his piety, wisdom, and true christian charity. The doctrine he taught by precept, and practice, was mild, gentle, and persuasive; as far removed from bigotry and superstition, as from the pernicious principles of modern philosophy; which he always zealously reprobat ed as deadly poison to the mind. The pure religion of the gospel, which he professed, was as a lamp to his feet, through all the vicis situdes of life; his sure hope, and consola tion, in the hour of death; and now, undoubtedly, the crown of his rejoicing his benevolence was universal: his charity unostentatious; often extended by an abridg ment of his own personal comforts; and fell silently, as the dews of evening. These higher endowments of soul, were accompanied by an excellent, well cultivated understanding, and the most distinguished courtesy of manners. He was brother to the Rev. Dr. John Ogilvie of Aberdeen, the effusions of whose classic pen, are too well known to the amateurs of poetry, to need any eulogium. DEVONSHIRE. Married.] At Shobrooke, John Servington Savery, esq. of Yenn, to Miss Ley, daughter of the Rev. Thomas L. Died.] Captain Balderston, of the Parthian sloop of war. He was murdered on board that vessel when getting under weigh from Plymouth for Corunna. He was a na tive of Dover, in his 29th year, and univer sally esteemed. James Smith, the master's mate, by whose hand he fell, is son of a British planter, resident at Santa Cruz. CORNWALL. Married.] At St. Columb, Mr. Williams, to Miss Mary Nicholls.-Mr. Ball of Meva gissey, to Miss Sophia Warne, daughter of Mr. Henry W. Died.] At Redruth, in his 71st year, captain Paul Penrose, who was considered one of the best miners. At St. Ives, Mrs. Menly Stevens, a maiden lady of Trowen, 68. DEATH ABROAD. At Mymunsing, an eastern district of Bengal, on the 28th of April, in the 25th year of his age, Henry Townley Roberdeau, esq. register of that zillah, upon the honourable Company's civil establishment. He was the son of Mr. Roberdeau, formerly of Kennington, and nephew of the late Alderman Le Mesurier. He was a young gentleman of distinguished and most promising literary attainments, and had attracted favourable notice in India for his poetical talents. En nently qualified by study, judgment, and assi duity in the judicial line of the Company's government, he had risen in rank at the earliest possible period; and was, for his superiorly-meritorious conduct, on the eve of being farther rewarded by a promotion which would have effected his return to England with a liberal fortune, at a very early age. Inured to the climate from before his sixteenth year, he had been blessed with perfect health until attacked by the fatal fever, which in ten days terminated the fairest prospect, and the fullest hope, ever fostered by success and merit! His private virtues were fully consonant to his more public traits of character. To a suavity of manners, and a condescending urbanity not to be exceeded, he united the strongest filial affection and fraternal kindness, which were evinced by an almost-fatherly protecting attention to his two younger brothers (both upon the Company's Bengal establishment), the elder of whom being officially stationed with him, had the mournful satisfaction of performing towards him the last duties of mortality. His afflicted relatives in England (who partook of munificent tokens of his regard) can only alleviate their deep-felt sorrow for his untimely loss, by the indelible and soothing remembrance of his many virtues; and with the full and most heart-reviving persuasion, that for so much excellence" There is ano ther and a better world." MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT. THE following importation of Cotton-wool into the Port of London alone, within the last ten days, will fhew how our manufacturers in Lancashire must be employed in the various branches of spinning and weaving it, and not a single pound of it is exported cut of the United Kingdom, viz. Imported from the Brazils...... Jamaica 167,600lbs. 12,000 The prices of Cotton-wool keeps pretty steady from 2s. to 3s. 1d. per Ib. according to quality, and the demand brisk at those prices; considerable purchases have been lately nade at Liverpool and London markets, and the manufacture of the article goes on rapidly at Manchester, and in its neighbourhood, for South America and our West India cole nies All kinds of Russian produce continue very scarce and dear, particularly Hemp, Flax, Tallow, &c. The latter article it is expected will lower considerably, as large quantities are expected from Ireland, the slaughtering of cattle, for exportation, being now in that country. British Bar-iron makes a good substitute for that of Russia, and as the latter sort advances in price, so does it encourage the home manufacture, which is already brought to the highest perfection, and meets a ready sale. No less than 6000 cwt. of Coffee has been imported into London from the Weft Indies, within the last eight days, and prices have advanced in consequence of the great consumption of this article since the reduction of the customs and excise on it. The following statement shows the comparative quantities taken out of the warehouses for home consump tion for some years past, viz. Duty paid on British Plantation Coffee in 1804.. 