of Sir George Wombwell, and second daughter of the late Earl of Fauconberg. 8. At Highgate, David Duvclaz, Esq in the 84th year of his age. He had resided upwards of 40 years in the above village, and was one of the oldest merchants on the Royal Exchange. 10. In Clement's inn, Mr. T. Hurnall Shaw, 12. At his house, in Windsor, after a long and painful illness, Mr. Slingsby, stonemason to his majesty: he was one of the oldest inhabitants, and a member of the corporation; was highly respected through life, and has left a widow and numerous family to lament his death. Suddenly, aged 67, Mr. Francis Jackson, formerly a master-printer, of York, 13. At her apartments, in Great Portlandstreet, aged 74, Mrs. Pato, formerly of St. James's Palace. At Pentonville, after only two hours illness, Mr. Edward Harris, a member of the Stock Exchange, and one of the proprietors of the New River. 14. A melancholy instance of the uncertainty of human life occurred in the family of Sir F. Eden, Bart. His son came home the preceding week from boarding-school, ill with the scarlet fever; and through the maternal attention and anxiety of Lady Eden, who had only lain-in a week, she caught the infection, to which she unfortunately fell a victim. At her house, at Brighton, the Right Hon. the Countess of Bath. Sir James Pulteney, her husband, left her ladyship only on the preceding morning; her health, though far from good, not being considered worse than it had been for many days before. After an unpleasant night, her ladyship took breakfast as usual; and about inid-day, with a tolerable appetite, ate part of a roasted chicken, and drank a pint of mild ale. Mrs. Longfield, her ladyship's usual attendant, being, by permission, absent in London, the widow of her ladyship's deceased coachman, Mrs. Case, officiated in her room. It would almost seem that her ladyship had a presentiment of her approaching dissolution, from her uttering the following words to Mrs. Case, soon after taking the refreshments above-mentioned :-"Mary, I am better today, and I shall not give you much trouble to-morrow. But watch constantly by me to-day, Mary, for to me it will be a day of great consequence." For nearly two hours, however, after these words had been uttered, no serious apprehensions were entertained on her ladyship's account; when, in walking across her room, she tottered, and, her strength seemed gradually to leave her. Mrs. Case, with considerable difficulty, and more alarm, now supported her ladyship to bed; which done, she rang the bell violently, and despatched a servant in great haste for medical assistance. Mr. Bond, the surgeon and apothecary that generally attended her Europ. Mag. Vol. LIV. July, 1808. ladyship, soon after arrived; but the moment he beheld his patient, he pronounced her to be in the agonies of death. Her ladyship survived his appearance but a very short time. An express was sent off for Sir James Pulteney, to apprise him of the sudden and unexpected event, who reached Brighton between eight and nine o'clock next morning, but set off to return to London about five o'clock the same afternoon. Soon after her ladyship's demise, a copious hemorrhage gushed from the nose and inouth; by which it might appear, that the rupture of a blood. vessel about the region of the lungs was the immediate cause of her death. The body was put into a leaden shell, and soldered down on the 16th, the shroud which enveloped it being of white satin, trimmed, with point-lace of the most expensive quality. Her ladyship was daughter to the late Sir William, and wife to Sir James Pulteney, the present secretary at war. On the 23d, the remains of the countess were removed from Bath-house, Piccadilly, for interment in Westminster-abbey. The procession was conducted with great state, in the following order : Six outriders, a plume of black feathers, blazoned with escutcheons of the family arms. The hearse, containing the body in a coffin of crimson velvet, ornamented by eight coronets on the sides and two at top, with double rows of gold nails, and a plate inscribed with the age of the countess (41 years) and the family arms. A coach and six, with a gentleman bearing a crimson and gold cushion," with the coronet of the countess bound with black crape. Thirteen mourning coaches followed, containing the mourners. Six horses in each coach were caparisoned with black velvet, bearing the arms of Bath, with supporters and motto, Vis unita fortior; they were also adorned with black velvet feathers, which made a most sumptuous appearance. More than sixteen private coaches belonging to the Pulteney family, and most of the nobi lity in town, finished the cavalcade. The procession arrived at the Abbey about two o'clock, and the corpse, covered by a beautiful pall, was carried through the great ontrance. Two mourners from each mourning carriage then alighted, and followed the deceased to the cloisters, where her remains were interred in a vault immediately under the monument of Tuffnell the architect, and close to the grave of her father, the late Sir William Pulteney. Among the mourners were, Viscount Sidmouth, Lord Arden, Lord, Holland, Lord Le Despencer, Sir John Johnson, G. Ferguson, Esq. and others of distinc tion. The will of the late Countess of Bath, we understand, leaves to ir James Pulteney the income, for his life, of all her personal property, amounting