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under Morwaldown, which forms part of this cunal; rich veins of copper ore, of amazing thickness, begin to show themselves, and promise an abundant profit to the proprietors in this spirited undertaking.

The streight, called the Bridge, between the island and the Redding Point, at the entrance of Plymouth harbour, is as fatal to ships boats, in a squall of wind, particularly from S.S.E. as the Streights between Scylla and Charibdis, in the Mediterranean; and in the course of the last twelve years, by endea vouring to pass this dangerous passage, no less than fifteen men of wars' boats, of different descriptions, have been swamped; three Captains of the navy, two lieutenants, four midshipmen, and nearly sixty-five seamen, have been drowned.

Married. At Teignmouth, Samuel Gibbons, esq. of the army medical staff, to Miss Paddon. John Betts, esq. of Knowle House, near Bristol, to Emma, eldest daughter of T. M. Young, esq.

Died.] At Tiverton, the Rev. William Walker, rector of Broughton Gilford, Wiits, and of Sainswick, Somersetshire, prebendary of Wells, and in the commission of the peace for this county.

At Exeter, Captain Titus Conyers, of the Royal Marines, 85.-Captain Edward Batson, of the East Kent militia.-Mr. Daniel Harrold, 81.

At Teignmouth, Mrs. Brydges, and a few days afterwards her husband, Capt. B. of the Royal Navy. Miss Jane Abrams.

At Sandford, William Brown, esq.

At East Budleign, Mrs. Yeates, wife of M. L. Y, esq. banker, Exmouth,

At Paignton, Clara, only daughter of the Rev. Mr. Compton, 22.

At Crediton, Mrs. Mary Pope, 87,

At Plymouth, Rear-admiral J. G. Kinneer, 59. Mr. Piercy, 79.-Mrs. Margaret Austin, 78.

At Aylesbeare, the Rev. H. Marker, jun. At Alphington, Lucy, wife of Edward Barbell, esq. of Demarara.

At Exeter, Mrs. Blair, wife of Colonel B. of Bayford, Herts, 30.

CORNWALL.

On Monday the 18th of February, 1811, two labourers being employed by a person of the name of Thomas Mannell, to raze the barrow bear Chacewarer, called Creege Broaz bartow, for the purpose of manuring a field, which he tents of Lord Falinouth, discovered `a sinail urn at the bottom of the barrow, in the centre of its base, and 20 inches under the surface of the field. The urn was in osed by five stones, four of which were placed on their edges, and formed a square, whilst the fifth, being placed on the top, became a barrier to the mingling of the superincrmikent earth, with the contents of this

rude sepulchre. In the urn were black ashes, and round it a considerable quantity (about two gallons) of ashes and human bones, in a state of great decay. The urn is made of baked clay, and of a greyish stonecolour, and, in figure, resembles very much

that in the 18th Plate of Boriase's An quities, said to be found in Perran Sands, except that it does not taper so much at the base, and is about half the size. It is 5 inches 6-8ths wide at top, three inches 1-4th wide at the bottom, and is five inches 1-4th high; the thickness is 1-4th of an inch, and it is rudely indented on the outside in a very ir regular manner, with the point of some tool. It varies also from the Perran urn, in having a handle very similar to such as are now affixed to our common stone jars.

Married.] At Padstow, Captain James Yes, to Miss May.

At Fowey, Mr. William Hocken, to Miss Cowling, daughter of Captain William C. of the London trade.

At Gluvias, Charlotte Thomas.

Nichl, esq. to Miss

Died.] At Falmouth, Captain D'Arcy, of the 47th regiment, of a decline, in conse quence of a cold caught in hard service at Cadiz, 25.-Mrs. Edmonds, relict of Captain E.

At Truro, Mrs. Martin.-Mary, daughter of Mr. Crossman.

At Mevagissey, Mrs. Mary Webb.
At Gorran, Mr. John Davey, 95.

