from 41. to 41. 10s. ; and ordinary ditto, from 31. 5s. to 41; Antigua, Barbadoes, and St. Lucia sugar, 31. 14s. to 4 guineas; Dominica, Montserrat, Nevis, St. Kit's, and St. Vincent's, 31. 15s. to 41. 63.; Tobago, Demerary, Trinidad, and Grenada, 31. 13s. to 41. 3s. ; and Jamaica, Sl. 14s. to 41. 5s. per cwt. The sales of rum are very limited, and the prices stationary. The quotations for Jamaica are from 4s. 4d, to 4s. 6d. and Leeward Islands, from 3s. 103. to 4s. 64. per gallon. Dye-woods are in good request, and the following prices are easily obtained; for chipt Jamaica logwood 301. to 321.; for Jamaica fustick 201. 10s. to 20 guineas, and for Cuba ditto 241. to 261. per ton. White Jamaica ginger fetches from 41 15. to 81.; black ditto, from 31. 16s. to 4; and Barbadoes from 41. to 41. 5s. per cwt. Cotton goes off pretty freely both in the London and Liverpool markets. Jamaica brings 1s. 5d. to 1s. 6d. ; Tobago, 1s. 6d. to 1s. 9d.; Grenada, 1s. 7d. to 1s. 10d.; and Berbice, 1s. 7 d. to 1s. 9d. per lb.

NORTH AMERICA.-We can now congratulate our readers upon the intercourse between this continent and the mother country being as completely re-established as we could wish. Liverpool is daily clearing out vessels for the United States, and London does not fail to furnish its quota. North American commodities are far from being dull of sale, the prices of the principal articles are :-Georgia cotton wool, 1s. 2d. to 2s; and New Orleans ditto, 1s. 3d. to 1s. 6d. per lb. Oak, 141. to 181. 10s.; ditto plank, 111. 10s. to 151.; piae, 71. 10s, to 81. 12s. and 111. 10s. to 151. 10s. per last. Tar, 11. 5s. to 11. 103. per barrel. Pitch, 13s.; black rosin, 10s. to 12s.; and yellow ditto, 13s. to 15s. per cwt.

SOUTH AMERICA.-The Court of Rio de Janeiro has published the Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, between his Britannic Majesty and the Prince Regent of Portugal. In virtue of this treaty, the goods, merchandize, and manufactures, of Great Britain, are to be admitted into the Portuguese ports in Europe, America, Asia, and Africa, on paying an ad valorem duty of 15 per cent. The treaty is, however, subject to our principle of colonial policy, and hence the following articles, the produce of Brazil, are excluded from the markets of the British dominions, such as sugar, coffee, and other commodities similar to the produce of the British colonies; but they may be received and warehoused in the British ports appointed by law to be warehousing ports for those articles, for the purpose of re-exportation. The Prince Regent of Portugal reserves to himself the right of imposing heavy, and even prohibitory duties, on all articles of British East and West India produce. All trade with the Portuguese possessions on the east coast of Africa which may have been, formerly allowed to British subjects, is confirmed. Of course this does not extend to slavetrading. The principle of the Methuen treaty, respecting the wines of Portugal, and the woollens of Great Britain, remains unaltered. Saint Catherine's is declared a free port. The treaty may be revised at the end of fifteen years.

FRANCE. The following is an account of the terms upon which the French government is disposed to allow a commercial intercourse, by means of neutral vessels, with this country. "The licences will be granted but for such ports as are already pointed out. The licence will remain in force for six months, but shall be smitted each voyage to the inspection of the Minister of Marine, with a declaration of the Master of what he has done, and the oc currences of the voyage. The licence shall be delivered gratuitously.

"The outward cargoes must consist of wine and French brandies to the amount of onesixth of the tonnage of the vessel, (to be ascertained by the tonnage.on which she pays her duties,) and the remaining five-sixths to consist, at the discretion of the shippers, of wine, brandy, gum, herbs, seed, fruits, and the product of French manufactures, and salt, of which the exportation may not be prohibited by the regulations of the customs.

"The import cargoes shall consist of timber, hemp, raw materials, iron, bark, drugs, rice, Russia tallow, wax, linseed, fish-oil, pitch, tar, potatoes, shumack, dollars, lead, minium, tin, white lead, arsenic, dried hydes in the hair, wainscot, and boards."

We understand that our government objects to the above terms, because neither British manufactures, nor colonial produce, are included in it.

