The following prices of colonial produce, taken from the London prices current, will show the loss which must eventually fall on the proprietor, either as the West-India merchant, or Planter in the Island, viz. Raw Sugar 68s, to 825. per cwt. Rum 33. 9d. to 5s. per gallon. Cotton 14d, to zod, per lb. Cofice nominal.

PORTUGAL. Large quantities of Port wine, Lisbon, and Bucellas, have arrived in the last feet, with an immense quantity of fruit, &c. The wines are principally of last year's vintage; and without brandies in the country to make them up, must undergo the operation at bome, ere they are fit for use, consequently old wines are valuable, and bring from £ico to 115 the pipe in our market. The exchange from London in Lisbon is 64d. per milica, and 6d. in Oporto, being 3d. per inirea under par, and in favour of Great Britain.

FRANCE. According to the recent decrees of Buonaparte, the burning of all British manu❤ factured goods continues to be carried on with the greatest activity possible, contrary to the laws of all civilized nations; yet still we continue to import their brandies, wines, fruit, cambries, &c. every article of which is paid for in specie in this country!

Two of the most established bankers at Paris have lately failed for upwards of half a mil hion sterling.

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SWEDEN. At length this country has formally declared war against Great Britain, and it is decreed that all British property or manufactures of Great Britain be confiscated. yet this country has not issued orders for detaining the Swedish ships in our ports, but it may be hourly expected in the London Gazette,

WEST-INDIES, Produce of every sort remarkably dull, and few public sales of sugars have been made. Coffee in no demand, except small quantities for home-consumption. Old rum rather scarce, and consequently dear. New Jamaica and Leeward Island rum sella from 35. 9d. to 5s. per gallon, exclusive of duty and excise.

SOUTH AMERICA.We are happy to find that the London and Liverpool merchanta have received considerable remittances in dollars, principally by the late arrivals from Brazil, and we hope soon to find that a flourishing trade may be carried on with good effect to this country. The markets were full of all kind of European manufactured goods, and the sales rather slow, by our last advices thence.

NORTH AMERICA.-The large import of Flax-seed from this part of the world into Ireland, has already had its effect on the linen market, the prices of which have fallen fult To per cent, and the purchasers of linen cloth for the American market have availed themselves of it, by making large shipments for New York, Philadelphia, Boston, &c. &c.

Current Prices of Shares in Navigable Canals, Docks, Bridges, Roads, Water Works, and Fire and Life Insurance Companies, at the Office of Messrs. Wolfe and Co, No. 9, 'Change Alley, Cornhill, 21st December, 1810.-Grand Junction Canal, 2601. per share.-Grand Union ditto, par.-Leicestershire and Northamptonshire Union ditto, ditto.-Kennet and Avon ditto, 421. per share.-Wilts and Berks ditto, 441. ditto.-Basingstoke ditto, 40L ditto.Grand Western ditto, par.-Grand Surry ditto, 751. per share.-Thames and Medway ditto, 501. per share premium.-Rochdale ditto, 551. per share.-Lancaster ditto, 261. ditte, -London Dock Stock, 1211. per cent for the opening.-West India ditto, 1621. ditto.-East India ditto, 1301. per cent.-Strand Bridge, 101. per share discount, pays 51. per cent. half yearly.-Vauxhall ditto, 101. per share discount.-Commercial Road, 1361. per cent.— East London Water Works, 1851. per share.-West Middlesex ditto, 1211. ditto.-South London ditto, 1261. ditto.-York Buildings ditto, 301. per share premium.-Kent ditto, 321. ditto.-Portsmouth and Farlington ditto, 151. ditto.-Globe Insurance Office, 1191. per share for the opening.-Imperial ditto, 751. ditto.—Albion ditto, 601. ditto.

MONTHLY BOTANICAL REPORT.

HAVING for some months past made no mention of English Botany, we shall now resume our usual account of such phænogamic plants as occur from the 1st of July to the end of the year; of the cryptogamic plants, except those of the order of filices, we shall not take any notice.

