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At Nottingham, aged 68, Mr. Richard Wood, formerly an officer in the Excise at Tickhill, father of Mr. W. coach-proprietor, Doncaster.

At the palace of Dalkeith, his grace Henry Scott, Duke of Buccleugh and Queensberry; Marquis of Dumfrieshire, Earl of Dalkeith, Sanquebar, and Drumlanrig; Viscount Nith, Torthowald, and Middlebie, and Dornock; also Earl of Doncaster and Lord Tynedale in England, Knight of the Garter; Lord Lieutenant of the Counties of Edinburgh and Roxburghshire, Governor of the Royal Bank of Scotland, &c. He was born in 1746; the only son of Francis Earl of Dalkeith, by Lady Caroline Campbell, eldest daughter of John, the great Duke of Argyle; and succeeded his grandfather in 1752. In 1767, his Grace married Elizabeth Montagu, only daughter of the late Duke of Montagu, by whom he has issue, Charles William, now Duke of Buccleugh and Queensberry, and Henry James, Lord Montagu, and four daughters, viz. the Countess of Courtown, Countess of Ancram, Countess of Home, and Lady Douglas; all of whom have families. He is succeeded in his titles and estates by his eldest son, Charles William, Eart of Dalkeith, who married Harriet, daughter of the late Visc. Sidney, and has several children. His Grace succeeded at an early age to a princely fortune, which gave him the means of indulging his natural disposition to public spirit and private liberality, to which purposes, accordingly, a considerable part of his immense funds were known to be applied. He was exceedingly affable in his manners; and what deserves to be recorded of a person so greatly exalted both in rank and fortune, was generally accessible to the poor. As a landlord, his liberality was well known; he was easy of access, and always ready to take an active part in any scheme of benevolence and humanity. He possessed great political influence..

Found drowned under the ice, in Duddingstone Loch, Edinburgh, aged about 80, Mr. Alexander Steel, many years proprietor of the steel-yard, Causewayside. He had been for some years in a superannuated state, under the care of his relations, from whom he had wandered on the 9th inst. and it is supposed he had fallen in the Loch in the dark. He was discovered in an erect posture, and had some scratches on the hands and face, apparently received in struggling to extricate himself.

Jan. 12. In Charlotte-street, of a lingering and painful disease, borne like a man and a soldier, Gen. Sir James Henry Craig, K. B. late governor-in-chief of British North America; governor of Black

ness Castle; and colonel of the 78th foot.

R. Hollingworth, esq. Queen-square, Westminster.

In the New-road, aged 69, Mr. John Schweitzer, a native of Germany, and for many years a considerable tailor in Cork-street, Burlington-gardens. His life was distinguished by exemplary piety and uniform benevolence.

In his 73d year, Mr. Thos. Watson, of Islington, nurseryman.

At Paddington-green, in his 67th year, John Chamberlayne, esq.

At Epping, aged 77, Sir Thomas Coxhead, formerly M. P. for Bramber At Canterbury, Capt. Lamotte, 1st royal dragoons.

At Fawler, Oxon, Mr. Wilsdon, a re spectable farmer.

In her 78th year, Mrs. Alderson, relict of the late Thomas Alderson, esq. of Lynn, Norfolk.

Mr. Earns, schoolmaster, Blilingborough, co. Lincoln.

At Elston, near Newark, Mr. Matlock, many years master of the free school.

Found literally burnt to a cinder, the wife of Mr. Colclough, chandler, Dublin. She was a handsome woman, between 30 and 40 years of age; and possessed a more than ordinary share of intellectual endowment. It is conjectured that the back of her clothes caught fire first, and that she fainted either through fright or suffocation.

Mr. Peter Moulton, driver for the last 15 years to the Sudbury coach; respected by the publick for his civility and attention, and by his employers for his fidelity.

Jan. 13. In, West-square, Jas. Hedger, jun. esq.

