At Hurley Mill, Mrs. Willabs.
At Martin, near Hungerford, Mr. Randal!.

SOMERSETSHIRE.

Married At Evercreech, John Bradshaw, esq. of Darcey Lever, Lancashire, to Miss C. M. Smith, second daughter of the late Samuel S. esq. M. P. for Ludgershall.

At Bath, Thomas Brooks, esq. of Great George-street, Westminster, to Mrs. West, relict of Thomas W. esq.

Died. At Bruton, John Dampier, esq. At Clifton, William Yeo, esq. an eminent apothecary, 47.

At Kensbridge, Mr. William Martin.

DORSETSHIRE.

Married.] At Shaftesbury, Mr. William Swaine, of North Cadbury, to Miss Oram.

Died.] At Sherborne, in the Alms House,

John Mitchell, 103.

Died.] An Bradninch, Henry Bowden, esq. 75. CORNWALL.

Married.] At Truro, Mr. Lidgey, serjeant-major of the Truro volunteers, to Mifs Guy.

Died.] At Autron Lodge, near Helston, Mr. Rogers, wife of Captain R. and daughter of the late Major Oldham, of the East India Company's service

At Penryn, Mrs. Williams, relict of Mr. Daniel W. surgeon.

At Poughill, Mrs. Loveday Troed, wife of Thomas T. jun. esq

At Mithian, in St. Agnes, Mrs. Nankivell, 97.

WALES.

Died A Montgomery, aged 90, Charles Jones, esq. grandfather to Maurice Jones, esq.

At Hatchland, near Bridport, Jane, eldest recorder of that borough, and father to the late daughter of John Keddle, esq.

DEVONSHIRE.

Married.] At Plymouth, Mr. Norman, one of the proprietors of the Naval and Commercial Bank, to Miss Spry, daughter of Mr. S. surgeon.

At Exeter, Mr. George Richard, to Miss Mary Bowditch,

C. T. Jones, esq. treasurer of the county: he had filled the office, of high-bailiff of Montgo mery several years.

At Brynbella, Denbigh, Gabriel Piozzi, esq. husband of the once celebrated Mrs.

Thrale.

At Conway, the Rev. Hugh Williams, rector of Halkin, Flintshire, 58.

MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT.

THE capture of Oporto, a second time by the French, has thrown our British merchants resident there, into great confusion; they however have got safe to Lisbon, and all their property shipped off only three days before the arrival of the enemy, except three ships laden with fruit and wine, which have fallen into the hands of the French. We can, however, with pleasure assert, that at this time there remains in Bond, under the king's locks, nearly three years consumption of Port wine, so that any advance on the article, will be merely nominal, and should not be encouraged. We trust, that the arrival of Sir Arthur Wellesley at Lisbon, with the forces already there, and those just now gone out, will retake Oporto, out of the hands of our enemies. The Americans have taken off the embargo, with respect to neutral ports, but where the neutral ports are, we are really at a loss to know. The fact is, that America cannot do without our manufactures, nor can she send her produce, such as cottonwool, indigo, tobacco, flax-seed, staves, ashes, &c. to any other part of the world, than to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; and we trust this is an opening for their ships to make their way into British ports, as several have already arrived both here and at Liverpool, and many others are expected. King Louis of Holland has likewise taken off the embar. go, as far as relates to neutral ports, and already several small vessels have arrived here, with every kind of Dutch merchandize, suited for our market. The article of Hollands, or rather Geneva, has lowered 1s. 6d. to 2s. Od. per gallon, and a similar depression has taken place on all kinds of Dutch articles. The capture of Martinique, by the British forces, puts us into possession of one of the most productive islands in the West-Indies; the coffee of that island is equal in quality to the finest Java coffee, and their clayed sugar the most valuable of any in the world, for the sugar refiners, having undergone the first process in the island, exclusive of this, it becomes the more valuable to us, as it always was the rendezvous of the French ships of war and privateers in those seas.

The sugar market has rather advanced in price, good Jamaica's, sell from 74s. to 82s. për cwt.; rum 5s. 6d. to 6s. 6d. per gallon; coffee, from 51. 10s. to 61. 12s. per cwt. ; and cotton, 163. to 18d. per pound; other produce in proportion.

