AVERAGE PRICES OF CORN, FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE. By the Quarter of Eight Winchester Bushels, and of Oatmeal per Boll of 140 lbs Avoirdupois, from the Official Returns received in the Week ending May 31, 1817. d Wheat. Rye. Barley. Oats. Beans. Pease | Oatm. 121 552 242 1035 496 00062 0 Gloucester.123 0 0 0 57 835 657 0 0 000 All England and Wales. Wheat, 107s. 3d.-Rye, 61s. 8d.-Barley, 52s. 11d.-Oats, 35s. 2d.-Beans, 50s. 3d.-Pease, 51s. 6d. Oatmeal, 41s. 10d.-Beer or Big, Os. Od. Average Prices of Corn, per quarter, of the Twelve Maritime Districts, for the Week Wheat, 102s. 1d.-Rye, 66s. 5d.-Barley, 54s. 1d.-Oats, 34s. 10d.-Beans, 44s. Od.-Pease, 48s. 5d. METEOROLOGICAL REPORT. THE comparison between the first four months of 1817, and the corresponding months of 1816, as stated in our last Report, was considerably in favour of the present year. The reverse however is the case with the month of May, the mean temperature of which is at least 11° lower than that of May 1816. This diminution in the average is owing not so much to great depressions during particular nights, as to a general decrease in the temperature of almost every night. During May 1816, the Thermometer sunk repeatedly below the freezing point; which it has not done during the present month; but it rose also considerably higher on particular days. The Rime, which has been more than once observed this month, must have been produced, either by evaporation, according to the old theory, or by radiation, according to the new theory of Dr Wills, for the temperature of the atmosphere was never so low as the freezing point. METEOROLOGICAL TABLE, extracted from the Register kept on the Banks of the Tay, four miles east from Perth, Latitude 56° 25′, Elevation 185 feet. Fair days 17; rainy days 14. Wind west of meridian, including North, 17; East of meridian, 2.000 Highest, 10 P. M. 3d, 18th, including South, 14. METEOROLOGICAL TABLE, extracted from the Register kept at Edinburgh, in the Observatory, Calton-hill. N. B. The Observations are made twice every day, at eight o'clock in the morning, and eight o'clock in the evening. BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. BIRTHS. May 1. At Brighton, the lady of Gen. Sir David Baird, Bart. G. C. B. a still-born child.-2. Lady Harriet Paget, a daughter. -3. At Walton Park, Mrs Major Campbell, a son.-In Grosvenor Place, London, Viscountess Milton, a son.-5. Lady Eliza beth Pack, a son and heir. The lady of Capt. Charles Graham of the Hon. Company's ship William Pitt, a son.-12. At Cambray, in France, the Right Hon. Lady James Hay, a daughter.-17. The lady of Charles Robertson, Esq. younger of Kin deace, Captain, 78th Highland Regt. a son. -At Condé in France, the lady of Colonel Hugh Halket, C. B. a daughter.-19. At Roehampton, Surrey, the lady of Andrew H. Thomson, Esq. a son.-In Arlington Street, London, the lady of J. Leslie Foster, Esq. a daughter.-24. At Paris, the Right Hon. Lady Fitzroy Somerset, a son.-27. In Lower Seymour Street, London, the Rt Hon. Lady Catharine Stewart, a daughter. 28. In Cavendish Square, London, the lady of Admiral Sir George Cockburn, a daughter.-29. The lady of the Rev. Charles Lane, a daughter.-30. At Evington, the lady of Sir John C. Honywood, Bart. a daughter. Lady Campbell of Aberuchill, a daughter. MARRIAGES. March 18. At Twickenham Park, Jamaica, Michael Benignus Clarey, Esq. M. D. Physician-General of that island, to Margaret, eldest daughter of Lieut.-Colonel Graham, Deputy-Governor of St Mawes. At Vienna, General Macdonald, to Madame Murat, Ex-Queen of Naples.-Rev. John Paterson of St Petersburgh, to Miss Greig, sister to Admiral Greig of the Russian ser vice.co April 24. At Stutgard, the Hereditary Prince of Saxe Heildburghausen, to the Princess Amelia, second daughter of the Duke Louis of Wirtemberg, uncle to the king.-26. At Wigton, George Ross, Esq. of the Inner Temple, barrister-at-law, to Jane Charlotte, daughter of W. M'Connell, Esq. of Culbae.-Lately, at London, John Innes, Esq. Bedford Square, to Mary, second daughter of Andrew Reid, Esq. of Russell Square.-28. At London, John Carmalt, Esq. formerly of the island of St Vincent, now of London, to Miss Potts, eldest daughter of Potts, Esq. of the island of Jamaica.-30. At Giese, Caithness-shire, Lieut.