to near 600,000. Anter his decease, this immense property is be L queathed to her cousin, who was the wife of the Rev. Mr. Markham, son to the late Archbishop of York. This lady was divorced some years ago from her husband. She is the daughter of Sir Richard Sutton, and has lived, for several years, principally under Lady Bath's protection. The fortune is to descend to her children by Mr. Markham. Sir John Johnston, the Earl of Darlington, and Sir Richard Sutton all inherit very considerable estates. We do not hear of any other legacies. At his works, at Bradley, in the county of Stafford, John Wilkinson, Esq. the great iron-master, at the advanced age of 80 years. He was a man endued with a great mind, and combined happily with it much energy and enterprise. He was a great promoter of public improvements, friendly to canals and to agriculture, and as an iron-master had few equals. By his invention, spirit, and enterprise, he was decidedly the first to bring that great branch of our national wealth and prosperity to its present state of perfection. Though he had lived to see, in his time, the iron trade rising into a great scale of importance, he still thought it in its infancy, and capable of much improvement. The loss of such a character, so extensively connected with the labouring classes of this country, cannot but be severely felt; but, ever friendly to objects of national improvement, he has left directions to his executors, as an important legacy to the community, to carry on his numerous works on their extended scale. Though frugal in his habits and manners, he was not sparing in expensive experiments for the advancement of his favourite object, the iron trade, in which he had acquired, what he justly merited, a very ample fortune. He has directed his body to be buried, in an iron coffin, at his seat at Castle Head, in Lancashire, where he had created a considerable increase to his property by reclaiming a large tract of mossland, which has been spoken of by agriculturists as among the first efforts of the kind in this or in any other country. It is hoped that a biographical sketch of this great man will be shortly given by those persons who were well acquainted with his undertakings and improvements, that they may serve as an example to others worthy of imitation. 15. At Perth, Thomas Marshall, Esq. provost of that city, where his name will long be remembered with affection and gratitude. His illness was originally occasioned by one of those magnanimous actions which marked his character. Seeing, from a window that overlooks the river Tay, a man struggling in the stream for life, he ran across the bridge, and suddenly plunged into the water to save him. The extraordinary exertion proved fatal to himself, and brought upon him the complaint which ended only with his life. To his private virtues were added great activity and public spirit. His native town has been improved, ornamented, and extended in an astonishing manner under his auspices; and the situation, on which stand the public seminaries, is his gift. His death is regarded by the inhabitants as a public loss:-on the day of his funeral all the shops were shut up, and ten thousand people followed him to the grave; among whom his Grace the Duke of Athol condescended to confer upon him this mark of attention. 16. At Turnham-green terrace, aged 88, Mrs. Hannah Bunting. After a severe indisposition, Mrs. Marshall, wife of Mr. G. Marshall, of Pond-street, Sheffield, merchant. Mrs. Marshall was married at Darlington only on the 29th ult. Mr. Mountain, proprietor of the Saracen'shead inn, Snow-hill. Returning home in a coach, he was suddenly taken ill, and instantly expired. At Sunbury, Sir John Legard, Bart. of Ganton, Yorkshire, aged 50. He is succeeded in his title and estates by his brother, now Sir Thomas Legard, Bart. In John-street, Bedford-row, Ensign George Strange Nares, only son of the late Captain George Strange Nares, of the 70th regiment of foot. 17. At his house in Dean-street, Sonth Audley-street, Sir Gilbert Affleck, after an illness of three weeks. Lady Affleck iminediately left town for Holland House. At her brother's house, at Cranbrook, in the 68th year of her age, Mrs, Paine, wife of the notorious Tom Paine, author of "The Rights of Man," to whom she was married at Lewes, in Sussex, in the year 1761. She had lived only three years with this asserter of rights, when a separation took place, occasioned by his brutal behaviour to her, since which she has lived with her friends. She was the daughter of Mr. Olive, a respectable tradesman in Lewes. She lived much respected, and died sincerely lamented -a firm believer in Christ and the truths of the Christian religion.-May his last days be like her's! Mrs. Billingsley, wife of Edward Billingsley, Esq. of Hockwold, Norfolk. 18. Mrs. B. Levy, of Mount-street, Whitechapel. Her death was occasioned by incautiously eating ice-cream when overheated; which brought on an inflammation, and suddenly terminated the existence of a most amiable young woman, who had scarcely attained her 21st year. After an illness of many years, aged 67, at Cotesbatch, Leicestershire, the Rev. Robert Marriott, LL.D. rector of Cotesbatch, and of Gilmorton, in the same county. At Petham, near Canterbury, the Rev. Thomas Randolph, vicar of the united parishes of Petham and Waltham, and rector of Saltwood and Hythe. He was a son of the late Rev. Dr. Thomas Randolph, president of C. C. College, Oxford, and brother to the Bishop of Bangor. 