kept themselves above water, and support themselves on oars and planks, till the boats, which immediately put off from the shore, picked them up. Unfortunately, however, they were unable to save Captain Herbert and Mr. Creed, who sunk before they arrived. These two gentlemen went out for the purpose of visiting the country. Captain Herbert was a gentleman of respectable literary talents, and had lately published a volume of poems, translated from the northern languages. He married Miss Byng, daughter of the Hon. Jolin Byng, and sister to Captain Byng, of his Majesty's ship Belliqueux. His body was picked up a few days after the fatal accident, by the Unicorn frigate, and interred at Gijon, with military honours, on the 23d of September last: most of the English there, and many Portuguese of the first respectability, attended the funeral. The body of Mr. Creed has also been picked up, and buried with due solemnity. In the island of Marigalante, John Brown, esq. a native of Belfast, and for some years a merchant in Dublin. The manner of his death renders it the more distressing to his relatives and numerous friends. On his passage from Antigua to another island, on a mercantile speculation, the ship he sailed in was captured, and carried by the French into Marigalante, shortly before it was taken by the English forces. The French force hav. ing come to a determination to capitulate, they liberated Mr. Brown, for the purpose of communicating with the British. Unhappily his joy at his deliverance made him neglect the precaution of taking with him a flag of truce, and on approaching the posts of the British, he received a ball in the heart from a black centinel in their service. Off the French coast, Mr. Hubbert, of Frieston, near Boston, midshipman and acting master on board his Majesty's ship the Sheldrake, commanded by Captain ThickThis young gentleman, who entered nesse. into the service of the royal navy under the patronage of Captain Lloyd, commanding the sea fencibles, &c. on the Lincolnshire coast; was most unfortunately drowned while he had the charge of a French vessel which had been captured by the Sheldrake, and which having sprung a leak, suddenly went down. Thus perished a very promising and much lamented young officer, together with every man, except only one, of the party then under his command, consisting of a midshipman and ten men, and also two French sailors who had been permitted to remain on board after the capture. Lieutenant-colonel Robert Honyman, sccond son of Lord Armadale. He served as a volunteer during the whole campaign in Egypt, where he was honoured with the approbation of Sir Ralph Abercrombie, and ac quired the esteem and friendship of Sir John Moore, Generals Hope, Spencer, and other distinguished officers. At the attack or the Dutch lines, at the capture of the Cape of Good Hope, he, under Sir David Bad, led on the 95d regiment, of which he was major, and was severely wounded. As LieutenantColonel of the 18th regiment of foot, he lately received the thanks of the Commanderin-Chief of the island of Jamaica, for his active services in suppressing a mutiny of the black troops in that island, where he has since fallen a victim to the fever of the country, at the age of 27. At Lisbon, in the 25th year of his age, William Kirby, eldest son of William Kirby, of the county of Waterford, esq➡This young gentleman went out a volunteer to Portugal, with Sir A. Wellesley's expedition, from Cork, and fought in the battle of Vimiera, with conspicuous courage and steadiness, with- . out receiving a wound; but, being subject to a disease on his liver, the fatigue he was obliged necessarily to undergo, put a period to his existence in the prime of life. MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT. WE have the pleasure to state, that the Eaft India Company have lately been informed by their agent at Conftantinople, that he has opened the ufual communication between this country and India, everland, a matter of the higheft importance to the company at this particular time; added to which the peace concluded last January with the Turks, must be of great confequence to our trade, as well to Turkey, as to the East Indies. The East India Company have declared for fale on Monday, March 6. The fale of indigo is poftponed from March 10, to May 8. The fugar market has been very dull for some months past; but the distillation from corn or grain being now prohibited, it is expected fugars will advance confiderably, being the only fubftitute for the manufacture of tpirits: already fome fpeculators have come into the fugar market, and purchased freely of low goods, and fine St. Kitts and Demerary's are in demand for the refineries. The fubftance of the clauses of the bill to prohibit the