At Trescow, Scilly, Mr. James Pender, 53. At Croft West, Thomas Michell, esq. 84 -Edward, son of Francis Paynter, esq. Trekenning.

At Helston, Sophia, wife of the Rev. Edward Rogers, prebendary of Sarum, 27.

At Whiteley House, Humphrey Lawrence, esq. one of the free burgesses of Launceston. At Marazion, Mrs. Thomas, 70.

At Pentire Glaze, St. Minver, Miss Jenefer Hick, 16.

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At Penzauce, the Rev. John Thomas Thompson.

WALES.

A society has recently been formed at Llangollen, in aid of the British and Foreign Bible Society in London; and the zeal and activity of the clergy in promoting Sunday schools throughout the principality is very successful, The country gradually improves in know. ledge, civilization, and every christian vir. tue, the evident effects of these laudable institutions.

Married At Lanishen, William Davies, esq. of Ponty Pandy, Glamorgan, to Frances, second daughter of the late John Knight, esq. of Lanblithian.

Died At Wenvoe Cottage, the Rev. David Davies, rector of Landough, and vicat of Roath, near Cardiff.

At Montgomery, Mr. John Poundley,

master of the free-school, and clerk to the commissioners of taxes for several divisions of that county.

At Swansea, Mrs. Oldisworth, wife of the Rev. Mr. O. curate of St. Mary's, Swansea, and daughter of the Rev. Edward Sparkes, vicar of Fairford, Glocestershire, 45.-Captain Rowe, 63.

At Groes, near Denbigh, John Jones, esq. At Pante Cottage, near Builth, Mr. Thọas Jones, surgeon.

At Cefu Mine, Carnarvon, Mrs. Edwards, relict of Timothy Edwards, esq. a captain in the Royal Navy, and mother of Colonel E. of Nanthoran.-The Rev. Mr. Davies, curate of Laugharne.

At Margam, Glamorganshire, Hopkin Llewellyn, 89.

Aget 22, Mrs. Symes, wife of E. B. S. esq. of Brynhafod, near Llangilo, Caermar. thenshire, and daughter of William Jemmett, esq. late or Little Milton House, Oxford. shire.

In the parish of Lanspythid, Breconshire, Thomas Powell, 80. At the age of 71, he married his second wife, by whom he had five children, ali now living: his eldest son is fifty-nine, and his youngest child is one year old.

NORTH BRITAIN.

The great undertaking of erecting a lightouse on the Bell or Cape Rock, having been completed, and the lanterns lighted up in the beginning of February last, the vessel, which had been moored with mushroom anchors oft the rock, as a temporary floating light, be came no longer useful in that capacity, and was removed to Leith as soon as the weather would permit. She had been moored on the 11th July, 1807, and remained stationary till the 11th February last, about three years and seven months. Her bottom, it was naturally to be expected, would be very foul; but, in this respect, it surpassed any idea that had been formed. It presented, indeed, a very singular spectacle, being completely invested with a thick coating of sea-weeds, muscles, mollusca, and zoophytes. The larger seaweeds, chiefly Fucus, Digitatus, and F. esculentus, were in general, from 4 to 5 seet long The muscles were of the species called My tilus pellucidus, of a large size, and in the most vigorous state of health, as indicated by the well-marked striæ on their shells. In general, they measured three inches and a half in length, and one inch in breadth. Some of the common acorn-shell (Ballanus communis) were so uncommonly large, that they measured an inch and a hair in diameter at the base. Solen minutus was abundant. Many specimens of the Doris papilosa adhered to various parts of the hull; with numerous smail marine vermes of the genera Aphrodia, - Nereis, Lincus, and others. By the attention of Mr. Stevenson, engineer for northernlights, specimens of all the different vermes, -shells, and sea-weeds, found on the vessel, were preserved,

Died.] At Fortrose, aged 41, John Watson, esq. late of Trelawney, Jamaica, one of the magistrates of that burgh, much respected and lamented.-Mrs. Mann, 84.