19. At her house in Portman-square, aged 75, after a long illness, the Right Hon. Dowager Lady Middleton, of Warwickshire. At Maryland Point, after a few hours illness, occasioned by a fall from a gig, aged 31. Thomas Court, Esq. of St. Helen's-place. At Southwood, Highgate, in her 69th year, Mrs. Longman, widow of the late Thomas Longman, Esq. of Hampstead. 20. At Clifton, after a lingering illness, Henry Metcalfe, Esq. of Merton House, Northumberland. 21. After a few days illness, John Richardby, Esq. at Hackney. 23. At his house near Black-friars'-road, at an advanced age, Mr. Barthelemon, the celebrated performer on the violin. He had been upwards of half a century in this country. He was an excellent musician, and was once considered as a first-rate performer on the violin; but the style has changed since he was in vogue, though to the last he was much admired for his taste and skill in playing the works of Corelli, and some of the old masters. He was a very amiable man in private life. Soon after he came into this country, he mar ried a Miss Young, who was a singer of considerable reputation in her day, and whose sister was married to the Hon. Mr. Scott, a barrister, and the brother of the late Lord Deloraine. Mr. Scott was many years in Drury-lane theatre as a vocal performer. Mr. Barthelemon formerly led the band at Vauxhall, but latterly very seldom came forward as a performer in public. 24. The Hon. Henry Ramsay, at the house of his brother, the Hon. William Maule, in Spring-garden. This young gentleman was in the naval service of the East India company; and when last in China was drawn into a duel with a brother officer, in which he received a wound in the head, that, on his return to England, required the operation of the trepan. It was performed last week by Mr. Home, with every prospect of success; but inflammation ensued, and baffled all medical skill. DEATHS ABROAD. At Jamaica, Charles Cecil, second son of Sir Cecil Bisshopp, and late of the Murbs frigate. The ship was wrecked in an attempt to destroy some batteries in the neighbourhood of the Havannah; and this young officer having exerted and exposed himself, in spite of the cautions of his friends, was attacked on his arrival at Jamaica by, the yellow fever, which soon proved fatal. At Port Royal, Jamaica, in April last, of the yellow fever, after five days illness, Mr. Richard Stevens, commander of his majesty's packet the Princess Amelia. Mr. Stevens was a veteran seaman, who had encountered the vicissitudes of almost every climate, and had the honour to be known to and regarded by his majesty, when Mr. Stevens was, mas ter of the St. Fiorenzo frigate, which lay at Weymouth some years ago, to attend the royal family during a summer's excursion to that place. On the 8th of May, at Quebec, in Upper Canada, beloved and lamented, Mrs. Sarah Moumain, sister of the Right Rev. Bishop of that province. At Petersburgh, the Princess Elizabeth Alexandrina, aged two years, daughter of the Emperor Alexander. A short time since, in the East Indies, Lieutenant Charles Turner, of his majesty's ship Belliqueux, son of Mr. Charles Turner, of Mount Hill House, Rochester, who was stabbed by a person when in the act of boarding an enemy's armed vessel, called a proa, by which the service has lost a person of great courage, and an expert navigator. His brother officers were extremely hurt at his loss, particularly his Captain (G. Byng, Esq.), with whom he has sailed during the war. Mr. George Simpson, first lieutenant of the Fox frigate, and second son of the Rev. William Simpson, of Edinburgh. When gal lantly leading a boarding party in the late enterprise at Batavia, he received a musketball in the neck, and instantly expired. He was a young officer of the highest promise. Soon after his arrival at Malta,from England, in the Volontaire, Alfonso, Count de Beaujolais, youngest of the three sons of Philip Egalité, Duke of Orleans. The Duke de Montpensier, Anthony Philip, second of the sons of Egalité, dicd about a year ago, near this metropolis. He was a prince of some talents, in particular for painting; in which art he was such a proficient, that it was believed he might have acquired both reputation and subsistence by his performances in that line, if he had been driven to the necessity of practising it for support. The Duke de Montpensier, and his brother the Count de Beaujolais, were only of the age of fourteen and twelve, when the French revolution broke out in 1789. On the execution of their father in 1793, they were shut up, by order of the National Assembly, in the fort of Notre Dame de la Garde, near Marseilles. In an attempt to effect his escape from that fortress, the Duke de Montpensier fell, and fractured his leg.