thus obtained a greater length and quantity of straw for the purposes of thatching, or littering their cattle. When this practice is not adopted, it is nevertheless recommended to mow the wheat stubble, which produces a considerable addition of litter. By mowing the crop, is found not so liable to shed the grain, and it is as easily collected together and bound. The Mountain Muses of North Wales have been invoked on the subject of the late Jubilee; the prize is a silver cup of ten guineas value. The Rev. H. Parry, rector of Llan Asaph (distinguished for his knowledge in the literature of his country) also offers a silver harp to the best singer in the Pennillion contest, at the meeting in which the prizes are to be awarded. NORTH BRITAIN. Died.] At Ormistoun, the Hon. Helen Murray, widow of Sir John Stewart, of Grantelby, Bart and fifth daughter of the late Lord Elibank, 93. At Edinburgh, Dr. Adam, rector of the high school in that city. He was born in 1741, near Rafiord, in the county of Moray, of respectable parents, farmers. He attended the grammar-school there, and, by his own efforts, with little aid from the abilities of his teacher, attained a proficiency, in 1758, to fit him for attending the University of Edinburgh. To this he was encouraged by Mr. Watson, then minister of Canongate, and a relation of his mother. In 1761, he was elected, on a comparative trial, master of Watson's Hospital. On the illness of Mr. Matheson, rector of the High School, he was applied to for assistance; and, after teaching for some time, was, in June 1769, appointed rector, and ever since has personally discharged the duties of the office. He was twice married very respectably, but had the misfortune to survive all the children of his first marriage, the eldest of whom, Mr. James Adams, late of the Elphinstone East Inoiaman, died so recently as the 14th December, at Heavitree, near Exeter, where he had gone for the recovery of his health. He is survived by a widow, a son, and two daughters. Dr. Adam was no common character. Strongly impressed with the impor. tance of his public duties, the ambition of fullling them in the most superior manner became his ruling passion. The whole powers of his mind were dedicated with unremitting exertion to this favourite pursuit, and the labours of a most laborious life devoted to its attainn.cnt. Aver the most ant mated act vity, during the hours of teaching, to er der his pupils good scholars, and inspire them with the know.dge nd admiration of Greek and Rom›n excelence, the remainder of his time was rigidly devoted to the preparation of works o great labour, which appered to him want i gior fac lita ing the at. Comments of the youth, and exciting a relish for the study of letters. And though very susceptible of pleasure from the society of friends, and though the fatigue of great ex ertions required from him, as from other men, some interval of repose, the former was ever considered by him as an indulgence, which it became him to sacrifice; and the latter as a want, which was to be abridged as much as nature would permit: in short, he had im bibed the principles and fervour of the an tients, whom he studied, and a Stoic as to all personal indulgence, he was an enthusiast as to importance of his undertakings, and a zealot for their accomplishment. In this way, by the concentration and perseverance of his efforts, he was able to produce works of firstrate utility and merit; and which, though neither distinguished by much originality of thought, nor refined by the nicer touches of discriminating taste, afford a lesson and an example to mankind, of what may be achieved by resolution and well-directed industry. His Latin Grammar, though, for a time, encoun tered by prejudice, is, beyond all question, the work best adapted to those for whom it was destined. His antiquities comprehended, within moderate dimensions, state, in good arrangement, and with excellent judgment, nearly every thing of value in the voluminous, tedious, and expensive Commentaries on the Latin Classics, and afford every requisite aid for studying the text with intelligence and satisfaction. His Biography, Summary of History, and Geography, are superiorly calculated to furnish that general knowledge of great characters, and great events, and of the scene of action on which man is placed, which is so apt to apply