BILL OF MORTALITY, from Aug. 27, to Sept. 3, 1816. Salt £1. per bushel; 4. per pound. AVERAGE PRICES of CORN, from the Returns ending Sept. 14. INLAND COUNTIES. 031 026 635 3 Sussex Bedford 79 800 031 1/25 936 5 Suffolk PRICE OF FLOUR, per Sack, Sept. 23, 70s. to 75s. PRICE OF HOPS, IN THE BOROUGH MARKET, Sept. 23: Kent Bags ............ ......... Kent Pockets Ol. Os. to 01. 0.. AVERAGE PRICE OF HAY AND STRAW, Sept. 23: St. James's, Hay 4. 11s. 6d. Straw 31. 6s.---Whitechapel, Hay 5l. 10s. Od. Straw 3l. 10s. Od. Clover 7. 10s. Od.-Smithfield, Hay 5l. 12s. 6d. Straw 31. Os. Od. Clover 64. 16s. 6d. SMITHFIELD, Sept. 23. To sink the Offal-per Stone of 8lbs. .......4s. 8d. to 5s. 8d. Head of Cattle at Market Sept. 23: ....3s. 4d. to 4s. 4d. | Lamb..... Calves 150. Beasts ........2,360. COALS, Sept. 23: Newcastle 36s. 3d. to 4'7s. 9d. Sunderland 37s. Od. to 43s. Od. TALLOW, per Stone, 8b. St. James's 3s. 4d. Clare Market Os. Od. Whitechapel 3s. 2ıl• SOAP, YeNow, 86s. Mottled 94s. Curd 98s. CANDLES, 10s. 6d. per Doz. Moulds 12s, Od® THE AVERAGE PRICES of NAVICABLE CANAL SHARES and other PROPERTY, in Sept. 1816 (to the 25th), at the Office of Mr. ScoTT, 28, New Bridge-street, London.-Swansea, 150/. div. 107-Leeds and Liverpool, 2301. ex. div. 4l. half-year.-Monmouth, 120%. ex. div. 47. ditto.-Grand Junction (div. suspended), 1017. 102/.—Leicester Union, 701.-Kennet and Avon, 12/. 10s.-Chelmer, 70%. div. 4.-Lancaster, 17. 10s.-West-India Dock, 145. div. 107.-London ditto, 601. Globe Insurance, 1047. Pock Ditto, Ss. disc.-Flour Company, 17. 10s. per share (d.v. suspended). - Strand Bridge Annuities, 17. 10s. premium.-Ditto Shares, 17.-London Institution, 40%.— Surrey Ditto, 10.-Gas Light, 31. disc. w2Days EACH DAY'S PRICE OF STOCKS IN SEPTEMBER, 1816. 34. 34. 1 Sunday 2 Holiday 180 614 pr. 3 pr. 7 pr. 3 216 624 180 7 pr. 3 pr. 7 pr. 4 shut 62 181 92 603 181 65 -58 pr. 3 pr. 6 pr. pr. S pr. 5 pr. 78 8 pr. 4 pr. 6 pr. 2 shut 93 pr. pr. 6 pr. pr. pr. 5 pr. shut 93 8 pr. pr. pr. shut 95 613 8 pr. pr. 6 pr. shut 933 8 pr. pr. 5 pr. shut 934 614 8 pr. 3 pr. 5 pr. shut 93 RICHARDSON, GOODLUCK, & Co. Bank Buildings, London. Printed by NICHOLS, SON, and BENTLEY, Red Lion Passage, Fleet Street, London. THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE LONDON GAZETTE Pilot-Statesman OCTOBER, 1816. CONTAINING Meteorological Diary for Sept. & Oct. 290, 382 Miscellaneous Correspondence, &c. Anecdotes of the King.-Original Letters 291 Bequest of the late Mr. Thomas Tomkins 292 Tour through various Parts of Flanders, &c. 293 Mr.Chalmers's "Biographical Dictionary" 296 Old & New Bridges at Dorchester, Oxon..297 N. Bacon. Howard the Philanthropist....298 Inscription on the New Coinage defended 299 Urns found in one of the Zetland Isles.....300 Different Methods of disposing of the Dead 301 Particulars of the latter days of T. Paine 304 Account of Knapteft Church, co. Leic......305 Ezekiel's Prophecy of Gog and Magog.....306 Castle-Cary Clergy.-Board of Agriculture 309 Suggestions for the Employment of the Poor 311 Epitaph on Sir T. Berkeley. Mr. Mundy 312 Epitome of County History; Bedf. & Berks 313 M.Wilford & Faber on the Mundane Lotos 316) Libraries in London temp. Queen Anne....317 Singular Privilege of the Dutton Family...319 Causes of Accidents from Stage Coaches...320 Rochester Bridge.--British Gold Coins.....321 Cornw.-Covent. 2 Cumb.2-Doncast. Derb.-Dorchest. Durham Essex Exeter 2, Glouc.2 Halifax-Hants 2 Hereford, Hull 3 Huntingd.-Kent 4 Ipswich 1, Lancas. Leices.2--Leeds 2 Lichfield, Liver.6 Maidst. Manch. 4 Newc.3.-Notts. 2 Northampton Norfolk, Norwich N. WalesOxford 2 Portsea-Pottery Preston-Plym. 2 Reading-Salisb. Salop-Sheffield2 Sherborne, Sussex Shrewsbury Staff. Stamf. 2 Taunton-Tyne Wakefi.-Warw. Wolverh. Worc. 2 York3.IRELAND37 SCOTLAND 24. Jersey 2. Guern. 2. ..337 346 Review of New Publications. Report on the Police of the Metropolis.....329 Redemption,' &c.; by Rev. M. Pennington ibid. Hypocrisy, a Satire; by Rev. C. Colton...330 The Philosophy of Nature, &c.......... Ordination Sermon by Rev. R. Morehead 340 Rev. Mr. Owen's History of the Bible Society 342 Literary, &c. Pursuits at Cambridge.......343 Report of the Board of Agriculture.... LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.. SELECT POETRY for October 1816......350-353 Historical Chronicle. The late heroic Action at Algiers described 354 Abstract of principal Foreign Occurrences 357 Country News 363.