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PRICES of SHares in NAVIGABLE CANALS, DOCKS, BRIDGES, ROADS, WATER WORKS INSTITUTIONS, and Fire and Life InsurancE COMPANIES, at the Office of WOLFE and EDMONDS, No. 9, Change-alley, Cornhill, 21st March, 1818,

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Rates of Government Life Annuities, payable at the Bank of England.
When 3 per cent. Stock is 78 and under 79,

A single life of 35 receives for 100/. stock 5 50 average-rate 100l. money 6 139

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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 31. per cent. Consols or Reduced Annuities are at or above 50.

Reduction National Debt und Government Life Annuity Office, Bank-street, Cornhill.

COURSE of the EXCHANGE, from Feb. 27, to March 29, 1818, both inclusive, Amsterdam, B. 2 Ü..

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Frankfort on the Main, ex money... 149
Madrid, effective......................................................394 a 40
Cadiz, effective..........................394 a 924

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Agio on the Bank of Holland, 2 per cent.

PRICES of BULLION, at per Ounce.

Portugal Gold, in coin......41. 1s. Od. a 41. 18. 6d. New Dollars....
...ol. 58. Sil. a ol. 5s. 4.
Gold in Bars..................41. 18. Od. a 41. 18. 6d. Silver in Bars, Standard... Ol. 58. 4d. a 58. Sil.
New Doubloons ..............4l. 18. Od. a Ol. Os. Od. New Louis, each

The above Table contains the highest and lowest prices.

JAMES WETENHALL, Sworn Broker.

Printed by Joyce Gold, Shoe-lane, London.

DAILY PRICE OF STOCKS FROM FEB. 26, 1818, TO MARCH. 25, 1818, BOTH INCLUSIVE.

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All EXCHEQUER BILLS dated prior to the 24th of February, 1817, have been advertised to be paid off, and the interest thereon bas ceased. N. B. The above Table contains the highest and lowest prices, taken from the Course of the Exchange, &c. originally published by John Castaign, in the year 1718, and now published, every Tuesday and Friday, under the authority of the Committee of the Stock Exchange, by

JAMES WETENHALL, Stock-Broker, No. 7, Capel-court, Bartholomew-lane, London, On application to whom, the original documents for near a century past may be referred to,

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AND MAY BE HAD OF ALL THE BOOKSELLERS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.

Europ. Mag. Vol. LXXIII, April 1818.,

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EUROPEAN MAGAZINE,

AND

LONDON REVIEW,

FOR APRIL, 1818.

MEMOIR OF

MR. CHARLES MATHEWS,

COMEDIAN.

[WITH A PORTRAIT, ENGRAVED BY HENRY MEYER, FROM AN ORIGINAL PAINTING BÝ SAMUEL DRUMMOND, ESQ. R.A.]

THIS valuable Comedian, whose me

Tries have made an impression on

the public mind, which, we are conviuced, will prove as lasting as it is powerful, was born on the 28th June, 1776, and is the younger son of Mr. James Mathews, a bookseller of much worth and respectability, in the Strand. His brother William and himself received their education at Merchant Taylors' School. The former, who was designed for the church, entered himself of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and took the degree of Master of Arts in that university. Having completed his studies there, he altered his original intention, and became a member of the Middle Temple, where, in due course, be was called to the Bar. In 1801, he went to the West Indies, with the view of practising at Tobago, but unfortunately fell a victim to the climate in a few months after his arrival in that island. He was a gentleman of considerable learning and talents, and very much respected by a large circle of acquaintance.

Charles, the object of our present attention, was intended for a bookseller, and at the age of fourteen, three years before he quitted Merchant Taylors' School, was bound apprentice to his father. Nothing could be more prudent than this measure, but articles of indenture have no power over the inclipations. Young Mathews was fonder of reading books than selling them; and

those he preferred were, of all others, the books which his father wished him to leave unnoticed. Bell's British Theatre, The Beauties of the Dramatists, and a Collection of Farces, were the volumes he singled out from the numberless sermons and theological tracts with which the shelves of the shop groaned. The Tradesman's Assistant was neglected for the Spouter's Companion; and he longed for an opportunity of reciting, in public, some of the fine speeches which he had treasured up in his memory in private. This opportunity soon occurred: he heard, that "hard by there were spirits at work," who, like himself, having souls above either buttons or books, were resolved to become the mimic representatives of kings and heroes. In short, a private play was to be exhibited; the scene of action was a small room up one pair of stairs, over a pastry cook's shop in the Strand. Here an elderly French lady gave evening lessons to a few select pupils, who, in return for her French exercises, proposed to treat her and her friends with an English tragedy. This intelligence no sooner reached our hero, than he felt an unaccountable de wire to learn French. So laudable an inclination could not but be encouraged, and he was accordingly sent to acquire the true Parisian accent at this evening academy. The ceremony which took place at his introduction may easily be imagined; instead of Boyer's Diction

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