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moderately good lamb about 18d. per quarter. tern loaf 14d.-new potatoes 18d. per peck,-beef and mutton 5d. to 7d. per lb.and market, on the 5th instant, oatmeal was 4s. per stone of 174 lb. avoirdupois,-the quarin every other line have full employment, though their wages are still low. In Edinburgh gone off freely, at more money than it brought last year, which is one of the best proofs of the revival of our staple manufacture; and happily, it is now certain, that the operatives lambs in our northern markets have been sold much below the rates of last year. Wool has 12th August.

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Middlesex 92 156 033 532 245 247 4 0 0
Surrey...
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Hertford.. 82 4,52 035 933 847 646 9 0 0
Bedford... 83 852 041 234 444 955 200
Huntingdon 88 11 0 037 332 10:41 30 000
Northampt. 88 20 0:46 024 325 60000
Rutland 81 90 0.39 633 046 0 0 0 45 3
Leicester 90 8 0 0,45 441 455 056 036 11
Nottingham 94 674 048 038 055 10 0 000
Derby 91 40 047 037 450 056
Stafford 100 2 0 0.43 10 41
Salop.... 97 252 234 845
Hereford..101 464 056 136
Worcester. 93 2 0 047 1034
Warwick 106 0 0 0 19
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AVERAGE PRICES OF CORN, FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE.

By the Quarter of Eight Winchester Bushels, and of Oatmeal per Boll of 140 lbs Avoirdupois, from

the Official Returns received in the Week ending July 26, 1817.

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Westmorlnd 79 168 051 243
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Carnarvon 101 0 0 062 040 0 0
Merioneth. 105 10 0 058 6,41 8 0
Cardigan 112 9 0 056 024 0 0
Pembroke. 91 70 055 728 0 0 0
Carmarthen 110 8 0 060 027 10 0
Glamorgan 113 8 0 061 438 0 0
Gloucester.111 4 0 046 336 056
Somerset..117 0 0 040 8 0 0 0
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Wheat, 99s. 2d.-Rye, 618. 1d.-Barley, 50s. 2d.-Oats, 37s. 3d.-Beans, 49s. Od.-Pease, 49s. 6d.
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THE remarks made in our last Number on the month of June, are in many respects applicable to the month of July. In point of temperature, as well as moisture, there is a striking similarity between July 1816 and July 1817. The mean height of the Thermometer, during the former, was 55.6, and during the latter 56 nearly-the quantity of rain in the first, 3.8 inches, in the last, 3.2. But the most striking fact in the Meteorological history of the two seasons, and what may perhaps surprise some of our readers, is the comparative quantities of rain that fell during the three months of May, June, and July, taken collectively. That quantity in 1816 amounted to 7.7 inches, but in 1817 it is 10.6. It is at the same time an obvious fact, that vegetation has made much more rapid progress this season than it did last, but it is a fact for which it would perhaps be difficult to ac count, unless it be supposed that the unusually high temperature of the spring months raised the temperature of the ground so much as to influence the vegetation of the succeed. ing months. This appears to us a very important point, and one which we apprehend might easily be determined by keeping a regular register of a Thermometer, sunk two of three feet below the surface of the ground.

METEOROLOGICAL TABLE,

Extracted from the Register kept on the Banks of the Tay, four miles east from Perth, Latitude 56° 25′, Elevation 185 feet.

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Kept at Edinburgh, in the Observatory, Calton-hill.

N. B. The Observations are made twice every day, at eight o'clock in the morning, and eight o'clock in

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BIRTHS.

May 7. Mrs Hamilton, St Andrew's Square, Edinburgh, a daughter.-22. At St Helena, Mrs Vernon, wife of the Rev. B. J. Vernon, a daughter.-27. Mrs Bell, 32, St Andrew's Square, Edinburgh, a daughter.-28. At Stranraer, Mrs Ross, spouse to Captain Ross of his Majesty's ship the Driver, a daughter.

June 1. Mrs Guild, Dundas Street, Edinburgh, a son.-3. Mrs John Gibson, Dundas Street, Edinburgh, a daughter.-5. Mrs Beveridge, North St James's-street, Edinburgh, a son.-8. At Kemback-house, Mrs Macgill, a daughter.-22. At Upper Pollock-house, Mrs Forlong, jun. a daughter. 23. Mrs Colonel Munro, George's-square, Etlinburgh, a daughter.-26. At Irvine, Mrs Hair, a son.-30. At Geneva, the Countess of Minto, a son.