Galium verrucosum, the Valentia Aparine of Linnæus. Dr. Smith has very properly swerved from his great master in this instance; indeed, the small importance of some of the flowers, being detective in part of the sexual organs, is now much better understood than formerly. The true Valantias are distinguished by much more important characters in the seed. The figure of this plant, as given by Mr. Sowerby, is strikingly different. from that of Vaillant, in the greater length and straitness of the peduncles; found by Mr. G. Don, in corn-fields in the carse of Gowrie. Juncus gracilis, supposed to be a notdescript species, also found by Mr. Don among the mountains of Angus-shire, but very rarely. It approaches to J. Bufonius Caltha radicans; first described by T. F. Foster, Esq. in the Sth volume of the Transactions of the Linnean Society. Pinguicula grassfires of Decandelle and Lamarck, sent from Ireland by the Rev. Mr. Hincks, secretary to the

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Cork Institution; found plentifully in the western parts of the county of Cork, by Mr.

Drummond.

Carex pallescens; common in muist groves and pastures.

Salix tenuifolia; native of Westmorland and Scotland, drawn from a specimen in the garden of Mr. T. F. Foster, at Clapton. The name is derived from the thinness of the substance of the leaf.

Brassica Raps; the common turnip. A valuable observation of Mr. T. A. Knight's, the celebrated vegetable physiologist, is inserted, proving that the Swedish turnip is a variety of this, and not of the cabbage, as has been supposed.

Sagina maritima; a minute plant, much resembling Sagina apetala, found on the sea-coast of Scotland and Ireland, and on the summit of Ben Nevis !

Rosa bibernica. Some patrons of botany at Dublin offered a premium of 50l. for the discovery of a new Irish plant, which reward was claimed by J. Templeton, Esq. in consequence of his discovery of this supposed non-descript species. Its character is "fruit nearly globose, (red,) smooth, as well as the flower-stalks, prickles of the stem slightly hooked. Leaflets elliptical, smooth, with hairy ribs."

Fragaria elatior; the hautboy strawberry: found in a wood on the west side of Tring in Hertfordshire, and in Charlton Forest, Sussex. This species, bearing male and female flowers on different roots, is very apt to be unproductive, even in a cultivated state. It should be the business of gardeners to take care that some barren or male plants are intermixed with the fruit-bearing ones, which would probably insure a plentiful crop.

Betula alba; the birch. Every admirer of picturesque beauty is acquainted with the elegance, as every school-boy is with the disciplinarian virtues, of this beautiful and useful

tree.

Aspidium irriguum; supposed to be a new species of fern, discovered by Mr. T. F. Foster, about the margins of clear springs, near Tunbridge Wells. The drawing was takea from a garden specimen.

Galium Witheringii; mistaken by Withering for the G. montanum of Linnæus.

Cistus surrejonus. This species is become a very dubious one, no wild specimen having been found since the time of Dillenius; the drawing was of course necessarily taken from a garden specimen.

Cistus tomentosus, of Scopoli. Dr. Smith has received this from different botanists, gathered in Scotland, and discovers it to be the same as Scopoli's plant, from a comparison of it with a specimen from that excellent botanist himself. Judging from the figures of the above two plants, they appear to us to differ only in the form of the petals, and the nature of the pubescence on the under surface of the leaves; the difference of the former apparently arise from their being defective in surrejanas, and the latter perhaps solely from cultivation.

Scrophularia Scorodonia, a rare native of Jersey, and found also by Mr. E. Llwyd, about St. Ives, in Cornwall; not yet observed in any other part of Great Britain; drawn from a garden specimen.

Hieracium mo'le, found by Mr. Dickson, in woods in the south of Scotland. It agrees with authentic specimens from Jacquin, in the Linnean Herbarium.

Senecia saracenicus; one of the rarest of British plants, found in Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Westmorland.

Amaranthus Blitum; found in Battersea-fields, and elsewhere, in the neighbourhood of London, on dunghills. Dr. Smith remarks, that it resembles Atriplex in habit more nearly than such of its more specious congeners as decorate our gardens.

Avena fatua; a pernicious weed, especially infesting barley.

Frankenia pulverulenta; a very doubtful British species, diawn from a garden specimen ; said to have been found on the coast of Sussex, in the time of Dillenius; and Hudson professed to have gathered it himself between Bognor and Brighthelmstone.

Atriplex erecta; this species, at first rightly defined by Hudson, but afterwards impro perly joined by him with patula, has not been of late found by any botanist, and hence has necessarily been figured from a dried specimen in Mr. Rose's Herbarium, named under the inspection of Mr. Hudson.

Polypodium Phegopteris; a beautiful delicate fern, growing in stony, rather moist places, on mountains in the south of Scotland and north of England.

Of the Botanist's Repository, we have received only one Number since our last account of this work. The contents are

Ipomea pendula; native of New Holland, about Port Jackson, as well as the tropical parts. It appears to be a very beautiful species, corollas large, flesh coloured. The drawing was taken at the Comtesse de Vandes collection at Bayes water.