In his 15th year, Charles Wentworth Watson, cadet, son of Thomas W. esq. M. D. and third son in the Hon. East India Company's service.

Mrs. Gilbert, of Evington Lodge, co. Leicester.

At Whaplode Drove, co Lincoln, aged 87, Anne Phenix, who was blind the last ten years.

Jan. 14. Suddenly, in a hackney coach, which was conveying him to the White Horse cellar, Piccadilly, in order to his returning home by the Bath mail, Mr. Mitchell, who kept an inn near Bath. On the coachman arriving at the hotel, medical assistance was sent for; but the spark of life was gone. Mr. M. came to town a few days ago to article one of his sons to an attorney.

Aged 80, Mrs. Jones, relict of Morris J. esq. of Lower Belgrave-place.

At Winchester, in his 70th year, Mr. George Feachem, one of the oldest freemen of that city. Mr. Feachem succeeded the late James Randall, esq. of St. Cross, as father of the charitable society of Gentlemen Aliens, and for many years distin

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distinguished himself as the strenuous supporter of that noble institution.

At Ashton, near Bristol, of a scarlet fever, John Philip, youngest son of Sam. Gardiner, esq. of Coombe Lodge, Oxon.

At Clifton, of a decline, aged 22, Charlotte, the accomplished and beautiful daughter of Adm. Geo. Montagu.

At Bungay, Rev. John Ives, rector of Great Holland, Essex, vicar of St. Margaret's, Suffolk, and chaplain to the Duke of Norfolk.

At Wallingtou, Hants, a fortnight after the death of his wife, Colonel R. Patton, late governor of St. Helena.

At Exmouth, in his 58th year, E. Fearon Bourke, esq.

At Glasgow, burnt to death, supposed to have fallen asleep by the fire-side, M. Wright, a sheriff's officer.

Jan. 15. At her father's (Henry Pigeon, esq.) in her 28th year, Susan, wife of John Allen Shuter, esq. of Gainsford-street.

In Wimpole-street, aged 75, Henry Penton, esq. a native of Winchester, which he represented in several successive Parliaments, till his increasing years rendered him incapable of discharging his senatorial duties.

At Milford-hall, Suffolk, Sir Harry Parker, bart."

At Wells, Geo. Lax, esq. sen. an eminent solicitor, and member of the corporation.

At Horncastle, aged 80, Mrs. Frishney. At Ibstock Grange, co. Leicester, Mr. George Thirlby, farmer and grazier.

Aged 42, Thos. Grace Smith, esq. of Bitteswell.

Thrown from his curricle in Holkerpark, Lancashire, returning from a shooting-excursion in company with a younger brother, and his late tutor, aged 28, Col. Wm. Cavendish, M. P. for Derby, eldest son of Lord Geo. Henry C. and cousin to the Duke of Devonshire. He pitched on his head, and never spoke afterwards. A few years ago he married the eldest daugh ter of Lord Lismore, by whom he has left three or four children.

At Kilmore, co. Kerry, Mrs. Usher, relict of the late E. U. esq. and sister of Lord Ventry.

Jan. 16. In Conduit-street, Hanoversquare, of a paralytic stroke, in his 60th year, Thos. Owen, esq. This gentleman appropriated a tenth part of his considerable property to public and private charity. It was his peculiar delight to soothe and alleviate the distresses of his fellow creatures. He evinced his firm friendship to the established religion of his country by an uniform attention to its ordinances. From a natural diffidence of temper he led a retired life; but his hospitable table was ever open to a few clerical friends, who esteemed him when living, and will

feel his loss with peculiar regret. The worthy poor, who frequently partook of his unostentatious bounty, will shed the tear of sympathy at the death of a man whose heart was susceptible of the finest feelings of benevolence.

At Islington, in his 59th year, Mr. Steventon Pepys, who was for a considerable time a Clerk in the Bank; and for the last three years has been Churchwarden of Islington, where he was much esteemed for his probity and philanthropy.