July 2. At Penicuik-house, Lady Clerk, a daughter.-5. At Gordon-hall, the lady of Sir James A. Gordon, K.C.B. royal navy, a daughter.-6. At Blandeques, in France, the lady of Lieut.-Col. Cameron, 79th regt. a daughter.-7. At Perth, the lady of Capt. VOL. I.

James Ross, of the Carmarthen, a daughter. -8. At Kilbagie, Mrs Stein, a daughter.Mrs Grey of Millfield-hill, a son.-10. At Wauchope, Roxburghshire, Mrs Scott of Wauchope, a son.-21. At Dysart, Mrs John Barclay, a son.-23. At Powfoulis, Stirlingshire, the lady of James Bruce, Esq. a daughter.--Mrs Macknight, Londonstreet, Edinburgh, a son.-25. Mrs Lyon, Forth-street, Edinburgh, a daughter.-At Glasgow, Mrs William Copland, a son.At Perth, the lady of James Nairne, Esq. of Dunsinnan, a son.-27. The lady of the Hon. Lord Cringletie, a son.

Lately-At Clifton, the lady of the late William Chisholm of Chisholm, Esq. a daughter.-At Wootton-hill, the lady of the Hon. and Rev. T. L. Dundas, a daughter.-In Brunswick-square, London, the lady of Robert Gillespie, Esq. of Montreal, a daughter.

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John White, assistant commissary-general on that establishment, daughter of the late Chevalier de Grenier de Fonclane and the present Lady Chalmers.

May 29. At Edinburgh, Mr Alexander Stodart, merchant, Edinburgh, to Elizabeth, youngest daughter of the late Rev. Thomas Gray, Broughton, Peebles-shire.

June 2. At Aberdeen, John Brand, Esq. writer in Stonehaven, to Jane, eldest daughter of the late Mr Burnett, writer, Stonehaven.-5. At Edinburgh, Mr Campbell Winton, to Eliza, eldest daughter of John Grieve, Esq. Sheriff-hall.-6. At Portobello, Mr Simon Kemp of Port-Glasgow, to Gracie, second daughter of the late Alexander Ferric, Esq. writer in Edinburgh.-9. At Edinburgh, Lieutenant Robert Ford, royal marines, to Miss Euphemia, daughter of John Kermack, Esq. Edinburgh.-At Glasgow, David Bannerman, Esq. Manchester, to Mary Harrower, eldest daughter of James Alexander, Esq. merchant, Glasgow.-14. At Cronstadt, Russia, Mr Vertue of Great St Helen's, London, to Erskine C. Booker, daughter of John Booker, Esq. British viceconsul at Cronstadt.-16. At Ardtarig, Argyllshire, Mr Alexander Brown, purser, royal navy, to Catherine, eldest daughter of George Campbell, Esq.-23. At Langley Park, Captain Robert Ramsay, third son of the late Sir Alexander Ramsay of Balmain, Bart. to Margaret, daughter of the late Patrick Cruickshank, Esq. of Stracathro.-30. At Roxburgh Place, Lieut. Angus Macdonald of the 92d regiment, to Robina, daughter of the late Walter Macfarlane, Esq. of Ledard.

July 1. At Edinburgh, Charles Ritchie, Esq. merchant, to Elizabeth, daughter of Alexander Reid, Esq. architect.-3. At Glasgow, the Rev. Archibald M'Intyre, minister of the Relief congregation, Newlands, to Miss Mary Lockhart, Glasgow. 5. At Pencaitland-house, S. M. Threipland, Esq. late advocate-general in the Hon. the East India Company's service, to Elizabeth, daughter of the late Walter Campbell, Esq. of Shawfield.-7. At Edinburgh, William Black, Esq. of the Devanha brewery, Aberdeen, to Miss Dorothea Blair Feild, daughter of the late Dr James Feild, physician at Petersburgh, North America.-8. At Monymusk, Henry Iveson, Esq. of Black Bank, to Miss Jessie Grant, third daughter of Sir Archibald Grant, Bart.-9. At Glasgow, Professor Thomson of Belfast, to Margaret, daughter of the late William Gardner, merchant.-16. At Edinburgh, Robert Hunter, Esq. advocate, to Catharine, eldest daughter of Mr Archibald Gibson, W. S.-18. At Leith, James Shirreff, jun. Esq. merchant, Leith, to Miss Jess Millar, second daughter of Archibald Millar, Esq. merchant there. 21. At Prestonpans, II. F. Cadell, Esq. Cockenzie, to Miss Buchan Sydserff of Ruchlaw.-22. At Bath, Major-general Sir John Buchan, K. C. T. S. to Laura, only daughter of Colonel Mark Wilks of Kirby,