-Colonel John Sutherland. Williamson, C. B. of the royal artillery, to Miss Maclean of Giese. May 1. At Plymouth, Captain George Jackson, R. N. to Elizabeth, youngest daughter of Thomas Miller, Esq. agentvictualler at that port.-H. T. Oakes, Esq. eldest son of Lieut.-General Oakes, to Fran cés Jane, fifth daughter of W. Douglas, Esq. of Sloane Street, Chelsea. William Kerrie Amherst, Esq. to Maria Louisa, second daughter of Francis Fortescue Turville, Esq. of Bosworth Hall.-Mr Donavan to Miss Vanneck, eldest daughter, and Mr Lovelace to the youngest daughter, of the late Lord Huntingfield.-At Gibraltar, Major Robert Henry Birch, of the royal artillery, to Georgiana, second daughter of Major Skyring of the same corps.-5. At Sunninghill, Berks, Capt. Charles P: Ellis, of the grenadier guards, to Juliana Maria, daughter to the late Admiral C. Parker. At Brighton, William Scott, Esq. to Annabella, second daughter of E. L. Hodgson, Esq. Portman Square, London.-6. At London, the Rev. Spencer Rodney Drummond, rector of Swarraton, Hants, to Caroline, only daughter of the late Montagu Montagu, Esq. of Little Bookham, and niece to the late Earl of Buckinghamshire. 10. At Dublin, Major Clayton, eldest son of Sir Wm Clayton, Bart. to AliceHugh-Massey O'Donel, daughter and heiress of the late Colonel O'Donel, eldest son of the late Sir Neal O'Donel, Bart. of Newport-house, Mayo.-At London, Paul Bielby Lawley, Esq. youngest brother of Sir Robert Lawley, Bart. to the Hon. Caroline Neville, youngest daughter of Lord Braybroke. 13. At London, Thomas Ryder, Esq. to Isabella Maxwell, eldest daughter of the late Thomas Nasmyth, Esq. of Jamaica.-18. At London, the Hon. C. Low ther, major of the 10th Royal Hussars, second son of the Earl of Lonsdale, to the Right Hon. Lady Eleanor Sherard, sister to the Earl of Harborough.-20. At London, David Francis Jones, Esq. of Lincoln's Inn, recorder of Chester, to Anne Margaret, second daughter of James Topping of Wharcroft Hall, Cheshire.-21. At Westbury, near Clifton, the Hon. Wm Middleton Noel of Ketton, to Anne, only child of Joseph Yates, Esq. of Sneedpark.-24. At London, Sir Robert Wilmot, Bart. of Chaddesden, Derbyshire, to Mrs Crauford, widow of Daniel Crauford, Esq. son of the late Sir Alex. Crauford, Bart. 27. At Ulverston, Lancashire, North Dalrymple, Esq. captain of the 25th light dragoons, second son of the late Sir John Dalrymple, Bart. to Margaret, youngest daughter of the late James Penny, Esq.-29. At London, Augustus James Champion de Chepigny, Esq. to Caroline, daughter of Sir William Smyth, Bart. of Hillhall.-30. At Mavisbank, Robert Lockhart, Esq. of Castlehill, to Miss Charlotte Mercer. DEATHS. October 27, 1816. At Prince of Wales's Island, aged 68, the Hon. William Petrie, governor of that island. March 24, 1817. At Edinburgh, John to the late Admiral Sir R. Kingsmill, Bart. Prentice, only son of Richard Prentice, Esq.-9. At Longtown, James Walker. Esq. solicitor-at-law. April 3. At Madeira, Miss Elizabeth Esther, eldest surviving daughter of the late Sir Alexander Macdonald Lockhart, Bart.-25. On board the Europe Indiaman, on his passage from India, Major William Hedderwick, of the 24th regiment of foot. -28. At Rozelie, Lady Hamilton Cathcart of Bourtreehill and Rozelie, aged 77 years, relict of the late Sir John Cathcart of Cathcart. May 1. At Croxton Park, the lady of Sir George Leeds, Bart.-At Clifton, Right Hon. Lady Edward O'Brien, daughter of the late Paul Cobb Methuen, Esq. of Corsham House. At Aston Hall, Lady Mary Foljambe, sister to the Earl of Scarborough, and relict of the late Francis Ferrand Foljambe, Esq. of Osberton Hall, Wilts.-2. A. Campbell, Esq. of Hallyards, merchant, Glasgow. At London, D. Caddel, Esq. of Salisbury Square. At Paris, M. de Urquijo, prime minister of Spain under Charles IV. and during the government of Joseph.-At London, George Drummond, Esq. only son of Mrs Drummond of Upper Gower Street, London.-3. At Bath, William Thomson, Esq. of Jamaica, in his 70th year.-John Macgill, Esq. of Kemback.Drowned, while angling in Pishiobury Park, Rev. John Lane, vicar of Sawbridgeworth, Herts. The body, after some hours search, was found with the fishing-rod in his hand. 4. At Dunfermline, James Douglas, Esq. At London, aged 79, James Butler, Esq. late of the province of Georgia, North A merica, an American loyalist.