distillation of spirits from corn or grain in Great Britain, and to fufpend the importation of British or Irish made fpirits into Great Britain or Ireland, for a time to be limited are, viz: Diftillations of fpirits from grain in Great Britain is prohibited. His Majeńy may prohibit, by proclamation, the diftillation of spirits from grain (except wheat), or continue the prohibition. Further, a penalty is impofed for ufing grain for diftillation pending the prohibition. Diftillers taking into their cuftody, during the prohibition, grain which fhall have been ground, fhall be fubject to a penalty. Exemptions are granted to distillers who are millers. During the prohibition, no Irish-made spirits to be imported into Great Britain, nor vice persa. All fuch fpirits, fo imported, with the casks, boats, ships, &c. fhall be liable to seizure. Old Jamaica, and Leeward ifland rum is in demand, and advanced full 6d. per gallon. Fine coffee is alfo on demand,and likely to continue fo. We recommend our friends who are partial to coffee to purchafe that of Java which comes as near the real Turkey as poffible, and at nearly one fourth of the price; the grain is larger than Weft India coffee, and of a flat oval shape. Cotton wool is rather dull in the market at prefent, for the reasons we affigned in our last report fince which time, the East India Company have had a fale of 3996 bales (on the 9 inftant,) confifting of Surat's and Bengal's, they sold from 18d. 234 per pound. The markets of Liverpool and Manchefter are alfo flat, and large quantities in the importers bands. Linen-rags for paper-makers ufe, are at fuch an enormous price, that perfons in the paper and book-trade have been under the neceflity of advancing their prices. The prefent price of -rags is from 77s. to 785. per hundred weight, and until there are some arrivals from Malta with thofe of Italy, it is impoffible they can lower. PRICES OF STOCKS, from the 1st of MARCH to the 25th of MARCH, both inclusive. N. B. In the 3 per Cent. Consols the highest and lowest Prices are given; in the other Stocks, the highest only. WM. TURQUAND, Stock and Exchange Broker, No. 9, St. Michael's Alley, Cornhill: MONTHLY Mac. No. 183. Tt MONTHLY MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. THE Wheat crops of both the late and early fowings have come on well fince our last, and at prefent in many places quite cover over the furface of the ground. They, perhaps, never looked more favourably, in general, at this period of the year. The winter Barleys and Ryes are also pretty much in the fame fituation. The Winter Tare and Rape crops in different diftricts have likewife a very fine appearance at this time.-In England and Wales, Wheat averages per quarter, 94s.; Barley, 46s. 4d.; and Oats, 34s. 8d. The late turnip crops have alfo afforded a large fupply of both green and other food for the fupport of fheep and cattle ftock, during the latter part of the prefent month, and have been particularly favourable for the lambing ewes in many fituations. The unusual fineness of the feafon, through most of the month, has afforded a fine opportunity of putting in fpring crops in complete perfection, and great breadths of ground have been already fown with Oats, fpring Wheats, and other spring crops, in the best polfible state of preparation. Great breadths of early Potatoes have likewife been fet in some districts in the early part of the month. The weather has likewife been extremely favourable for the making of new, and repairing the old fences, and much work of this kind has been well accomplished. The bulinels of ploughing was, perhaps, never better performed than in the prefent feafon, the land having broken up remarkably well. The Tup ftock, as well as that of Cattle, have done hitherto extremely well: the Ewes have lambed down very well, in a vast number of inftances, double lambs having been produced. The uncommon warmth and fineness of the month have, in various cafes, brought the Fruit-trees into much too forward a state, to expect any very great produce of fruit from them. The sales of both fat and lean ftock feem rather brifker.-In Smithfield market, Beef fetches from 4s. 6d. to 5s. 6d. per stone of 81b.; Mutton, from 4s. 8d. to 5s. 10d.; and Pork, from 6s. to 7s. In the above market, Hay fetches from 61. 6s. to 61. 10s. per load; Clover, from 71. to 71. s.; and Straw, from 21, to 21. 