| 1814.) Canal, Dock, &c. Shares-Government Annuities. Miles W. Slockton, grocer, Oct. 15 Oct. 18 15 Sea J. Milton, Kent, tailor, Oct. 20 lerchants. Oct 22 2000 Nov. 8 Prices of Canal and Dock Property, &c. . . Canals. 'PER SHARE. | London, div. 51. 105. per ct. . . 901. a 971. Birminghanr div. 391. . . . . i 6501. / West India, div. 91. , , . 1541. a 1561. Chesterfield, div. 61. . .. . 1001. Insurance Companies. PER SHARE. Coventry, div. 401, . . . . . . 8001. Eagle, 501.sh., 51. pd. . .. 21. 2s. Dudley, div. 21. . . . . 451. a 451. ios. | Globe, 2001. sh., div. 61. .'1127, a 1101, Ellesmere and Chester, div. 41. , , 841. Hope, 50l. per sh., 51. pd. . . 241. a 251. Grand Junction, div. 71. . . 2181, a 210l. | Imperial, 5001. sh. 501, pd.. 491. a 481. 105, Grand Union . . . . . 031. 10s, a 921. London Fire . . . . . . . . 201. Do. Scrip London Ship . . . . mp . . . . . . . . 201. Grand Surrey .... 601. 10s. | Rock, 201. sh , 21. pd. . 21. 155. a 21. 145. Do. Optional Loan . . . . . 101. dis. | Royal Exchange Grand Western, 70 paid ... 541. dis. ! Water-1Vurks. PËR SHARE. Huddersfield . . . . . . . 141. 105. Į East London . .". . . ... 701. Kennet and Avon . . . . . 221. 55. Grand Junction, sol. sh. . . 341. a 35'. Do, New.171. pd. . . . 151. 10s, a 10l. | Kent, 1001, sh. . . . . . . 521. lus Lancaster, div. il. . . . 191. a 19. 1os. Bridges. Leicester and Northampton, or Old La Strand, 100l, share .. . 21. Union . . . . . . . . S | Do, Annuities . . . . . . 10l. prem. Monmouthshire, div. 101. . . . . 1601. Literary Instilutions, Stroudwater .. 2321. London, 75gs. sh. ...451. Docks. Russell, 25gs. sh. ....... 18gs. Commercial, div. 81. per cent. Surrey, 30gs. sh. . . . . . 141. a 131. Do. New . . . . . . . 151. prem. Miscellaneous. Fast Country. ..... 451. per sh. Auction Mart, 501. sh. .. 291. per sh. East India, div. for last half- 2007 t}1291, ex div. London Commer, Sale Rooms <501, per sh. year 31. 108. per ct. . s”. "1 1001. sh. ......S with div. Rates of Government Life Annuities, payable at the Bank of England. 3 per cent. Stocks being now 65, and under 66. A single life of 85 receives for 100l stock £4 16 o average rate 1001. money £7, 6, 7 40 . . . . . . 5 0 . . . . . . . . 7 14 2 18 15 7 .. . All the intermediate ages will receive in proportion.. N. B. The annexed is a short scale of some of the rates, upon which Government are now granting Life Annuities: they are payable half-yearly, at the Bank of England, the same as the dividends, and may be received by power of accorney. The Life-Annuity Act having been amended, they may henceforward be purchased when the 3 per cent, Consols, or Reduced-Annuities, are at or above 50. ." *** Annuities are granted on Joint Lives also. Particulars may be had, gratis, at the Government Life-Annuity Office, Bank-street; or by writing to the Superintendant, if the postage be paid. DAILY PRICES OF STOCKS, FROM SEPTEMBER 26, TO OCTOBER 25, 1814, BOTH INCLUSIVE. 6. 7.dis. os os pr. par 4s dis. 625 62/211198 27 6 15 dis. 75 pr. par 4 dis. 64 63 Do. 44 odis. -65 pr.is 4 dis. 645 24 Do. 3 dis. 1903 -175 pr.14 dis 66 541 Do. 2dis. 9 7 pr.1 pr.3 dis. 665 5| Do. 60** 166 5 109 pri pr.3 dis. 66 5: Do. dis. 19 8 pr. 4 dis. 65% i Do. 66** 166 51 68 10 8 pr. 2 4 dis. 06 5 Do. 11 9 pr. par 4 dis. 66 16,13 681 15 13 pr. 2 pr 1 dis. 65; Do. 15 16 pr. pr. 1 dis. 665 Do. 68 644 15 17 pr. 3 pr. par 655 dis. 1887 16 15 pr.4 pr. par 66% dis. 1881 17 16 pr. 52 pr.166 81. 1995 16 15 pr. 5 2. pr. 664 66 Do. 15 pr. 41 pr. 665 1965 16 15 pr.14 Do. 2 pr. 66% 15 pr.4 1 pr. 666 dis. 1894 189 68 645 4 - 14 pr.14 pr. par 664 dis. 189 14 18 pr. s pr. par 66 dis. 189 1888 644 - 14 pr. pr. par 65 - 14 13 pr. 3 pr. par 665 68 -114 18 pr. 3 pr. 1 dis. 66 57 Do: 25 Holiday (396 ) [Nov. 1, 1 Barometrical Pressure. Temperature Wood Day Wind. Max. | Min. Mean. | Max Min. Mean. 29.83 29'80 29 812 75 57 63.6 Fair 29.80 | 29.75 29*787053 59.6 | Rain Fair. Rain and thunder at night. 52.33 Fair 9 29'82 29867 56 4652.33 Fair 51.33 Fair 50.33 Fair Fair 301 30'1 301 48 33 30 22 30-18 1309196 47 661 Fair 30*23 30'19 30207 48.33 Fair Fair 46.33 Fog at night. Fair Rain at night. Fair. 71 SW 29'86 29*80 29.83 47.33 38 Flying showers P.M 8 W&WNW 29.96 29.90 29.922 44 Fair 9 NNW 30.13 30 30'043 Fair 10 130'13 30'10 3011550 40.33 Fair SW 30'00 29.84 29 982 54 149.33 Fair 29.70 29.66 29 927 58 | 50 53 Fair. Cloudy 29'61 29'4 129.533 65 51 57.66 Fair 60 Cloudy. Rain P.M. 29.59 | 29:53 29555 47 52.66 Fair 12974 2965 29•686 49 53.33 Fair. Calm 52 Cloudy. Heavy rain 42 48.661 Rain 45.60 Cloudy 44.66 Rain IBEL popul that materi ERRATA. As some eriors crept into the Mathematical Series in Mr. Taylor's communication in our last Number, page 230, we bere subjoin a correct copy :1 1 1 3 5 11 12 1 1 1 1 1 2+1-1=2 - 4 + 9—16+32–64 &c. = 4 +16+64 &c. = 3 instead of 2 bat contain 2+1-31 - 2 +4-8 +16-32 +04-128 &c. = + 8 +32 +126 &c. a populatio = 3 instead of 1. 