The Price of Sugar—having reached so low a point as to be ruinous to planters, has lately attracted very general attention; it appears susceptible of further improvement in price, as the consumption gradually increases. Coffee-coming from a plant of slow growth, has maintained its value better than any other colonial product; the cultivation, however, has rapidly extended, and it is contemplated that the present rates will not be supported. 1823. The imports into London ......Tons, 17,600 1822. 16,510 In Liverpool, the importation has been less than in the preceding yearRum The imports into London, 28,100 puncheons-last year, 26,000ps. the low prices have tended to increase the home consumption demand: the export has been trivial, in consequence of the prohibitory restrictions abroad. Dye Woods-have been rather neglected of late. The imports of logwood have been only 7600 tons, against 9400 tons last year-the stocks on hand are not large; an improvement may be expected. Of Fustic, the importation and stock on hand are larger than in 1822. Of Nicaragua Wood the consumption has increased. The stock in London does not exceed 50 tons-in Liverpool, 200 tons. Cottons. The imports into the kingdom are, 1823. 1822. 1821. An extensive speculation in this article was entered into during the course of the year, founded principally on advices from America, that the crops in Louisiana had been seriously injured; also upon the state of Bahia-and the increasing consumption at home, large sums being invested, the prices advanced rapidly 30 per cent. But although the consumption of the country exceeds 10,000 bags per week, yet so abundant and regular have been the supplies, that the trade were enabled to supply their wants, without falling into the hands of speculators, who were thus unable to hold up prices, and they gradually declined, until the last two weeks, when a considerable demand has arisen. A new species of cotton has been introduced this week into Liverpool, consisting of 900 bags of Egyptian cotton, which have sold at 11d. and 114d. per lb.-the quality is said to resemble that from Pernambucco. Many cargoes of this cotton are on the road from Alexandria in Egypt, from whence this cotton is shipped, and it bids fair to compete with the finer American sorts, and thus opens a new and vast field for British industry. Rice-has offered but little interest this year. The imports of Carolina are 5000 casks-our stock is about 800 casks: in Liverpool it exceeds 4000 casks. Tobacco-upon reports of injured crops, has had some demand; but the exclusive stock has checked any general advance in price. Our stock amounts to 17,000 hhds: in Liverpool 11,000 hhds. Hides. The imports into London have been more extensive. The total supplies have been 800,000 cow and ox hides, to 700,000 last year. The present stock in London is 90,000: in Liverpool 110,000; being rather less than last year, in the two ports. Indigo. The supplies of East India have exceeded expectation, in addition to larger arrivals of Spanish. Prices have declined from these circumstances; and, in consequence of the failure of extensive speculators in France, many holders were endeavouring to put off the January sale. The favourable accounts from India of this year's crops have probably aided to repress this opposition, and 1900 chests are declared for the 20th January. Advices, how ever, arrived last week, announce great damage done to the crops by inundations. The imports into London are, 1823. 20,100 3800 The stocks are, of East India, about, chests, 12,000 1822. 11,700 2000 8000 350 The exports have been more: the consumption about equal to last year. Whale Oil.-The fisheries this year, particularly that of Davis' Straits, have been abnndant. The largest produce since the year 1814 was 1820; when 100 ships brought from Greenland, 9000 tuns, and 56 from Davis' Straits ... 9800 tuns. 10,000 4500 12,900 being this year an average of 144 tuns per ship. LONDON: PRINTED AT THE CAXTON PRESS, BY H. FISHER. MEMOIR OF THE LATE REV. JOHN the feeble efforts which attempted to WESLEY, M. A. THE CELEBRATED arrest its flight. The pilgrim of FOUNDER OF METHODISM. (With a Portrait.) Bunyan is not more secure of immortality than the character of Jchn Wesley; while the arrows of detraction, falling short of their intended victim, only serve to mark the greatness of its elevation. AMONG the numerous divines that appeared during the last century, it will be difficult to find one whose name has been more celebrated than that of the late Rev. JOHN WESLEY. While alive, his fame was spread throughout England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland; it extended to the United States of America, to Nova Scotia, to the islands of the West Indies, and was not unknown on the shores of Africa, and the continent of Europe. His death, instead of furnishing his reputation with a grave, has tended to increase his honours, which the approbation of his friends, and the malignant aspersions of his enemies, strangely conspire to transmit with unsullied lustre to the remotest gene-repentance; and latterly, by Mr. rations. The public and conspicuous character which he sustained, through a long, an assiduous, and eventful life, exposed him to the rigid scrutiny of his cotemporaries, and to the posthumous calumnies of those, who, not content with analyzing his actions, have endeavoured to depreciate his motives, and defile his ashes in the repositories of death. Like Job, it was his lot to be persecuted while living, and to be traduced when dead; but his name is written in characters which enmity cannot misinterpret, and which neither the artifices of sophistry, nor the filth of malevolence, can ever efface. The hornets which buzzed around him during his mortal career, have long since sunk into repose, and oblivion has spread her mantle over their angry hums, and nearly blotted the names of their puny weapons from the records of time, while the great object of their ineffectual vengeance still shines forth in its native beauty, rendered more illustrious by No, 62.