At public sale the 6th instant, Messrs. Kymer and Co. sold 215 hogsheads Virginia Tobacco, from 6d. to 1s. 63. pound; 70 bales and 50 rolls Turkey ditto, 6d. per pound. Very fine Virginia tobacco in demand and scarce.

In the last week no less than 3500 tons of Pork, 3300 tons of bacon, and 3100 tons of butter, were entered at our custom-house from Ireland; 14,000 gallons of brandy from France, and an immense quantity of wine from Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz and Madeira,

By the last ships from the Brazils, we find the markets there overstocked with all kinds of British manufactured goods, and several cargoes bonded for payment of the duties, which circumstance has damped the trade of Manchester, Birmingham, &c. We, however, expect the Americans will contrive to take off large quantities, under the mask of neutral property. MONTHLY MAG. No. 184.

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Prices

Prices of Canal, Dock, Fire-Office, Water Works, and Brewery Shares, &c. at the Office of Messrs. L. Wolfe and Co. No. 9, Change Alley, Cornhill; 21st April, 1809.-London Dock Stock, 1211. per cent. West India ditto, 1741. ditto. East India ditto, 1301. ditto. Commercial ditto, 1351. ditto. Grand Junction Canal Shares, 1541. per share. Grand Surrey ditto, 801. do. Kennet and Avon ditto, 41. per share premium. Globe Fire and Life Assurance Shares, 1171. per cent. Albion ditto, 581. per share. Hope ditto, 6s. per share premium. Eagle ditto, par. Atlas ditto, par. Imperial Fire Assurance, 651. per share. Kent ditto, 461. per share premium. London Assurance Shipping, 211. per share. Rock Life Assurance, 4s. to 5s. per share premium. Commercial Road Stock, 1151. per cent. London Institution, 841. per share. Surrey ditto, par. South London Water Works, 401. per share premium. East London ditto, 501. ditto. West Middlesex ditto, 121. 12s. ditto Auction Mart, 301. per share premium. West Country Fire Office, 31. ditto. Lancaster Canal, 171. per share. Golden Lane Brewery, 771. ditto.

The following are the average prices of Navigable Canal Shares, &c. in April, 1809, at the office of Mr. Scott, 28, New Bridge Street, London. -The Staffordshire and Worcester Canal, 7001 dividing 401 Net per Annum. Grand Junction, 15l. to 1551. River Trent, 651. dividing 71. per cwt. Monmouthshire, 106 to 1051. Ellesmere, 701. Kennet and Avon, 23 to 221. Wilts. and Berks. 271. Ashby, 191. Thames and Medway, 771. with new subscription. West India Dock-Stock, 173 to 174. London Dock, 1201. State of the Woollen Manufacture. From

Milled this year

the Twenty-fifth of March, 1808, to the twenty fifth of March, 1809.

Last year

WM. TURQUAND, Exchange and Stock Broker,

No. 9, St. Michael's Alley, Cornhill.

MONTHLY

MONTHLY BOTANICAL REPORT.

OWING at one time to the indisposition of the Reporter, and at another to the necessity of noticing other works, our oblervations on the periodical botanical publications have fallen behind hand; we shall now attempt to pay our arrears.

