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BILL OF MORTALITY, from December 21, 1819, to January 25, 1820.

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AVERAGE PRICES of CORN, from the Returns ending January 15, 1820.

INLAND COUNTIES.

Wheat Rye Barly | Oats Beans

MARITIME COUNTIES.

Wheat Rye Barly Oats Beans
d.s. d. s. d. s.
d.js. d.
63 431 031 023 537 0
524 10 38 11

ds. Middlesex 64 900 Surrey 65 133 Hertford 60 240

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ds. d. s. 033 225 441 10 Essex 031 1125 1043 Of Kent 63 500 033 0135 125 845 6 Sussex 59 800 030 Bedford 60 1138 032 8 Suffolk 61 535

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Montgomery 63 500 033
Radnor

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0 Pembroke 58 700
72 400 036 127 300 0 Carmarth. 70
Glamorgan 70

035 217 900 0

039 918 300 0 800 033 420 000 Average of England and Wales, per quarter. Gloucester 62 600 033 125 547 0 63 10140 8134 1123 8144 3 Somerset 69 900 031 922 140 0

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PRICE OF FLOUR, per Sack, January 24, 55s. to 60s.
OATMEAL, per Boll of 140lbs. Avoirdupois, January 15, 25s. 10d.
AVERAGE PRICE of SUGAR, January 19, 34s. 74d. per cwt.
PRICE OF HOPS, IN THE BOROUGH MARKET, January 24.
Kent Bags.............. 31. 3s. to 41. Os. Kent Pockets
Sussex Ditto ........... 2. 16s. to 3.
Essex Ditto............. 24. 16s. to 31. 14s.

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AVERAGE PRICE OF HAY AND STRAW, January 24: St. James's, Hay 41. 3s. 6d. Straw 17. 10s. Od. Clover Ol. Os. — Whitechapel, Hay 31. 19s. Straw 17. 12s. Od. Clover 54. 10s.—Smithfield, Hay 37. 16s. Straw 14. 9s. Clover 5l. 17s. 6d.

SMITHFIELD, January 24. To sink the Offal-per stone of 8lbs. Beef......... ............4s. 4d. to 5s. 4d.

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Head of Cattle at Market Jan. 24:
Beasts..........................
2414 Calves 120.
Sheep and Lambs 13,920 Pigs 200.

COALS, January 24: Newcastle 35s. Od. to 44s. 6d.—Sunderland, 41s. to 41s. 6d.

TALLOW, per Stone, 8lb. Town Tallow 65s. 6d. Yellow Russia 58.

SOAP, Yellow 86s. Mottled 98s. Curd'102s.-CANDLES, 11s. Od. per Doz. Moulds 12s. 6d.

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THE AVERAGE PRICES of NAVIGABLE CANAL, SHARES and other PROPERTY, in Jan. 1820 (to the 26th), at the Office of Mr. SCOTT, 28, New Bridge street, London. Leeds and Liverpool, 3001. Div. 10Z Birmingham Canal, 5357. Div. 201. per Ann.

- Monmouthshire, 1401. ex Half- Grand Junction, 2141. ex Div. 41. 10s. Half-Year. Grand Surrey, 541.-Rochdale, 407. ex Div. 12. Lancaster, 251.. year's Div. 51.-Grand Union, 351.Thames and Severn Mortgage Shares, 414. - Regent's, 321. Worcester and Birmingham, 254.-Kennet and Avon, 191. 10s. Div. 14. Stratford, 197. 10s. Huddersfield, 137.-West India Dock, 1731. ex Div. 51. Half-year. London Dock, 70l. ex Div. 17. 10s. titto-Globe Assurance, 1161. Div. 61. per Cent. -London Ditto Ship Shares, 184. 5s. Div. 17.- Imperial, 781. with 21. 5s. Half-year Rock, 1. 15s. Provident Institution, 7. 10s. Premium. Div. Atlas, 41. 3s. 14. 5s. - West Middlesex Ditto, 421, with - Westminster Gas Light Company, 617 First Class, 711. Div. 4. per Cent.

