Date PRICE OF STOCKS from APRIL 25, to MAY 24, 1806, both inclusive. By Messrs. Swift and Co. Stock Brokers, Old State Lottery Office, No. 11, Poultry. By the Winchester Quarter of 8 Bushels, and of OATMEAL per Doll, of 1401DS, Avoirdupoise, from the Returns received in the Week ended May 17, 1806. MARITIME COUNTIES. Wheat. Rye. Barley.) Oats. s. d. 6 Northumberland 76 10 49 0 31 4 26 66 83 7 600 46 10 32 4 Derby. 92 2 29 Stafford 99 I 42 29 9 Cumberland .. Salop. 96 6 69 6 42 8 30 9 Westmorland. Herefor. 90 2 51 2 39 5 26 8 Lancaster. 80 7 39 5 29 2 Wor'str. 90 11 37 8 29 6 Chester Warwic. 90 7 38 3 31 oFlint. 45 6 Wilts. 79 0 33 8 31 30 6 30 6 Anglesea 70 36 0 21 0 Oxford. 83 6 33 11 28 10 Carnarvon 6 Merioneth 46 4 24 18 6 Pembroke 69 2 34 10 18 8 Radnor. 89 40 2 26 50 2 18 0 45 4 26 8 Gloucester 88 6 38. od.; Oats 27s. 8d. ; Average of England and Wales. Wheat 84s. 6d. ; Rye 49s. 4d.; Barley Monmouth 41s. od.; Pease 41s. 2d.; Oatmeal Cornwall 45s. 6d. 39 7 26 6 Somerset 87 8 35 11 28 3 99 I 39 6 Beans Devon. Dorset 33 4 32 Hants 30 3 31 86 85 THE spring sowing is generally and successfully finished, and the spring crops look well and healthy. Notwithstanding the prevalence of casterly winds, there has been no blight of any consequence, and the rains which have fallen of late have been very beneficial, particularly to the grass, which promises a good crop. Cutting for green food has already commenced in forward districts; and should the weather continue favourable, the hay harvest will commence in these parts at no very distant period. Cole and other seeds look promising. We have paid considerable and due attention to the report lately made in the Upper House, by a noble Earl, as to the critical state of the crop of wheat on the ground; and we find, that on the cold and heavy lands in most parts of South Britain, the wheats have generally looked thin and unhealthy, a c.rcumstance we have continued to state through several past reports. Such has been the case in Essex particularly, where much wheat has been ploughed in, as unfit to stand for a crop, and barley scuffled in upon it. Beyond this, most unfortunately, the slug has been ruinously busy this season with the wheat, beans, tares, and pease. Even on the best lands, the wheats are not well spoken of, but much will depend on the weather from the present to the blooming time, which being seasonable, a good crop of wheat may yet be expected, to which a great bulk of grass or straw is by no means necessary. The stock of wheat on hand is yet every where considerable. Live stock is generally dear, and hot in the best condition; the expence of bringing it upwards towards the metropolis is excessively high, on which account more sales are made in the distant fairs and markets. 8d. Smithfield is always weli supplied.-Beef, 43. 4d. to 5s. 4d. per stone-mutton, 45. to 5s. 2d.-veal 3s. to 78.-lamb 5s. to 7s. 6d. pork 5s.. to 6s, 6d.-bacon 6s. 6d.Irish ditto 53. 4d. Middlesex, May 24 A BILL of MORTALITY, from APRIL 22, to MAY 20, 1806. UNIVERSAL MAGAZINE. No. XXXI.-VOL. V.] For JUNE, 1806. [NEW SERIES. BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF RICHARD the public has long since been acquainted: his father, Dr. Denison Cumberland, was a person of unos ¡CUMBERLAND, ESQ. "When, from the date (September, tentatious erudition; and to his mo1804,) at which my history now ther, the daughter of Bentley, he pauses, I look forward through a gratefully ascribes his progress in the period of more than seventy and two cultivation of his mind. years, I discover nothing within my It would be withholding from the horizon of which to be vain glorious; reader a high gratification, and denyno sudden heights to turn me giddy; ing to an excellent mother the tribute no dazzling gleams of fortune's sun- due to her worth, not to detail, in shine, to bewilder ine; nothing but the very words of filial sensibility, one long laborious track, not often her exemplary conduct. "It was in strewed with roses, and thorny, cold the intervals from school," says Mr. and bairen towards the conclusion of Cumberland, "that my mother beof it, where weariness wants repose, and age has need of comfort." Memoirs of R. CUMBERLAND, PERHAPS gan to form both my taste and my ear for poetry, by employing me every evening to read to her, of which art she was a very able mistress. Our readings were, with very few excepDERHAPS it is not possible to tions, confined to the chosen plays of mention a literary name more Shakspeare, whom she both admired justly entitled to the gratitude of this and understood in the true spirit and age, and the admiration of posterity, sense of the author. Under her inthan that of the subject of the present struction I became passionately fond biographical memoir. His works have of these our evening entertainments; been various, voluminous, valuable, in the mean time she was attentive There are, indeed, few readers to to model my recitation, and correct whom his writings are not intimately my manner, with exact precision. known, who have not been delighted Her comments and illustrations were with his wit, informed by his researches, and improved by his morality. such aids to a pupil in poetry, as few could have given. What I could not else have understood, she could aptly Richard Cumberland, son of Dr. explain; and what I ought to admire Denison Cumberland, who succes- and feel, nobody could more hapsively filled the sees of Clonfert and pily select and recommend. I well Kilmore, in Ireland, by a daughter remember the care she took to mark of the celebrated Dr. Richard Bentley, out for my observation the peculiar was born on the 19th of February, excellence of that unrivalled 'poet in anno 1732, in the lodge of Trinity the consistency and preservation of College, at Cambridge. He was li- his characters, and wherever instances neally the child of learning. To his occurred, amongst the starts and salgreat grandfather, Dr. Richard Cum- lies of his unfettered fancy, of the exberland, Bishop of Peterborough in travagant and false sublime, her dis1691, the world is indebted, among cernment oftentimes prevented me other of his learned productions, for from being so dazzled by the glitter the work entitled "De Legibuss Na- of the period as to misapply my adturae:" with the acquirements of Dr. miration and betray my want of taste. Bentley, his maternal grandfather, With all her father's (Bentley) criti Mr. Cumberland has successfully upon it by Pope, who perpetually mis endeavoured to rescue the character of represented him as morose and peti Dr. Bentley from the aspersions thrown lent and odious." I had a VOL. V. 3 P |