. { New PRICBS of SA ARBS in NAVIGABLE CANALS, Docks, BRIDGES, ROAD, WATER WORKS INSTITUTIONs, and FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES, at the Office of Wolre and EDNONDS, No. 9, Change-alley, Cornhill, 21st March, 1818. Div. Per Dio. Per per Ann. Share. per den. Share. Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal 16 London... SI. 89 Ashton and Oldham... 31. 1ol, 903 0 Birmingham s6l. 840 Old.. 61 41. Chelmer and Blackwater Southwark Bridge 70 59 10 Coventry ............. 950 Waterloo .... 10 10 Croydon .............................. 5 10 Ditto Annuities of 8l... 81. 45 Dulley..... Ditto Annuities of 11. .................. 71. 29 10 Ellesmere and Chester 64 Vuuxhall S8 Grand Junction 61. 51. 100 Grand Surrey 70 Arch way and Kentish Town Road.... 18 10 Ditto Loan Notes ............. ........ 51. 51. 109 Grand Union ............................ 87 Great Dover Street .................... 11.108.39 10 Grand Western ......................... Highgate Archway 6 10 Grantham ............................. 61. 110 East London Water-works sl. 100 Huddersfield ............................ 10 Grand Junction .......... 53 Kennet and Avon 118. 23 el. 10 10 Leeds and Liverpool. 101. 255 Ditto New. sl. 34 10 Leicester 101, 240 West Middlesex Leicester and Northampton Union .. 41. 93 South London... 20 Monmouthshire 81. 128 Albion Fire and Life Insurance 2. 108.50 Oakham ... 95 Atlas...................................... 6s. S 15 Oxford. ................... sil. 015 Eagle Peak Forest............................ 61 10 Globe 61. : 90 Regeht's 30 Hope 23. od. 3 IS Rochdale ............... II. S5 Imperial 81 Shrewsbury ............... 51. 115 Royal Exchange ........................ lol. 860 Shropshire 1. 110 Staffordshire and Worcestershire sol. 695 Union Stratford on Avon 8 Provident 131. 19 Thames and Medway .... SO London Institution $0 Trent and Mersey, or Grand Trunk .. 601. 1510 Russell 13 13 Warwick and Birmingham............ lll. Surrey 10 Warwick and Napton ......... 101. 215 Auction Mart.... il. 55.98 10 Wilts and Berks ....., 8 City Gas Light Company, (0l. paid .. 8l.perc. 80 Worcester and Birmingham 20 Gas Liglat and Coke (Chart. Com.) sl. 66 Commercial Dock sl. 10s. 74 London Commercial Sale Hooins .... 21. 93 10 East India ........... 71. 170 Beeralstone Mines, 401. paid 20 10 Eest Country 30 Great Hewas, 181, 108. paid 87 10 Rock .. Rates of Government Life Annuities, payable at the Bank of England. When 3 per cent. Stock is 78 and under 79, 5 12 0... 7 18 19 8 8 10 ........ 7 5 0.... ............ 119 3 116 0.......... .................. 14 7 11 75 and upwards ..... 14 7 0.... 18 5 7 All the intermediate ages will receive in proportion. N.B. The annexed is a short scale of some of the rates, upon which Government are now granting Life. Annuities: they are payable half-yearly at the Bank of England, the same as the dividends, and may he received by power of attorney. The Life-Annuity Act having been amended, they may henceforward be purchased when the gl. per cent. Consols or Reduced Annuities are at or above 50. Keduction National Debt and Government Life Annuity Office, Bank-street, Cornhill. ..............36-4 Lisbon.. COURSE of the EXCHANGE, from Feb. 27, to March 29, 1818, both inclusive. Amsterdam, B.80.. 