At Cromarty, aged 74, Mrs. Barkly, much and justly regretted.

DEATHS ABROAD.

At Hazelymph, in Jamaica, James Charles Lawrence, esq. of Hazelymph and Saint Ives. He had been a member of the Assembly, and was descended from the notable Henry Lawrence, of Saint Ives, in Huntingdonshire, and Saint Margaret's, in Hertfordshire, President of the Council of State, and one of Cromwell's peers.

In November last, at Cawnpore, Qude, Bengal, after a few hous illness, Eliza, wide of Samuel G. Evans, esq. of the Honourable Company's Establishment, and only child of the Rev. William Lucas, of Doctors' Commons. Of this amiable lady's life, the last nine years were passed in India; where, fron her correct deportment, engaging manner, and genuine wit, heightened by a fascinating sprightliness which might be truly termed peculiar to herself, she was received in the first circles with approbation and esteem; but, after all, the best praise that can be given Eer is, that which she deserved as a daughter, a wife, a mother, and a friend.

At Prince Edward's Island, f. M. Mardonald, esq. of Iracadie; a gentleman of very considerable property and literary attainments, late captain of the 8th regiment of foot.

In the same island, of an apoplectic fit, Ro bert Hodgson, esq. late of Causeway Foot, Rear Keswick, Cumberland, Speaker of the House of Assembly, Clerk of the Crown, Coroner and Prothonotary of the Supreme Court. Both of these gentlemen are much regretted, especially the latter, whose places will, perhaps, never be again so ably filled.

On board his Majesty's ship Bulwark, on her passage from Cadiz, Thomas Fred-ric Nicolay, esq. senior staff surgeon of the BriThis zealous tish army in the Peninsula.

and faithful servant of his king and country, after a period of nearly eighteen years active service in Egypt, at Copenhagen, in Poitugal, and Spain, &c. &e. fell a victim to the effects of the fever which rages in Cadiz, in December last, having caught the infection in the conscientious discharge of his professional duties. As he lived esteemed and respected, so he died, at the early age of 36 years, most sincerely and justly regretted By all who had an opportunity of knowing his many public and private virtues.

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At Rome, Cardinal Erskine, a younger 801 of Colin Erskine, Cambo, in Fife, Son of Sir Charles Erskine, of Camilo, baronet. His father was a painter, educated in his profession at Rome," and married there a Roman lady of respectable birth. He was a man of talent, a good scholar, a true Scots patriot, an honest man, and an excellent companion.

MONTHLY

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MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT.

BRITISH TRADE AND MANUFACTURES. The expulsion of the French out of Portugal has once more opened a trade with that country, and, in consequence of it, vast quantities of goods of the manufacture, of Great Britain are now shipping for Liston and Oporto, amorg which the manufactures of Manchester, &c. &c. will not be of the least in quantity. Linens, calicoes, and woollen cloths, are in great demand in Portugal. Provisions, as hams, bacon, cheese, parter, &c. command a ready sale, with good profit attached to them, provided the quality is good, as the consumption of our own troops of these articles must be very considerable inderd. Large quantities of hay and straw have been exported, as the country does not produce such as our army require, and there is no doubt the speculators in it will benefit considerably. In the neighbourhood of Oporto, the peasants are returned to the cultivation of the vine as usual, so that a considerable reduction may be expected in the course of next year, in the price of their wines, now selling at the enormous price of 1201 to 125ì. per pipe! The exports of British manufactured goods to Spain is limited, as the trade is confined to Cadiz alone, and the consumption there for our exports bat trifline.