Grand Junction Water Works, 424, Div.
Div. 11.- Portsmouth and Farlington, 201.
ex Div. 21. Half-year. - Carnatic Stock,
Gas, 2. to 31. Premium.

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EACH DAY'S PRICE OF STOCKS IN JANUARY, 1820.

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MINOR CORRESPONDENCE.

A Z. states that our Correspondent A. (vol. LXXXVIII. ii. 486) will find in Wotton's Baronetage, vol. II. p. 61, that Sir Thomas Lyttelton, bart. Treasurer of the Navy, &c. was the son of Sir Thomas Lyttelton, bart. of Stoke Milburgh and North Oxendon, by Anne, daughter and sole heiress of Edward Lord Lyttelton, Lord Keeper. The title becoming extinct in this branch of the Lyttelton family, at his death in 1709, may account for Wotton's omission of his marriage. But the entry of the marriage of "Sir Thomas Lyttelton, knt. and bart. with Anne, daughter of Benjamin Baron, esq." in 1682, may be seen in the parish Register of Westcott, Gloucestershire; and Atkyns mentions this Sir Thomas Lyttelton as possessing "a fair mansion at Westcott, in right of his wife."-A. Z. does not know in what manner the Barons of Westcott were connected with the Barons of Therfield, of Eversden, and of Lynn, but has some reason to believe they were all of one family.

HUGH CALPERS observes, "Your estimable friend and correspondent Dr. Booker, has fallen in a great error in p. 39 of your last month's Magazine, by representing Shenstone as the author of the notices concerning Spence, which the Doctor has there communicated. "Shenstone (writes Dr. Johnson) died at the Leasowes, of a putrid fever, about five on Friday morning, February 11, 1763." How then could he record the death of Spence, which occurred in 1768 ? I the more wonder at Dr. Booker's committing this anachronism, as he has so long resided in the neighbourhood of HalesOwen."

Z. says, "Surely your Correspondent (vol. LXXXIX. ii. p. 30) does not properly translate the first motto which he has stated. He says, Henry III. King of England, was fond of receiving presents, and ordered the following line, by way of device, to be written over his chamber at Woodstock: Qui non dat quod amat, non accipit ille quod optat. The obvious meaning is, that one who prefers a petition to the King, will not obtain what he asks, unless he gives what he (either the petitioner or the King) values."-The same Correspondent makes the following remarks: Vol. LXXXIX. i. p. 587, b. l. 42, the Rev. Mountagu Barton was brother to Admiral Barton, who was shipwrecked on the coast of Africa in 1758, but escaped, and died in England in 1796 (LXVI. 81.) -P. 588, a. 1. 31, Prince Walsh Porter had the manor of Alfarthings in Wandsworth, but sold it before he died.-P. 588,

b. the Rev. T. G. Clare was presented by the Duke of Buccleugh to the living of St. Andrew, Holborn, on the resignation of Dr. Luxmore, now Bp. of St. Asaph; but he had a short enjoyment of it.

A CORRESPONDENT remarks, in volume LXXVIII. p. 104, in reference to p. 1192 of vol. LXXVII. "you may add Tetyt, Baron of Mullingar, which, as well as other titles there stated, were, I believe, not Barons of Parliament, but soi-disant Lords."-A CONSTANT READER, in allusion to this passage, says, "I cannot but presume that he wrote Pelyt, which family were, for a long period, styled Barons Palatine of Mullingar in Ireland. Their ancestor William Petyt (or Petit), was Lord Justice of Ireland in 1191, and in 1208 had a charter of Free Warren at Mullingar from K. John; but his chief Barony was called Matherothernan. His descendants rose to the highest ecclesiastical and military offices in Ireland, and kept possession of a large territory in West Meath, &c. until the time of Charles II.; but the only Lord of Parliament now to be found in the lists, appears to have been Peter Le Petit, who was a Lord of the Irish Parliament, 30 Edw. I. in which year he was also one of the Magnates Hyberniæ, to whom letters were sent from Edw. I."