36-10 394 a 40 Ditto at sight. Seville Amsterdam, c. f. Gibraltar ........5 Ditto at sight..... Leghorn .......... ..58 a big Rotterdam, c. f.2 U .................11 Genoa .94.70 Hamburgh V .........................340 a 34 Malta 51 Altona 2 U ..................34-1 a 34-3 Naples. ..............14 & 154 Paris, 3 day's sight ...................94-094-5 Palermo per 02 ....................... igoda a iset. Ditto, 2 Usance... ....................94-20 a 24-30 ** ......................59 a 584 Bourdeaux, ditto... .94—20 a 81-30 Oporto .......60 a 59 Frankfort on the Main, ex money... 149 Rio Janeiro... .674 Madrid, effective... ....39a 40 81 a 0 Cadiz, effective.............................. ..395 a 924 Cork PRICES of BULLION, at per Ounce. ..ol. 5s. Sil. a ol. 6s. 4.1 Gold in Bars... ............. 41. 1o. Od. a 4l. 18. 6d. Silver in Bars, Standard... ol, bs. 4d, a 38. sila New Doubloons ............... 41. 1s. Od. a Ol. Os. Od. New Louis, each The above Table contains the highest and lowest prices. JAMES WETENILALL, SWORN BROKER. Printed by Joyce Gold, Sbve-lane, London. 262893 96s pr. 1773185 DAILY PRICE OF STOCKS FROM FEB. 26, 1818, TO MARCH. 25, 1818, BOTH INCLUSIVE. Iristo Imp. 1o.p. lodia So.Sea Oldso. Vw So. 5 per cent Ex. Bills. b.x. Bills. Coosols 79 13 12404 9:38 96-pr. 18:15:pr. 21:17spr. 795 1065 784 93 94spr.14s19spr. 15-23spr. 79 2013 78$ 945 96-pr. 16s19-pr. 16s24spr. 795 -2405 978 94spr. 16514spr. 20s14spr.179 March 2 79% 19% 99% 106 2015 1063 953 97spr. 17812spr. 12-20spr.79 784 3/287 286479/7877847799 98 1055 238 237 958 97spr. 1751 lspr. 21313spr. 783 773 42864285 78479778783 99 97 105 1774 -'97s 95pr. 12s15spr.14s10spr.77 785 5 285 284 1785 17878°994977|1055 953 97spr. 11s14spr. 14810spr.781 77} 774 78 97 $105 77 78% 78 969 94-pr. 16s 8spr. 13s Espr. 783 77 11512spr 11s16spr. 77 78% 955 9kpr. 12:15spr. 12s18spr. 783 9:35 85spr.11s14spr. 15s12spr. 781 1054 177 $ 938 91spr. 10813spr. 13-10spr. 783 99: 9 ispr.14510spr.11s15spr 78 93, 91spr. U1s14spr. 15s12spr./785 93 94spr. 13s10spr.12815spr.78% 16 777789 93 94spr 1531 Ispr. 12s15spr.178 938 94spr. 13s16spr. 13s18spr. 78 1784774 1053 14818.pr. 14818spr. 77} 78% 938 90spr. 16813spr.14s18spr./773 784 78 773 19516spr. 17515spr. 784 13816spr. 14s17spr.784 1055 94s pr. 177478 90s pr. 178 91s pr. All ExCHEQUER Bills dated prior to the 24th of February, 1817, have been advertised to be paid off, and the interest thereon bas ceased, JAMES WETEVHALL, Stock-Broker, No. 7, Capel-court, Bartholomew-lape, London, European Magazine FOR APRIL, 1818. CONTEXT ......295 &c. ........ Page Page List of East India Shipping .........282 Harvey's Sensibility, the Stranger, and Memoir of Mr. Charles Mathews ....983 other Poems.. ....932 A Hint op ducacion .... .287 Mills' History of Mukam medanism ...393 Extracts from a Lawyer's Portfolio Burrowes' Piano. Forté Primer........336 [Continged] .......289 Hayes' Family Annals ib. THE GLEANER. No. VIII.. .292 breton's French Scholar's First Book..381 On the ruling Passions and Propensi TEATRICAL JOURNAL: - Rob Roy ; ties of Mankind ib. or, The Gregarach-Miss KellyRemarks on the Conversazione Amoroso, King of Little Britain A Conversazione... ..299 Who's My father:-Bellamira; or, The Hive. No. XXXVII...........304 The fall of Tunis --Mr. Mathews At Anecdote of a Frenchman.. ib. llone--The Duke and the Devil, Repartees, Bon Mots, &c. ib. ib Menoir of Patrick Colquhoun, Esq. POETRY...... .94$ (Continued) ....305 ib. History of Peter Pliant (Continued]..310 The Transformation of a Seraph to a Arithmetical Queries ... .312 Lyre ............. ...344 IRISA EXTRACT's containing a concise Address