FRANCE. The commerce with this country being at present cut off, we only have to state, that the prices of West India produce were, within a few weeks past, as follows, at Paris refined sugar, 5s. to 5s. 61. per lb. weight; raw sugar, 2s. 6d. to 2s. 8d. per ib.; coffee, 7s. to 7s. 6d. per lb. Thus Bonaparte plays on his subjects, by prohibiting the im'port of our colonial produce into the Continent. We are assured from a gentleman who lately made his escape from a French prisen, that coarse woollen cloth, such as sells here for 12s. per yard, is worth 60 francs, or 58s. British, per yard: so much for the woollen manufactures of this country! Wines, brandies, and all kind of produce of France, are offered at any price there, but no purchasers for them; hence arise the late considerable failures of the once most respectable houses on the Continent. Rags, such as our paper-makers want for the mills, are the principal article that France abounds with, and if they could be brought hither, would prove a good speculation to the importer.

PORTUGAL. The commerce of this country begins once more to revive, as there is a want of every kind of British manufactured goods throughout the whole country, and considerable orders are now executing in all the manufacturing towns of Great Britain." The enormous discount on paper money has found its level, and confidence among the merchants, &c. &c. revives fast; so that we may expect things here to amend in time, although it must take considerable time for a country like this, overrun by a hostile enemy to regain that con fidence so long enjoyed all over Europe.

SOUTH AMERICA.-In our last we stated, the trade of this country to be rather brisk, and have the pleasure now to say that every mail from the Brazils confirms it. Our speculators to this part of the world, who were totally ignorant of the goods suitable for the markets here, now begin to find their error in sending out any kind of low-priced goods, and have, in consequence, changed their system, by shipping off articles of rather a superior quality, fully suitable for the market of Rio. Large remittances have been lately received by our merchants there, and we expect that the commerce with this part of the globe, will be of the first consequence in time: bu: the trade to the Brazils requires that kind of knowledge that can be only obtained by speculations prudently conducted.

Current Prices of Shares in Navigable Canals, Docks, Bridges, Reads, Water Works, and Fire and Life Insurance Companies, at the Office of Messrs. Wolfe and Co. Canal Dock and Stock Brokers, No. 9, 'Change Alley, Cornhill, 21st May, 1811-Grand Junction Canal, 2321. per share. Grand Surry ditto, 981. ditto.-Kennet and Avon ditto, 401. ditto.Rochdale ditto, 521., ditto.-Wilts and Berks ditto, 301. ditto.-London Dock, 1281. per cent. Ditto Scrip, 25 ditto premium.- West India ditto, 1651. ditto.-Commercial Road ditto, 1361. ditto.-East London Water Works, 1651. per share.-Grand Junction ditto, 81. per share, premium.-South London ditto, 1121. per share.-Kent ditto, 101. per share premium-West Middlesex ditto, 21. ditto.-Albion Insurance Office, 571. per share. Globe ditto, 12041. ditto.-Imperial ditto, 941. ditto.

The average prices of Navigable Canal Property, Dock Stock, Fire-office Shares, &c. in May, 1811, (to the 25th) at the Office of Mr. Scott, 28, New Bridge-street, London. Trent and Mersey, or Grand Trunk Canal, 12001. the last half-yearly dividend at the rate of 451. per share clear, per annum.-Birmingham, 10851. ex dividend 211. clear, half-year. Staffordshire and Worcestershire, dividing 211, per share clear, half-yearly, 790.—Monmouth, 1201.-Grand Junction, 2451. to 2331.-Shrewsbury, 1451. dividing 81.-Kennet and Avon, 421. 10s. to 401-Wilts and Berks, 291. 10s. to 301-Rochdale, 521-Ellesmere, 841. -Grand Western, 181. 10s. discount.-Lancaster, 251. ex dividend 11. per share, clear.➡ Ashby-de-la Zouch, 241.-Worcester and Birmingham Old Shares, 381.-New ditto, 10s. premium.-Thames and Severn new shares, 371.-Croydon, 301.-West India Dock Stock,

1651-London Dock, 127. to 1281.-Ditto Scrip, 251. per cent. premium.-Commercial Dock old shares, 1591. with new share attached,-Albion Assurance, 541.-Globe, 1201. to 1201. 10s-Rock, 183. premium.-East London Water Works, 1601.-Grand Junction ditto, 101. 10s premism.-London Institution, 681. 5s.-Strand Bridge 121. discount. London Flour Company, 81.-Dover-street-road, 11. premium.-Commercial Road, 1351 per cent. ex half-yearly dividend 31.

