Souchong, 35. Bd. to 4s. 9d.; pekoe, 4s. to 4s 6d. ; hyson, from 3s. 78. to 5s. 108. and upwards; and campoi, from 3s. 6d. to 4s. per lb. Sugar, from 41. to 41. 15s. per cwt. Hemp, from 701. to 801. per ton. China silk, from 38s. to 42s. Sd.; and Bengal ditto, from 22s. to 32s. per lb. At the sales which took place in the East India Company's warehouse (private trade), Messrs. Bowden and Tucker sold 60 chests of East India rhubarb, (duty to be paid) from 1s. to 1s. 3d. ; 1 chest ditto, 6s. 26.; 13 chests ditto, 3d. to 4d.; and 2 chests ditto 4d. to 13. per lb. Two chests Jesuit's bark, 45. 8d. to 5s. 11d.; and 1 chest ditto, 1s. 8d. per ib. Two chests gum-myrrh, 231. 10s. to 231. 15s. per cwt. Three bags cardamoms, 8s. 4d. to 8s. 5d. per lb. Three casks hellebore, 51. 5s. to 51.8s. And 3 bags anniseed, 61. 17s. to 71. per cwt. Two cannisters saffron, 45s. per lb. Two casks antimony, 71. Six bales fennelseeds, 61. 17s to 71. 3s. Fourteen casks white arsenic, 71s. to 71s. 6d; 14 casks ved dittą, 105s. Two bags galls, 88s.; and 2 casks aloes (per Carmarthen, Sept. sale, 1809; duty to be paid) 101. 15s. to 111. per cwt. Ten chests Peruvian bark, bonded, 2s. 6d. to 5s. 1d. per lb. Two chests ditto, 1s. 3d. per lb. Five casks verdigris, 4s. 8d. to 4s. 11d. per lb. Six barrels cortex winteranus, 91s. per cwt. Ten casks cantharides, 15s. to 14s. 6d. per lb. Twenty-six bales East India safflower, 50s. to 55s. per cwt. Three hogsheads bark, 1d.; and 8 serons Carthagena bark, 15. 6d. to 10s. 9d. per lb. Sixteen casks gentian, 81s. to 91s. per cwt. Forty-eight chests sago, (per Huddart, March sale, 1806) 47s.. to 48s. per cwt. Four bottles of oil of cloves, 65s. tô 66s. per lb. Ten casks bay-oil, 131. 10s. to 141. And 11 bales balamus aromaticus, 17s. per cwt. One case Dutch leaf-metal, all at 131. Eight drums anchovies, d. to 8d. Fifty cannisters opium, 50s. And 12 casks smalts, (duty paid) 8d. to 11 d. per lb. Six private ships are arrived within the last month: viz. the Ganges, from Fort St. George; William, from Bombay; Margaret, Porcher, Larkins, and General Wellesley, from Bengal. The following is a specification of their cargoes: cotton, bales 18,455; rice, bags 1,800 ; ebony, bags 231; hemip, bales 48; nutmegs and cloves, chests 39; musk, boxes 3; black alkali, tons 30; Benjamin, boxes 22; mother o'pearl shells, bags 12; cornelian, case 1; rattans, bundles 1,500.-All privilege goods. Besides several other parcels of goods, the parti culars of which are not yet known. NORTH AMERICA. A bill has been passed in the American congress, for the regulation of commercial intercourse. The sum and substance of the restrictions imposed by this bill are:-That America will cheerfully dispose of her own produce, and will as readily receive that of other countries, but the citizens of the United States are to be the sole carriers. No British or French vessel will be permitted to enter an American port, and no goods, the produce of Great Britain or France, are to be admitted into America, unless the vessels in which they may be imported are the property of American citizens.-A clandestine trade to a very great extent, is still carried on between this country and America; and notwithstanding the boasted severity of the commercial restrictions on the other side of the Atlantic, there is every reason to suppose that the government of the United States winks at a species of spurious traffic with which they cannot well dispense. Georgia cotton fetches from 1s. 6d. to 2s. 9d. and that of New Orleans from 1s. 6d. to 1s. 8d. per lb. Pot ashes are flat; the market price varies from 21. 83. to 31. 53. Pearl ditto, fetches from 31. to 31. 13s. Several large cargoes of timber are arrived within a few days, in consequence of which the article has fallen in price. Two cargoes of timber were sold by auction at Plymouth, towards the commencement of the last month, which brought 8001. less than a similar quantity did two months before. Oak fetches from 101. to 151. 10s. in the London market. Ditto plank, from 111. 10s. to 151. Pine, from 81. to 91. 15s, and ditto plank, from 111. 10s. to 161. per last. Maryland tobacco of sundry colours, selis well at prices, from 5d. to 16d. Ditto Virginia, from 9d. to 11d.This article has fallen in price since our last. SOUTH AMERICA.