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Average Prices of Corn of England and Wales, from the Returns received in the Week

ended 29th August 1818.

Wheat, 80s. 1d.-Rye, 52s. 5d.-Barley, 53s. 3d.-Oats, 34s. 3d.-Beans, 70s. 5d.-Pease, 62s. 8d.-
Oatmeal, 36s. 8d.-Beer or Big, Os. Od.

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and Oatmeal, per Boll of 128 lbs. Scots Troy, or 140 lbs. Avoirdupois, of the Four
Weeks immediately preceding the 15th August 1818.

Wheat, 67s. 10d.-Rye, 58s. 3d.-Barley, 44s. Od.-Oats, 30s. 11d.-Beans, 48s. 10d.-Pease, 49s. 6d.-
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METEOROLOGICAL REPORT.

THE month of August commenced with dry weather, which continued with little interruption throughout. Excepting some light showers on the 1st, 7th, 10th, 17th, and 21st, scarcely exceeding in all one tenth of an inch, there fell no rain till the 25th. On that. day, and on the 27th and 28th, there fell altogether about half an inch, but the whole quantity still bears a very small proportion indeed to that of August last year. The temperature of the month has been uniformly elevated, the average being nearly 24 degrees above that of the corresponding month 1817. The Thermometer rose twice above 70, frequently to 66, and every day to 60. The Barometer was steady at an elevation of about 30 during the first three weeks, so steady, indeed, that on some days the elevation or depression of the mercury in the space of twelve hours, was imperceptible even in Adie's delicate Barometer. The Hygrometer was also generally high, the average being about 7 degrees above that of August last year. It will be seen from the abstract, that the mean of the maximum and minimum temperatures for the month, differs from that of 10 and 10 only by about three-tenths of a degree; and that the point of deposition, according VOL. III.

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Register.-Births and Marriages.

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

BIRTHS.

January 30. At Monghur, the lady of Archibald Dow, Esq. 19th Bengal Infantry, a daughter.

July 15. At Xeres, in Spain, the lady of John David Gordon, Esq. younger of Wardhouse, Aberdeenshire, a son.

28. In Old Broad-street, London, the lady of Alexander Gordon, Esq. a son.

30. At her mother's house, the Dowager Lady De Lawarr, in Saville-row, London, Lady Catherine D'Arcy, a son.

31. Mrs Ford, 68, George-street, Edinburgh, a daughter.

-At Rochdale, the lady of Mr Abraham Wood, surgeon, three fine children, who, with their moth er, are doing remarkably well.

-At Gibraltar, the lady of Deputy-CommissaryGeneral John Mackenzie, a son.

August 1. At Glengyle, Mrs M'Gregor, jun. of Glengyle, a son and heir.

3. At Houghton-le-Spring, Durham, the lady of Hope Steuart, Esq, of Ballechin, a daughter.

5. At Edinburgh, the lady of Thomas Mackenzie, Esq. Shandwick place, a son.

6. Mrs M'Hutchen, 60, Nicolson-street, Edinburgh, a daughter.

7. At Edinburgh, the lady of James Wedderburn, Esq. his Majesty's solicitor-general for ScotJand, a daughter.

8. Mrs Bridges, Duke-street, Edinburgh, a daugh

ter.

9. The lady of John Anstruther Thomson, Esq. of Charelton, a son.

11. Mrs William Tenant, jun. 12, Hanoverstreet, Edinburgh, a son.

10. At White-house, Mrs L. Horner, a daughter. 15. At the house of her mother, Lady Chalmers, Sloane-street, Chelsea, the lady of Captain John Mayne, East India service, a son.

16. Mrs Hope Johnstone, a daughter.

Mrs Craufuird, Forth-street, Edinburgh, a daughter.

17. At Edinburgh, the lady of William Robertson, Esq. 75, Great King-street, a daughter.

In Dublin, the lady of the Lord Chancellor, a son and heir.

-At Arbuthnot-house, the Viscountess of Arbuthnot, a daughter.

19. In Abercromby-place, Edinburgh, the lady of Edward Seymour, Esq. a son.

At Rosiere, near Lyndhurst, the Countess of Erroll, a daughter.

20. Mrs Ferrier, 45, Northumberland-street, Edinburgh, a daughter.

20. In York-place, London, the Countess of Compton, a son.

a son.

-At Blackheath, the Countess of Huntingdon, It is Lord Huntingdon's intention to commemorate his succession to the title, by naming this boy Robin Hood.

At Edinburgh, Mrs Corrie, a son.

In Pilrig-street, Edinburgh, Mrs Ewing, a daughter.