NATURALIST's MONTHLY REPORT.

APRIL.

Budding month.

Emblem of life! see changeful April sail
In varying vest along the shadowy skies,
Now birding summer's softest zephyrs rise,
Anon recall ng winter's stormy gale,

And pouring from the cloud her sudden hail.

ON the 1st of the month the wind was south east; on the 2d westerly; on the 3d northwest, and afterwards south-west; on the 4th and 5th easterly; on the 6th east, and southeast; on the 7th north-east; on the 8th and 9th easterly; on the 10th variable; from the 11th to the 16th westerly; in the afternoon of the 17th souch; on the 18th west; on the 19th south-east, and afterwards south-west; on the 20th and 21st southerly; on the 22d south-east; on the 23d and 24th south west; on the 25th variable; on the 26th and 27th westerly; on the 28th south, and south west; and on the 29th and 30th westerly.

There have been very few stormy days during the present month On the 12th we had strong winds; in the morning of the 19th fresh gales, and in the following night a heavy equall with rain. The night of the 20th was also squally; and the morning of the 99th was stormy. We had rain, more or less, on the 4th, 6th, 7th, 10th, 13th, 16th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 26th, 28th, 29th, and 30th.

April 3d. This was a beautifully bright and warm day. The bloom-buds upon the fruit trees have been considerably enlarged within the last few days, and promise a great profusion of blossom.

April 4th. Fine, gentle rain nearly the whole day.

April 6th. Some of the swallow tribe are arrived. Three or four were seen Aving about near the surface of the river, apparently in pursuit of insects. The great body of swallows and martins will not, however, make their appearance probably in much less than a week from this time.

In the nights of the 7th, 8th, and 3th, we had very sharp frosts, which will tend greatly to check the progress of vegetation. It may be fortunate for the ensuing fruit-season that very Jittle indeed of the bloom is yet expanded,

April 11th. Gudgeons spawn.

April 13th The cuckoo-Rower (cardamina pratensis), wall-Aower (cheiranthus cheiri), dog's mercury (mercurialis perennis), wild strawberry (fragaria vesca), cowslip (primula veris), ground ivy (glecoma hederacea), red nettle (pedicularis sylvatica), and harebell (Scilla nutans of Smith), are now in flower.

April 17th. The cherry-tree is in bloom. Gooseberry and currant trees are in full leaf, as are likewise the elder and lime. The leaves of the hazel, and the sloe and hawthorn appear.

The swallows and martins are all arrived.

April 18th. The mountain ash is in leaf.

April 19th. Apple-trees are in bloom.

Young rooks are heard, and the titlark sings.

April 29th. The hedges are beginuing to appear green. The flower-buds of the hawthorn

are seen.

April 21st. There was much lightning in the night.

April 23d. This was a fine and hot day, in every respect like what we have in the middle of summer, the want of verdure and foliage excepted. Flesh-Ries buzz about; and the com mon house-flies are nearly as numerous as in the summer.

The flowers of sheep's sorrel (rumex acetosella), and ribwort plantain (plantago lanceolata), colour all the dry sandy pastures.

Germander speedwell (veronica chamadrys), procumbent speedwell (veronica agrestis), sweet-scented vernal-grass, (anthoxanthum odoratum), clammy mouse-ear (cerastium viscosum), upright pearlwort (sagina erecta), and soft leaved crane's-bill (geranium molle), are in flower.

-Eleta cinereus, and several species of moths of the subdivision tinea, appear. Female wasps, also now fly about.

April 25th. Hedge roses are in leaf. The May-fly, and some species of phryganes have issued from their chrysalids.

Perch have retired to the smooth waters to spawn among the weeds.

April 28th. So powerful were the sun-beams in the middle of this day, that sheep were compelled to retire into the shade.