the torch of Prometheus to well-born minds; and the progress he had made in the prepa ration of a Latin Dictionary, which he had destined to form the consummation of his labours, and the depository of the knowledge of Latin, which the indefatigable study of fifty years had conferred, suggests an additional and abundant source of regret that the intelligent public must experience from the loss of this valuable man. To his pupils, however, and his friends, and the latter character belonged to all the worthy among the former, that loss will be felt with much more interesting aspects. His kindness, his humanity, his candour, his impartial justice, his warm applause of virtue and merit, his bonest indignation at meanness and vice, and the deep and paramount interest he displayed for their improvement, rendered him for life dear to his scholars. And those persons who knew more particularly his private worth, his zealous rectitude, the steadiness of his attachments, and liberality even approxi mating to munificence, on proper occasions, though, by habit en principle averse to all wasterul expense, will cherish his memory, as intimately allied with their most pleasing, virtuous, and approved of, recollections. IRELANDA IRELAND. Married.] At Black Castle, county Meath, Tho. Rothwell, esq. of Rock-field, in that county, to Miss Corry, only daughter of James C. esq. of Chantinee, in the county Monaghan. At Carlow, Joseph Lightburne, esq. of Bellewstown, in the county of Meath, to Miss P. Meadows, youngest daughter of the late J. Meadows, esq. of Newbury, in the County of Wexford. Died.] At Augher, Mrs. Martha Breittan ; and the following day, at Anagh, her brother, Matthew Breittan, Colonel in the Hon. East India Company's service, 50. He went out in the year 1781, and rose with reputation through the gradual ranks of his profession from a Cadet to that of Colonel, and sustained many of the toils and difficulties of that honorable service. About three years ago he returned to his native country in a declining state of health, and lived but a short time to enjoy the competent fortune he had laboriously made. years; neglected by the conrt, but honoured with the attachment,'esteem, and confidence, of the Arragonese. To his popular conduct, and the general admiration of his civic virtues, is chiefly to be ascribed the patriotic stand made by the Arragonese in the present contest. This venerable, but proscribed, reformer, the instant the proceedings at Bayonne were known at Teruel, sallied from his retirement, and, with all the ardour of youth, traversed the province in every direc tion, to rouse the inhabitants to resistance. He recognized, and treated with the utmost respect, the new authority of Gen. Palafox, and accepted a seat in the Junta of Government. After ten months of indefatigable service in Arragon, he received a royal order from the Supreme Junta to resume the Assistantship of Seville, and his functions as Member of the Supreme Council of War. His death, though naturally to have been expected from his advanced years and increasing infirmities, was no doubt accelerated by the incessant labours to which he devoted himself since the commencement of the contest with France. Before, and after his arri In Dublin, Mrs. Tyrel, wife of Edward T. esq. of the county of Galway. At Mallow, George Newson, esq.-Sa-val at Seville, every interval which he could muel Young, of Kilco!eman.-W. Limerick, esq. At Limerick, Edward Sayers, M.D. 76. Bury Alps, esq. At Littlefield, county of Tipperary, Mrs. Carroll, wife of Flor. C. esq. DEATHS ABROAD. At Seville, in the 74th year of his age, L. Geronimo De Ustariz Tovar, Marquis of Ustariz, Member of the Supreme Council of War, Assistant of Seville, and Intendant in Commission of Andalusia He was employed in various public situations for fifty years with the approbation of his country. When Intendant of Estremadura, he introduced a variety of reforms and improvements, the effects of which were soon manifest in the increasing prosperity of that province; and he had the satisfaction of seeing many of his agricultural, financial, and judicial regu Jations, adopted by the royal Cabinet, and extended to the whole of Spain. From Estremadura he was promoted to the Assistantship of Seville. But, unfortunately for his country, the reign of favourites, strumpets, pimps, and parasites, had