21. Mrs Thomas Johnstone, Albany-street, Edinburgh, a daughter.

22. At Ayton-house, Mrs Fordyce of Ayton, a daughter.

At Bonnington-house, near Leith Fort, the lady of Captain W. Clibborn, of the royal artillery,

a son.

25. At Hanover-street, Edinburgh, Mrs Andrew,

a son.

24. At Edinburgh, Mrs George Wauchope, a daughter.

27. Mrs G. Hamilton Dundas, a son. 28. At Cockairney-house, Fifeshire, the lady of Lieutenant-colonel Moubray, a son.

-At Stirling, Mrs Captain Brown of Park, a daughter.

At Cockenzie, Mrs H. F. Cadell, a daughter,

MARRIAGES.

June 28. At Dunkirk, Samuel Christian, Esq. of Amsterdam, fourth son of Joseph Christian, Esq. of London, to Georgette Susanne Gregorie, youngest daughter of George Gregorie, Esq. of Ostend.

July 25. At Ballachroan, John M'Intosh, Esq. of Holm, to Jessie, youngest daughter of Bailie Donald M'Pherson, Inverness.

Captain Crawford, only son of Sir James Crawford, to Lady Barbara Coventry, fourth daughter of the Earl of Coventry.

29. At Barrisdale, Colonel Cameron of the 95th, or rifle corps, to Miss Macdonnell, only daughter of Coll Macdonell, Esq. of Barrisdale.

August 1. John Toup Nicholas, Esq. a companion of the most honourable military order of the Bath, and a commander of the royal and military order of St Ferdinand and of Merit of the Two Sicilies, a post captain in the royal navy, to Frances Anna, eldest daughter of Nicholas Were of Landcox, Esq. near Wellington, in Somersetshire.

G. Ambrose Goddart, Esq. of Swindon-house, to Miss Lethridge, daughter of Sir Thomas Buchles Lethridge, Bart, and niece of Sir Thomas Dalrymple Hesketh, Bart.

3. At Banff, Captain John Charles Griffiths, of the 94th regiment, to Miss Elizabeth Blane, daughter of the late Lieutenant-colonel Robert Blane of Springfield.

At North Berwick Lodge, Major Madox, of the 6th Enniskillen dragoons, to Miss Williams.. 4. Mr Andrew Peacock, merchant, to Catherine, only daughter of Mr Thomas Brown, Canongate, Edinburgh.

At Linton, Henry Dinning, Esq. Newlands, Belford, to Miss Grace Rennie, Linton.

4. At Muircote, near Alloa, Alexander Dewar, Esq. M. D. to Margaret Rosamond Geddes, fourth daughter of William Geddes, Esq.

At Glasgow, John Stenley Carr, of the 24th regiment, to Johanna, daughter of the late John Wallace, Esq. of Kelly.

11. At Braidwood, Mr Andrew Waugh, writer in Edinburgh, to Margaret, third daughter of Geo. Ferme, Esq. Braidwood.

At Green Cottage, near Elgin, Lachlan Mackintosh, Esq. of Raigmore, to Margaret, daughter of Sir Archibald Dunbar, Bart. of Northfield.

12. At Fort-William, Thomas Macdonald, Esq. writer there, to Margaret, eldest daughter of the late Lieutenant-colonel John Cameron of Achnasaul.

At Port Patrick, Dr Andrew Anderson, of the 92d regiment of foot, to Anne, second daughter of Mr James Cairns, writer, Peebles.

At Lamesley, in the county of Durham, Viscount Normandy, eldest son of the Earl of Mulgrave, to Maria, eldest daughter of Sir Thomas Henry Liddell, Bart. of Ravensworth castle.

13. Mr Ab. Thomson, of Dundas-street, to Miss Elizabeth Wilson Duffin, eldest daughter of the late Mr Edward Wilson Duffin.

14. At Leith, Mr John Menzies, engraver, Edin. burgh, to Isabella, youngest daughter of the late Mr James Mowat, rector of the grammar school, St Andrews.

At Glasgow, by the Rev. Dr M'Lean, Lieut. Alexander, Campbell, R. N. to Helen, third daughter of Duncan Turner, Esq. Castles, Glenurchy.

At Longnewton-house, Mr David Simson, Bloodylaws, to Miss Rutherford.

15. Michael Bruce, Esq. to Lady Parker, widow of Captain Sir Peter Parker, Bart. of the royal

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17. At Haddington, Mr Francis Wright, merchant, Edinburgh, to Alison, daughter of Mr Jas. Pringle.