in the Isle of Man, late governor of St He lena.-24. William M.Leod Bannatyne, Esq. of Bath, third son of the late General Bannatyne, to Miss Young, only child of Captain Young.-26. At London, Captain William Johnson Campbell, third son of the late Lieutenant-general Colin Campbell, to Anna Maria, only daughter of the late Sir Francis Vincent, Bart. of Stoke D'Abernon, Surrey.-28. At Airly Lodge, near Dundee, William Gourlay, Esq. surgeon in the East India Company's service, to Mar. garet, daughter of Alexander Balfour, mer chant, Dundee.-29. At Edinburgh, John Campbell, Esq. quartus, W. S. to Miss Mary Kirkpatrick Campbell, daughter of Alexander Campbell, Esq. late of the island of Tobago.

Lately-At Fantington church, John Douglas, Esq. of Lockerby, to Sarah, youngest daughter of James Sholto Douglas, Esq. Denworth, Sussex.-At Kerse, Robert Walker, Esq. merchant, Falkirk, to Christina, third daughter of John Borthwick, Esq.-At Anchorfield, near Edinburgh, Mr Thomas Proudfoot, formerly of Liverpool, now merchant in London, to Mrs Borthwick, only daughter of Thomas Wilson, Esq. writer, Edinburgh.-At Ber lin, George Sholto Douglas, Esq. secretary to the British legation, to Miss Rose, eldest daughter of his Majesty's plenipotentiary at that court.-At Edinburgh, Henry Gordon Dickson, Esq. W. S. to Eliza, second daughter of the late William Gillespie, Esq. merchant in Edinburgh.-Lord Viscount Ebrington, to Lady Susan Ryder, eldest daughter of the Earl of Harrow by.

DEATHS.

March 28.-At St Helena, Mrs Porteous, wife of Henry Porteous, Esq. of the Hon. East India Company's service.

May 14. At Lound, near Retford, aged 22, Esther, the wife of John Walker, Esq. This lady fell a victim to a second attack of the small-pox: she took the infection from a person affected with the disease, and exposed publicly on the high road. Mrs Walker's former attack was about seventeen years ago.-19. In Piershill barracks, Edinburgh, the lady of Major Charles Irvine, of the 6th dragoon guards.-20. In the house of correction at Durham, where he had been kept nearly 46 years, a man, usually called Dicky, a lunatic, whose real name could never be made out, but which is supposed to have been Richard Williamson. This extraordinary man was first discovered in 1771, in a complete state of nudity, in an then the seat of Thomas Liddell, Esq. It out building in the fields near Newton-hall, has been generally conjectured, that he had been a lunatic confined in some receptacle, whence he had escaped. He was never able either to tell his name, or to give the smallest account of himself; nor could any dis covery ever be made where he came from,

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or to whom he belonged, though from his dialect he seemed to have come from some of the southern counties. He was perfectly harmless, and appeared to have had a good education, from his being able to repeat many parts of the service of the church, particularly the morning service, which he frequently did with great propriety. He is supposed to have been 75 or 80 years of age.-24. At Glasgow, Lieutenant John Ferguson, of the royal Lanark militia. At Glenlyon-house, Miss Janet Campbell, daughter of the late John Campbell, Esq. of Glenlyon.-At Heckington, Lincolnshire, Mr Samuel Jessup, an opulent grazier, of pill-taking memory, aged 65. He lived in a very eccentric way, as a bachelor, without known relatives, and has died possessed of a good fortune, notwithstanding a most inordinate craving for physic, by which he was distinguished for the last thirty years of his life. In 21 years (from 1794 to 1816), the deceased took 226,934 pills, supplied by a respectable apothecary at Bottesford, which is at the rate of 10,806 pills a-year, or 29 pills each day; but as the patient began with a more moderate appetite, and increased it as he proceeded, in the last five years preceding 1816, he took the pills at the rate of 78 a-day, and, in the year 1814, swallowed not less than 51,590. Notwithstanding this, and the addition of 40,000 bottles of mixture, and jalaps and electuaries, extending altogether to 55 closely written columns of an apothecary's bill, the deceased lived to attain the age of 65 years!-29. At Gibraltar, D. A. Com. General Walter Porteous.-31. In the 77th year of his age, James Baird, Esq. of Broompark, formerly of Virginia.