-Their elder brother, the Duke de Chartres, now Duke of Orleans, having quitted France previous to his father's imprisonment and death, wandered over a large part of Europe. The present Duke of Orleans, who is not yet thirty-five years old, went with his brother, the Count de Beaujolais to Malta, only a few weeks ago. His health is said to be in a precarious state, and with him would expire that branch of the illustrious house of Bourbon. He descends from Louis XIII. and Anne of Austria, by Philip, younger brother of Louis XIV. who was the father of the famous regent duke. MONTHLY STATE OF COMMERCE. London, 20th July, 1808. · THE BRAZILS. (Concluded.) By way of concluding our desultory remarks on this country, speculation may be allowed to range somewhat at large, on the probable consequences that will ensue for the benefit of our united kingdoms, by the late arrival and establishment of the regal power; which, if Carried on upon the principles of sound policy, the population must, and certainly will rapidly increase, and possibly in less than a century be augmented beyond the bounds of any probat le calculation that can be made at this time: the consumption of European manufactures will consequently keep pace with it; and Britain, the first of manufacturing and commercial nations, and mistress of the ocean, will, instead of an indirect communication through Lisbon, as heretofore, become possessed of a direct and uninterrupted trade with this continent; whilst her fleets will be able, whenever requisite, to protect the coast of Brazil, as well as the commerce of both rations, against the attacks of France, or any other power. Mutual advantages of such magnitude cannot fail of producing an alliance, both "political and commercial, of the most beneficial tendency to both kingdoms: Brazil will, for some length of time, stand in need of our protection, and it must indeed, at all times, be highly conducive to her interest to have Great Britain for her ally; its distance from Europe, and the protection of this country, must effectually secure the Brazilian kingdom, and its commerce, from being annoyed by any European enemy; and the mutual advantages of such an alliance must, to the most casual observer, appear both reciprocal and conspicuous; to Britain it will afford a lucrative and extensive trade; to Brazil, tranquillity, security, and consequent population, as before stated. Mining and agriculture will most probably employ the industry of the Brazilians for the present, and centuries may elapse before the establishment of manufactures, to any extent, will become an object of either national or individual attention. We are justified in drawing this inte ence, by thinking, that as the Portuguese established so few in their European kingdom, they will not turn their thoughts that way in their American one. With this prospect before us, what may we not promise to ourselves, from an almost exclusive trade with a country of such extent; whose riches, and capability of improvement, have never yet been fully investigated, and from which our manufacturers will draw an abundant profit, as few others can stand in competition with them, either as to the excellence of the fabrics, or the capitals with which they are carried on. Such being the case, we have only, by way of conclusion, to congratulate our merchants and traders on the extensive market now open to their industry, which, taken together with the favourable appearances that Spain holds forth to us at this time, promises, under the guidance of Providence, a succession of brilliant prospects; which, as they ripen into events, we shall not fail to notice, in the manner we have already adopted, in our brief account of the Brazils. We have the gratification, since our last, of announcing the arrival of a fleet from the Leeward Islands, of nearly 200 sail; of one from Jamaica, of 82 ditto, exclusive of those which are missing or put back; also of another from China, of 8 sail. London, June 29, 1808. Cargoes of the True Briton, Henry Addington, Cumberland, Britannia, Nottingham, Cuffnells, Scaleby Castle, and Retreat extra ship, from China. Besides other goods, the particulars of which are not yet known. At the Company's sale of pepper, which took place on the 12th instant, The black pepper sold from mixed ditto 10 d. to 11 d. per lb. London, June 29, 1808. The Court of Directors of the United Company of Merchants trading to the East Indies do hereby declare, that they will put up to sale, at their ensuing September sale, besides Lause goods already declared, the following, viz. Also, Company's Surat prohibited goods, 60,815 pieces of various descriptions, Company's Coast white, and Surat white, piece goods, 328,072 pieces ditto Coast Muslins.... Ditto prohibited...... Ditto ditto subscription.. Sarat calicoes .. And 218 packages, more or less, prohibited piece goods in private trade and privilege, On Thursday, September 1, 1808, prompt the 13th of January, 1809. And on Wednesday, September 7, prompt the 2d of December following, including private trade and prize, Likewise, on Friday, September 30, prompt the 30th of December following, the spices as mentioned hereunder, viz. Private trade and privilege nutmegs, 38 chests, 3 boxes. Nutmegs and cloves, 12 chests, 6 boxes. 168,000 lbs. 8,000 ditto Long nutmegs, 2 boxes. 557 ditto 15,000 ditto 45,000 ditto 9,000 ditto Also other prize spices, of which an account will be published as soon as they can be ascertained. 202 hogsheads, 4 casks, 1723 bags coffee....from 65s. Od. to 120s. Od. per cwt. 53 bags Barbadoes ginger 40 hogsheads St. Lucia clayed sugar .....from 72s. 6d. July 12th to July 19th. 705 hogsheads, 104 casks, 1,740 bags coffee from 70s. Od. to 15 serons Carracca indigo ...from 7s. 2d. to 123s. 6d. per cwt. Ib. 8s. 10d. per .from 78s. Od. per cwt. to 81s. Od. per cwt. to 67s. Od. per cwt. |