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, 4s. 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. ditto. 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 fhare, dividing 401. per thare clear, per annum. Monmouththire, 1071. dividing 51. per fhare clear. Grand Junction, 16. dividing 4. clear, Eliefmere 66, Wilts. and Berks. 271. Kennet and Avon, 231. West India Dock, 1741. 10 per cent. don Dock, 1201. to 1911. per cent. Globe Infurance, 1171. 10. Albion, 81. per faare premium. Rock Life Affurance, os. per fhare premium.

ORDERS IN COUNCIL.

Lon

At the Court at the Queen's Palace, the 24th of May, 1809, Present, the King's Moft Excellent Majefty in Council.

[The prefent order commences by noticing an order of the 26th April laft, for fubjecting the ports of Holland to a rigorous blockade; then adverts to the provifional agreement eutered into by Mr. Erskine, with the American Government, for withdrawing it, fo far 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 reliance on the said provifional agreement, to engage in trade with and to the faid ports and places of Holland, contrary to, and in violation of, the restrictions 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 mconveniencies 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 vessels of the said United States, so 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 shall have cleared out between the 19th of April late and the 20th of July enfuing, for any of the ports of Holland aforefaid, from any Port of the United States, hall be molested or interrupted in her voyage.

And it is further ordered, that no veffels of the United States, which shall 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 destination, in confequence of information of the faid provifional agreement, and fhall be proceeding to any of the ports of Holland aforesaid, thall be inolefted or interrupted by the commanders of any of his Majefty's thips, or privateers, unlefs fach veffel hall have been informed of this order on her voyage, and thall have been warned not to proceed to any of the ports of Holland aforefaid, and thall, 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 veffel of the United States, or from any other place not subject to the restrictions of the order of April laft, which thall have cleared out previous to actual notice of this order at her place of clearance, shall be molefted 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 Jast, shall also be suspended, fo far as is necessary for the prctection of veffels of the United States which fhall clear out, to any ports not declared to be under the reftriction of blockade, from any port of Holland between the 9th day of June and the ift of july next; provided always, that nothing that is contained in the prefent order shall extend, or be conftrued to extend, to protect any veffels or their cargoes, that may be hable to condemnation or detention, for any other caufe than the violation of the aforetaid orders of the 7th of January, and 11th of November, 1807, as altered by the faid order of the 26th of April lag.

Provided allo, that nothing in this order contained thall extend, or be conftrued to extend, to protect any veffel, which shall enter any port actually blockaded by any of his Majefty's thips of war. STEPH. COTTREL.

[the gazette likewife contains an order in council, allowing the importation of provifions into Newfoundland, during the enfuing fifhing-feafon : and affo an order, prohibiting the exportation of gunpowder, faltpetre, &c. for fix months, from the 6th June next.]

COURSE

MONTHLY BOTANICAL REPORT.

IN No. 115, of the Botanift'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 smell of Affa-foetida, 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 diftributed to many other botanic gardens; yet it is fill very far from being common.

Kæmpfers, in his Amanitates Exoticæ, has given a very full account of the plant which produces the Affa-toetida, 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, yet upon a careful comparison of them both, he was convinced that there was only onc Ipecies. But he remarks, that the leaves of different individuals were fo very unlike one ain ther, 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 Ala-fatida, of Kæmpfer; but he would have done better, had be 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 unimportant 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 collection of the late Right Honourable Charles Greville, at Paddington, whofe death is a public lofs to the fcience of Natural History Heranthemum fragrans, a new fpecies, from the Cape of Good Hope, chiefly valuable on account of its flowers being fragrant; which, as is What is here Inphere obferved, is a very unufual circunftance in plants of this genus. posed to be a new fpecies of Cynanchum, and named biccler, but which appears to us to be a muere variety of extensum of Jacquin, and Hortus Kewinfis.

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.