to Sleep. ib. Description of some of the principal Lines ......346 Places in Ireland; with the Antiqui To Hope ..... ib. ties, Customs, Character, and Man. Parliamentary Papers . ih. bers of that Country[Coutiqued] ..313 Intelligence from the London Gazette 350 FRAGMENTA. Being Thoughts, Obser. Abstract of Foreigu and Domestic In. vations, Reflections, and Criticisms, telligence... .......367 with Anecdotes and Characters An University Intelligence ......360 cient and Modern, No. XXV. ....317 Prefermenis.. bici...362 An Essay on Human Life.... ...320 Births .....363 TAE REPOSITORY. No. XLVII, ...:.325 Literary Intelligence.. ......935 The Arctic Expeditions .... .......... ib. List of New Publications ......366 MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. No. Acknowledgments to Correspondents.. ib. XLI. ........327 List of Bankropts, Dividends, and Cer. Royal Incomes.. ib. tificates ......367 Roman Cement Dis-olutions of Partnership ..........370 Steam-Boats. ib. List of Patents.. .....372 LONDON REVIEW. State of the Weather iba Humboldt's Personal Narrative of Tra. London Markets .372, 374 vels to the Equinocial Regions of Average Prices of Sugar .....374 the New Continent, during the Years Prices of Canäl, &c. Shares ...275 1799--1804 . 329 Rates of Government Life Annuities .. ib. Letters from the Abbé Edgeworth to his Course of Exchange --Prices of Bullion ib, Friends, written between the Years Price of Stocks .....370 1777 and 1807, with Memoirs of bis Life ...331 ..... ib: ... ib. .328 London: NO. 32, CORNUILL. SEASON, 1817–18. EAST INDIA SHIPS, 1817. 1817. 1817. Company's Ship Wm. Patterson R. Glasspoole W. R. Blakely K Mac Donald Amb. Rivers Rob. Simmons s. Jas. Lee S. Marjorihanks w Marjoribanks Alex. Chrystie Rich. Clarke E. M. Daniell Fred. Madan James Grant James Dunn 200et 27 Déc. 31De, Company's Ship James Jameson D. R. Newall (Ph. Baylis John Hillman A. Broadhurst Henry Arnot Wm. Bruce John Campbell Don. Mac Leod J. 8. H. Fraser John Thacker Hen. H. Sumner Geo. Chennell John Simpson Rob. Hogg Company's Ship Fred. Adams James Head Tim, Smith - IT. B. Penfold Thos. Allchin Wm. Hayland J. W. Graham Geo. Palmer Mont. Hamilton Jas. Barber 1918. 1818. 8 Dec. 8 Feb. 15 Feb. 1992 Mad. China Company's ship Walt. Campbell B. Broughton W. Longcroft Wm. Pullham WK. Packmau D. Mackenzie John D. Smith 9 Feb. Sir R. Wigram Brook Kay Rich. Clifford WHC Dalrymple Dav. Sampson C. E. Mangles J. M. Bennett Wm. Millett 1818. Henry Bonham T. Herb. Harris Step. Poyntz Thos. Baker Dav. Marshall Hen B. Bax Dav. Falconer John Reid jan. 12 Mar. Matt. Isacke Thos. W. Leech Wm. Cousens T.W. Andrews Wm. Haviside Thos. Welsh Wm. Bremner Rich. Prince Sir R. Wigram John Stewart Thos, Tapley Rob. Clifford Henry C. Smith Hen Sierndale D. Cannan, jn, Jas Goddard China Tohn Card Jas. Dalrymple C.W.H.Sewell G. G. Jarman Rich, Card E.M. Boultbee Geo, Waddells. H. Ayers 20 Feb 11 April Company's Ship John B. Sotheby T. W. Barrow Rob. Lowis Jas. Murdoch John Griffith Jas. Halliday Cras. Jobling Henry Templer Henry Templer Hen. Clement Jas. S. Biles Wm. Ticehurst (Hatton Galway Thos. Godwin Jos. Hudson George Gooch Fran. Creswell Wm. Evans A. Chapman Thos, A. Davis John Sprott Ws Cumming Wm. L. Grave 6 Mar 07 April Tel. Musson Wm. Carter Rob. B. Shittler H. B. Avarne Thos. Ranken Harry James Company's Ship Peter Cameron Jas. Pearson Rees Thomas Alex. Bell Fred.G. Moore Edw. Turner D. Leighton John P. Larkins Thos. Larkins J.P. Hackman George Mason George Cowan Fran. Ohuttley T. B. Horsley J. W. Pears 6 April 26 May Rob. H. Rhind John Gisborne Jas. M Hodges Jas. Gardner David Gordon Thos. E. Ward Thos. P. Burn Wm. Powditch Thos, Clarkson P. Backerville J. Johnstone e Stephenson 10 Feb 22 Mar.