98 213 59 fhut 2121 59 59 a 60 77 93 fhut 27 1791 par 1 pr. par 2 pr. par 1 pr. par pr. 30 212 59 59 a 60774 93/ -17 1 170 par 1 pr. 1 a 2 pr. 59 593 a 6o 93 1 a 2 pr. EACH DAY'S PRICE OF STOCKS IN MAY, 1806. Bank 3perCt. 3perCent. 4perCt. SperCt. 5perCt. Long Short India Stock. BkRed. Confols. Confol. Navy. 1797. Ann'. Ann. Stock. 59 60 77 923 fhut sol perCt.dife. thut 20 5 o perCr.dife. 20 88fhut 20 5 on perCt.difc. fhut 20 so perCt.dife. a 3 pr. 2 pr 2fa2pr. 212 59 60 a 604 77 931 17 179 1 a 2 pr. a 3 pr. 642 50 24a pr. fhut 20 50 perCt.difc. 212 60 á 39 771 93. 17 1 1791 a 2 pr.1 a s pr. 21 pr. 205 on perCt.difc. Sunday 211 39 60 77 93 17 leticall 1791 a 2 pr.1 a 3 pr. 2 apr. 88 58 20 ofFull Money 11 Sunday 1791 a 2 pr. par 2 pr. 61 1 a 2 pr.par 2 pr. 179 par 1 pr. par 2 pr. par 1 pr. i a pr. 21 pr. 58 20 65 21apr. 88 20 501 2 pr. 58 20 a 3 pr. 2 pr. 88 2 pr. par 2 pr. 15. 30 60% -60 37 holiday 18 Sunday 60 a 1 a 2 pr.par 2 pr. 1 a 2 pr.pár 2 pr. 183 par 1 pr.dif.alpr. 642 par par 1 dif. par 1 dif1 a 3 dif. 2 dif. 1 a 3 dif. 2 a 3 dif.1 a 4 dif. 2 a 3 difs a 2 dif. 3 dif. a dif. 23 pr. 24alpr. 89 89 25 Sunday 20holiday 27 holiday [Printed by J. NaCHOLS and SON, Red Lion Paffage, Fleet Street.] BRANSCOMB and Co. Stock-Brokers, 13, Holborn, 37, Cornhill, and 38, Hay-Market. 58 24 pr. 2 pr. 58 65 21a'pr. 21apr. 89 2 pr. 2 pr 58 20 15 02 perCt.difc. 20 15 58 582 611 2 pr. 2 pr. 5 ofFull Money oFull Monty oFull Money 20 7 Full Money 20 7-02 perCt.difc, 20 7 02perCt.difc. 20 10 02 perCt.difc. THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE : LOND. GAZETTE CAMBRIDGE Carli.-Chefter Chelmsford 2. Cornw.--Covent. JUNE, 1806. CONTAINING Cumberland Doncafter--Derb. Exeter 2,Glouc. Hampshire 2 Hereford, Hull 2 Ipfw.2,Kentish 2 Leeds 2-Lewes Manchester 4 Newcastle 3 Northampton Norf. Norwi. 2 Nottingham OXFORD Portf. Reading Salisb. SCOTLAND 15. Salop-Shefeld Sherborne, Surry Shrew(b.--Suffex Staffordshire Stamford-Tyne Wakefi.Warw. Winch-Worc.2 YORK 3, Jerfey Meteorological Diary-Average Priceof Corn 490 Dr. Lettfom's Thirtieth Letter on Prifons 513 Embellished with a Perfpective View of OAKSEY HOUSE, WILTS; Br SYLVANUS URBAN, GENT. Printed by NICHOLS and SON, at Cicero's Head, Red-Lion Paffage, Fleet-ftreet, London; where all Letters to the Editor are defired to be addreffed, POST-RAID. 1806. D. of Month 8 o'cl. Morn. Weather in. pts. in June 1806. June o 28 59 74. 58 ,03 fair 13 29 60 69 30 54 63 54 29,97 cloudy 14 16 63 17 55 18. 54 8 61 AVERAGE PRICES of CORN, from the Returns ending June 14, 1806. INLAND COUNTIES. Wheat Rye Barley Oats Beans Middlef. 82 445 MARITIME COUNTIES. Wheat Rye Barley Oats Beans 143 10 Effex 6 390 Hertford 75 841 034 427 4 37 o Suffex o Cambrid. 78 1000 Northam. 78 052 3/31 4/24 Rutland 82 000 036 028 941 10 Norfolk 042 339 5 5 37 842 6 Durham 76 848 o Northum. 76 Worcest. 80 944 4137 2:31 11 47 5|Chefter 80 600 000 000 037 92 Wilts 76 400 030 o Denbigh 80 Berks 87 9:00 036 081 241 11 Anglefea 70 Oxford 83 500 031 1129 341 11 Carnarvon 87 000 Bucks 74 1000 €32 7:30 945 10 Merionet. 91 10'00 Brecon 04 460 946 424 000 o Cardigan 81 Montgo. 99 2100 040 026 900 o Pembroke 75 Radnor 94 0'00 0:40 2'28 8.00 o Carmarth. 98 Average of England and Wales, per quarter. 84 848 11 37 3.28 9 Average of Scotland, per quarter. 00 000 000 0,00 000 o Dorfet 81 700 030 AVERAGE PRICES, by which Exportation and Bounty are to be regulated. Glamorg. 86 000 Somerfet 86 11,00 Monmo. 