-VOL. VI. The life of this extraordinary man has been written in one large octavo volume, by the Rev. Henry Moore and Dr. Coke, and also in two volumes, by the Rev. John Whitehead. These lives are acknowledged by the Methodist body, together with an interesting volume of the Wesley Family that has just appeared, by the Rev. Dr. Adam Clarke. In addition to these, his life has been sketched by the Rev. John Hampson, who had been Mr. Wesley's friend; in a Portraiture of Methodism by Joseph Nightingale, which has already been succeeded by professions of sincere Robert Southey, the poet laureate, in two octavo volumes, written to be sold by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. From biographical details which have thus been extended, it is a work of no small difficulty to select such materials as shall compress the essential parts of Mr. Wesley's history into a narrow compass, without either omitting such branches as are necessary to furnish a fair estimate of his character, or introducing facts and incidents which have only a remote connexion with his life. The portrait of a giant cannot easily be drawn in miniature. Mr. John Wesley was born at Epworth, in Lincolnshire, on the 17th of June, 1703; of which parish, his father, a worthy clergyman of the church of England, then held the living. On his arrival at Epworth, he found the inhabitants profligate in their manners, and addicted to vices which had long triumphed without any restraint. Being unable to bear the faithful preaching of their new pastor, they H lution to make another effort, although she should perish in the attempt, she once more turned to the flames, and wading through the fire, escaped, naked as she was, into the street, her face and hands being only slightly scorched. meditated revenge, and one night, | undertaking. Having formed a resowhile he and his family were in bed, these incendiaries actually set his house on fire. When the flames began to ascend, an alarm was given by some person in the street. Roused by the cry of fire, Mr. Wesley got out of bed, and on opening the door found that the house was filled with smoke, and that the flames had caught the roof, the beams of which were nearly burnt through. As not a moment was to be lost, he hastened to the apartment of his wife, who being ill at that time, slept alone. Having, on awakening her, and the two elder girls, informed them of their danger, and bidding them shift for their lives, he burst open the nursery door, where the maid and five children were sleeping. The maid snatched up the youngest, and directed the others to follow her. By three of the children this summons was promptly obeyed; but in the hurry and confusion which prevailed, John Wesley, the subject of this memoir, was not awakened, and it was not until the danger rendered a return to the room impossible, that he was recollected. At this time John, being about six years old, was heard crying for help from the nursery. The agonized father ran to the stairs, but these had been so far consumed, that they could not bear his weight, and seeing no way for the child's escape, he fell on his knees, and solemnly commended his soul to God, before whom he expected it shortly to appear. But that God in whom he trusted, was kinder to him than his fears, and gave him back his son, when he had given him up for lost. John, it seems, had been awakened by the light, and thinking it was time to rise, called on the maid to take him up. But as no one answered, he opened the curtains, and was much alarmed on perceiving streaks of fire playing round the upper part of the room. Being thus alarmed, he ran to the door, but found his retreat in that direction completely cut off by the devouring flames. He next proceeded to the window, but not being high enough to reach it, he climbed up on a chest which was near, by which means he was seen by some persons in the yard. As no ladder was on the premises, and there was no time for procuring one, necessity drove them to this expedient: One man stood under the window, against the wall, on whose shoulders another mounted, by which means he reached the child, and rescued him from impending destruction, at the crisis of his fate. A moment or two longer would have been too late. The roof fell the instant he was delivered, and even in its descent, had it not fallen inward, both the child and his humane deliverers must inevitably have perished. The family having reached the hall, the flames rapidly spread in every direction, which compelled them to quit their habitation; but on attempting to gain the street door, it was found that the key had been left up stairs. Mr. Wesley, however, made a desperate run and recovered it, and happily returned again a few minutes before the staircase took fire. The street door being opened, a strong north-east wind drove the flames with such violence towards the room where the family had assembled, that they could not gain it. In this extremity, some of the children got out at the windows, and others through a small door into the garden. Mrs. Wesley, however, was not in a condition to climb the windows, and the garden door she was unable to reach. She then attempted three times to face the flames, and was as often compelled No sooner was the child carried to to retreat from their destructive vio- the house where the family had assemlence. In this state, finding no hope bled, than the father, in an ecstasy of of safety left, she committed her soul joy, exclaimed, "Come, neighbours, to God, and prayed that if it were his let us kneel, and give thanks to God. will she should be preserved from the He has given me all my eight childevouring element, some way might dren: let the house go; I am rich present itself to favour her escape, enough." This providential deliverand that her strength and courage ance was remembered by John Wesmight be equal to the hazardousley through life, with the deepest |