand for foreign sugars of every description continues very limited. No public sales. The shipments of sugar are more general than formerly, yet the high rates have deeply affected the export to the Continent. The average price of săgar in the last Gazette was 95s. 1d.-More than last 2s. 93d.

Coffee. The request and the prices of Coffee are improving. There were six public sales last week, two of them rather extensive, yet the demand appeared so general, that they might be stated to have gone off freely, though with no great briskness, at an improvement generally of about 2s. per cwt.; the finer qualities selling higher in proportion than the inferior descriptions.

Kum, Brandy, and Hollands.---The shipments of Rum continue considerable, and very general; the request continues steady, the prices at little variation. The imports of Geneva are greatly deficient of the expected quantity, the prices rising.—Brandy continues to decline.

It appears by an official report lately published by the Commissioners for managing the Sinking Fund, that they had purchased, on the 21st of Dec. 258,409,466). 15s. 6d. of capital stock, which bore an annual interest of 7,833,0881.; and that, as the public debt of the country on the 5th of January, 1786, when the SINKING FUND was first established, was but 238,231,2481. 55. 24d., more than the whole debt which then existed has now been liquidated, by above 20 millions.

It appears also by another official document, that the outstanding Exchequer Bills, or unfunded debt, amounted on the 5th of January last to 47,156,8001. of which 3 millions are held by the Bank of England, without interest, and 3 millions at 3 per cent. interest, to be paid six months after peace.

By a published List it appears that the SUN FIRE OFFICE paid in duties last year 101,000.; the PHENIX 59,000l.; the ALBION 18,0001.; and the ATLAS bat 11,000l. The premiums may be taken at a sum under the amount of the duties, and out of these are to be paid all expences and losses.-The departments of LIFE INSURANCE, which

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are attended by more temporary advantage to these institutions, have, we are told, during the present winter, occasioned unusually large drafts on their capital, by the unpa ralleled mortality which has taken place among the aged part of the community.

Bank notes to the amount of 10s. each, so long talked of, it is said, are to be issued for circulation very speedily.

By a statement published at St. Petersburgh, it appears that the importations there, which in 1812 were valued at 1,085,000 rubles, amounted to 5,800,000, in 1813.

In proof that the policy of RUSSIA is not confined merely to the acquisition of provinces from TURKEY and PERSIA, and to the overthrow of the military barrier of Europe, it appears that she is now engaged in completing two military and commercial establishments on the N. W. coast of North America; that the Russian government have for nearly ten years past had a fort, mounting a few pieces of ordnance, on the Island of Rodiak, in lat. 55 N. and long. 160 W. being the nearest point of the American continent to their establishment at Kamtschatka; and that within these four years they have begun another establishment on the peninsula of California.

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At Messrs. Wolfe and Co.'s Canal Office, No. 9, Change Alley, Cornhill; Commercial Dock shares fetch 150l. per share.-West India ditto, 1601.--The Grand Junction CANAL shares fêtch 2351. per share. The Grand Surry, 331. 10s.—And the Leicester Union, 1121.-The East London WATER-WORKS, 701.-The Grand Junetion 471.-And the West Middlesex, 321.-The Albion INSURANCE OFFICE shares fetch 461. The Globe 1131.-And the Imperial 481.

The 3 per cent. cons. on the 26th were 66; 5 per cent. 94; omnium, 18.

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MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT.

THE late gradual thaw has been extremely fortunate for the country, in the avoidance of those heavy calamities which must always attend the sudden overflow of waters. Nor has the repetition and continuance of frost and snow, almost beyond all former experience, been productive of greater losses, public or private, than must appear una voidable in such a state of the weather. The loss of lambs has already been considera ble in the north, and in all parts where the necessary precautions had been neglected. Sheep and even the larger cattle, from neglect, at no rate creditable to the husbandry of the country, have perished in the snow. The turnips every where injured,

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