}827.] Monthly Commercial Report, 107 



month bought freely. Prices, from 45*.* to 80*. per cwt, and fine Mocha 120*. tq 

 130s. per c\vt. 



Cotton \* very dull, both in our market and Liverpool, and prices arc nominal. 



Apices are rather advanced, and in pretty good demand. 



'fruit. The last vintage has proved very fine in Spain, and the quality of the Raisins, 

 &c. turn out very fine, and the market opens at reasonable prices, but the purchasers 

 hold out, and buy sparingly at present. 



Hemp, Flax, and Tallow remain steady, without any alteration, but dull at this season 

 of the year. 



Indigo. This article has advanced 4rf. to Gd. per Ib. in the India-House, and some 

 considerable purchases have been made for the continental market, to advantage, 



Course of Foreign Exchanges. Amsterdam, 12. 7. Rotterdam, 12. 7. Antwerp, 

 12. 8. Hamburg,' 37. 6. Aitona, 37. 7. Paris, 25. 65. Bourdeaux, 25. 65. 

 Berlin,?. Frankfort on the Main, 154^. Petersburg, 8^. Vienna, 10.21. Trieste, 

 JJO. 24. -Madrid, 3*. Cadiz, 34f. Bilboa, 33. Barcelona, 33. Seville, 33. 

 Gibraltar, 43. Leghorn, 47i Genoa, 43f-. Venice, 46. Naples, 38|-. Palermo, 1 14*. 

 Lisbon, 48f- Oporto, 48j. Rio Janeiro, 43. Bahia, 43|. Buenos Ayres, 43. e 

 Dublin, \\.~ Cork, H. 



Bullion per Oz. Foreign Gold in bars, 3. 17s. 6d New Doubloons, 3. Os. 

 New Dollars, 4s. 9d. Silver in bars, standard 4s. lid. 



Premiums on Shares and Consols, and Joint- Stock Companies, at the Office of WOLFED 

 BROTHERS, 23, Change Alley, Cornliill. Birmingham CANAL, 260/. Coventry, 1100/. 

 EHesmere and Chester, 100/. Grand Junction, 295^. Kennet and Avon, 25/. Leeds 

 and Liverpool, 3SOJ. Oxford, 68QA Regents, 367. Trent and Mersey, 1,850/. 

 Warwick and Birmingham, 250/. London DOCKS, 85Z. 10s. West-India, '200/. East 

 London WATER-WQKKS, 120/. Grand Junction, 74/. 10s. West Middlesex, 66Z 

 Alliance British and Foreign INSURANCE, <ftj. Globe, 140?. Guardian, 197. 

 Hope, 51 Imperial Fi re > 90^ GAS-LIGHT Westminster Chartered Company, 57/. 

 City Gas-Light Company, 157/. British, III. djs. Leeds, J95/. Liverpool, par. 



BIOGRAPHICAL MEMQJRS OF EMINENT PERSONS. 



THE MARQUIS OF HASTINGS. of which estate, with the mansion-house, is 



Francis Ravvdon Hastings, Marquis of still in possession ot the family : 



Hastings, Earl of Rawdon, Viscount ,, T T , T .,,. T ,. 



Loudon, Baron Hastings and Rawdon, in I 3 **? *&$*+** thurd yere of my 



the Peerage of the United Kingdom ; Earl _. g "' . , 



of Moira, and Baron Rawdon, in the Peer- Glve * the Paulvn Roydon, Hope and 



age of Ireland, and a Bart, of Ireland, .... . Wopetownc, 



K. G., G. C. B., F. R. S., F. S. A., and Wlth a ll tlie bou ^ s b . oth "P an ^ r do ^ ne ? 



M. R. I. A., was born on the 7th of Irom . Heven to Yerthe ' from Yerthe *<* 



December, 1754. He succeeded his mo- , ' . 



ther, Elizabeth, Countess of Moira, &c., in ^ or the and , th >^ ther . to d ^ e! ' 



the ancient Barony of Hastings, &c., on s trulv as * 1S Kvn n S ht 1S m y n J 



the 12th of April, 1808; and his father, I or a crossebo w and an arrow, 



John, the late Earl of Moira, in Ireland, ^ h , e ? * sal com 1 e t:> lun ^ ? n y arro ^ 



on the 20th of June, 1793 On the 7th of ^ nd in Token that thl f thm 1S s , ot ^ 



December, 1816, he was created Marquis I b,t the whyt wax with my tooth, 



of Hastings, Earl of Rawdon, and Viscount ? et ? re M f' ff vd ' and Margery, 



Loudoun. And m y thui ' d (Sonne, Hepry." 



The family of Rawdon, from which this The Rawdons either gave their name 

 nobleman was paternally descended, is of to, or received it from, a town in York- 

 great antiquity. If a tradition, preserved shire, about three miles from Leeds. Raw- 

 in the family, and which is corroborated by don Hall formerly contained several very 

 their armorial bearings and motto Et tws remarkable monuments of antiquity. Sir 

 quoque tcla sparsimus may be relied on, Marmadtike Rawdon, Knt., was a staunch 

 the first of the name in England, came royalalist, and a most active and intrepid 

 over with the Duke of Normandy, and commander, in the reign of Charles I. ; Sir 

 commanded a band of archers under him. ' George Rawdon, also, the first Baronet, 

 This tradition is further strengthened by was famous for his loyalty and his eminent 

 the subjoined title-deed of their estate, services in Ireland, during the great re r 

 (copied from Wcever's "Funeral Monu- beHion. 

 nipnts,") granted by the Conqueror, part The Hastings' family, maternal ancestprfs 



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