April 30th. Cock-chaffers fly in the evening.

There has been much rain in the country westward of us. The rivers are muddy, and in some places out of their banks.

Hampshire.

MONTHLY BOTANICAL REPORT.

FOUR numbers of the BOTANIST'S REPOSITORY have been published, since we hut noticed this work: we shall devote the present Report to a notice of the contents of these.

Anneslea spinosa, so called by Dr. Roxburgh in honour of the Right Honourable George Annesley Viscount Valentia, who, we are here told, "discovered this plant growing in the Gagra river in Oude, and also about Chittagong." For discovered we suppose we are to understand saw, for specimens of this plant were brought by Sir George Staunton, from the province of Kinang, in China, upon his return from his embassy to this country, long before Lord Va Jentia commenced his travels in India. We have not, however, the smallest objection to the name; for, when the Magnates concern themselves at all about natural history, more especially when they undertake laborious travels, with a view of acquiring knowledge therein, we should be sorry to deprive them of an iota of their honorary rewards; and we are pleased to see the most magnificent plants devoted to the record of a fame, so much more meritorious, than that of shining in the annals of the Racing Calendar, or the petty intrigues of a borough election. This is altogether a curious article about Nymphs and * Naiades, not more conspicuous for their beauty and elegance, than for their mildness;" and about Anneslea, panther-like, uniting the extremes of beauty and ferocity. We can not suppose the author is slily insinuating any similarity between his Lordship and his plant, between Annesley and Anueslea. But it gives him an opportunity of introducing something about the armour of vegetables, in which the different kinds are amusingly jumbled together in an unusual figure in rhetoric, an inverted bathos, " from the almost imperceptible hair down to the lacerated thorn;" and about the browsing of camels, asses, and goats; and about hoping to see the magnificent foliage of Anneslea, "mantling our ponds." The reasoning, however, on which our author grounds his hopes of our being able to naturalize a tropical production to our climate, is not very convincing. "Have we not,” he exultingly exclaims, already taught the Thea, the Camellia, the Takio, the Moutan, the Yulan, to resist our winters." Now it unfortunately happens that we have not taught one of these plants to bear cold a jot better than they did ages ago, in the imperial gardens at Pekin. We have indeed, had the good sense to discover, that, being natives of climes equally rigid with our own, it was not necessary to confine them to the stove.

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We have been so entertained with this article, that we could not withstand the temptation of amusing our readers with parts of it; but we must not forget to say something serious of this very curious kind of water lily, which has flowered st White Knight's, the seat of the Marquis of Blandford. The flowers according to the figure are but small, in proportion to the immense size of the foliage, sometimes six or eight feet in circumference, the petals are blue, the calyx green on the outside, and red within.

Eugenia zeylanica; from Boyton, the seat of A. R. Lambert, esq. It is one of the na tural order of myrti. A curious observation is here made concerning the germen, which contains sixteen ovula, though the fruit admits of only one seed coming to perfection.

Schinus dentata; a native of Owhyher, and sufficiently hardy to thrive well in a sheltered situation in the open ground, and even to produce ripe seeds in favourable seasons, if trained against a wall.

Jussieua exaltata; The cattu calambu of the hortus malabaricus, v. 2, p. 97, 150, a new species introduced from the East Indies by Dr. Roxburgh, and communicated to the author by Mr. Lambert, from his seat at Boyton.

Leptospermum scoparium, native of New Zealand, and one of the most beautiful of the natural order of the myrti, from that quarter, from the number and duration of its flowers. It was found also by Captain Cook to be very useful, and is the shrub described by hint in his second voyage, under the name of the tea plant.

Ardisia elegans; native of Pulo-Pinang, where it grows in moist situations, and by the sides of rivulets: introduced by Mr. Evans, of Stepney, in whose stove it attained the height of nearly five fect. This species appears not to have been before described. Lotus australis. A plant we have before mentioned from the Botanical Magazine.

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