The four last numbers of the Botanical Magazine contain, in Mr. Gawler's department, a white-flowered variety of Iris sibirica as it is here called; we have some doubt, however, whether it be not really a distinct, though a very nearly rela ed, species. There is some difference in the form of the internal petals, which are more dilated upwards, and contracted into a narrower claw below; they are likewise less erect and blunter pointed; but whether these differences are constant, we cannot positively decide.Ornithogalum thyrsoides, drawn from a specimen containing so few flowers as hardly to deserve its name of thyrse-flowering.Lilium concolor, a lily of very modern introduction from China, the country of splendid flowers.-Wachendorfia brevifolia difiers from birsuta especially, but not solely, in the colour of its flowers, which are singularly lurid.-Amaryllis ornata, here called crimson and white amaryllis, a name certainly not very appropriate to the coloured figure, in which the flowers are striped with a dark purple. Mr. Gawler has seemingly with reluctance renounced his former opinion, that this, and the white flowered am ryllis from Sierra Leone, are the same species; though no cultivator doubts of their being really distinct. In these very natural families, the lines of demarkation, both between the genera and the species, are often so very faint, as to elude the eye of the botanist, or rather the touchstone or his definitions; the differences consisting more in innumerable little points, than in marked botanical characters; yet these points of difference, from their great number, may be equal in value to a few more decided distinctions. It not unfrequently happens, from this circumstance, that the botanist is puzzled to find a difference where a common observer scarcely sees any similarity Antholyza Ethiopica, the smaller variety, and Ixia erecta, var. lutea odorata, both stand in the same predicament, though considered by the botanist as mere varieties, the cultivator, who attends more to the tout ensemble than to legitimate characters, would not hesitate to decide that they were essentially different. In the latter plant, besides the fragrance of the blossom, which is without fcent in the other varieties of the Ixia erccta; the tube of the corolla is longer in proportion to the limb, the figmas are more erect, and the whole plant is far mo.e robust than in the white. Amaryllis revoluta is a very fine figure of a species before published in the Magazine from a less perfect specimen.-Of Sanseviera Guineensis, and Dracena ovata, we should have nothing to say, were it not to correct an error of the press which will mislead the unskilful. The former should have been numbered 1179, and the latter 1180; these numbers being reversed, the name of the one is of course applied to the other. It may be remarked, however, that Dracæna ovata has never been before defcribed or figured: it was difcovered by Afzelius in Africa.-A pink-coloured variety of Scilla (commonly liyacinthus) serotina; to make amends for giving us a mere variety, one however which has never been be ore described, Mr. Gawler has here given us a synoptical table of Scilla, Hyacinthus, and Muscari, considered as one genus, divided, for convenience only, into three. Narcissus bifrons, before considered by Mr. Gawler as a mere variety of N calathinus, but now raised into a distinct species. The author, however, surmises that it may probably be a hybrid production between Jonquilla and calathinus.-Narcissus bicolor, nearly related to N. Pseudo-narcissus and N. italicus, heretofore considered by the writer himself as a variety of P. papyraceus.

We have thought it best to place together the plants belonging to the natural orders of ensatæ and liliacea, the letter pess to which is written by Mr. Gawler. And, although we doubt not but that many of the purchasers of the Botanical Magazine are dissatisfied with having so large a proportion of the work, as one half, occupied by these orders exclusively, yet we cannot but express our hearty approbation of the plan. These plants have been more cultivated than most others, and far less understood by botanists, of whom they may justly be deemed the opprobrium. The French botanists have had the same view of the matter, and a very magnificent work in folio has been for some time publishing in Paris on these orders, contained under the denomination of Liliaces. But whoever will take the pains to compare this work with the Botanical Magazine, will at once perceive how much the best botanists are at a loss in this department, and how much more luminous and satisfactory is the information Contained in the latter work. We proceed now to enumerata the other plants given us by the editor in Number 261, 265, 266, and 267.--Celastras pyracanthus: this is a good drawing from a remarkable fine specimen which grew in the open air, against a southern wall in the garden of Edmund Granger, esq. of Exeter. Dr. Sims, by shewing how this shrub varies with regard to its foliage, and in being with or without spines, has gone a good way towards recorc ling the very contradictory accounts of botanists respecting it.-Trifolium canescens: a plant hardly known to botanists but by Tournefort's name, introduced from Mount Caucasus by Mr. Loddiges -Stapelia picta, a new species of a genus so elaborated by the Late Mr. Masson. Jacquin endeavoured to convince Linnæus that the natural order of Asclepiadeæ properly belonged to the class Decandria, instead of Pentandria, where he had placed these plants and more lately, Dr. Smith has asserted that the same are really gynandrous. Both these opinions are controverted by Dr. Sims; who defends Linnæus upon the ground, that all