} Apt. Beng. Bomd. Wallace P. Mac Millan Chas. Burt Day. G. Arnot (Cbas, Bennet 22 Mar May Lord Keith ... *** 599) coolon Robert Morris John Freesman John Shute love, Lamel JClaristopheron ........ John Ceuker ID. H. Renny 3d April, 1818. MAGAZINE AND LONDON REVIEW, FOR APRIL, 1818. MEMOIR OF COMEDIAN (WITH A PORTRAIT, ENGRAVED BY HENRY MEYER, PROM AN ORIGINAL PAINTING BY SAMUEL DRUMMOND, ESQ. R.A. R.A.) VHIS valuable Comedian, whose me. those he preferred were, of all others, the books which bis father wished biin the public mind, wbich, we are con to leave unnoticed. Bell's British Thea. viuced, will prove as lasting as it is tre, The Beauties of the Dramatists, powerful, was born on the 28th June, and a Collection of Farces, were the 1776, and is the younger son of Mr. volumes he singled out from the numJames Malbews, a bookseller of much berless sermons and theological tracts worth and respectability, in the Strand. with which the shelves of the shop His brother William and himself re groanel. The Tradesman's Assistant ceived their education at Merchant Tay. was neglected for the Spouter's Comlors' School. The former, who was de. panion ; and he longed for an opportu. signed for the church, entered himself nity of reciting, in public, some of the of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and fine speeches which he had I reasured up took the degree of Master of Arts in in his memory in private. This opporthat university Having completed his tunity soon occurred : he beard, ibat studies there, he altered his original in. “ hard by Ibere were spirits at work,” tention, and became a member of the who, like himself, having souls above Middle Temple, where, in due course, either buttons or books, were resolved be was called to the Bar. In 1801, he to become the mimic representatives of went to the West Indies, with the view kings and lieroes. In short, a private of practising at Tobago : but unfortu- play was to be exhibited ; lbe scene of rately fell a victim to the climate in a action was a shall room up one pair of few months after his arrival in that stairs, over a pastry cook's shop in the island. He was a gentleman of cousi- Strand. Here an elderly French lady derable learning and talents, and very gave evening lessons to a few select much respected by a large circle of pupils, who, in return for her French acquaintance. exercises, proposed to treat her and Charles, the object of our present her friends with an English tragedy, attention, was intended for a book seiler, This intelligence po sooner reached our and at the age of fourteen, three years hero, thao he felt an unaccountable de before he quitted Merchant Taylors'sire to learo French. So laudable an inSchool, was bound apprentice to his clination could not but be encouraged, father. Nothing could be more pru. and be was accordingly sent to acquire dent than this measure, but articles of the true Parisiap accent at this evening indepture have no power over the incli- academy. The ceremony which took nations. Young Mathews was fonder of place at his iutroduction may easily be reading books than selling them; and imagined ; instead of Boyer's Diction, |