P. S. We have been obliged to omit several articles of minor importance in this month's report, owing to the length of the foregoing documents, which did not admit of the slightest Cur ailment; those articles, however, shall obtain insertion next month.

Current Prices of Shares in Docks, Navigable Canals, Bridges, Roads, Water Works, Insti tutions, and Fire and Life Insurance Offices, at the Office of Messrs. Wolfe and Co. No. 9, 'Change Alley, Cornhill, 21st August, 1810.-Grand Junction Canal, 2811, per share. Leicester and Northamptonshire Union ditto, 115!. ditto.--Grand Union ditto, 6. per share, premium.-Wilts and Berks ditto, 581. per share.-Kennet and Avon ditto, 441. ditto. Thames and Medway ditto, 511. per share, premium --Croydon ditto, 441. per share.Grand Surry ditto, 761. ditto.-Huddersfield ditto, 401. ditto.-Rochdale ditto, 511. ditto.→→→ Lancaster ditto, 281. 10s. ditto.-Ellesmere ditto, 751. ditto -Worcester and Birmingham, 51. to 61. per share premium.-London Dock Stock, 1251. per cent.- West India ditto, 1661, dittu-East India ditto, 1531. ditto Commercial ditto, 861. per share premium.-Strand Bridge, 31 to 51. per share discount.-Vauxhall Bridge, 51. to 61. ditto.-Commercial Road, $ per share, premium-East India Branch of the Commercial ditto, 41. ditto.-Great

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Dover-street ditto, 81. ditto.-Highgate Archway ditto, 91. 10s. to 101. ditto.-East London Water Works, 2201. per share.--West Middlesex ditto, (new shares,) 501. premium. --South London ditto, 271. ditto.-York Buildings ditto, 501. ditto.-Kent ditto, 411. ditto Colchester ditto, 481. ditto.-Holloway dito, 31 ditto.—London Tastitution, 801. per share.— Surry ditto, 101. per share, discount.-Russel ditto, par.-Auction Mart ditto, 751. per share, premium.-Globe Insurance Office, 1271. per share. -Imperial ditto, 761. ditto. -Albion ditto, 601. ditto.-Eagle ditto, 10s. per share discount.-Hope ditto, 10s. ditto.-Atlas ditto, 10s. ditto.-Rock ditto. 21s. per share, premium.

The average prices of Navigable Canal Property, Dock Stock, Fire-office Shares, &c. in August, 1810, (to the 25th) at the Office of Mi. Scott, 28, New Bridge-street, London.Trent and Mersey or Grand Trunk Canal, dividing 401, per share clear per annum, 1075l. -Coventry, dividing 281. per share, 6801. to 7071. 10s.-Grand Junction, 2701. to 1 561.Monmouthshire, 31 per share half yearly, 131. to 1381.-Stourbridge, 2461.-Leeds and Liverpool, 1861. 10s.-Kennet and Avon, 431. 10s. 441-Wilts and Berks, 58i 591.—Huddersfield, 391. 10s.-Grand Union, 41. 15s. premium.-Bath and Bristol Extension, 61. 15s. to 71. ditto Ellesmere, 761-West India Dock Stock, 1661.-East India Dock, 1361.-London Dock, 1261-Globe Assurance, 1281.-Thames and Medway, 53.. premium-Ashby-de-laZouch, 221. 10s.-Imperial Assurance, 761.-Atlas Assurance, par-East London Water Works, 2181.-West Middlesex, 145-Vauxhall Bridge, 51. per cent. discount.

THE long-continued drought is at last at an end. During the present month we have had a considerable fall of rain, by which the corn crops have been surprisingly recovered. Those few farmers who ploughed in their wheat at the beginning of the spring, have now reason to lament their rashness; since, even in the least promising fields, the crops wilf prove on the whole by no means unfavorable.

On the 3d of the month we had strong gáles of wind from the south, south-west, and west; and on the following day, from the north-west: on the 12th and 13th, we had the same from south-west; and on the 27th, from the south.

We had rain on the 1st, 3d, 4th, th, 11th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 21st, 26th, 27th, and partially on several other days. In the afternoon of the 21st there was a sharp hail storm. There were thunder storms on the 1st, 8th, and 11th. The lightning on the morning of the 8th, set fire to a farm-house, and burnt it to the ground.