5s, NATURALIST'S MONTHLY REPORT. FEBRUARY. The rivers swell Of bonds impatient, sudden from the hills, FOR the last thirty years, it is not remembered that the fresh-water floods have been so tre- February 1. Garden neas begin to shoot out of the ground. February 2. A small sycamore tree in a garden is now in full leaf. This is a singular circumstance, as the same tree has not been removed since its leafing last year, which was at the usua! Lime. February 13. A skate's egg, containing a live young one, was this day picked up on the seashore. On sunny banks in the fields the pilewort (Ranunculus ficaria) is in flower: and in the gardéns, snow-drops, crocuses, mezerium, and hepaticas. Daffodils, narcissusee, and hyacinths, are beginning to shoot up their flower buds. February 19. We have indications of the reviving year from insects as well as plants. Several species of ptinus begin to come abroad, the lady cow (coccinella sistem punctata) and some of the kinds of cicada. I'have not yet heard the death-watch, ptinui restellatus) z in the course, however, of a week or ten days tbere insects, I expect, will commence their beating. ་ Daffodils and primroses are in flower. The blackbirds and thrushes sing. Partridges begin to pair. A turtle, weighing fourteen pounds and a half, was seen floating in the sea, near the rocks of Christchurch head, by a man who succeeded in getting it out. The animal was purchased by the keeper of the hotel at Christchurch; and a party of gentlemen had a dinner on the occasi on. I am inclined to suppose, that this turtle, which was of the species testudo mydas of Linnæus, had been drifted by the late storms from soine distant sea to our shores; and not, as some persons believed, that it had been washed overboard from some West-India ship. It was of a size too small to be of any value for sale; and it is known that on various parts of the southwestern coasts of France, turtles of the present species, have not unfrequently been known to approach the shores. February 20. The bear's foot (belleborus fœtidus), the gooseberry and currant trees, are in flower. The leaves of the weeping-willow appear. The yellow-hammer and wood-lark sing. The green wood-pecker begins to make its harsh screas. February 21. This, on the whole, was a fine day. I found on the sea beach a carp, weighing about half a pound, which had been cast ashore by the tide. It had burst in spawning; and had been carried by the fresh-water floods into the sea. It was still alive. February 25. A very large kind of common gnats (culex pipiens) which bite very severely, are flying about in small numbers, in houses, and other buildings. February 27. In the evening there was one of the most beautiful halos round the moon that I ever beheld. The prismatic colours were peculiarly bright. I of course expected that bad weather would follow, but this was not the case. February 28, was, in almost every respect, a complete spring day. Gossamer floated in the air in considerable quantity. The larks, blackbirds, and thrushes were singing in almost as great numbers as in the middle of summer. Three kinds of butterflies were flying about, viz. The large white cabbage butterfly (papilio brassica), the peacock butterfly (papilio ia) and nettle butterfly (papilio urtica). Several of the spring scarabei were likewise Aying about the roads and the dusty places. The woodbine, elder, lilac, and bramble, are all putting forth their leaves; and on a few branches of hawthorn, I remarked that the leaf-buds were turning green. The sweet-scented violets are in flower in gardens; and the flowers of the pilewort (ra. sunculus ficaria) now cover almost every sunny bank. Hampshire. METEOROLOGICAL REPORT. Observations on the State of the Weather, from the 24th of February, to the 24th of March, 1809, inclusive, Four Miles N.N.W. of St. Paul's. Only on three days since our last report, has there been any rain, and on these a very trifling quantity, we shall accordingly defer our report of it till the next month. The mean height of the thermometer, notwithstanding several warm days, is less than it was for the last month. For the present it is 429.536. That of the barometer is much higher, being last month something less than 29 3 inches, and the present 29.886: the last was accordingly a very wet month, this has been a remarkably done The barometer has in several instances risen and fallen for two or three days together, without any change with regard to rain, From the 31st, to this day, (25th) it has gradually fallen, and we have had during the last night, several hours of very gentle rain, of which the gardens seem to have stood in need. More may probably be looked for: since it is a maxim with all observers of the weather, In fair weather, when the mercury falls low, and continues to fall for three or four days before the rain comes on, then much wet may be expected." The wind has been variable, blowing about 14 or 15 days from the easterly pointe; and about at many days may be reckoned very brilliant; the remainder have been pretty equally divided between what are denominated fair and cloudy, including the three in which there was some |