-The following interesting communication, dated Buenos Ayres, November 4th, 1809, has been recently received. "A committee of merchants and others has been called by the viceroy. The result of their deliberations is, that this port is to be opened to neutral commerce, under certain regulations, of which the following is a transcript. "Conditions of Commerce. All vessels must consign themselves to Spanish merchants. "The consignee must present a manifest of cargo, in Spanish, to the administration of the Custom-house, twenty-four hours after arrival. All goods are admitted, except those prohibited, and shall pay the circular duty agreeably to the tarif; and such goods as may not be in the tarif, shall be valued at the prices of Eu rope. ***Goods similar to those manufactured in the country shall pay a duty of 19 per cent. Over and above the circular duties. "Ox and cow-hides shall pay the war-tax, on clearance, of 121 per cent. As far as respects the patriotic dury, it shall be extinguished. Vicienna wool, bark, sheeps' wool, tallow, cocoa, and bair, at certain specified prices, to a duty of 20 per cent. The "The exportation of either gold or silver is not allowed. All returns must be made in produce of the country, and to take away the same. Vessels may come in ballast, and may bring such goods as are permitted for the negro-trade. "The Spanish consignee must become bound for the duties, and pay a fourth in fifteen days after having made the dispatch, and the remaining three-fourths in the three following months, that is one-fourth in each month. “All vessels,friends, and neutrals,shall be admitted, and most receive a custom-house officer on board, as is usual with other vessels, and shall deposit their papers in the Secretariodel Governor's office, until a visit is past for sailing. "The Spanish consignee must not sell by retail, on account of any foreigner. "The interdiction of wine, oil, vinegar, and spirituous liquors (except rum) is prohibited." Such are the regulations by which Spanish America is once more thrown open to British traders. We trust the latter will make a temperate use of those privileges, by avoiding wild speculation, and instead of sending out cargoes of old shopkeepers, that they will consult their own interests by asserting their cargoe consignments, and shipping marketable goods only. By the latest accounts received from the Brazils, we learn that British goods are in small request there, and that for printed cottons in particular, there is scarcely any demand. Pernambucca cotton sells from 2s. 1d. to 2s. 6d. and Maranham from 1s. 10d. to 2s. 1d. per Ib. Guatimala indigo, from 5s. 6d. to 11s. 9d. and Caracca ditto, from 5s. 6d. to 11s. 93. per 1b. Brazil indigo, of which there is but an inconsiderable quantity in the market, fetches from 26. d. to 5s. Buenos Ayres hides, from 5d. to 9d. per lb. WEST INDIES. In our last report we entered our protest against the importation of the produce of the island of Bourbon, a measure, which if carried into effect, would undoubtedly prove highly detrimental to the interests of West India traders in general. It was then reported and believed, that Bourbon either was, or would be, abandoned by our troops, but it is now known that an expedition is fitting out by our government, the object of which is of a two-fold nature, not only to retain Bourbon, but to reduce the Isle of France. Should there be any design of bringing home the produce of those islands, we have only to express a hope that the importers will be required to give bond for its re-exportation. Sugars are dull of sale, and they have fallen in price. The produce of the different islands varies from about 31. 16s, to 41. 8s.; coffees were pretty brisk about the commencement of the month, but they now begin to decline. Jamaica is down about 2s. per cwt. within the last week. Rum, particu Jarly common Leeward, though remarkably dull in the London market, has sold well at Liverpool. At the latter place about 600 puncheons were lately purchased at 4s. 41. The London prices are, of famaica, 4s. 4d. to 6s. and Leeward Islands, 3s. 9d. to 4s. 6d. per gallon. Jamaica logwood (chipt) fetches from 271. to 291. per ton. The unshipt is uncertain. The last Gazette contains an order in council, relative to West India commerce, which want of room obliges us to omit this month; it shall however appear in our next Report: HOLLAND. Our trade with this country, such as it has been, is likely to be entirely anpihilated by the intrigues of the French Emperor. Of this subject we shall possibly be 'enabled to speak more tally in our next Report. Prices of Canal, Dock, Fire-office, Water Works, &c. &c. 19th February, 1810.