Fumaria nobilis; communicated by Mr. Doun, from the Botanic garden at Cambridge, at present one of the first collections in Europe.

Globba purpurea. The mantisia saltatoria of the Botanical Magazine, drawn at Sir Abraham Hume's, from whence Mr. Leo's collection was supplied with it.

Euphorbia epithymoides; communicated by Mr. Donn, from the Cambridge garden. Na

tive of Austria. The herbaceous cuphorbiæ look so differently at different periods of their growth, that it is often difficult to determine the species; but from the very entire edges of the involucre, and the roundness of the leaves, we are inclined to doubt if this be the same as has been described and figured by Jacquin, in the Flora Austriaca.

Euphorbia meloformis. A much better figure of this plant, though uncoloured, is to be seen in the Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, and copied from thence in the first volume of Annals of Botany, pl. 2. It is a diccións plant, and we believe the male only has been as yet seen in this country.

The Botanical Magazine for last month contains

Aloc rigida of Decandolle; the expansa of Haworth.

Aloc pentagona, of Haworth.

Anthericum longistapum, of Jacquin; from Mr. Haworth's collection. This, according to Mr. Ker, is the asphodeloides of the late edition of the Hortus Kewensis, as is proved by the specimen, preserved in the Banksian Herbarium. It is not, however, the asphodeloides of Linnæus, Miller, &c.

Tradescantia erecta, an annual plant; native of Mexico.

Fothergilla alnifolia var obtuse, and var major. Dr. Sims describes another variety, under the name of scrotina. This genus was named in honor of Dr. John Fothergill, by the Jate Dr. Garden, of Charlestown, South-Carolina. For an interesting life of the last mentioned author, by Dr. Smith, see Dr. Rees's Cyclopædia, article Garden.

Arctolis glutinosa, a new species, as appears, though Dr. Sims is not certain with respect to the genus, to which it ought to be referred; drawn at Lee and Kennedy's Nursery, Hammersmith.

Phlox carolina; an old inhabitant of our gardens, but probably for some time lost, and now recovered by Mr. Fraser, of Sloane Square. The smooth leaves and rough stem united, seem to be sufficient to distinguish this from every other known species.

METEOROLOGICAL REPORT.

Observations on the State of the Weather, from the 24th of November 1810, to the 24th of December 1810, inclusive, Four Miles N.N.W. of St. Paul's.

THE quantity of rain fallen since the last Report, is equal to about 4 inches: this though less than one-half of what fell during the preceding month, must be considered as a large quantity for the season, and perhaps a wetter autumn and early part of the winter were never known in this portion of the Island. In various districts of the kingdom there have been alarming and destructive floods, but no inconvenience, in this respect, has been felt in the metropolis and its neighbourhood, for, notwithstanding there have been eighteen days on which there has been rain, yet the intermediate periods have given ample time for the waters to run gradually off.

The average height of the barometer is about the same as it was the last month, vir 293, and the mean temperature not quite 39. We have had two or three sharp frosts, but they were of short duration, lasting in general but a few hours. On the mornings of the 1st, 2d, and 3d, and again on those of the 9th and 11th, the thermometer has been as low, or lower, than the freezing point: in one instance, as is seen above, it was at 269 in another, at 27°; the other days of the month jhave been unusually mild, and the common exclamation is, That Christmas has come before we have even felt the winter blast. In London, one of the thickest fogs remembered in the day-time, occurred about two o'clock on Sunday the 16th. The metropolis was almost enveloped in darkness, and artificial lights were rescited to a full hour and half earlier than the usual time. This fog did not extend to the villages about town. The wind has blown chiefly from the westerly points; on eight days it has been due west, on thirteen N. W. and on five S. WV. We cannot reckon more tha seven or eight days of bright sun-shine, and on one there was some snow.

Highgate, Dec. 24, 1810.

TO THE THIRTIETH VOLUME OF THE

MONTHLY MAGAZINE.

HALF YEARLY RETROSPECT OF LITERATURE.
HISTORY, CHRONOLOGY, &C.

N this class we have to notice a work of no ordinary consideration. "A new Analysis of Chronology, in which an Attempt is made to explain the History and Antiquities of the primitive Nations of the World, and the Prophe cies relating to them, on Principles tending to remove the Imperfection and Discordance of preceding Systems." By WILLIAM HALES, D. D. In three Volumes, Vol. I. 4to.