A. B. Lambert, a zealous botanist, and the professor of one of the first Herbariums in this country, which he makes fubfervient to fcience, by generously affording a ready access to all inquiring botanists. The name of-elegant is not very appropriate, as all the pinnatedleaved fpecies are equally, and fome of them much more elegant, if we may judge from the figure; the plant itleif we have not feen. Ixia curta, fuppofed to be a new fpecies, but which we fhould be difpofed to confider as a dwarf fpecimen, fcarcely a variety, of Ixia canica. Ruta linifolia, a native of Spain. Mr. Andrews received it from Mt. Dona, of Cambridge, by whofe fkill and affiduity, the botanic garden of that University, 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 increate of this collection; having been fortunate enough to get a curator, who poffenes so much ardour in his calling, they may be very fure that the funds would be well applied, as long as thể” garden was under his direction; but if ampie funds were made permanent, a fucceffor would' probably find means of applying them to far other purpotes than the promotion of feience.^ Callicoma serratifolia, a flowering fhrub from New South Wales, which may perhaps be a fpecies of the Codia of Forster, notwithstanding the latter defcribes his genus as being oc tandrous, and having four petals, whilft this has many ftamens and no petals: thefe circum stances do not in all cafes divide a genus; but having feen a ipecimen of Forster'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 mot fouthern parts of Earope, the Carob tree is of very great importance; the fruit being in many parts the chief ́ Support of the cattle, and in fome of the lower orders, of the human species.

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The laft Number of the Botanical Magazine, containing Tradefcantia discolor, with a (pecific character, by Mr. Gawler, of thirty lines!!! Yet two words are perhaps fufficient to diftinguish it from every other species of this genus. Wattonia rosea ulba, 8. Wattonia Meriana (7) Watfonia humilis B. All three varieties of three-fpecies before published in the Magazine; but much more beautiful than their prototypes. Arnica bellid aftrum: Linné referred this plant to his genus Doronicum; Haller, and Scopoli, to Ater; Villars, and Willdenow, to Arnica. In the artificial fyftem, its characters unite it with the latter; tut in natural affinity, Dr. Sims feems to think it approaches much nearer to Bellis, with which genus all the older botanifts united it, and he doubts if the mere circumftance of the feeds being crowned with a pappus, be fufficient to separate it from a genus, with which, in every other respect, it perfectly accords. Ancaba jāpinica; of which, now very common, fhrub, no coloured figure feems to have been before given. Moft japan plants introduced into ou gardens, have had a fate fimilar to this, that of being firit nurtured in the hot-house, then removed to the green-house; and finally expelled to brave the wintry storm fub dio. Glycine apios; here again the author shows his forbearance in making alterations, by retaining this plant in the genus Glycine: to us it appears, that Morriton, with more propriety, added it to Aftragalus; but it is probably a genus diftinct from either. Epacris pungens: Dr. Siaus has taken an opportunity of acknowledging, that his former Epacris, pungens, was erroneoully fo called, being a diftinct fpecies from the plant deicribed, and figured, by Carapilles. 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 to flightly, that the coralla may be pulled off, without removing the filaments, tome 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 circumftance, as the Doctor has oblerved, ftrengthens the afinity between Epacris and Erica.

ther, particularly the night-frofts and eafterly winds, have not only checked the progress of their Bowering, but, it is to be feared, have done great injury to the setting of the fruit. The elm and mountain ath, 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 wathing themselves.-I likewife faw fome wheat

ears.

In the night of April 21ft, we had, without any apparently fufficient caufe, in the preending fall of rain, the highest flood of fresh water that has been known in this neighbourhood fince the time that the Hallewell Eaft Indiaman was lost. It was extremely fudden, and its courfe fo rapid, as in fome places to have done great injury. About a mile from the place from which I write, it has fwept away a houfe, that was fupposed 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 almoftimmediately after I received it, began to fpin its web, crawled out this day to my great furpaize, still in its caterpillar state. 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 fubfifted for upwards tx months, without any nutriment whatever, and is not, as far as I can judge from recoldection, 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 harbours, and at fea, near the fhores.

April 28. A fine and mild fpring day. The hawthorn-flower buds begin to fhew ebemfelves; there are immenfe quantities of a fpecies of phryganea, flying about the roads and fields, the fame, apparently, as I remarked towards the latter end of April, left year.

The young of Cancer Bagnalis, are very abundant, in nearly all the fplashes on the roads. It is evident that the old animals of this fpecies, previoufly to the drying of the places which they inhabit, depofit 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 almost every day. Corn, fallad, (Valeriana locufta,) Harebell, (Scilla nutaus of Smith,) and Subterraneous Trefoil, (Trefolium subterraneum,) are in flower.

Hampshire.

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.

Thermometer.