-London Dock Stock, 1351. per cent.--West India ditto, 1821. ditto.-East India ditto, 1351. ditto.East Country ditto, 841. ditto.-Commercial ditto, 901. per share premium.--Grand Junction Canal, 2451. per share.-Grand Surry ditto, 811. ditto.-Kennet and Avon ditto, 491. ditto. Wilts and Berks ditto, 521. ditto.-Huddersfield ditto, 421. ditto.-Lancaster ditto, 251. ditto. Rochdale ditto, 441. ditte.-Croydon ditto, 501. ditto.-Leeds and Liverpool ditto, 1901. ditto -Thames and Medway ditto, 431. per share premium.-East London Water Works, 2881. per share.-West Middlesex ditto, 1421. ditto.-Kent ditto 351. per share premium.→ Portsea Island, ditio, 571. ditto.-Portsea and Tarlington ditto, 341. ditto.-Strand Bridge, 405. ditto -Vauxhall ditto, 10s. ditto.--Globe Assurance, 1991 per share.-Albion ditto, GIL ditto. —Imperial ditto, 751. ditto. -Rock Life Assurance, fis. per share, premium.❤ At the Office of Messrs. Wolte and Co, Capal, Deck, and Stuck Brokers, No. 9, Change Alley, Cornhill The average prices.of Navigable Canal Property, Duck Stock, Fire-o fice Shares, &c. in February, 1810, (to the 24th) at the Office of Mr. Scott, 28, New Briage street, Louson.➡ The Tient and Mersey or Grand Trunk Navigation, 10551. 10501, dividing 401 nett per angum.-Staflorescire and Worcestershire, 7151 divising 401. nett per annum.-MonmouthShire, 31. per share half yearly 15). to 1361-Leeds und Liverpool, 1861. to 188.-Grand Junction, 2401. to 2441-Kennet and Avon, 501. 481. 491 Wilts and Berks, 511. 10s to 581.-Huddersfield, 411. 10s.-Dudley, 491.-Rochdale, 461.-Ellesmere, 801.-Lancaster, 241. to 251.-Grand Surrey Old Shares at 651. with new ditto attached, at par.-West India Dock Stock at 1821. per cent. ex-dividend of 51. per cent. nett half yearly.-East India ditto, 1351.-London Dock, 1561. to 1361. 10s. ex-dividend £1. 156. nett, half-yearly 1351.-Commercial ditto, 901 premium, ex dividend.--Globe Assurance, 1991. per share, ex-dividend, $1. nett half-yearly.-Atlas, par.-East London Water Works, 2271. 2281. Portsmouth and FarJington ditto, 441. premium, with new subscription attached.-Thames and Medway, 421. to 14) premium-Basingstoke, 351. to 371. 10s.—Ashby-de-la-Zouch, 221. 10s. 3 COURSE 1810.] Naturalist's Monthly Report. COURSE OF EXCHANGE. Jan. 26. 30th. [Feb. 2. oth. 9th. 13th. 16th. 2011. 4 31 4 7 14 Altona, 28 28 7 28 71 28 7 28 Paris, 1 day date.. 19 6 748 7 28 7 28 7 Ditto, 2 Us. 20 19 10 19 10 19 10 19 14 19 14 19 14 19 14 Bourdeaux, 20 19 10 19 10 19 10 19 14 19 14 19 14 19 11 404 401 Bilboa 41 41 41 41 41 41 Palermo, 125 Leghorn Genou 561 Venice 52 32 Naples. 42 Lisbon. 65 65 Oporto.... Rio Janeiro 71 Malta.... 55 51 Gibraltar.. 36 Dublin 10 94 Cork 10 WM. TURQUAND, Exchange and Stock Broker, No. 9, St. Michael's Alley, Cornhill, MY notes respecting the state of the weather, from the 1st to the 13th of January, have been mishid and lost. In the morning of the 18th, however, I find that the wind, which had been westerly, had suddenly changed to the east, and was very cold and piercing. In On the 17th, the rivers were, the night of the 13th there was a hard frost, which continued for several days afterwards. The weather during this time was fine, but extremely cold. The wind was southerly in the morning and afternoon of the in some places, frozen over. 18th, but it was again easterly before the close of the day. In the nights of the 18th and We had some snow in the afternoon of the 22d, but 19th, the frost was peculiarly severe. it continued on the ground only during the next day. Although the wind was easterly till the end of the month, a thaw commenced on the 23d, which lasted till the evening of the 27th. The frost again set in, and continued for about three days, when the wind changed, and we had rain. In the early part of the month a green sand-piper was shot. This is a rare bird in England, particularly in the southern districts. It chiefly frequents the lakes and rivulets of moun In several parts of Switzerland, it is said tainous countries, and is seldom seen near the sea. to be a very common bird, In the Report for March last, I mentioned that a white weasel had several times been seen about the premises of a farm-yard in this neighbourhood: an ermine or white stoat, has, this month, been shut within a few miles of the same place. It is certainly an unusual circumstance to see