102 800 THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, For JUNE, 1806. T Mr. URBAN, Philadelphia, April 20. HOUGH I have relinquished practice and its emoluments, without any intention of refuming it during my ftay in the United States; yet my favourite fudy is too pleafing to be wholly abandoned, nor can I willingly fuffer any difcovery or improvement in the healing art to escape my notice. vations, which, at the request of fome of the profeffors whofe talents and erudition I greatly refpect, was published in this country, and which you were alfo fo kind as to infert in your Magazine for January, p. 33. Hearing with concern of the hafty funerals, I added cautions on that fubject (fee Feb. Mag, p. 107.) In a land of liberty and equality the Board of Health officers find no fmall The Peftilential Fever, that terrible difficulty in executing coercive laws; fcourge of this and other maritime cities of the United States, did not appear in Philadelphia, fince my arrival, till laft Autumn, when this family with many others retired into the country. Though the fatality was lefs than in former feafons, yet many were carried off about the fourth day from the attack, and were hurried to their graves on the fame day, or at fartheft the next morning; a regard to the fafety of the family is urged as an apology for this precipitancy, but is founded in error. the otherwife I am confident that, by ftrict attention to the means propofed, the contagion might be fhut out, or wholly fuppreffed on its firft appearance. But unfortunately a large portion of the Medical Faculty pronounce it inbred in the City and not contagious, in which they are fupported by the great body of Merchants, who deprecate the idea of contagion being ever imported by their numerous veffels, though they vifit the moft fickly ports, where intereft prompts. The non-contagionifis of course deride health-laws and quarantines as troublefome and ufelefs. In the beginning the difeafe was traced, from communication with a I am glad to find, however, the most Weft India fhip in a fickly ftate near difcreet members of the College mainthe Lazaretto, to the Southern fuburbs tain a very different opinion; and that near the river; and the health-laws the Board of Health in their laft report being too lax and imperfectly executed, unequivocally declare it of foreign oriand contagion fpread from houfe to gin, imported in veffels, propagated houfe in that neighbourhood, but re- often by contagion. The College of mained local, without extending to the Phyficians have lately publifhed fundry City, till imprudent communication with facts which confirm the opinion which the fick quarter conveyed it to diftant I have ever entertained concerning it. ftreets. The fick were now by the Board of Health conveyed to the Fever Hofpital, about half a mile from the City. But to avoid this, many concealed their illness till death overtook them. Nor have I heard of any other approved means of prevention being ufed. It was with regret I found the Medical Faculty as much divided as ever refpecting the origin and nature of the difeafe, and no lefs fo as to the treat Admitting it to be correct, furely it behoves Great Britain to be on her guard, and attentive to the ftricteft rules of quarantine. For want of this, the, peftilence, according to the Faculty at Madrid, was brought in an American fhip to Cadiz, which fpread the disease to Malaga, Gibraltar, and through feveral provinces in Spain, and even into Italy. Since which the Continental ports are every where fing every precaution against its re-admiffion. But enough. A. FOTHERGILL. Yours, &c. Mr. Mr. URBAN, June 6. THOUGH it may not be in every ane's power to do much good, yet unfortunate indeed muft be the individual within whofe ability it does not, at one time or another, fall to be the inftrument of preventing evil. The humble hope of becoming fuch an infirument, Sir, is my fole motive for defiring to occupy a fmall fpace in your next, on a fubject feemingly to me of no common moment. In feveral of your fucceffive Numbers a kind of controverfy fome time fince appeared, on the benefit, and the