now commenced; and those practices so recently detected in the appointment of military offi cers in a country which we will not name, began to be felt in every branch of the Spanish government. He was removed from Seville, to make way for a cousin of the infamous Godov. In reward for his public labours, he was nominally honoured with a seat in the council of war, but was actually banished to Teruel; though the disgrace of this proceeding was attempted to be disguised by appointing him a commissioner of mines in that quarter. Here he remained many MONTHLY MAG, No. 196. snatch from his official duties was employed in digesting a plan of a new constitution for Spain. His papers are said to furnish, upon this subject, an inestimable treasure of historical and political knowledge, applied to the exigences of his fellow-citizens with all the discrimination of a statesman and philosopher. Far from verifying the assertions of certain persons, that the Spanish people have nothing further in contemplation in this struggle than the expulsion of the French, and the re-esta blishment of the old government, the Marquis De Ustariz used to take every opportunity of inculcating a contrary sentiment. "We shall have done nothing," he frequent ly and emphatically observed; "we shall have done nothing, if, before we finish this war, we have not a constitution which shall rid us for ever of tyran's." At sea, Captain C. W. Boyes, commander of his Majesty's ship Statira. When in his 16th year, he lost a leg in the battle of the memorable 1st of June; and after a constant prosecution of the most honourable services, he was cut off in the prime life, after a short illness, in the prospect of the first distinctions of that profession, which was his pride, and the full attainment of every other happiness; leaving, to lament their irreparable loss, a a most afflicted widow and two, infant chil dren. His remains were interred with mili tary honours, at Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the 25th November. At Antigua, in the 23d year of his age, Major George Gordon, of the 8th West India regiment, nephew of Colonel Gordon, military secretary to the Eari of Harrington. His ca reer was short, but brilliant. He served in the expedition to Zealand, was aid de-camp 2 B to to General Anstruther, in the memorable battle of Vimiera; and commanded, with great credit to himself, the 6th regiment, during the campaign in Spain, which corps Mas the last of the British army that embarked at Corunna An higher eulogium cannot be pronounced upon Major Gordon, than to say that he was patronised by those great and good men, the late Sir John Moore and General Anstruther, who honoured him with their friendship. Though snatched away at such an early age, he lived long enough to gain. the affectionate esteem, as his immature death has occasioned the deepest regret, to all who knew him. He has left a disconsolate mother and sister to deplore his loss. MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT. BRITISH COMMERCE AND MANUFACTURES. From the statement presented to the House of Commons by the Honourable George Rose, on the 2d ult. it appears that the balance of trade for the last year, is nearly sixteen millions in our favour, our exports exceeding our imports by that sum. The value of our exports, consisting of British manufactures alone, during the year 1809, amounted to 55 millions; while the whole imports amounted only to 45 millions. It has been very confidently asserted by many persons woo pretend to an intimate acquaintance with the commercial policy of Great Britain, that our import trade was carried on solely by paying for our imports in bullion; yet, from the papers laid before the House by Mr. Rose, it would appear, that the value of the money sent out of the country was about six millions, while that brought in exceeded ten millions, leaving a balance on the pecuniary traffic alone, of trom four to five millions in our favour. Mr. Rose undertook to prove, that the trade with the United States, of which we had been deprived, had been made up to us by our increased trade with other parts of America. In support of this declaration, he sta ed that our trade with the United States amounted to something more than eleven millions; and to all other parts of America, it then amounted to about seven millions: making a total