July 1. Garden beans are more than usually pestered with aphides, or plant-lice. Some of the crops are nearly black with them, and have been so much checked in their growth that the pods are scarcely formed. The larva or grubs of the seven-spotted or common lady-bug (coccinella septem-punctata,) which devour great quantities of them, are also numerous. July 2. A privet hawk moth (Sphinx ligustri,) or unusually large size, issued this day from the earth of a breeding-box, in which its caterpillar, in the autumn of last year, had changed into a chrysalid state. The following plants are now in flower: Wild teasel, (dipsacut fullonum.) Yellow willow-herb, (Lysimachia vulgaris.) Purple-flowered or bog pimpernell, (anagallis tenella.) Bird's foot clover, (lotus corniculatus.) Hare's foot trefoil, (trifolium arwense.) Common rest harrow, (ononis arvensis.) Common self-heal, (prunella vulgaris) And wild parsnep, (partinaca sativa).

July 7. The wheat is looking remarkably well; and the barley which had been kept back by the late dry weather, is now nearly all in ear.

A large species of ants fly about the sandy fields and dry banks.

July 11.

A tortoise-shell butterfly (papilo polychloros), the chrysalis of which was form ed on the 5th of June, came this day to life; and on the following day a peacock butterfly (papilio io), the chrysalis of which had been formed on the 10th of June.

july 14. The caterpillar of a drinker moth (bombyx potatorius of Haworth,) began this day to spin its nidus. It will continue in a chrysalid state until about the 12th of August. July 18. The farmers have begun to cut rye. July 19. I found a great number of the curculio, the larvæ of which feed on the water betony, (viz. curculio scrophularia.) They were just issuing from a pupa state. The follicle' that is spun by each larva is about the size of a small pea, of an olive brown colour, and semi-transparent. These follicles, to the number of about a hundred and twenty, occupied

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the flowering stalk of a plant of water betony; and at a little distance had the appearance of seed vessels. There were some few on the adjacent blades of grass.

July 20 Young partridges are now able to fy; and the broods of several kinds of small bires begin to make their appearance about the trees and hedges,

July 24

The brown tail moths (bombyx phæorrbeus) are more numerous this year than usual, but by no means so as to be injurious to the vegetation.

July 28. The flowering fern (osmunda regalis), cotton thistle (onopordon acanthium) drooping thistle (carduus nutans), spear thistle (carduus lanceolatus), greater snapdragon (ant tirrb:num majus), toad flax (antirrhinum linaria), meadow cow wheat (melampyrum arvense) wild thyme (thymus serpyllum), stinking horehound (ballota nigra), yellow vetchling (latbyrus aphaca), water hemp agrimony (eupatorium cannabinum), and lesser centaury (shironia centauvix), are now in flower.

Hampshire.

MONTHLY BOTANICAL REPORT.

SINCE we last mentioned the Botanist's Repository, six Numbers have come to hand, of the contents of which we shall now proceed to give some account: from pl. 587 to 612 in clusive.

Corchorus japonicus. We have already mentioned this plant in our account of the Botanical Magazine; since which we have observed that it is sufficiently hardy to bear the cold of our ordinary winters, at least in a sheltered situation. The author has expressed his doubts whether it really belong to the genus Corchorus, having observed from five to eight styles in all the flowers he has examined. We think this point cannot be determined, till we shall have an opportunity of examining the flowers in their naturai single state, as such enormous multiplication of parts may affect both the number of styles and the form of the germen. Sioa bastata. Does not seem, by the figure Mr. Andrews has given, to be a plant of much beauty. But being a native of Peru and an annual, it would probably shew itself to more advantage it planted in the open ground, instead of being kept in the stove. We see no reason to doubt but that it would succeed perfectly, if treated as the annual species of Linnia, Mirabilis, and Tagetes, are.

Gladiolus angustus, can scarcely be considered as even varying from the same species figured in the 17th volume of the Botanical Magazine.

Mespilus odoratissima and tenacetifolia. We mention these two together as having a very great affinity, and being generally confounded with one another, but are now accurately cha Facterized by the Right Honourable the Marquis of Bath. Dr. Smith has united the species

of Crataegus with Mespirus, an alteration which is not here noticed. The author remarks that these two species have the natural habit of Crateges, with the artificial character of Mcopilus, and in this observation we perfectly agree with him, if the characters of Linnæus are acopted. This circumstance shows an imperiection in the system; undoubtedly, wherever Oxyacantha be arranged both these plants should accompany it, and the generic character be so framed as to comprehend them all. Nor do we object to a dogma here laid down, that that discovers one new truth is surely a bene actor to society, but he that defends and incul cates error is a tyrant in the kingdom of nature;" though we are at a loss to comprehend the application intended to have been made.