1,924 cwt. Since the Americans laid an embargo on their ships, Tobacco has advanced full 108. per lb. and within a few days past 233,800lbs. have been imported into London from Virginia, and at Liverpool the import of it far exceeds that of the metropolis. We cannot expect a reduction of price to take place until the embargo is taken off. All the produce of our West-India colonies keep steady, and at favourable prices for the Planters and West-India Merchants, and Rum has risen to 7s. per gallon for Jamaica, and 5s. 4d. for strong Leeward Iland. Wines of Portugal are in great demand; and should it unfortunately happen that that country fall into the hands of the French, there is little doubt that a considerable advance will take place, particularly as the vineyards must be neglected in the ensuing spring. We therefore recommend our friends in the wine trade to purchase as soon as possible. The wines of Spain, as Sherry, Mountain, Tent, &c. are likewife at this time objects of fafe fpeculation. We are happy to state that the manufactures of Manchester and Birmingham are at this time in the most flourishing state; and confiderable orders for their produce have been received in town from Rio, and other parts of Spanish America. The Linen Market in Ireland has been brisk, and good prices obtained; coarse goods have advanced from 1d. to 14d. per yard, and the very fine sorts nearly 3d. per yard. In Scotland, not a weaver is unemployed, and large orders are executing at Glasgow, Paisley, &c. COURSE OF EXCHANGE. The following are the average Prices of Navigable Canal Shares, Dock Stock, Fira Office Shares, &c. in December, 1808, at the Office of Mr. Scott, No 28, New Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London:-The Neath Canal, in Glamorganthire, 1301. to 1341. dividing 151. per share, per annum, nett-The Swanfea Canal, 851. each, the last dividend was 51. per annum, nett-Grand Junction, 1251. to 1261. ex-dividend of 21. for the last half-year. Ditto Bonds of 501, each, at 43, bearing interest at 51. per cent.-Ellesmere Canal, 551.ite Kennet and Avon, 201. shares, at 31. 10s. premium.-Wilts and Berks, 281. each.Ashby-de-la-Zouch, 211.-West India Dock Stock, 1661. per cent. dividing 101. per cent, nett per annum.London Dock Stock, 1901. 10s. per cent. dividing 5 nett per annum. MONTANY MONTHLY BOTANICAL REPORT. WE never break up our number of the Botanical Magazine for the fyftematic arrangement of the plates, without deriving confiderable pleafure from each addition we inake to the elegant feries of Irides, Ixia, and other Enfate, that form Mr. Gawler's department of this work Nor are we lets gratified by this gentleman's text which, upon the whole, befpeaks a botanist intimately acquainted with and beftowing infinite pains on the eluci dation of that difficult tribe of plants. We muft, however, confefs that our pleafare, and andoubtedly alfo the value of his contributions, are much impaired by the garb in which most of his obfervations are dreffed and prefented to the reader. It is really rather impolitic in any writer who wishes to be generally read and understood, to fpurn at old-erablished rules, and to neglect style, and the proper mode of conveying ideas, in fuch a manner as we fee it done by Mr. Gawler: witness the specific differences of the plants be defcribes, and the licentiouinefs with which he manages his Latinity. If we complain of the upreasonable length of his orationes fpecificæ, (for, as we have before obferved, many of them comprize all figures of fpeech, not to mention the frequent epifodes introduced into them,) we do not wish, with regard to the number of words that compofe the fpecific differences, to fee the old Linnean ftatute revived, by which they were "licenfed to carry not exceeding twelve." The neceffity for this laconifm, which could but feldom prove fatisfactory to the ftudent, was fet afide by the fubfequent happy introduction of the trivial names of plants. And who would not blefs the memory of their immortal inventer, each time he is alarmed by Mr. Gawler's luxuriant fpecific phrafes, which, if they fhall deferve this name, and be fit for a place in the fyftem, require to be judicially pruned? Now, as this gentleman certainly knows how to use the pruning knife better than inoft others, it is to be regretted that he fhould leave the talk to others. Similar redundancies are indeed found in the fpecific characters of fome other (efpecially in thofe of fome celebrated French) botanifts, and Mr. G. may utge thofe as precedents: but it is very doubtful whether be can find fuch an excufe for the Latin he produces. His expreffions and conftructions are not only here and there deficient in elegance or grammatical correctnefs, but they are alfo often obfcure and ambiguous; and his principal delight appears to confift in the framing and introducing new words peculiar to himfelf, without confidering that there are old men like ourfelves, who as Atubbornly refufe to unlearn what has coft them to much labour and pains, and to make themselves inafters of a macaronica latinitas, as they would to renounce their full-bottomed wigs and broad-skirted coats for the unclaffical coftume of a Bond-ftreet lounger of the present day We are unwilling to get by heart adverbs like fubrepenter et prorepenter, affurgenter, conduplicanter, pellucenter, ambienter, bianter, ancipiter, equitanter, or bilamellatim, fubbilabiatim, angulatim, ferarcuatim, flabellatim, &c. Nor can we more than guefs at the meaning of words like craticulatim-rimefus, coriaceo-lentus, cuniculatoconfervens, filamenta conflectentia, femina SEMEL ficco-baccata, &c. not to mention many grammatical blunders, fuch as the ill ufe which is continually made of the intentive particle per united to the comparative degree, as foliis perbrevioribus, &c. &c. We have been always ready to acknowledge that writer's critical acumen and talent for obferving, in the fame manner we are unwilling to defraud him of the praife which may be due to him for occafionally hitting upon words at once expreffive and correct: tremulo-incumbers, for inftance, is a happy manner of denoting a fituation of the anther, which is but imperfectly expreffed by verfatilis, &c. The Enfate in the three laft numbers before us are, Scilla Hyacintheides, one of those bulbous plants that are of particular shynefs in producing flowers. It is really a fubec worth the attention of a good obferver to investigate both the remote and proximate caufes of this fterility: the latter is probably a kind of plethora, of the fame kind with that which not feldom prevents the perfecting of feeds, and which may be artificially removed by feparating the talk of the plant from its root, and fufpending it in a dry thady plece, m which fituation the fuperabundant fupply of juices being cut off, the feeds are brought to maturity. Allium Schoenoprafum ß: the difference fubfting between the varieties me and minor is fo flight, that we fuppofe Mr. G. will not devote a figure to the latter: "that of major before us, is very characteristic, and will ferve for the illuftration of both. tataricum is here stated to be the umbellatum of Haller and the rambjum of Linnæus. In the Addenda to this letter-prefs we are informed that A. inodorum, Gawl. is A. fragans of Ventenat: both thefe botanifts were led to their names by the abfence of the garlick e smell, which heightened into fragrance what little finell the flower is poffeffed of — -Allum magicum: the confufion and contradictions caufed by Linnæus's blending the two fpecies nigrum and magicum are here very ably fettled: the fame may be faid of the two nest ijecies, Allium angulofum and jenefcens; the diftinguishing characters of which are given with great precifion.-Anigofanthus flavida. The hexandrous genus to which this plant beres, is a native of New Holland, and established by Labillardière: the large drooping grein flowers externally covered with vifcid glandulous hairs (flocculofim birjuta us we find it tented here) are very characteristic. The firft fpecies defcribed by the French botanift is raja, which at first view refembles the prefent, from which, however, according to Mr. Biowa, Pomponius Marcellus faid to Tiberius: Tu Casar civitatem dare bominibus potes, vorba non potes. And what right can any one pretend to have to do fo? We lament to fee the death of this induftrious and useful botanist announced in the Freach papers. who difcovered it on his interefting circumnavigation of New Holland on the western coaft, it is perfectly diftinct.-Smilacina borealis is the Dracena borealis of Hortus Kewenfis; Michaux referred it to Convallaria, and Desfontaines raised it to the rank of a diftinct genus, in which he is followed by Mr. G. who obferves that Convallaria racemosa and stellata of the Botanical Magazine are its congeners. That of Hortus Kewenfis is a variety of the one here given, and chiefly differs in having yellowish flowers and but little pubefcence, while var. a, here figured, has white flowers and a very pubefcent fcape; which latter character, however, is not well expreffed in the drawing.-Pontederia cordata, an inhabitant of ditches and thallow waters. The figure appears lets rich than that of Redouté's Plantes Liliacées, but it is full as accurate. It is a native of North America.