of eighteen millions. "In the last year," continues Mr. R. "our trade to other parts of America alone, amounted to twenty-three millions, being five millions more than the whole trade had been formerly. It also appears, from papers laid upon the cable, that, instead of having received no cotton-wool from America, we had last year imported more than in any one year before." This statement of Mr. Rese certainly wears a air face; but we must beg leave to say that it savours very strongly of sophistry, Mr. Rose is high in office, and of course is unwilling that his merits, and those of his colleagues, should not be duly appreciated by the public; but in his laudable anxiety to make the des red impression upon the minds of his constituents, this gentleman has suffered him self to be led aside from the road of right reasoning by all the ignis fatuus of ex parte statement. He has either wilfully suppressed, or accidentally overlooked, the cause of such a vast item as twenty three millions appearing on the debit-side of the American account. He surely must have known that the greater part of this sum was thrown away upon the trash miscalled merchandise, with which the South American markets have been so glutted, that, as we stated some months ago, many of the articles sent out to the Spanish and Portuguese dominions, did not actually pay freight and charges! The swollen bankrupt lists of the last year might also have taught Mr. Rose to know the fate of those merchant-speculators who dashed through the thick and thin of South American traffic; and that of the over-reaching manufacturers and shopkeepers, from whom the adventurers obtained credit. Now, even granting that the revenue has not suffered conjointly with the adventurers, can the last year's exports to South America be looked upon as a criterion whereby to calculate upon our future traffic with that part of the world? for, is it not most evident, that if Buenos Ayres, Rio de Janeiro, &c. have been completely glutted with our goods, a considerable period must elapse before a fresh de mand takes place; and though our traders may, for a time, think fit to thrust their commodities upon those places, yet they will soon get tired of playing a losing game. Where then will Mr. Rose, and his fine spun theory, be found? Where are we then to look for indemnification on account of the loss of our North American trade? There are other poin's in Mr. R. se's statement, to which we would gladly advert, did our limits permit us to notice them as we could wish, but the generality of our commercial readers will, doubtless, be able to discover what lies beneath the surface of Mr. Rose's fair balance-sheet, and to form a just estimate of its value. With respect to bullion, we shall content ourselves with stating, that a more considerable contraband trade has been carried on in that article within the last year, than at any irilar period during the present reign; and all the world knows that the particulars of contraband trade can never obtain a place in an account of which every item is extracted from the Custom House books. The regulations adopted by the government at Buenos Ayres (of which we shall present a detail under the head of South America) have given some degree of life to our manufactures. EAST INDIES AND CHINA. The following are the prices of teas of different qualities:Bole, 15. 9d. to 2s.; singlo and twankay, 3s. Gd. to 3s, 9d.; congou, Ss. 2d. to 3s. 103.; spuchong, souchong, Ss. 8d. to 4s. 9d.; pekoe, 4s. to 45 6d.; hyson, from 3s. 7d. to 5s. 108. and up- Four bottles of oil of cloves, 65s. to 66s. per lb. Ten casks bay-oil, 131. 10s. to 141. And 11 bales balamus aromaticus, 17s. per cwt. One case Dutch leaf-metal, all at 131. Eight drums anchovies, 7d. to 8d. Fifty cannisters opium, S0s. And 12 casks smalts, (duty paid) 8d. to 11 d. per lb. Six private ships are arrived within the last month: viz. the Ganges, from Fort St. George; William, from Bombay; Margaret, Porcher, Larkins, and General Wellesley, from Bengal. The following is a specification of their cargoes: cotton, bales 18,455; rice, hags 1,800; ebony, bags 231; hemp, bales 48; nutmegs and cloves, chests 39; musk, boxes 3; black al kali, tons 30; Benjamin, boxes 22; mother o'pearl shells, bags 12; cornelian, case 1; rattans, bundles 1,500.