At Dulwich, aged 73, Mrs. Willes. Her remains were interred on the 23d inst. in Westminster-abbey, in the private vault of her deceased venerable uncle, Dr. Jos, Wilcocks, Bishop of Rochester, and Dean of Westminster, (whose good son also, the author of "Sacred Exercises," and other pious and learned works, was buried in the same grave.) Mrs. W. was the only surviving branch of this most truly benevolent and worthy family; like them, distinguished by every social and Christian virtue that can adorn the human heart.

At Lynn, Mr. Lym, taylor. His death was occasioned by some person, for joke, putting gunpowder in his tobacco; the pipe in consequence exploded, and the fragments entering the roof of his mouth, caused instant death! He has left 13 children.

Aged 88, Mrs. Seaman, of Middlewich, Cheshire.

The wife of John Caldecott, esq. of Holbrook Grange, near Rugby, only dau. of the late Mr. Alderman Sutton, of Leicester.

Jan. 17. At Islington, aged 74, Mr. Poole, father of Mrs. Dickons, of the Ly

eeum Theatre..

Aged 51, Mr. James Lempriere, of Kennington-lane.

Jas. Esdaile, esq. of Upminster, Essex. Aged 67, Mr. John Coppock, worker of the stone pits at Headington Quarry, Oxon.

Jan. 18. Miss Milnes, eldest daughter of the late R. P. M. esq. M. P. for York, and sister to the present member for Pontefract.

At Essex-house, Essex-street, aged 72, Mrs. Lindsey, relict of the late Rev. Theophilus. L.

In his 69th year, Mr. John Purkis, of Chancery-lane, oilman.

In Grimsthorpe-park, in consequence of his horse rearing and falling backwards on him on the 16th inst. Mr. Steel, of Scottlethorpe, co. Lincoln.

Jan. 19. At her father's, Dr. John Sims, Upper Guildford-street, Anne Maria, wife of Edward Trant Bontein, esq.

In consequence of her clothes catching fire on the 17th inst. aged 72, the wife of Josiah Holford, esq. of Hampstead. At Hackney, aged 74, the wife of Mr. Wm. Keeys.

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Jan. 20. In Half Moon-street, in her 77th year, Mrs. Jebb, widow of John Jebb, M. D. F. R. S. (who died March 2, 1786.) Mrs. Jebb was the eldest daughter of the late Rev. James Torkington, rector of King's Rippon and Little Stukely in Huntingdonshire, and of Lady Dorothy Sherard, daughter of Philip second Earl of Harborough. She was married to Dr. Jebb in 1764, when he was in the height of his literary reputation at Cambridge. The Doctor, it is well known, engaged in some very serious controversies with the University, particularly on abolishing Subscription to the Thirty-nine Articles, at the time of taking degrees, and on publie annual examinations of Under-graduates. These disputes found exercise for the first talents at that time in the University; and Mrs. Jebb was not content with being a silent observer: she became the active opponent of Dr. Powell, the Master of Saint John's College, who conducted the other side of the controversy, and who felt as sensibly the point of Mrs. Jebb's pen in the public prints as he did of the learned Doctor's. It was in reference to the force of argument contained in a smart pamphlet written by Mrs. Jebb on the same subject, under the signature of Priscilla, that the late Dr. Paley said at the time, "The Lord had sold Sisera into the hands of a Woman." When Dr. Jebb, having embraced some speculative opinions which he thought made it neeessary for him to resign his preferment, and to leave the Church, settled in London; he became a physician and a strenuous political reformer. No name is better known among the advocates of Parliamentary Reform, than that of Dr. J.; and the active energy of Mrs. J. is also well known. Being an invalid, she lived a retired life: but her zeal rose to the full level of her husband's: she saw with the same quickness, glowed with the same ardour, and wrote occasionally with the same spirit. But Mrs. Jebb was not more distinguished for the vigour of her mind,