--Domestic Occurrences 365 Theatrical Regist. Promotions, Preferments.367 Births, and Marriages of eminent Persons.368 Memoirs of W. Alexander, Esq. F. S. A...369 ..348 .371 Rev. W. Bell, D. D.......... Richard Reynolds of Bristol...572 Rev. E. V. Blomfield....... .373 Thomas Sydenham, Esq .374 George Leigh, Esq..............375 Letter to Bp. of Lincoln-Bible Society....322 Obituary, with Anecd.of remarkable Persons 376 Embellished with a beautiful Perspective View of the NEW BRIDGE at DORCHESTER, Oxon.; and of KNAPTOFT CHURCH, in Leicestershire. By SYLVANUS URBAN, GENT. Printed by NICHOLS, SON, and BENTLEY, at CICERO'S HEAD, Red Lion Passage, Fleet-str. London: where all Letters to the Editor are particularly desired to be addressed. POST-PAID THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE For OCTOBER, 1816. Mr. URBAN, Wapping, Oct. 23. HE inclosed I have had extracted Tfrom the Public Ledger to-day: as it deserves the greatest publicity and durability, I feel a pleasure, (a right, I may say, for I have drawn a trigger for my Sovereign on both sides the Atlantic) in transmitting it to you, to give this excellent King's feelings and principles such publicity and durability. THOMAS WALTERS. THE KING. The following anecdotes, says an Evening Paper, may be relied on as authentic: In the Summer of 1814, the King had lucid intervals: the Queen desired to be informed when that was the case- she was so; and on enter ing the room, she found him singing a hymn, and accompanying it on the harpsichord. When he had finished it, he knelt down, and prayed aloud for her Majesty, then for his Family and the Nation, concluding with a prayer for himself, that it might please God to avert his heavy calamity from him, but if not, to give him resignation to submit to it. He then burst into tears, and his reason again fled. One morning, when the passingbell was tolling at Windsor, his Majesty inquired who was dead? His attendants at first did not answer him; but, on his repeating the question, they said, "Please your Majesty, Mrs. S-." "Mrs. S-," rejoined the King," she was a linen-draper, and lived at the corner of (naming the street); aye, she was a good woman, and brought up her family in the fear of God she is gone to Heaven-I hope I shall soon follow her." - street Oct. 7. HE following Letters, lately discovered among some family papers, seem to merit preservation, and are inuch at your service. N. S. The Duke of DEVONSHIRE to Bp. HOADLY. Dublin, Jan. 24, 1756. My Lord, I am extremely concerned that the first opportunity I should have of corresponding with the Bishop of Winchester should be on so disagreeable a subject; and nothing but your Lordship's letter could have forced me to trouble you, or enter into the discussion of a question which has given me a great deal of uneasiness, as well as surprize. As you have laid me under a necessity of giving my opinion when I should have chose to have been silent, you will, I hope, excuse me if I give it you freely. I am indeed at a loss for words to explain my meaning more clearly than I did in my letter to Dr. Lowth, of which he told me he had sent you an extract. It always was my intention to get a small matter out of Dr. Leslie's preferments for a son of Sir Edmond Anderson; and therefore, as a means of providing more amply for Dr. Lowth, I proposed to him the making application to your Lordship; and though the material service was to be done to Dr. Lowth, yet I should always have esteemed it a civility done to me, and, as such, have thought myself much obliged to you; and I own,' when the answer came back, couched in the words you mention, with strong professions of your regard for me, I was much pleased with it. lived long enough in the world not to pay too great a regard, or lay too much stress, on professions in general; but the veneration I had been bred up with for Bishop Hoadly's character would not allow me to suspect that his professions could mean nothing, or that he could have recourse to nice distinctions to explain away the sense and meaning from his own words, which the common acceptation of them certainly conveyed: and therefore, when Dr. Lowth had got possession I have |