SOMERSETSHIRE. Married] At Bedminster, Wm. Vincent, esq. of Alten, Hants, to Miss Mary Atwood. At Clifton, the Hon. Captain Gardner, R. N. to Miss C. V. Straubenzee.-The Hon. James Hewitt, eldest son of Viscount Lifford, to the Hon. Mary Anne Maude, sister of Viscount Hawarden. Died.] At Westerleigh, Mr. Samuel Crease. DORSETSHIRE. Married.] At Weymouth, Lord Hinton, son of Earl Poulet, to the sister of Mrs. Farquharson. Mr. R. W. Andrews, of Dorchester, to Miss A. Luckham, daughter of Mr. L. of Steepleton. DEVONSHIRE. Married.] At Exeter, Lieut. Devon, R. N. to Miss Thompson. Died.] At Fursdon, Mrs. Briggs. At Whilborough, Mrs. Balle, relict of Mr. Thomas B. late of Riley, solicitor, 92. CORNWALL. Died.] At Truro, Mrs. Simpson, 53Mrs. Richards.-Mrs. Hore. -Mrs. Elizabeth Janies, 87. At St Columb, Fanny Hawton, 91.-Mr.. Clemon, 87. At Point, parish of Feock, Mr. William Rogers. At Camelfoy, Mrs. Ann Snowden. WALES. Married.] At Rhydellan, the Rev. Reginald Heber, rector of Hodnet, Salop, to Miss Amelia Shipley, youngest daughter of the Dean of St. Asaph. Died.] At Heathfield, near Swansea, Sir Gabriel Powell. At Beaumaris, whither he had retired with his family for the benefit of his health, the Rev. Edward Waterson, rector of Sleaford, Lincolnshire, 34. At Lower Millington, near Churchstoke, Montgomery, Thomas Beob, esq. NORTH BRITAIN. Died At Armedale, in Skye, John Alexander Graham, esq. chamberlain of Skye. At Sidholm, Jean Burgess, aged 93. She had been sixty-seven years married to one husband; and, before she died, 113 could call her mother, grandmother, and great grandmother. Thirty seven of these were great "grandchildren. At Edinburgh, Christina Elizabeth, dow"ager, countess of Kintore.-John Campbell, esq. M. P. colonel of the Argyleshire militia. DEATH ABROAD. At Nassau, New Providence, Mrs. Lydia Edwards, wife of the Honourable Peter Edwards, esq. The inconsolable grief of a husband, the ami ble deportment of a numerous offspring, and the deep regret of all who knew her, are the best tribute to her memory. MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT. AN event, most important to the commercial interests of this country, has taken place within the last month. We allude to the repeal of the orders in council, relative to our interfcourfe with America, which is now as free as ever it was, prior to our difagreement with our tranfatlantic brethren. This meafure, which is highly creditable to the political talents of our rulers, has already given new life to our manufactures of every defcription; at the fame time, that it has destroyed the ungenerous expectations of the monopolizers of American produce. We can now mock the attempts of the French Emperor, to dry up the fources of our trade; and fmile at his endeavours to procure for his people a participation in a traffic which they have no means of carrying on. By a late decree, Buonaparte clearly evinces his opinion upon this fubject; for notwithstanding his principal ports being in a state of blockade, he thinks to amufe and pacify the French nation, by permitting the exportation of all articles, the produce of the foil and induftry of France, and alfo the importation of various articles, such as iron, tin, dye ftuffs, &c. The embargo has been taken off Turkifh veffels by our government, and thus an advantageous channel is opened to our manufactures, especially the clothing and hardware branches. The Chancellor of the Exchequer as fignified, that it is the intention of government to permit the importation of Martinique produce on one condition only-that of its being re-exported. This declaration muft, doubtlefs, prove highly fatisfactory to our West India merchants, who have abundance of colonial produce on hauds, without being able to find a inaket for the greater part of it. Since our last Report, the following veffels belonging to the honourable the Eaft India Company are arrived, viz-Surat Caftle, from China; Diana, Preston, and Ceylon, from Bengal; Wexford, Ann, and Alexander, from Bombay; Phoenix, from Fort St. George; and Preften, from Bengal, and Fort St. George. Their cargoes are as follow:-Tea of different deferiptions, 1,071,490 lbs:-Bengal piece goods; muffins, 3489 pieces; calicoes, 37,692 pieces. Probibited goods, of filk, and cutLon 7947 pieces.-Madras piece-goods Mullins, 400 pieces; calicoes 67,840 pieces.