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Mimosa grandifiera. A splendid figure. The foliage of this plant is very beautiful: both the general leaf and the separate pinne are abruptly pinnate, which, from a little negligence in the drawing, is so very indistinctly marked, that it is not easy to decide whether there be not a terminating leaf.

Crotalaria tetrageng. A new species, nearly allied to juncea, from lord Valentia's garden at Arley, who received the seeds from Dr. Roxburgh. There is a singularity in the stipula tion, according to the description, but not expressed in the drawing.

Blectanthus barbatus. This is a curiosity likewise from lord Valentia's collection, and said to be raised from Abyssinian seeds, sent home by his lordship about four years ago. Panax fruticosa; from Mr. Lambert's collection at Boyton.

Laurus cinnamonum; the true cinnamon-tree. This interesting shrub has flowered in seve tal collections. We are informed here that at the Bishop of Winchester's, at Farnham Castle, it has for several years produced ripe seeds, from which many fine young plants have been raised, that have far surpassed in healthiness those raised from cuttings. Mr. Andrews has not represented the very curious structure of the anthers.

Tropeolum peregrinum. A native of Peru: the structure of the flower is very singular,

but in beauty the plant is far behind the common Tropaeolum of our gardens.

Beckea virgata Liptospermum virgatum of Forster. This genus differs from Leptosper mum only in having a definite number of stamens, eight or ten; whereas the latter has an indefinite number. Persoon, in his Synopsis, has surely erroneously placed this genus in the sia pentandria.

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Chamærops bumilis. The only palm that is indigenous to Europe; unless two species have been confounded together, which may be the case, for otherwise it varies from being stemless to having a stem from two to twenty or thirty feet high. In the mode however in which palms vegetate, this difference may take place in the same species, as the trunk is merely an elongation of the caudex or upper part of the root.

Gærtnera racemosa, from the collection of the late lady Hame, at Wormleybury. From the observations the author has made, this genus appears to have greater affinity with Bannisteria than had been supposed. He observes that the germen is three-seeded, and has commonly two styles, with a rudiment of a third. If so Gærtnera seems to be distinguished only by the inequality of the stamens and the glands of the calyx, of which Bannisteria has eight, and this plant only one.

Crotalaria pulchra; from the same collection, raised from seeds sent by Dr. Roxburgh from the East Indies. This plant seems to approach very near to Crotalaria triflora ; published in the first volume of the Repository, under the mistaken name of Borbonia cordata.

Glycine comptoniana. We suspect that this is merely a variety of Glycine bimaculata, which usually produces simple leaves, but in a fertile soil may probably enough become ter-" nate-leaved. Whether it be a distinct species or not, it certainly belongs to the genus Kennedia, as established by Ventenat. Mr. Andrews ought either to have adopted this name, or have given us his reasons for continuing it under Glycine.

Commersonia dacyphylla. Native of New Holland or Van Diemen's Isle; flowered at Fonthill. Another species of this genus was published in the Repository, under the name of echinata; which having been discovered to be a distinct species from the echinata of Forster, we are desired to expunge that name, and substitute that of Commersiona platyphylla.

Malpighia polystachia. Introduced from the West Indies by lord Seaforth, and presented by him to Mr. Lambert, in whose stove at Boyton, it came into flower last April. It is a native. of the Island of Trinidad, whence it was sent to his lordship, while governor of St. Vincent's, by Mr. Thompson.

Peliosanthe Teta; a new and distinct genus, sent from the East Indies by Dr. Roxburgh, whose barbarous name of Teta viridiflora is here very properly changed for one of classical origin, denoting its livid flowers. From the collection of sir Abraham Hume.

Zieria smithii; a New Holland plant, named by Dr. Smith in memory of Mr. Zier. This gentleman was an excellent botanist and classical scholar. He was appointed Professor of Botany in a Polish university, but died of a decline before he could set off on his journey to take possession of his appointment, leaving the celebrated Monsieur (or Mademoiselle) Verdion, his sole executor. He left behind him an extensive herbariuin, especially rich in cryptogamic plants.

Clerodendrum tomentosum.

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Native of New Holland, near Port Jackson; from the same

Citrus nobilis; the Mandarin orange. This beautiful tree has borne fruit at sir Abraham Hume's, at Wormleybury, but we believe has as yet given no earnest of that superiority of flavour so boasted of in China.

Citrus medica var odoratissima; the burgamot lemon. The drawing of this plant was also taken at Wormleybury. If is be true, as it is here asserted, "That it is only to those who have an opportunity of observing them in their original situations, where the spade of the la bourer has never disturbed their repose, that we must look for it," we fear we shall wait long ❝ for their complete illustration."