- All privilege goods. Besides several other parcels of goods, the particulars of which are not yet known. No A bill has been passed in the American congress, for the regulation NORTH AMERICA. of commercial intercourse. The sum and substance of the restrictions imposed by this bill are:-That America will cheerfully dispose of her own produce, and will as readily receive that of other countries, but the citizens of the United States are to be the sole carriers. British or French vessel will be permitted to enter an American port, and no goods, the pro duce of Great Britain or France, are to be admitted into America, unless the vessels in which they may be imported are the property of American citizens.-A clandestine trade to a very great extent, is still carried on between this country and America; and notwithstanding the boastedseverity of the commercial restrictions on the other side of the Atlantic, there is every reason to suppose that the government of the United States winks at a species of spurious traffic with which they cannot well dispense. Georgia cotton fetches from 1s. 6d. to 2s 9d. and that of New Orleans from 1s. 63. to 1s. 8d. per lb. Pot ashes are flat; the market price varies from 21. 85. to 31. 5s. Pear! ditto, fetches from 31. to 31. 13s. Several large cargoes of timber are arrived within a few days, in consequence of which the article has fallen in price. Two cargoes of timber were sold by auction at Plymouth, towards the commencement of the last month, which brought 8001. less than a similar quantity did two months before. Oak fetches from 101. to 151. 10s. in the London market. Ditto plank, from 111. 10s. to 151. Pine, from 81. to 91. 15s. and ditto plank, from 111. 10s. to 161. per last. Maryland tobacco of sundry colours, sells well at prices, from 5d. to 16d. Ditto Virginia, from 9d. to 11d.This article has fallen in price since our last. SOUTH AMERICA-The following interesting communication, dated Buenos Ayres, November 4th, 1809, has been recently received. "A committee of merchants and others has been called by the viceroy. The result of their deliberations is, that this port is to be opened to neutral commerce, under certain regulations, of which the following is a transcript. "Conditions of Commerce.-All vessels must consign themselves to Spanish merchants. "The consignee must present a manifest of cargo, in Spanish, to the administration of the Custom-house, twenty-four hours after arrival. All goods are admitted, except those prohibited, and shall pay the circular duty agreeably to the tarif; and such goods as may not be in the tarif, shall be valued at the prices of EuLope. Goods similar to those manufactured in the country shall pay a duty of 121 per cent. Over and above the circular duties. "Ox and cow-hides shall pay the war tax, on clearance, of 12 per cent. As far as respects the patriotic daty, it shall be extinguished. Vicienna wool, bark, sheeps' woul, tallow, cocoa, and hair, at certain specified prices, to a duty of 20 per cent. The "The exportation of either gold or silver is not allowed. All returns must be made in produce of the country, and to take away the same. Vessels may come in ballast, and may bring such goods as are permitted for the negro-trade. "The Spanish consignee must become bound for the duties, and pay a fourth in fifteen days after having made the dispatch, and the remaining three-fourths in the three following months, that is one-fourth in each month. "All vessels, friends, and neutrals,shall be admitted, and must receive a custom-house officer on board, as is usual with other vessels, and shall deposit their papers in the Secretariodel Governor's office, until a visit is past for sailing. "The Spanish consignee must not sell by retail, on account of any foreigner. "The interdiction of wine, oil, vinegar, and spirituous liquors (except rum) is prohibited." Such are the regulations by which Spanish America is once more thrown open to British traders. We trust the latter will make a temperate use of those privileges, by avoiding wild speculation, and instead of sending out cargoes of old shopkeepers, that they will consult their own interests by asserting their cargoe consignments, and shipping marketable goods only. By the latest accounts received from the Brazils, we learn that British goods are in small request there, and that for printed cottons in particular, there is scarcely any demand. Pernambucca