-Prohibited goods: calicoes, 8790 pieces. Company's, 5178 bales, and Shalf bales cotton; 22,039 ewt. faltpetre: 1 bag Mocha coffee; 17,474 cwt. fugar; 1655 ewt. funn; 47 cwt. hemp 9200 lbs. cochineal, 1776 bags rice; 52,425 lbs. raw lilk Privilege, 73 chefts Mungret, 90 chefta tal ammoniac, 58 chefts faffloiver, 9 chefts campher, 951 chefts indigo, 676 bales cotton, 103 bales cotton thread, 85 chefts Turmeric, 29 chefts Tuiral 19 hides, 62 chefts gum arabic, 75 bags long pepper, 15 bales raw filk, 64 bales piece goods, and 1285 bags of coffee. Prices of Canal, Duck, Fire-Office, Water Works, Brewery Shares, &c. &c. 20th May, 1809.-London Dock Stock, 1211. per cent. West India ditto, 1751. ditto. East India ditto, 1291. ditto. Commercial ditto, 1351. ditto. Grand Junction Canal Shares, 1651. per share. Grand Surrey ditto, 801. do. Kennet and Avon ditto, 231. per share Globe Fire and Life Assurance Shares, 1181. ditto., Albion ditto, 581. ditto. Hope ditto, 6s. per share premium. Eagle ditto, par. Atlas ditto, par. Imperial Fire Assurance, 651. per share. Kent ditto, 501. ditto. London Assurance Shipping, 211. ditto. Rock Life Assurance, 45. to 5s. per share premium. Commercial Road Stock, 1201. per cent. London Institution, 841. per share. Surrey ditto, par. East London ditto, 531. per share premium. West Middlesex ditto, 121. ditto, Golden Lane Brewery, 771. per share. British Ale Brewery, 41. per share premium. Constitutional Ale Brewery, par. Kent Water Works, 121 per share premium. Tavistock Mining Canal, 1501, per share. South Lushington Mine, 1201. citto. L. Wolfe and Co. Canal-Dock and Stock Brokers, No. 9, Change Alley, Cornhill. The average prices of Navigable Canal Shares, Dock Stock, and Fire Office Shares, in May, 1809, at the Office of Mr. Scott, 28, New Bridge Street, London. The Trent and Merfey Navigation, 1,0201. per share, dividing 401. per bare clear, per annum. Monmouthshire, 1071. dividing 51. per thare clear. Grand Junction, 16. dividing 41. clear. Ellefmere 66, Wilts. and Berks. 271. Kennet and Avon, 231. Weft India Dock, 1741. 10 per cent. don Dock, 1201. to 1211. per cent. Globe Infurance, 1171. 10. Albion, 81. per share premium. Rock Life Affurance, 5s. per share premium. ORDERS IN COUNCIL. Lon At the Court at the Queen's Palace, the 24th of May, 1809, Present, the King's Most Excellent Majefy in Council. [The prefent order commences by noticing an order of the 26th April laft, for subjecting the ports of Holland to a rigorous blockade; then adverts to the provifional agreement entered into by Mr. Erskine, with the American Government, for withdrawing it, fofar as refpects the United States; then proceeds.] And whereas, although the faid provifional agreement is not fuch as was authorized by his Majefty's inftructions, or fuch as his Majefty can approve, it may already have happened, or may happen, that perfons, being citizens of the faid United States, may be led by a reliance on the faid provifional agreement, to engage in trade with and to the faid ports and places of Holland, contrary to, and in violation of, the reftrictions impofed by the faid orders of the 7th of January, and of the 11th of November, 1807, as altered by the order of the 26th of April laft; his Majefty, in order to prevent any inconveniencies that may enfue from the circumstance above recited, is pleafed, by and with the advice of his privy council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, that the faid feveral orders fhall be fufpended, fo far as is neceffary for the protection of veffels of the faid United States, to failing under the faith of the faid provifional agreement, viz. that, after the 9th day of June next, no veffel of the United States, which hall have cleared out between the 19th of April laft, and the 20th of July enfuing, for any of the ports of Holland aforefaid, from any Post of the United States, thall be molefted or interrupted in her voyage. And it is further ordered, that no vessels of the United States, which hall have cleared out from any port of America previous to the 20th of July next, for any other permitted port, and fhall, during her voyage, have changed her deftination, in consequence of information of the faid provifional agreement, and thall be proceeding to any of the ports of Holland aforefaid, thall be molefted or interrupted by the commanders of any of his Majefty's thips, or privateers, unlefs fuch veffel thall have been informed of this order on her voyage, and fhall have been warned not to proceed to any of the ports of Holland aforefaid, and hall, notwithstanding fuch warning, be found attempting to proceed to any fuch port. [The order