these animals, in their white winter's dress, in a county which lies so far south as Hampshire. January 19th. Redbreasts approach the houses, and are now almost the only birds which are heard to sing. When, however, the days are occasionally warmer than usual, the blackbirds and thrushes do not neglect to cheer the gloomy scenery with their song; and I likewise sometimes hear the twittering notes of the wren. The first, which January 18th. The season for salmon-fishing commenced with the beginning of the month; but hitherto only three fish have been caught in our rivers. weighed weighed seventeen pounds, was on new-year's day; the second weighed twenty pounds; and the third was not quite so large as the first. January 20th. The catkins of the alder and hazel are nearly ready to burst. I this day observed the following plants to be in flower: chickweed, purple dead nettle (lamium purpureum), daisy, and furze. No additional quantity of wild-fowl appears to have yet been driven in by the severe weather which we have experienced for the last seven or eight days. January 24th. In consequence of the surface of the earth having been loosened by the thaw of last night, I this morning remarked that the earth-worms had come out of the ground during the night in great numbers. Some of the pastures were, in particular spots, almost covered with the earth that they had thrown up. January 29th. The flower-buds of the Laurustinus are beginning to open in sheltered and warm situations. January Sist. Of indigenous plants, the following are now in flower: Groundsel (senecio vulgaris) wall-flower, (cheiranthus fruticulosus) and Dandelion; and in gardens the buds of the snow-drop and Hepatica will soon expand their petals. Hampshire. Errata in our last Report.-For "eweret," read "leveret ;" and omit the comma after the ward leisure, 1. 4 from the end. MONTHLY BOTANICAL REPORT. OF the monthly botanical publications, we have not, for some time, had to notice any but the Botanical Magazine, and English Botany: all the others, either unable to cope with the difficulties of the times, or from the leisure of their authors being occupied with other Pursuits, have been dropped, or at least suspended. Dr. Smith has lately published the first part of his Prodromus Flora Græcæ; and the Linnéan Society have published a part of the tenth volume of their Transactions: but of these works we must defer any further notice till another opportunity. The Botanical Magazine for the last month contains: Yucca gloriosa. Mr. Gawler observes, that this species has been confounded with alcifolia, which is very distinct, and that the Yucca gloriosa of the Botanist's Repository, is really the alcifolia of Linnæus. The synonymy of this plant seems to be very complete. Iris pumila var. violacea. The purple and yellow varieties of this species have appeared before. In all these three, something generally different from cach other, besides the colour of the flowers, may be observed, which to us leads to a doubt whether they may not in reality be distinct species; we are therefore glad to see good figures of all of them in the magazine. Mr. Gawler shows the difficulty of ascertaining the Linnean species; the one here figured is usually-called biflora in the nurseries. The biflora of Linnæus, according to the synonym from Besler, appears to Mr. Gawler, to be a dwarf variety of the subbiflora of the Botanical Magazine. Narcissus triandrus var. luteus. As this appears to be precisely the same variety as the one figured in an early number of the magazine, we do not see the reason of repeating it here; it cannot have been an oversight, because the former one is quoted. In the two figures however, there is a considerable difference in the length of the nectarium. We have heard a story of this species having been found apparently wild, somewhere in the north of England; but we have no doubt that this is a mistake. Mimosa pubescens. This appears to us to be one of the most beautiful figures in the work, and we doubt not will be selected by many a fair artist to ornament her fire-skreens and tables, if the quantity of labour should not deter her from the undertaking. Nigella orientalis, Nigella Hispanica. Garidella Nigellastrum. Nigella and Garidella are to nearly allied, that we are glad to see these three plants, which mutually illustrate each other, brought together. The English Botany for February, except three species of mint, contains