danger, of the application of Cold Water in cafes of the Gout; in the courfe of which, inftances were brought forward, in proof of the fudden and fatal effects of an experiment ftrenuoufly recommended by a Medical Prac titioner. Under the peculiar agony of this excruciating difeafe, and the influence of that extreme irritability which it is known to excite, that the fufferer fhould fometimes be feduced, by the promife of immediate relief, to have recourfe to a remedy fo conflantly at hand, is a matter, perhaps, of much lefs wonder, than that his philofophy, or his refolution, fhould bear him out in its rejection, efpecially under the recommendation of medical fkill, and the fanction, as has been afferted, of fuccefsful trial. Whether any conftitution, labouring under the ftrong action of gouty humours, has fufficed to fuftain the hock of a fudden repulfion from the extrenities without receiving a dangerous, if not a deadly blow in the more immediate feats of life, the ftomach or the head, is as yet by no means fufficiently or fatisfactorily attefted. That the contrary event has happened, and that the immertion of the gouty limb in cold water actually has produced the moft fatal effects; to thofe other unhappy proofs already alluded to, I venture to add the names of two perfons of confideration and refpectability, who have lately fallen martyrs to this novel and dangerous herefy in Medicine: Mrs. Walter, the fifter of a worthy gentleman of that name in Hampshire, and Sir Michael Le Fleming, late reprefentative in Parliament for Weftmoreland. Of thee, the Lady was advifed to the application of cold water, to difperfe the gouty matter from her feet; whilft the Gentleman was induced to plunge his arm and elbow into the fame fluid, to dillodge it from thofe parts. In the firft cafe, the enemy, driven from his lefs dangerous quarters, flew to the vifcera and the flomach; in the latter, probably, to the head; as the unfortunate Baronet, after a remiffion of two or three hours from his former pain, funk down, and almoft inftantaneously expired, whilft engaged in a converfation with Lord Howick at the Admiralty (fee p. 486.) I confefs, Sir, that I an unper. mitted by the friends or families of either of the above unhappy victims to ill-advifed experiment, to bring them before the publick as inftances of the peril of this practice; but I feel compelled to do fo as a warning due to my fellow-creatures fimilarly afflicted; at the fame time that I am encouraged to it by the confideration that, if I am chargeable with any mis-ftatement, or wrong afferiton, refpecting thefe recent facts, the fame channel through which this information is tranfmitted to the world, is, with your permiffion, Mr. Urban, open alfo to its refutation. Yours, &c. June 14. AD not a Shenftonian (p. 399) corrected the fa fe infinuation in refpect to the modeft and worthy Shenfone, I certainly fhould have done it. Why fhould the memory of fuch a man be any way traduced? Even had it been a fact that he was fo far embaraffed, it ought to have drawn forth the tear of pity, infiead of the contemptuous fineer. Every virtuous perfon, who knew Mr. Shenitone, will allow that he lived univerfally beloved, and died univerfally lamented; and I affure you, Mr. Urban, I have feldom met with any of his acquaintance (and many I have converfed with in the thades of his favourite Leafowes,) but have dropt the tear of fympathy, at the bare mention of his wonted benevolence and friendship. Mr. Horne, (not Holme, as in p. 399,) who built the prefent manfion, likewife much improved the place, by purchafing fome adjoining farms, which rather encroached on parts of the Leafowes; by which he was enabled to make plantations, thereby adding much to the beauty of feveral parts before too circumfcribed. The |