than the qualities of her heart. She was a Christian, without bigotry; a moralist, without severity; a politician, without self-interest or ambition; a sincere friend, without disguise, and without reserve.With considerable powers of mind, she possessed all the amiable softness of the female character. With as few failings as could well fall to the lot of humanity, she exercised an unlimited candour in judging those of others. Candour and benignity were the prominent features of her character. Her friends, therefore, were numerous, and she could not have a single enemy. These superior qualities of mind and heart were lodged in a body of the most delicate texture. The frame of Mrs. Jebb was extremely feeble; her countenance always languid and wan. She used to recline on a sofa, and had not been out of her room above once or twice these twenty years-she seemed the shadow of a shade, or rather all soul and intellect, like one dropped from another sphere. For her ardour and patriotie firmness, mixed with urbanity and gentleness, and occasionally brightening with innocent playfulness, gave that to her countenance, which the mere bloom of health cannot bestow, nor the pen describe; it gave a singular interest to her character; it can only be felt, and will be lastingly remembered by her surviving friends.

Jan. 24. In Portman-square, Isabella Susanna, Countess of Beverley, second daughter of Peter Burrell, esq. of Beckenham in Kent, sister to the Duchess of Northumberland, and the Duchess Dowager of Hamilton, now Marchioness of Exeter, and Peter Lord Gwydir. Her Ladyship was married June 8, 1775, to Lord Algernon Percy, second son of the late Duke of Northumberland, afterwards Lord Lovaine in 1786, and in 1790 Earl of Beverley; and has left a numerous issue. Jan. 27. At Sutton, Surrey, the wife of Ambrose Hall, esq. of that place, and of Albion-street, Blackfriars.

AVERAGE PRICES of NAVIGABLE CANAL PROPERTY, DOCK STOCK, FIRE-OFFICE SHARES, &c. in January 1812 (to the 25th), at the Office of Mr. Scorr, 28, New Bridge-street, London.-Birmingham Canal, 615l. dividing 261. 5s. clear per annum. -Neath Canal, 2001. ex. Dividend 201. per Share clear.-Leeds and Liverpool, 1941. dividing 8l. clear.-Warwick and Birmingham, 2881. 2901. dividing 121. clear.Grand Junction, 2051. 2101. ex. Half Yearly Dividend 3l.-Worcester and Birmingham Old Shares, 341. New Ditto, 41. Discount.-Kennet and Avon, 311. to 30l. 10s. 50l.Monmouth, 1031.-Dudley, 50l. ex. Dividend.-Ashby-de-la-Zouch, 211.-Ellesmere, 691.-Union, 871.-Lancaster, 221. 10s.-Wilts and Berks Old Shares, 251. New Ditto, 71. Premium. -East India Dock, 1211. per cent.-London Dock Stock, 1167. ex. Dividend, Half Yearly, Sl. clear.-Commercial Dock Old Shares, 1631. per Share, with 3l. 10s. Half Year's Dividend. - Rock, 10s. Premium.-East London WaterWorks, 811. to 851.-London Flour Company, 8l. Strand Bridge, 271. per Cont. Discount, without Interest due.-London Institution, 601.- Russell Ditto, 161, 10s. 181. 18s. Surrey Ditto, 14l.-West Middlesex Water-Works, 851.-Provident Institution, 24. 10s. Premium.-English Copper Company, 71. 15s. 71. 10s. dividing 8s. per Share.

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2 and 5 153 | 50 and 60 165

BILL OF MORTALITY, from December 24, 1811, to January 28, 1812.
Christened.
Males - 1457
Females 1038

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Males
905) 1786
Females 8815

Of whom have died under 2 years old 500
Peck Loaf 5s. 8d. 5s. 9d. 5s. 82.53. 8d. bs. 5d.
Salt £1. per bushel; 41d. per pound.