then obferves, that after the faid 9th of June next, no vellel of the United States, or from any other place not fubject to the restrictions of the order of April laft, which hall have cleared out previous to actual notice of this order at her place of clearance, shall be molested on her voyage.] The faid feveral orders of the 7th of January, and 11th of November, 1807, as altered by the faid order of the 26th of April laft, shall also be suspended, so far as is neceffary for the protection of veffels of the United States which fhall clear out, to any ports not declared to be under the restriction of blockade, from any port of Holland between the 9th day of June and the 1ft of July next; provided always, that nothing that is contained in the prefent order fhall extend, or be construed to extend, to protect any vellels or their cargoes, that may be Ible to condemnation or detention, for any other caufe than the violation of the aforefaid orders of the 7th of January, and 11th of November, 1807, as altered by the faid order of the 26th of April last. Provided alfo, that nothing in this order contained shall extend, or be conftrued to extend, to protect any veffel, which shall enter any port actually blockaded by any of his Majefty's fhips of war. STEPH. COTTREL. The gazette likewife contains an order in conncil, allowing the importation of provifions into Newfoundland, during the enfoing fishing-season: and alfo an order, prohibiting the exportation of gunpowder, faltpetre, &c. for fix meaths, from the 6th June next.] COURSE IN No. 115, of the Botanist's Repofitory, we find Ferulapersica; the plant fuppofed to produce the Affa-foetida; and indeed, as it was produced from feeds fent to Peterburgh, from the fpot whence this drug is known to come, there can be little doubt, when the very ftrong fmell of Affa-fætida, which pervades every part of the herb,is taken into the account, but that it is the real plant. From Peterburgh, it was communicated to Dr. Hope, the late profeffor of Botany, at Edinburgh, where ripe feeds were produced, and the young plants have been distributed to many other botanic gardeus; yet it is ftill very far from being common. Kampfers, in his Amanitates Exoticæ, has given a very full account of the plant which produces the Alfa-foetida, and the mode of collecting it, accompanied with a figure, which fo ill accords with Dr. Hope's plant, that it has been hence concluded, that the two fpecies must be different. Yet this author, when in Perfia, took very great pains to enquire if there were more than one; and although the natives themselves believed there were two, yot upon a careful comparison of them both, he was convinced that there was only one Ipecies. But he remarks, that the leaves of different individuals were fo very unlike one another, that when alone examined, no one would hesitate to pronounce them not to belong to the fame fpecies. The umbels, however, in his figure, are fully as unlike to our plant, as the leaves; we must therefore conclude, that our author has done right in separating the Ferula perfica, from the Affa-fatida, of Kampfer; but he would have done better, had he acknowledged that, in fo doing, he was following his predeceffors, and that the plants were confidered as diftinét in Willdenow's edition of the fpecies Plantarum of Linnæus. An un important variety of Camellia japonica, in which, part of the filaments are become petal-like. Vetea acutiflora, a new fpecies of Verea, with white fharp-pointed petals, from the collec tion of the late Right Honourable Charles Greville, at Paddington, whole death is a public lofs to the fcience of Natural Hiftory. Heranthemum fragrans, a new fpecies, from the Cape of Good Hope, chiefly valuable on account of its flowers being fragrant; which, as is here obferved, is a very unusual circumftance in plants of this genus. What is here fap. pofed to be a new fpecies of Cyuanchum, and named bicoler, but which appears to us to be a mere variety of extensum of Jacquin, and Hortus Kewinlis. In Number 116 of the fame work, we have Mimosa Elegans, fuppofed to be a new fpecies, a native of New South Wales, growing ten feet high, in the confervatory of Mr. A. B cont A B. Lambert, a zealoos botanist, and the profeffor of one of the first Herbariums in this country, which he makes fubfervient to science, by generously affording a ready access to and angon ng botanuts. The name of elegant is not very appropriate, as all the pinnatedleaved ipecies are equally, and fome of