June 5. At Hieres, in the south of France, Grace Dundas Rae, eldest surviving daughter of the late Sir David Rae of Eskgrove, Bart.-6. At Edinburgh, John Thomson, Esq. royal navy.-8. In the Royal Military Hospital at Fort Pitt, by Chatham, aged 24, and a native of Leven, Fifeshire, James Alexander Oswald, Esq. M.D. The cause of his death is awfully interesting, and affords a serious warning to all of the medical profession. Being an assistant in the hospital, whilst dressing a patient labouring under a mortal disease, he unwarily exposed an ulcerated surface to the morbid poison, which, being conveyed into the systein, and almost imperceptibly creeping up the arm, fixed in the axilla and breast, and put a period to a most painful state of existence, under which he had languished for three weeks, notwithstanding every effort of his medical friends, and the most assiduous attention of James Daese, Esq. of Fort Pitt Hospital, one of the most skilful surgeons of the army.-9. At East Sheen, near Richmond, the Hon. Charles Ramsay, second son of the Earl of Dalhousie.-10. At Edinburgh, John Macfarquhar, Esq. W. S.15. At Edinburgh, in consequence of the bursting of a blood vessel, Lieut. Alston, of

his Majesty's ship Ramillies.-17. At Brucefield-house, Clackmannanshire, in the 17th year of her age, Miss Hannah Dalgleish, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Dalgleish of Dalbeath.-18. At Edinburgh, Miss Elizabeth Dundas, daughter of the late Dr Thomas Dundas.-19. On his passage from Jamaica, Dugald Campbell, Esq. of Saltspring.-20. At Peers, Salop, aged 75, Thomas Hill, Esq. third son of the late Sir Rowland Hill, Bart. of Hawkstone Park, and uncle of the present Lord Hill.—At Edinburgh, Mrs H. Kerr, relict of the late William Kerr, Esq. of the General PostOffice.-21. At Greenock, in the 97th year of her age, Mrs Barbara M'Pherson, relict of the Rev. Alexander M'Leod. of the Isle of Skye, and mother of the late LieutenantColonel Donald M'Leod of Achagoyle and St Kilda.-At Kensington Place, Glasgow, Mr James Buchanan, merchant.-27. At London, Lady Suttie, wife of Sir James Suttie, Bart. of Balgone, M. P.-29. At Cupar Fife, Captain and Adjutant John Roy, of the Aberdeenshire militia. He has left a wife and seven daughters to lament his loss.-At Glasgow, Captain James Somerville, of the royal navy.-30. At Banstead, Surrey, Richard Parry, Esq. one of the Directors of the East India Company.At Madeira, Captain the Hon. James Arbuthnot, royal navy. He had gone there on account of ill health, occasioned by the wounds which he received while in command of his Majesty's ship Avon.

July 1. At Edinburgh, Captain James Nicolson, royal navy.-3. General Philip Martin, colonel commandant of the 6th battalion of the royal artillery.-4. At London, William Bruce, bookseller, in the 73d year of his age. He was in the above line for upwards of fifty years, and was much respected by all who knew him.-5. At Westfield, near Elgin, Thomas Sellar, Esq.

8. At Edinburgh, Alexander, and on the 13th, David, youngest sons of Captain Watson, royal navy.-At London, the Right Hon. George Ponsonby. He was born on the 5th of March 1755. He was appointed Lord High Chancellor of Ireland, March 25, 1806, which office he resigned, and was latterly member for Tavistock. On the 18th of May 1781, he married Lady Mary Butler, eldest daughter of Brinsley, the second Earl of Belvedere, by whom he had several children. Mr Ponsonby was, we believe, one of those very estimable characters who fill a private station in the most amiable and exemplary manner, and a public one with propriety and integrity. His talents were more useful than splendid; more suited to the arrangement of affairs, and the detail of business, and the tranquil investigation of truth, than capable of obtaining a command over the understanding of others, of dazzling by their brilliancy, or controlling by their powers. In truth, he was an honest, sincere, steady man; and his eloquence was naturally adapted to the

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