no other phenogamic plant. Mentha gentilis. The original of the variegated variety, which is so universally cultivated by cottagers, in several counties of England, and usually called Orange Mint. We have found this species in a ditch on Stroud's Green, near Hornsey, and observe the character mentioned by Dr. Smith, of the smoothness of the lower part of the calyx and of the peduncles to to be constant, though in some specimens of Mentha gentilis from gardens, it does not appear to be so. Mentha arvensis. This figure does not appear at all characteristic of the habit of the plant. Mentha agrestis of Sole, and considered by Smith, in his FloraBritannica, as a variety of M. arvensis. The two figures, as here given, are certainly so much alike, that they can hardly be supposed to represent two distinct species; but neither of them gives us an idea of Mentha MONTHLY arvensis, as it has usually occurred to our observation. MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. THE young wheats have. in most places, experienced a seasonable check by the severity of the frosts in the beginning of the month, and those that were early sown will probably now turn out good crops. Most sorts of green crops are pretty much in the same state as in last month, and they will probably not go nearly so far in the support of stock as is commonly the case. -The ploughing has b en greatly retarded during the last two months, so that much of it will require to be performed in the ensuing month, which must render it a busy season for the teams. The prices of grain lave continued pretty much the same as our last, which is an extremely favorable circumstance for the country.-Wheat fetches from 78s. to 102s. per quarter; Rye, 42s. to 48s.; Barley, 30s. to 42s.; Oats, 20s. to 25s. All sorts of stock, both fit and lean, still keep up to their former prices.-Beef fetches from 4s. 6d. to 6s. per stone of 81b; Mutton, 53. to 6s. 6d.; Veal, 5s. to Bs.; Pork, 5s. to 7s. Good hay rather looks up in the London markets. Hay fetches from 41, to 61. 10s. 3 Clover, 61. to 71. 15s.; Straw, 13. 15s. to 21. 13s. The late snows have done great injury in many places to the sheep, and particularly to the forward lamts, which are soon destroyed by them. METEOROLOGICAL REPORT. Observations on the State of the Weather, from the 24th of January, 1810, to the 24th of February 1810, inclusive, Four Miles N.N.W. of St. Paul's. Barometer. Highest, 30-07. Feb. 21. Wind N. Thermometer. Higheft, 40°. Feb. 8. Wind South. Lowest, 28 73. -13. W. On the 11th the mercury stood at 29-50, and on the 12th at the same hour it had fallen to 29. 21. North. On the 22d the mercury was as low as 229 about 8 in the morning, but at same hour on the 23d it stood at 332. Owing to an accident which has occurred by the frost to our rain-gauge, we are unable to give an accurate account of the quantity fallen since our last Report; but from circumstances it is supposed to be about equal to two inches and a half in depth. There has indeed been rain eleven or twelve days during the present month; but the quantity has not been great. The average height of the barometer is nearly the same as it was for the last month, viz. 29-63, and the mean temperature for the month is 36-21. We had a good deal of severe weather between the 14th and 22d inclusive, but the remainder of the period was in general mild. The wind has been chiefly in the west; on some days we had foggy and very dark weather, and we understand, that on one in particular, the darkness was so considerable, as to cause a suspension of business in the middle of the day for an hour or two. The thermometer has again been as low as 15°, this was in the morning of the 21st. It stood at the same degree on the 17th of January; we have heard that on the same day, and at the same hour, in January, a thermometer stood as low as 80 at Camden Town; as, now. ever, we noted our's very accurately, we suspect this prodigious difference must have arisen from some sudden evaporation, or other cause, not immediately connected with, or dependent upon, the state of the atmosphere. At Shide, in the Isle of Wight, the average temperature for September, October, November, December, 1809, and for the first twenty-two days in January, 1810, was as follows: 570.7 48 4 September 39 .16 December 40 00 January 39 .00 The quantity of rain fallen at the same place from August to December 31, 1809, was 10-7 inches in depth, PRICES |