anthers

́anthers consist of two lobes; that these lobes are more or less approximate, and frequently, as in this order, quite distinct. But though the lobes are distinct, Dr. Sims considers them as composing one anther only. With respect to Dr. Smith's remark, Dr. Sims observes, that a perpendicular section of the flower shews that the stamens are not really attached to the true germen, but to certain processes of the corolla; and that these plants do not therefore belong to the class Gynandria.-Epacris pulchella, a valuable acquisition to our list of New-Holland plants, gratifying at once the sight and the smell.-Erodium hymenodes, one of the hardy species of Geranium, or more properly Heron's-bill. As Northern Africa is little distant from Europe, so this species, a native of the former country, approaches much nearer in affinity to the European species, than those from the southern extremity of Africa.-Cytisus purpureus: we have some doubts whether this be really a distinct species from Cytisus supinus. Podalyria alba: a hardy perennial, of easy culture, and deserving a place in every extensive collection. Mr. Salisbury has, in the Linnæan Transactions, divided Sophora into several distinct genera, applying the name of Podalyria to the Cape species, which are fruticose. In this Dr. Sims has not thought fit to follow him, although he appears to approve of the division. If Mr. Salisbury's genera should be in future adopted, and the name of Podalyria be applied as he has done, Dr. Sims recommends that of Thermopsis (Lupin-face) for the American species, which are herbaceous, and alike in their habit: Thermos being a Greek name for Lupin, which these plants so much resemble-Two species of Asclepias, the nivea and variegata, both characteristically figured; but the former having only one terminal umbel, hardly represents the general habit of the plant; nor is the snowy whiteness of the nectaries, from which it has its name, sufficiently expressed.-Protea speciosa.—Stapelia elegans. Nympha versicolor, a very fine figure of a new species of water-lily from the East Indies, whence it was introduced by Dr. Roxburgh, and is cultivated with great success at Mr. Vere's, Kensington Gore. This species belongs to Mr. Salisbury's Castalia, and is nearly allied to, though distinct from, N. Lotus.-Viminaria denudata; one of the pretty papilionaceous tribe from New South Wales.Gloxinia maculata, formerly known by the name of Martynia perennis, and inserted under both names by Professor Martyn in his new edition of Miller's Dictionary. It appears by the observations here made, that the arrangement of this plant, and some of its relatives, according to their natural affinities, has been attended with fome difficulties, which has occasioned the establishment of a new natural order.

The Botanist's Repository, No. 112, contains, what is here called Protea speciosa varietas patens which is undoubtedly a distinct species from the P. speciosa of the Botanical Magazine.—Mimosa pudica; or the sensitive plant. It is here said that its shrinking from the touch is supposed to be owing to its being strongly saturated with oxygen gas, which it disengages upon the slightest provocation, and its place for a short time is supplied by the atmospheric air." We do not know upon the authority of what experiments this supposition is founded, nor do we see how the hypothesis can account for the phenomena at all satisfactorily. Protea abrotanifolia varietas odorata; a good figure of a very elegant little shrub, the more valuable as its flowers are fragrant.—Monarda punctata a very beautiful species from the collection of Messrs. Whitley and Brame, worthy of cultivation, but far more uncommon than some of the less ornamental species.-Passiflora perfoliata from the collection of the Comtesse de Vandes. Wildenow describes the segments of the calyx as being shorter by half than the petals; while in this drawing both parts are equal.

No. 112 contains a very fine figure of Cucumis Duduim, from the collection of Aylmer Bourke Lambert, esq. This plant says the author was named Dudaim by Linnæus, "from the fantastical idea that it was the fruit mentioned in the Bible by the name of mandrake, with which Jacob's neglected wife purchased her husband's favours for one night of her rival.” Now whether Linnæus supposed the fruit of this species of melon to be the real Dudaim or not, the name was very properly applied, because some learned men had imagined it to be so, for however fantastical," it was no new idea of his And in our opinion there has been no more probable guess made amongst all the "fantastical ideas" that have been entertained upon this subject; for the objection that Hiller, who imagined the mandrakes were cherries, made to it, that Dudaim is used by Jeremiah for a vessel (or in our translation a basket) containing figs, may be explained fully as probably as his notion that they were bowls turned out of the cherry tree. For Dudaim might perhaps be as general a word as gourd, and we know there are gourds no bigger than oranges, and others so large that capacious vessels are made of them. The fruit of the Cucumis' Dudaim is a beautifully striped round melon or gourd, admired for its very fragrant smell, and is probably a native of Syria, which is much more to the purpose, than whether it be of Egyptian origin or not, Egypt not being the country of Jacob. Pascalia glauca of Ortega, a native of Chili, from the same collection.Hermannia fiammea of Jacquin's Hortus Schoenbrunensis, a native of the Cape, taken at Mr. Knights in the King's Road, the possessor of Mr. Hibbert's late collection. species of Lopezia, the coronata native of South as the next (Hypericum virginicum) is of

North America.

A new

In No. 114 we have Lobelia assurgens, a very scarce plant communicated by A. B. Lambert, esq. from his stove at Boyton, where it is remarked that the flowers died away without producing seeds, which perhaps might be owing to its being treated with too much warmth,

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