3 3 3 9 15 33 63 3 3 3 the othe instead of it In the samne Number, page 209, column 1, line 2 and 3, for nine hundred, read nino hundred and fifty thousand. Ibid. lines 4 and 5, for 'wo thousand three hundred and ninety-four millions, read two thousand three hundred and forty-seven millions seven bundred and eighty-six thousand, four hundred and fifty-six, MONTHLY MAGAZINES have cpened a way for every kind of inquiry and information. The infelligence and discussion contained in the are very extensive and various; and they have been the meaus of diffusing a general habit of reading through the nation, which is a certain degree hath enlarged the public understanding. HERE, too, are preserved a multitude of useful bints, observatioas, and Facts, which other wise might bave never appeared.-- Dr. Kippis. Kvery Art is improved by the emulation or Competitors.---Dr. Johnson. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. On The PROPORTION between the CATHO- It is truly inconceivable how this wri Lic und PROTESTANT INUABITANTS of ter, who must have seen the north of IRELAND Ireland, could have been so urinformed 75 the Editor of the New Monthly Magazinc. respecting the religious persuasion of the SIR, inhabitants of Ulster; how he could I FEEL myself again onder the ne- avoid being acquainted with the Protescessity of animadverting upon Mr, tant colonization of that province in the Wakefield's account of Ireland. That reigns of Elizabeth and James the First; gentleman, speaking of the Roman Ca- and why he should wish to magnify the tholics, says, that they form six seventhis Roman Catholic numbers, except to give of the population of the country. This, more force to his pathetic lamentations Sir, is that kind of general assertion over their political degradation, of which which it is not easy to contradict with he is so profuse, and which affords a text, effect, as it does not come within the upon which the Edinburgh Reviewers reach of many persons to he furnished preach such edifying homilies, for the with materials to cohtrovert it; and elucidation of the principles of civil and merely to contradict it is only leaving religious liberty. Give them but a text the matter where it was. Fortunately I to their minds, and they will pursue it; have the materials before me necessary aye, they will pursue it to the utter for the confutation of Mr. Wakefield's neglect, and total oblivion, of the work position. In the year 1793 an exact which they profess to review ; but part enumeration of all the houses in Ireland of what these gentlemen say on the subwas made by Mr. Bush, from the returns ject of Roman Catholic disqualifications, of the hearth money collectors; by that in their review of Mr. Wakefield, cannot return it was found, that in all Ireland be passed over in silence. They ask, the numbers were 701,102 houses, in " Could the religion of Sir Thomas Ulster alone 222,879, nearly one-third More, or of Fenelon, disqualify men for of the whole. By the late returns made being members of civil society?" To by the grand juries, which I have also this question I shall reply by another; before me, I find that the proportion of Did not that religion so far pervert the population is still more in favour of understanding of Sir Thoinas More, that Ulster at present than it was in the for- he condemned Baivhamn the lawyer to mer return by Mr. Bush. Now, Sir, I be burned for heresy? and did it not so assume that the province of Ulster, far subvert the principles of Fenelon which contains at least a third of the as to make him descend to the subterIrish population, is all Protestant; not, fuge of personating a Protestant clergyhowever, that there are no Roman Ca- inay, and under that disguise to allow tholics in Ulster, for that would be un himself to be overcome in an argument true; but that the Protestants inha- by his friend, (I believe) Langeron, at a biting the other provinces, of Leinster, conference held for the purpose of deMunster, and Connaught, are at least ceiving a Protestant gentleman into the as numerous as the Roman Catholics renouncing his religion, in which, howwho inhabit Ulster; and therefore that ever, they failed ?* the Protestants are one in three, instead Thar political disqualifications should of one in seven, Such are the grounds be the consequence of religious tenets, is apon which I go; if Mr. Wakefield contrary to the theory of a Protestant Chooses to controvert them, I am ready Who wishes for the anecdote at full to meet bim with other facts, at least the life of Fenelon, by as stubborn. who glories in it. New MontalY MAG-No, 11. |