-At Poulton House, near Marlborough, in his 86th year, Lieut. Col. Baskerville; who, after serving with distinguished reputation in the 30th regiment, under the Marquis of Granby in Germany, and afterwards in Ireland and the West Indies, retired to Wiltshire, where for upwards of thirty years he fulfilled the duty of an upright and most impartial magistrate. Lieut.-Colonel Baskerville was descended from one of the most ancient families in Wiltshire, who have been resident there ever since the time of William the Conqueror-5. In Grosvenor Row, Chelsea, Philip Dixon, Esq. of Strombollo Cottage.-6. At Killenure House, near Athlone, the lady of Major Alex. Murray, Cringletie.At the Deanery House, Dublin, Rev. J. W. Keating, Dean of St Patrick's. -7. At Dunglass, Helen, eldest daughter of Sir James Hall of Dunglass, Bart. At Cowhill, Mrs Margaret Johnston, wife of George Johnston, Esq. of Cowhill.-8. At London, of a consumption, in the 25th year of her age, Susan Boone, only daughter of John Deas Thomson, Esq. one of the Commissioners of his Majesty's navy.-At Stirling, James Duthie, Esq. some time of the island of Jamaica.-At Clarence Cottage, Ruthwell, Joseph Richardson, Esq. in the 82d year of his age.At London, in bis 85th year, Major A. H. Brice, brother principal clerk of session.-10. At Gargrave, near Skipton, aged 67, Mrs Parker, relict of John Parker, Esq. of Browsholme Hall, and sister of Lord Ribblesdale.-11. At Bristol, Jarvis Holland, Esq. son of Peter Holland, Esq. of that city, merchant.-13. In Duke Street, St James's, London, aged 74, Mr James Daubigny, wine merchant in ordinary to the Prince Regent.-14. At Edinburgh, Mr Henry Biggar, advocate.At Turin, where she had gone for the recovery of her health, Mrs Allan, wife of Thomas Allan, Esq. banker in Edinburgh. At Glasgow, Mrs Balfour, wife of the Rev. Robert Balfour, D.D. one of the ministers of Glasgow.-16. At Buckland, near Gosport, aged 106 years, Charles F. Gordon, Esq. late surgeon of the royal hospital, Haslar.-17. At Kendal, Barbara, relict of Thomas Lake, Esq. of Liverpool, and youngest daughter of the late Fletcher Fleming, Esq. of Ragrigg, Westmoreland.— 19. At Ostend, Mrs Macdonald, wife of Col. Macdonald, commandant of that fortress.-21. At Glasgow, James Dunlop, jun. Esq.-24. At Acrehill, Margaret Bannatyne, wife of Daniel M'Kenzie, Esq. merchant, Glasgow.-25. At Edinburgh, Miss Watson of Tower.-27. At his seat, at Great Melton, Norfolk, Sir John Lombe, Bart. aged 86.-28. At Bath, the Rev. Philip Yorke, youngest son of the Hon. and Right Rev. Dr Yorke, late bishop of Ely. -29. At Edinburgh, Lawrence Craigie, Esq. advocate.-30. At Enfield, William Saunders, M.D. late of Russell Square, London, aged 84.-Lately, at Inverness, after a short illness, at an advanced age, R. Macdonald, Esq. This gentleman, who was a cadet of the Keppoch family, was a subaltern in Keppoch's regiment in the year 1745, and was present at the battles of Preston, Falkirk, and Culloden. At Culloden he was made prisoner; but, owing to his youth, he was allowed to transport himself to Jamaica, where he commenced planter. Having by his industry acquired an independent fortune, he returned to his native country, where he settled. Mr Macdonald was one of the young gentlemen who, with drawn swords, attended Andrew Cochrane, provost of Glasgow, in proclaiming the Pretender by the name of King James VIII. and III.-Lately, at Exeter, Mrs Penrose Cumming, widow of Alex. Penrose Cumming, Esq. and mother of the late Sir A. P. Cumming Gordon, Bart. of Altyre and Gordonstoune.-Lately, at Cassel, three old men, who for a series of years had passed their evenings together in playing at cards, died on the same day. They were, General de Gohr, aged 86; the Counsellor of Legation d'Engelbronner, aged 89; and the Count Gartener, Schwar-eskupt, aged 83. A fourth friend, M. Voelkel, died within a year; and a fifth, the Privy Counsellor Schminke, aged 86, had preceded them by some months. Oliver & Boyd, Printers, Edinburgh. which I that of ve as the ation, rewhich all ges, have ition. In istory, the eated menumpet, the the harp, with their nt trains of O some moral is, music was had attained s warriors or ought not unand encourvisest and least gislators.* The h antiquity of to be established have possessed, period to which 's, a music, conirty-six melodies. one, I believe, but us nations, are enmusic. 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