Ruellia formosa. Native of Brazil. Introduced by sir Charles Cotton from Portugal, to the Botanic Garden at Cambridge. This plant appears to us to he very nearly allied to Ruellia macrophylla of Vahl.

Daviesia corymbosa. We are not sure that this is really the corymbosa of Dr. Smith, (Lin. Trans. vol. IX. [not VIII.] p. 258) though certainly very nearly allied to that species. The doctor describes this plant as having two peduncles springing from the same axilla; butŵn this the flower stalks are solitary, as we have observed, not only in this drawing but in several living specimens which have fallen under our notice, for it is not true, as here supposed, that this species is in no other collection than that of Mr. Gibbs. The flowers of this plant grow rather in racemes than corymbs.

Pæonia albiflora. A variety with double flowers raised from seeds, which Mr. Livingstone brought from China, by Mr. Whitley at Brompton. Peonies are so subject to vary under cultivation, that it is extremely difficult to decide with respect to the genuine species. The Capsules in this plant, if we mistake not, but we speak from memory only, are not, as in the albiflora from Tartary, smooth; nor do the leaves appear to be so regularly triternate.

We cannot conclude our account of the progress of this work without remarking what the letter-press continues to be much better conducted than it formerly was: the assistance of a good botanist is very evident; and as we observe that a large portion of the specimens are supplied from Boyton, our former surmise that this improvement may be attributed to the author's con

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nexions with A. B. Lambert, esq. is strengthened. We wish we could add that the style of drawing was improved, but the artist continues apparently to make Chinese paper-hangings his great model. If he would endeavour to copy accurately the plant before him, he would not so constantly outstep the modesty of nature. If his pictures were less striking to the vulgar eye, that always delights in gaudy tints, they would be infinitely more prized by those who know how to appreciate the excellencies of the art.

METEOROLOGICAL REPORT.

Observations on the State of the Weather, from the 24th of July 1810, to the 24th of August 1810, inclusive, Four Miles N.N.W. of St. Paul's.

THE quantity of rain fallen since the last report, is equal to 6-57 inches in depth. At · one time it was feared the constant rains, which had lasted for several weeks, would have materially interfered with the business of harvest. But the brilliant and very season

able weather which has occurred from the 16th to the present day (27th), has revived the hopes of the people, and we have now reason to expect an abundant and well-collected har. yest to crown the expectation of the farmer, and to defeat the predictions of those who have repeatedly foretold a scarcity that was to have been attended with the most dire effects. So late as the end of June, indeed, the prospects were truly gloomy, on account of a long and very unusual series of dry weather: the rain however came, the corn increased beyond the most sanguine hopes of the husbandman, and fair weather is now apparently set in to complete the blessings of Providence. The second hay-harvest proves to be the most productive of any remembered for many years, and the deficiency of the first is said to be amply made up by the latter.

The wind has been chiefly in the westerly points: the weather has been remarkably cold as well as wet, and during the whole month the thermometer was but once as high as 76 or summer heat. There have been 10 brilliant days, and on 19 there has been rain in greater or less quantities. On one of these we had a violent thunder storm, and a considerable quantity of hail. The average height of the thermometer is but 60°; of the barome ter it is equal 29.515.

Highgate, June 27, 1810.

TO OUR READERS.

AFTER the observations of our Correspondent, who signs COMMON SENSE, had been printed off at page 109, we received his request that we would add a note, stating, that "He has since found that some respectable bankers, friends of his, know nothing of the existence of the New Directory. They do not know that there may not be such a list circulated among certain houses, but it is not known among the bankers at large. Further information on a subject so interesting, and at the same time so dangerous to commercial credit and independence, will, no, doubt, be desirable to our readers at large, as well as to COMMON SENSE.

The same Correspondent requests us to add "as a further proof of the inadequate powers of man, to conduct a paper currency with due relation to the welfare of the public, that the Bank Directors have lately been narrowing their, discounts, at a moment when several mil Tons of their notes on the country bankers, to meet the general run, have been diverted out of old into new channels. These latter," he says, have been obliged to drain the metropolis of Bank notes, with which to retire their own notes on their being presented for payment; yet the Bullion Report has so baffled, or puzzled, the Bank Directors, that they have fixed on such a moment to narrow their usual discounts, and thereby create a degree of pecuniary distress never before known to the coun ry!"

ERRATUM. In the Varieties, page 152, in the second line, for " mauu! facturer's," read "manufactures.""