them much more elegant, if we may judge from the figure, the plant itself we have not feen. Ixia curta, fuppofed to be a new fpecies, but which we thould be difpofed to confider as a dwarf fpecimen, fcarcely a variety, of Ixia Ruta limfelia, a native of Spain. Mr. Andrews received it from Mr. Donn, of Cambridge, by whofe fkail and affiduity, the botanic garden of that Univerfity, has rifen to be one of the first importance in Europe. It is much to be lamented, that the managers of this garden cannot, or do not, furnish more ample funds for the maintenance and increase of dlus collection; having been fortunate enough to get a curator, who poffeffes so much ardour in his calling, they may be very fure that the funds would be well applied, as long as the garden was under his direction; but if ample funds were made permanent, a fucceffor would probably find means of applying them to far other purposes than the promotion of science. Callicoma serratifolia, a flowering fhrub from New South Wales, which may perhaps be a fpecies of the Codia of Forfter, notwithstanding the latter defcribes his genus as being octandrous, and having four petals, whilft this has many ftamens and no petals: thefe circumstances do not in all cafes divide a genus; but having feen a fpecimen of Forfter's Codia, we are unable to decide. Ceratonia filiqua, a male plant, and a great curiofity, having never been known to produce bloffoms in this country before. In the moit fouthern parts of Europe, the Carob tree is of very great importance; the fruit being in many parts the chief fupport of the cattle, and in fome of the lower orders, of the human fpecies. The laft Number of the Botanical Magazine, containing Tradefcantia discolor, with a specific character, by Mr. Gawler, of thirty lines!!! Yet two words are perhaps fufficient to diftinguish it from every other fpecies of this genus. Watfonia rosea alba, B. Watfonia Meriana (7) Watsonia bumilis 8. All three varieties of three fpecies before published in the Magazine; but much more beautiful than their prototypes. Arnica bellidiaftrum: Liuné referred this plant to his genus Doronicum; Haller, and Scopoli, to After; Villars, and Willdenow, to Arnica. In the artificial fyftem, its characters unite it with the latter; but in natural affinity, Dr. Sims feems to think it approaches much nearer to Bellis, with which genus all the older botanists united it, and he doubts if the mere circumftance of the feeds being crowned with a pappus, be sufficient to separate it from a genus, with which, in every other refpect, it perfectly accords. Ancaba japonica; of which, now very common, thrub, no coloured figure feems to have been before given. Moft japan plants introduced into our gardens, have had a fate fimilar to this, that of being first nurtured in the hot-hoale, then removed to the green-house ; and finally expelled to brave the wintry ftorm fub dio. Glycine apics; here again the author fhows his forbearance in making alterations, by retaining this plant in the genus Glycine: to us it appears, that Morrison,with more propriety, added it to Aftragalus; but it is probably a genus diftinct from either. Epacris pungens: Dr. Sima has taken an opportunity of acknowledging, that his former Epacris, pungens, was erroneoutly fo called, being a diftinct fpecies from the plant defcribed, and figured, by Caranilles This variety is a beautiful fhrub. Dr. Sims obferves, that in this fpecies it is very evident, that the filaments are not really inferted into the corolla, but merely adhere to it fo flightly, that the coralla may be pulled off, without removing the filaments, fonre of which will remain attached to the receptacle below the germen. In fome other fpecies, though the filaments are more firmly attached to the corolla, they may nevertheless be traced down to the receptacle. This circumstance, as the Doctor has oblerved, ftrengthens the afluity between Epacris and Erica. NATURALIST'S MONTHLY REPORT. APRIL Budding Month. Come gentle fpring, ethereal mildness, come. THE weather, during the prefent mouth has, for the most part, been cold and unpleasant; the wind caft, north, and north-weft; and only for two or three days fouth welt. There has been much rain; and on the 19th and 20th, we had tome now. The night frosts have generally been very fevere. In the morning of the 19th, all the ponds and flowly running ditches were covered with ice of confiderable thickness. The 28th was a fine fpring day. During the last fourteen days of the month, there