At Edinburgh, Captain John White, to Janet, eldest daughter of the late Mr William Simpson, shipowner, Grangemouth.

18. At Stepney church, London, Mr David Walker, of Edinburgh, to Miss Anne Stewart, of Mileend.

At Slains Lodge, Mr John Baigrie, Mains of Kinmundy, to Miss Mina Ann Clarke.

-At Edinburgh, Richard Huie, M.D. Dundee, to Miss Eliza Syme, daughter of the late Mr Alex. Syme, merchant there.

-At John's church, Manchester, Wm M'Laren, Esq. Glasgow, to Mary, eldest daughter of the late Robert Runcorn, Esq. Manchester.

19. At the Marine cottage, Pirniefield, Charles Anderson, M.D. Leith, to Mary, daughter of John Rhind, Esq.

20. At Dumfries, Captain Dougal Stuart, of the 1st battalion royal marines, to Miss Dalziel of Glenae.

21. At Bogend, Mr William Young, Stenhousemuir, to Miss Elizabeth Bachop, second daughter of John Bachop of Bogend, Stirlingshire.

24. At Portobello, John Murray, Esq. W.S. to Miss Ann Jane Borland, youngest daughter of the ate James Borland, Esq. Glasgow.

At Green Cottage, near Elgin, Lachlan Macintosh, Esq of Raigmore, to Margaret, daughter of Sir Archibald Dunbar, Bart. of Northfield."

25. At Greenock, Mr Alexander Maclauchlan, merchant in London, to Elizabeth, youngest daughter of the late Mr John White, Greenock.

DEATHS.

February 13. At Calcutta, James Rattray, Esq. second in the East India Company's civil service, judge of circuit in the Dacea division, and eldest son of the late James Rattray of Arthurston,

May 6. Of a dysentery, which carried him off in the short space of two days, Mr Henry Alexander, the colonial secretary-of the Cape of Good Hope.

30. At Barbadoes, of an apoplectic fit, the honourable Geo. Maynard, chief judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and of his Majesty's council in that island. He was proceeding home, when he fell off his horse, and, as was supposed, immediately expired.

June 23. At Grenada, West Indies, Mrs Agnes M'Mahon, spouse of Thomas Duncan, Esq. surgeon there.

July 6. At Warsovia, Lieut.-general Mickrelsky, at the age of 105 years. His first entry into the profession of arms was in the service of the Empress Anne and Elizabeth of Russia, under the command of Field-marshal Munich. He then passed into the Saxon service, and served every campaign of the seven years' war. He afterwards fought under the banners of Stanislaus, and did not quit the army till he had attained the age of 80 years.

8. Janet, the infant daughter of Captain Deans Dundas, of his Majesty's ship Tagus.

12. At Baltimore, United States, America, Mrs Dr Davidge.

13. At Banff, Mis Anna Fraser, relict of Æneas Macdonell, Esq. of Scothouse.

Mr Abraham Thornton, sen. farmer, of Castle Broomwich, Warwickshire, father of Abraham Thornton, tried and acquitted of the murder of Mary Ashford.

17. At Lisburn, Ireland, Edward Givern, aged 114. His wife is still living and healthy in Lisburn, aged 109.

-At Inverness, Mrs Machean, widow of the late Robert Macbean, Esq. of Nairnside.

19. At Grantham, on Sunday morning, Jane Watchorn. This young woman was working in the field on Thursday, and, while very hot, drank some cold water, which caused her death. There have been several instances of this sort, while others have lost their lives by plunging into the water when in a great heat.

20. At the pin-factory, Durham, in the 102d year of her age, Catherine Richard."

20. At Aberdeen, John R. Smith, Esq. of Concraig.

22. At London, William Morrison, Esq. late of Calcutta. He has bequeathed to the poor of his native parish of Campsie £100; to the British and Foreign Bible Society £500; and to the Society in Calcutta for Educating the Native Indians £100.

21. At the manse of Glenmuick, the Rev. Geo. Brown, minister of the united parishes of Glenmuick, Glengarden, and Tullich.

26. At Kilgraston-house, in the 73d year of his age, Francis Grant, Esq. of Kilgraston.

27. At Streatham, in the 10th year of her age, Emma Drury, youngest daughter of Sir George Barlow, Bart.

James Fergusson, Esq. of Middlehaugh, late of Hanover, Jamaica.

-At Paisley, the Rev. Joseph Kitchen, one of the ministers of the Wesleyan Connexion, in the 48th year of his age, and 19th of his ministry.