-Agave Virginica, the figure and description before us vie with those we have of this plant in the Hortus Schonbrunnens.—* The last plate reprefents Xyris operculata of Labillardière's New-Holland plants. We have here four different characters of the genus, fuch as they are given by Vahl, Gærtner, Labillardière, and in the Flora Peruviana; fo that every reader has his own choice. Will Mr. G. forgive us for adding another word on plates 1111 and 1143? We are defired there to expunge the letter-prefles of No. 774 and again that of 973, and substitute thofe printed on the reverfe of the pages belonging to two other plants. How can this be done? Unless feparate leaves be fubftituted in fuch cafes, we think the convenience of the reader and the fymmetry of the pages would be much better confulted if long obfervations on preceding accounts, Expungeda, Errata, &c. were kept for the index to a number of volumes, in a fimilar manner as Dr. Sims has incorporated notes in the Index to the first twenty volumes of the Magazine. We now proceed to examine Dr. Sims's contingent for the laft three numbers. Rhodo dendron Caucaseum, growing at an elevation where only Vaccinium Myrtillus and Vitis idæa, are ieen with it, on the mountain from which its derives its fpecific name, though all mo- › dern botanists have adopted the adjective caucaficus, we think Dr. S. perfectly right in following the claflical authority of Virgil, Ovid, and Propertius, who use the word caucasens : more proper, perhaps, it would have been to follow Pliny, a brother naturalift, who has caucasius. This fpecies has by fome been confidered as a variety of R. Chrysanthum (not Chrysanthemum as it is here called); but they are probably fufficiently diftinét; so much we know that the latter is fold in all the apothecaries' ihops of the Ruflian empire as a powerful narcotic, confidered as a fpecific against the gout; while Caucasium is never used for any medicinal purpofes-Hydropeltis purpurea of Michaux, one of the most beautiful little water plants lately introduced into this country, and very remarkable on account of the many peculiarities in its economy, of which we only mention here the gelatinous fubftance forming a coating over the whole plant, but more especially the young shoots and unfolded buds, and which is well defcribed by Dr. Sims, but lefs happily exprefled in the figure. The only fpecies of this genus (which belongs to Polyandria polygynia) is an inhabitant of the lakes in North America from Upper Canada to South Carolina. Dr. S feems not to be acquainted with its being a native alfo of New Holland; and, indeed, we have reafon to believe that the very ipecimen here figured came from that continent. Mr. Woodford, we suppose, is the only cultivator in this country who has fucceeded in flowering it.-Bofliæa lanceolata, is the B. heterophylla of Ventenat and the Platylobium lanceolatum of Andrews; a very handLome fpecies from New Holland. It appeared to us a genuine ipecies of the last-mentioned genus; but Dr. S. obferves that the alternate leaves with their articulated petioles and the remarkable tipulation, appear to indicate a diftinct genus. Wildenow, however, is undoubtedly wrong in placing the two genera at fuch a great diftance from each other. Belleria pulchella has all poffible claims to the name it bears: the large yellow flowers with fcarlet-coloured calyx, render it the most showy of the genus., We thought it like B. lutea of Aublet; but the Doctor, who has carefully compared them, finds a difference in the quite entire leaves and the long-tubed flower of the latter.--Of the famous Chinele Tree-Peony, Peonia Moutan, which for these last three fprings has been the pride of Mr. Greville's garden at Paddington, where it produced a profufion of flowers, we have an excellent account in the fecond of the numbers under review, accompanied by a folded plate, which, though. as good as can reasonably be expected, is far from doing juftice to its original.-Scholia, Tamarindifolia, is a new Cape fpecies, named by Afzelius in the Bankfian Herbarium, but now firit defcribed by Dr. Sims. It is as beautiful as speciosa, and indeed might perhaps be confidered as a mete variety of it.Digitalis lanata was figured in no other work but Ketaible's Plantæ Hungaria, but Mr. Edwards's delineation is in every refpect fuperior.Clematis cylindrica, the Viorna of Bot. Repofitory, which it is not; more affinity it appears to have with Clem. crifpa; but its petals are never rolled back, and the arifta of the feeds is not naked-Primula viliosa, var. nisea. Dr S. has arranged the varieties of this fpecies according to the colour of the flower; a. reddish violet, with whitish centre; B. crimson, with yellow centre; 7. fuow white, which is here described, and, confidering the difficulty attend ng the reprefenting of fo very white flowers, very well figured: we perceive, however, the taux of each of three flowers facing us with six yellow valves, Is this correct?