Between

5 and 10 31

10 and 20 55
20 and 30 134

60 and 70 167 70 and 80 145 80 and 90 67

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AVERAGE PRICES of CORN, from the Returns ending January 18, 1812.

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Surrey 112 452 646 835 857 6 Kent

Hertford 104 458 044 435

Bedford 102 1156 045 233

Huntingd. 103 100 048 11 31

Northam. 104 958 044 0 32
Rutland 101 300 049 029
Leicester 99 060 351 151
Nottingh. 103 952 351

Derby

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94 800 048
Stafford 102 900 054
Salop 106 1169 058 535
Hereford 111 1164 057 035
Worcester 113 659 456 10 37
Warwick 115 600 061 539
Wilts 112 058 056 835

Berks

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452 11 Camb.

451 0 Norfolk

957 0 Lincoln
445 8 York

99 754 036 10 27 8452 101 554 643 731 347 0 96 100 047 11 28 551 5

90 049 844 029 255 5

654 0 Durham 95 800 044 330 2000 256 0 Northum. 84 751 443 129-200 962 2 Cumberl. 90 650 440 929 2000 583 6 Westmor. 92 850 040 028 300 065 6 Lancaster 93 11:00 047 432 800( 756. 5 Chester 92 000 057 635 1100 664 8 Flint 105 700 057 700 000 860 4 Denbigh 100 1100 055 530 400

113 400 049 1133 260 0 Anglesea 00 000 046 028 0000
1.10 0/00048 730 856 3 Carnarv. 96 400 049 827 0000

Bucks 112 600 046 934 955
122 100 062 4/28 1000
Montgom. 103 200 051 233 700
Radnor 116 600 0/57-431 200

Average of England and Wales, per quarter.

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116 400 055 634 6700 114 1000 052 832 559 3 .102 11 53 949 630 6552

PRICES OF FLOUR, January 27:

Fine per Sack 90s. Seconds 75s. to 85s. Bran per Q. 14s. to 17s. Pollard 26s. to 30s..
RETURN of WHEAT, in Mark-Lane, including only from Jan. 13 to Jan. 18:
Total 4807 Quarters. Average 108s. 7d.-4s. 34d. lower than last Return.
OATMEAL, per Boll of 140lbs. Avoirdupois, January 18, 50s.
AVERAGE PRICE of SUGAR, January 22, 45s. 64d. per Cwt.
PRICE OF HOPS, IN THE BOROUGH MARKET, January 27:

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Kent Pockets.51. Os. to 71. 74.
Sussex Ditto...............41. 15s. to 61. Os.
Farnham Ditto ......... 107. 10s. to 117. Os.

AVERAGE PRICE OF HAY AND STRAW, January 27:
St. James's, Hay 41. 10s. Straw 21. 8s. - Whitechapel, Hay 51.8s. Clover 61. 168.
Straw 21. 115.-Smithfield, Clover 61. 5s. Old Hay 51. 5s. Straw 21. 12s.

SMITHFIELD, January 27. To sink the Offal-per Stone of 8lbs.

Reef..........5s. Od. to 6s. 4d.

Mutton.......5. Od. to 6s. Od.
Veal...................... 65. Od. to 8s. 4d.
Pork........... 5s. Od. to 6s. Od.

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COALS, January 27: Newcastle 44s. to 53s. Sunderland 00s.
SOAP, Yellow 92s. Mottled 102s. Curd 106s. CANDLES, 13s. per Doz. Moulds 14s.
TALLOW, per Stone, Sib, St. James's 4s. 11d. Clare 46. 11d. Whitechapel 48. 8d.

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EACH DAY'S PRICE OF STOCKS IN JANUARY, 1812.

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*** LOTTERY TICKETS, £21. 5s. Od.

Printed by J. NICHOLS and Son, Red Lion Passage, Fleet Street, London.

WILLIAM CARTER, Stock-Broker, No. 8, Charing Cross.

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