- At New Galloway, after a tedious illness, attended with the most excruciating pain, Mr Robert Heron, weaver, aged 77. He was a man who possessed an extensive range of knowledge, superior to most men of his condition. It is worthy of notice to state, that this respectable tradesman was father to Major Heron, who fell, some years ago, at the taking of the Isle of Bourbon, and uncle to the unfortunate historian, Robert Heron, who died of a broken heart, at London, in the year 1807.

28. At Glasgow, Mr James Stewart, merchant in Doune.

29. At Knowsouth, William, eldest son of Wm Oliver, Esq. younger of Dinlabyre.

The infant son of Thomas Newton, Esq. of Warwick-square, London.

30. At Edinburgh, aged 36 years, Mrs Christian Craw, wife of Mr Mein, surgeon-apothecary, Leithstreet.

-At Brompton, in the 75th year of her age, Miss Pope of Newman-street, London, formerly of the Theatre Royal, Drury-lane.

31. At his house in St James's square, London, Viscount Anson.

-At Killechieran, Lismore, the Right Rev. Dr Eneas Chisholm.

August 1. At Edinburgh, Mr George Fordyce, writer there.

2. At Port-Glasgow, Robert Paton, Esq. writer. - At Balcaskie, Sir Robert Anstruther of Balcaskie, Bart.

3. At Houndwood-house, Elizabeth Ann, the infant daughter of Captain Coulson, royal navy.

At Edinburgh, Mrs Euphemia Mitchell, widow of Peter May, Esq.

4. At No 2, Davies' place, Miss Elizabeth Noble. - At Galway, Ireland, in a room occupied by the band of the 77th regiment, where he had been maintained the last two months, and very humanely attended by three people of his colour, Molyneux, the celebrated pugilist. From his swollen state, it was deemed necessary that his almost immediate interment should take place. He was to have been interred on Wednesday. The expenses of his funeral were to be charitably defrayed by subscription in the 77th regiment-a tomb-stone is to be erected to his memory.

-At Melrose, Mr George Mercer, eldest son of the deceased Mr Mercer of Abbotslee, writer in Melrose.

5. In Grosvenor-place, London, after a lingering illness, the Right Hon. General Lord Muncaster, aged 73. His lordship inherited the title and estates on the death of his brother in 1813, and is succeeded in both by his only son, the Hon. Lowther Augustus John Pennington, a minor.

- At Edinburgh, Admiral Alexander Græme of Græmeshall.

6. In her 27th year, Miss Agnes Rawlinson, daughter of the late Mr John Rawlinson of Lan

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7. In Brook-street, London, the infant son of the Hon. Thomas Erskine, aged two months.

- In the 76th year of his age, Francis Newberry, Esq. of St Paul's Church-yard, London.

8. At Edinburgh, the Hon. Walter Charteris, second son of the Earl of Wemyss and March. -At Edinburgh, Mrs Erskine, widow of the late Rev. James Erskine of Shielfield.

9. At Whitby, suddenly, Mr Thomas Nicholson, the oldest pilot in the place, having acted upwards of 43 years in that capacity. Immediately before his death, he walked home from the barber's shop.

- Of an apoplectic fit, Quintin Dick, Esq. of Montague-street, Russel-square, London, aged 74. 12. At Coleraine, in the 62d year of his age, John He Cuthbert, Esq. surveyor-general of customs. had retired to rest in apparent good health and excellent spirits, and was found dead in his bed on the following morning.

At Tayfield, the Rev. F. M'Lagan, minister of Melrose.

14. At Aberdeen, in the 70th year of her age, Mrs Chalmers, widow of the late Mr James Chalmers, printer in Aberdeen.

- At Kilmarnock, at the advanced age of 76, John M'Rae, cooper there. He was only once married; but has left behind him 12 children, 69 grandchildren, and 5 great-grand-childreu, in all, 86 descendants.

15. In Hallgarth-street, Durham, Mr A. Featonby, aged 82. This person, who lived during the greater part of his life in a state of abject penury, is said to have died worth £20,000! He has not unfrequently accepted employinent on the turnpike roads, in the breaking of stones, &c.; and the coat which he wore, up to the time of his death, was so patched, that scarcely a particle of the cloth of which it was originally composed, could be dis covered amongst the "shreds and patches" which it exhibited.

-At Limehouse, aged 69, Mr Thomas Gray, check-clerk in the West India docks since their first establishment.

16. At Brighton, John Palmer, Esq. of Bath, late comptroller-general of the Post-office.

At Carphin, John Raitt, Esq. of Carphin. 17. Lady Wilson of Charlton-house, Kent, relict of the late General Sir Thomas Spencer Wilson, Bart. in the 71st year of her age.