— Dianthus discolor, of Dr. Suns, called fo from the under furface of the carmine-coloured petais being of a greenish fulphur colour, a circumftance which alone, in our opinion, is fukcient to keep it diftinct from Caucasius of Bot. Mag, with which it certainly agrees NATURALIST's MONTHLY REPORT. NOVEMBER. Now from the north Of Norumbega, and the Samfeïd fhore, And Thrafcias rend the woods, the feas up-turn. I the months of September and October this year, we have not had any continuance of the fine autumnal weather, which is ufual at this feafon; and even during the whole month of November the weather has been very variable. On the 7th the wind was cafteriy, and contined in the fame quarter till the 15th, when it veered to the fouth-weft. The night of the 15th was very cold, and windy: the 17th and 18th were stormy days, with hail, rain, and wind on the 17th, the wind blowing very ftrong from the fouth-weft, the tides rofe higher than I have feen them thefe two years. Hitherto we have had but little froft, and no fnow. The weather has been, for the inoft part, rainy and unpleasant. November 8. Leaves of the Sycamore begin to fail. 10. Leaves of the Mulberry turn yellowish. 14 Leaves of the Weeping Willow fall. 15. Leaves of the Mulberry nearly all ftripped by the wind and froft which we had in the night of the 15th. The leaves of this tree differing thus from those of every other tree that I have noticed, are generally all shed together in the courfe of two or three of the first nights of the sharp froft at the commencement of winter. November 18. Some few leaves are ftill left on the elm, fycamore, and oak. November 8. A confiderable quantity of herrings were this day caught by the fishermen, in their Seine nets, along the shore. The fhoal (or fcool as it is called on these coasts), ap. pears to have been brought in by the easterly winds. About a month ago a few were cauglit, but none unce, till this evening. They were caught every evening afterwards, till the 17th, when the formy weather compelled the remainder of the shoal to retire into the deep waters, at a distance from the fhores. With the easterly wind, of the 7th and 8th, the flight of woodcocks that arrived, was greater than usual; but as foon as the wind changed to fouth-west, the principal part of them went away. November 10. The Ivy is now in full flower. I obferve alfo here and there in the hedges, a ftraggling flower of the Woodbine ftill left. In the gardens, the winter flowering Hellebores are beginning to thew their flower buds. Moles are caught in great abundance. November 16. Two martins were feen this day; but I have not heard that any birds of the Swallow tribe have been obferved fince. In the evening, which was mild, I saw feveral bats fitting about, and playing near the church. November 18. At low water of the spring tides, Sand-eels or Wreckle, as they are here called, (ammodytes tobianus of Linnæos,) are ftill found under the fand. Before the enfaing fpring tides, at the full moon, they will, no doubt, have ail ieft the shores. November 26 Thofe beautiful and excellent birds, the Golden Plovers, are found in greater numbers than ufual about the borders of the New Forest. November 30. The gulls leave the fea-thore, and frequent the meadows and corn-fields. Several of the fummer and autumnal field flowers are yet left; and will probably continue till the first fevere night, when they will all die together. Hampshire. MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. THE early fown Wheats, which were every where in almoft an unexampled flate of forwardnets and luxuriance, have fuffered a featonable check, by the fetting in of the fharp wofts, and will, probably, be much benefited thereby, as the flight fall of fnow, which took place at the fame time, will protect them from any material injury, which might otherwife have been the cafe. And thole put in at a later period, are by no means in a state of growth to fuftain any mifchief in this way-In England and Wales, Wheat averages per quarter, 90s. 2d.; Barley, 45s.; and Oats, 33s. 7d. The unufual mildness of the feafon, till within these few days, has had much effect in preventing the confumption of the ftock of winter cattle food, fo that the farmer was perhaps feldom better provided at this time for the fupport of his live flock. And, in addition to this, the crops of turnips and other winter green food, were seldom better, or more abundant. The bufinefs of tall feeding has, this year, gone on remarkably well in moff places, from the weather being fo mild and open till within thefe few days. The fame caufe has likewife been equally favourable to the performance of all the different operations of husbandry, which require to be executed at this feafon.-lu Smithfield |