has been more or less rain every day. We have this year entirely, or almost entirely, efcaped the equinoxial gales. It was on the 22d of March that I first heard the death watches, (Pinus reffellatus) begin to beat. This they continued till the cold weather fet in, when they again becare blent, till nearly the end of April. April 10. The Naked Canty-tuft (Iberis mudicaulis,) Ground-ivy, (Glecoma hederacea,) Dandelion, (Leontoden taroxatum,) and Goole-grafs, (Galium oparine,) are in flower, The Peach and Apricot trees begun to put forth their bloom, but the fubfequent cold wea ther, ther, particularly the night-frofts and easterly winds, have not only checked the progress of their lowering, but, it is to be feared, have done great injury to the fetting of the fruit. The elm and nountain afh, are both in flower. April 16. Some Hirundines were this day seen for the first time; they were obferved in rapid flight, in a direct line, and not playing about in the air, as they ufually do, when the principal part of them are arrived. April 21. I this day obferved feveral House-martins, playing about the furface of the river; and occafionally dipping in and washing themselves.-I likewife faw fome wheat ears. In the night of April 21ft, we had, without any apparently fufficient caufe, in the preeeding fall of rain, the highest flood of fresh water that has been known in this neighbourhood fince the time that the Halfewell East Indiaman was loft. It was extremely fudden, and its course so rapid, as in some places to have done great injury. About a mile from the place from which I write, it has fwept away a house, that was fuppofed to be out of the reach of the water; and fome of the bridges have received confiderable damage. The hawthorn hedges are beginning to appear green, and the leaves of the elm are shooting out. April 24. A caterpillar of the goat-moth, (Bombyx coffus of Haworth,) which had been taken out of the wood of a decayed willow-tree, in the month of October laft, and which almost immediately after I received it, began to fpin its web, crawled out this day to my great furprize, ftill in its caterpillar ftate. Under the impreffion that it would foon undergo the change into a chryfalis, I had neglected to fupply it with any food: it has thus subsisted for upwards of fix months, without any nutriment whatever, and is not, as far as I can judge from recollection, at all diminished in fize. April 26. I this day caught a fpeckled wood-butterfly, (Papilio egeria of Linnæus and Haworth,) fo fresh and weak, that it had evidently only just come to life. Mullet, are now caught in the barbours, and at fea, near the fhores. April 28. A fine and mild fpring day. The hawthorn-flower buds begin to thew themselves; there are immenfe quantities of a species of phryganea, flying about the roads and fields, the fame, apparently, as I remarked towards the latter end of April, last year. The young of Cancer flagnalis, are very abundant, in nearly all the splashes on the roads. It is evident that the old animals of this fpecies, previously to the drying of the places which they inhabit, deposit their eggs; and that thefe eggs continue through the fummer and winter uninjured, either by drought or froft, till the commencement of the enfuing fpring, when they are brought to life. April 30. It has been afferted, that red-breafts are always,filent during their breeding feafon; and that they do not refume their fong till the young ones are able to procure their own food. This, however, is not the cafe, for I have heard them aliuoft every day. Corn, fallad, (Valeriana locufta,) Harebell, (Scilla nutaus of Smith,) and Subterraneous Trefoil, (Trefolium subterraneum,) are in flower. Hampfire. METEOROLOGICAL REPORT. Observations on the State of the Weather, from the 24th of April, to the 24th of May, 1809, inclusive, Four Miles N.N.W. of St. Paul's. Barometer. The quantity of rain fallen this month is equal to 2.6 in the depth nearly. In the courfe of the prefent month we have had fome very heavy rains; but the form on the 19th, was the most remarkable event that we have to record in this period. In this neighbourhood, it may be regarded as two forms, with a short interval between them. The thunder and lightning did not come as ufual, at the distance of feveral minutes between each flash, but the lightning was almost inceffant, the flashes remarkably vivid, and in fomie inStances, they put on appearances that are by nɔ means common; from this place (Highgate) the |