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 florin 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 storms, with a thort interval between them. The thunder and lightning did not come as ufual, at the distance of feveral minutes between each Bath, but the lightning was almoft inceffant, the flashes remarkably vivid, and in fome in #tances, they put on appearances that are by no means common; from this place (Highgate)

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Meteorological Reports.

the weight of the form was at a distance, the thunder not very loud, but like a continual rumbling, and unaccompanied with hail. At a fimilar diftance, on the fouth fide of London, 533 the Imail did much damage to iky-lights, green-houses, confervatories, &c. &c. The bailtones were not only very large, but they appeared in fome places rather like pieces of ice, broken from a large fheet, in its fall from the clouds, than as regularly-formed bail-ftones. Since the 19th, the atmosphere has been cool, approaching rather to cold; bat on the day previously to that, the thermometer ftood at 77°, since which it has not been higher than 68, and once or twice, the greatest heat in the day was 629. Still the average heat of the month is about 56°, which is 14° higher than it was for April, but 70 or 8 lels than it was for the month of May, 1808. The wind had been variable, but in the exfterly points full half the month. The average height of the barometer is reckoned at 29.56.

The average temperature taken at Shide, Ifle of Wight, for the month of April, is 45,.366: it must be remarked, that the obfervations were made every day at half-paft eight, A.M. which perhaps gives fcarcely the average heat of the 24 hours. In the neighbourhood of Londen, we know, from accurate obfervations in feveral places, that the average heat of the day may be taken without error at nine, or from that to haif pak nine in the morning. The quantity of rain fallen at Shide, measured, by a rain-gauge, fimilarly constructedto that which we ufe, is, from November 5, 1808, to March 31, 1809, twenty-two inches ; and for the month of April, it is five inches.

ASTRONOMICAL ANTICIPATIONS.

The new moon will fall this month on the morning of the 13th, at 42 minutes past three; and the full moon, at 7 minutes past three in the afternoon of the 27th. For the art fortnight, mercury may be feen in the evenings, if the weather he favorable. On the 1st, he fets at two minutes past ten (night), on the 4th at eight minutes past ten; on the 7th, at ten minutes paft ten; on the 10th, at eight minutes paft ten; on the 13th at three minutes part ten; and on the 16th, at fifty-five minutes past hine. On the 5th, this planet will come into conjunction with the, in the conftellation of the twins, a ftar of the third magnitude; on which day the ftar will be only 5 minutes of a degree to the north; and on the 12th, he will be in conjunction with the è, in the fame constellation; and another ftar of the third magnitude, when the planet will be 1° 23′ to the north. The beautiful planet, Venus, is now a morning-flar, and will continue fuch till the 15th of March, 1810. For the firft week the will hardly be vifible to the naked eye, on account of her proximity to the fun; but in the after-part of the month, fhe will make a fplendid appearance every fine morning, towards the north-eaft. Throughout the month the will increafe in luftre; and her telescopic appearance will be very interesting. On the 29th and 30th, her brightuefs will be equal to what it was in the evenings about the middle of April laft. Mars will be still an eveningftar. He will not fet till after midnight. Jupiter will be up in the mornings, from two to three hours before fun-rife. On the it, he comes into conjunction with the, a ftar of the fourth magnitude, in the conftellation of the fishes, when the difference of latitude will be 58 minutes, the planet being to the fouth. On the morning of the 15th, at 26m. 4s. paft two, the third fatellite of Jupiter may be feen to emerge out of its primary's fhadow; and on the morning of the 24th, at 30m. 188. paft two, will take place a vifible immersion of Jupiter's fecond fatellite. Saturn will be put up in the evenings, and part of the mornings, of the prefent month, throughout which, his apparent motion will be retrograde, from 297 48', to 27° 58′, of the anaftrous fign fcorpio. The Georgiuth Sidus, as well as Saturn, may be feen for a great part of the night. From the neon of the 1ft inftant, to the noon of July 1, this planet's place in the zodiac, will have moved from 6o 19', to 5° 38', of the fign fcorpio, the apparent motion being retrograde. On the evening of the 21st, at 56 minutes paft our nine, the fun will touch the tropic of Caucer, which is his utmost limit north-ward. The folar deelination, north of the equator, will then be 28° 27', 43,7′′, which quantity is equal to the obliquity of the ecliptic at that time. For the entertainment of our readers, we fubjoin the following table of the fun's rifing and feiting, at London, for a few days before and after the fummer folftice; cafefully calculated to feconds, the la ptude being stated at 51o 50'.

Sun sets.

June.

Sun rises.

8h. 16m. 35s.

3

43

21

8

19

16 46

11

8

20

16 53

85 16 68

43

8

22

8

23

16 89

43

8

24

16 64

8 16 47

3

43 17

26

8 16 37

3