cotton sells from 2s. 1d. to 2s. 34d. and Maranham from 1s. 10d. to 2s. 1d. per lb. Guatimala indigo, from 5s. 6d. to 11s. 9d. and Caracca ditto, from 5s. 6d. to 11s. 93. per 1b. Brazil indigo, of which there is but an inconsiderable quantity in the market, fetches from 2s. 6d. to 5s. Buenos Ayres hides, from 5d. to 9d. per lb. WEST INDIES. In our last report we entered our protest against the importation of the produce of the island of Bourbon, a measure, which if carried into effect, would undoubtedly prove highly detrimental to the interests of West India traders in general. It was then reported and believed, that Bourbon either was, or would be, abandoned by our troops, but it is now known that an expedition is fitting out by our government, the object of which is of a two-fold nature, not only to retain Bourbon, but to reduce the Isle of France. Should there be any design of bringing home the produce of those islands, we have only to express a hope that the importers will be required to give bond for its re-exportation. Sugars are dull of sale, and they have fallen in price. The produce of the different islands varies from about 31. 16s. to 41. 8s.; coffees were pretty brisk about the commencement of the month, but they now begin to decline. Jamaica is down about 2s. per cwt. within the last week. Rum, particu larly common Leeward, though remarkably dull in the London market, has sold well at Liverpool. At the latter place about 600 puncheons were lately purchased at 43. 41. The London prices are, of Jamaica, 4s. 4d. to 6s. and Leeward Islands, Ss. 9d. to 4s. 6d. per gallon. Jamaica logwood (chipt) fetches from 271. to 291. per ton. The unshipt is uncertain. The Last Guzette contains an order in council, relative to West India commerce, which want of room obliges us to omit this month; it shall however appear in our next Report. HOLLAND. Our trade with this country, such as it has been, is likely to be entirely an nihilated by the intrigues of the French Emperor. Of this subject we shall possibly be enabled to speak more fully in our next Report. Prices of Canal, Dock, Fire-office, Water Works, &c. &c. 19th February, 1810.-London Dock Stock, 1351. per cent.-West India ditto, 1821. ditto.-East India ditto, 1351. ditto.East Country ditto, 8H. ditto.--Commercial ditto, 901. per share premium.-Grand Junction Canal, 2431. per share.-Grand Susry ditto, 311. ditto.-Kennet and Avon ditto, 491. ditto Wilts and Berks ditto, 521. ditto.-Huddersneld ditto, 421. ditto.-Lancaster ditto, 251. ditto. Rochdale ditto, 441. ditto.-Croydon ditto, 501. ditto.-Leeds and Liverpool ditto, 1901. ditto -Thames and Medway ditto, 431. per share premium.-East London Water Works, 2881. per share. West Middlesex ditto, 1421. ditto.-Kent ditto 351. per share premium.Portsea Island, ditto, 571. ditto.-Portsea and Tarlington ditto, 311. ditto.-Strand Bridge, 20s. ditto. Vauxhall ditto, 10s ditto.-Globe Assurance, 1991 per sbare.-Albion ditto, 611. ditto.-Imperial ditto, 751. dirto.-Rock Life Assurance, 6s. per share, premium.At the Office of Messrs. Wolfe and Co. Canal, Dock, and Stock Brokers, No. 9, Change Alley, Cornhill The average prices of Navigable Canal Proparty, Dock Stock, Fire-office Shares, &c. in February, 1810, (to the 24th) at the Office of Mr. Scott, 28, New Bridge street, Lonson.The Trent and Mersey or Grand Trunk Navigation, 10551. 10501. dividing 40 nett per an num.--Staffords tire and Worcestershire, 7151 dividing 101. nett per annum.-Monmouthshire, 31. per share half yearly 13tl. to 1361-Leeds and Liverpool, 1861. to 188.-Grand Junction, 2401. to 2141.-Kennet and Avon, 301. 481. 491-Wilts and Berks, 511, 10s to 631.Huddersfield, 411. 10s.-- Dudley, 491-Rochdale, 461.Ellesmere, 801.-Lancaster, 241. to 251.-Grand Surrey Old Shares at 651. with new ditto attached, at par.-West India Dock Stock at 1821. per cent. ex-dividend of 51. per cent. nett half yearly.East India ditto, 1351.-Loudon Dock, 1361. to 1361. 10s. ex-dividend 21. 15s. nett, half-yearly 1351.-Commercial ditto, 901 premium, ex dividend,.-Globe Assurance, 1991. per share, ex-dividend, 31. nett half-yearly.-Atlas, par.-East London Water Works, 2271. 2281. Portsmouth and Farlington ditto, 441. premium, with new subscription attached.-Thames and Medway, 421. to 441. premium-Basingstoke, 351 to 371. 10s. Ashby-de-la-Zouch, 221. 10s. 3 COURSE |