19. At Leith, Mr Robert Young, second son of the late Mr Alexander Young, ship-owner there. 20. At Castlehill, Mrs Begbie, wife of Patrick Begbie, Esq. Castlehill.

1. At Littlecott, Berkshire, Colonel Kellie, C.B. lieutenant-colonel of his Majesty's 24th regiment. -At his house, King's-row, Pimlico, G. C. Ashley, Esq. the celebrated performer on the violin.

22. In London, Captain Henry Halkett, fourth son of the late Sir John Halkett, Bart. of Pitfirane. -At his seat, Daylesford-house, Worcestershire, in the 86th year of this age, the Right Hon. Warren Hastings, late governor-general of Bengal, doctor of civil law, and one of his Majesty's most honourable privy councillors.!

23. At his house, in Portman-street, London, in the 63d year of his age, Francis Perceval Eliot, Esq. He was the nearest representative of an ancient family, and allied to the present Earl of St Germans. Mr Eliot was formerly colonel of the Stafford militia, and for many years, until the pe riod of his decease, was one of the commissioners of audit in Somerset-house.

-At Pitcaithly Wells, Mr Charles Ritchie, ironmonger, Edinburgh.

-At Edinburgh, Mr Peter Ewart.

24. At Dumfries, Mr William Wallace, writer. 27. At Edinburgh, William Bishop, sen. merchant there.

Lately-In the United States of America, Sir John Oldmixon, once known in fashionable life, but having retired from this country from pecuniary embarrassments about 25 years ago, he sunk into obscurity, and has died neglected and forgot

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At Rome, in his 21st year, the Right Hon. Lord Henry de Roos.

At Hampstead, aged 79, Lady Colebrooke, relict of Sir George Colebrooke, Bart.

At the Ville of Dunkirk, near Bouhton-underthe-Blean, David Ferguson, aged one hundred and twenty-four years. Ferguson was a Scotsman, but had resided in the Ville of Dunkirk between fifty and sixty years; he was, until a very few years back, a very industrious, active, and hard-working labourer. He was born at Netherud, in the parish of Kirkurd. He was at school at Dunsyre, in Lanarkshire, and was bred a shoemaker at Linton, on the Dumfrics road. He entered into the army in a regiment of dragoons, called the Glasgow Greys (not the present Scots Greys); after this he served in the 70th regiment. He was about 12 or 13 years old at the battle of Sheriff Muir; remembered Queen Ann and the battle of Malplaquet; had seen the Duke of Marlborough in England; recollected Lord Stair calling upon his father, who was a farmThe remains of the old man were interred in Broughton church yard, attended by a numerous assemblage of both old and young persons, and one common sentiment of regret seemed to pervade all classes, at the last farewell of their old friend, who was universally regretted.

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At York, Mr Thomas Wilkinson, formerly a saddler in that city, aged 66; an eccentric character, who for upwards of 20 years had never slept in

a bed.

At the village of Leeds, in Kent, Mr James Barham, aged 92 years, gardener to the late Lord Fairfax, an eminent change-ringer and peal conductor. The deceased stood at one time 14 hours and 44 minutes at the bell.

In Dublin, in the 83d year of his age, Cornelly, the father of the Irish stage, and the contemporary of Edwin, Shuter, O'Reilly, and Rider. In his time he was an excellent comedian, and the particular friend and companion of O'Keefe.

At Kendal, in Westmoreland, William Gawthrop, Esq. formerly of the Cumberland militia. At Greenfield, Mrs Logie, wife of Captain W. Logie of the 92d regiment.

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At Baledgarno, J. Gourlay, Esq. Dundee, aged

Death from Fright.-An inquisition was taken on Thursday night, at the Pine Apple, Pinilico, on the body of Mrs Mary Bandy, of No 6, Falacestreet. Sarah Garner deposed, that she was servant to the deceased, and had lived with her about nine years. On Tuesday about one o'clock, she heard a violent knocking at the street door, when she got up, opened her window, and saw two watchmen at the door. They called out that there were thieves in the house, and wished to come in and search it. She was going down stairs to let the watchmen in, when the deceased called to know what was the matter? She told her what the watchmen said, and the deceased went in an apparent fright to her chamber. Witness opened the door, and the watch men searched about the premises, but could find no one, though a gentleman said he had seen a man get over the railings of the area.

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ed up stairs, and the deceased seemed greatly frightened; she endeavoured to pacify her, but her terror was so great that she fell down on the floor, and soon became senseless. She died in three hours after, and her death was produced, in witness's opi nion, by excessive fright.-Verdict-" Death by excessive fright."

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