G. submits the following etymological remarks: "It has occurred to me, that ch in the English language formerly was either pronounced like k, or has been substituted for k. Upon this assumption, the derivation of many English words from the Saxon becomes manifest. following are some of them: Church, kirch -chaff, kaff-chest, kist-chicken, küchen -churn, kernen-chin, kinn-chalk, kalck

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cheese, käse. Upon investigation, by whom this change might have been introduced, it appears to me evident, that this has been effected by the Normans; for they have in the same manner substituted the ch for the c, in the Latin language, which c is expressed by k in the Saxon. Thus have they changed Cantare into chanter-candela, chandelle-caritas, charité-castigare, chatier-castitas, chastité -caminus, cheminée. All the Castra in Britain they have turned into Chester, and may not the word chum be derived from the Latin cum, an associate, who lives mecum tecum, &c.?

R. C. says, "To the interesting notices of the celebrated traveller, Sir John Chardin, given in your last volume (Part ii. 512), from that fascinating book, the Memoirs of Mr. Evelyn, it may be added, that there is a whole-length portrait of him, if I remember, in the Picture-Gallery at Oxford."

THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE,

For FEBRUARY, 1820.

Death

OF

HIS MAJESTY KING GEORGE III.

HE very melancholy duty dethe death of our revered Monarch; who expired, full of years and of honours, at half-past past eight o'clock on Saturday evening, January 29th. He breathed his last in the arms of his Royal Son and Guardian, the Duke of York.

About three months since, a gradual loss of strength and flesh was perceptible; since which time the medical gentlemen attendant on him considered themselves bound to prepare the públic mind, by alluding to the infirmity of his age in the monthly bulletin. A slight bowel attack about six weeks ago gave his medical attendants considerable alarm; and although it lasted but two days, it left his Majesty much debilitated. No actual bodily malady, however, existed from that time until a few days prior to his death, when the renewal of the bowel complaint, which showed that the bodily functions had lost their power, announced a probability that the King's dissolution could not be very far distant. Every thing that be took passed through him as he received it, so that nature had become entirely exhausted, and refused her office. In this state it is not surprizing that the decay should be rapid; the retentive powers only a short time before his dissolution lost their command-the Royal Patient sunk without a struggle.

At the moment of the King's dissolution, there were present, besides the usual attendants, his Royal Highness the Duke of York, Lord Henley, Lord Winchelsea, all the Physicians, and Gen. Taylor. In the Palace were the Duchess of Gloucester and the Princesses Augusta and Sophia. The

Princesses had been most unremitting

quette on these occasions requiring that none of the Royal Family shall sleep under the roof that contains the corpse of a branch of that Family, the Duchess of Gloucester departed shortly after for Bagshot. The Princesses remained in the neighbourhood of Windsor.

Thus terminated the Reign of George the Third, after a duration of fifty-nine years, three months, and nine days;-a Reign distinguished alike by the public and private virtues of the Monarch, and by the extraordinary vicissitudes in the affairs of the world, in which the British Cabinet has taken so prominent a part,

Upon the news of this melancholy event arriving in London, the Lords of the Privy Council assembled at Carlton House, and gave orders for proclaiming his present Majesty; who made a most gracious Declaration to them, and caused all the Lords and others of the late King's Privy Council, who were then present, to be sworn of his Majesty's Privy Council. On Monday, about noon, his Majesty was proclaimed; first before Carlton House, where the Officers of State, Nobility, and Privy Counsellors were present, with the Officers of Arms, all being on foot. Then, the Officers being mounted on horse-back, the like was done at Charing-cross, within Temple bar, at the end of Woodstreet in Cheapside, and lastly at the Royal Exchange, with the usual solemnities; the Principal Officers of State, a great number of the Nobility, and of other persons of distinction, attending during the cere mony.

GEORGE III.

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