vlii historical 



df the corporation nearly half 

 a century. 



Mr Ellis was a man of lite- 

 rature, and the pleasure he re- 

 ceived from literary amuse- 

 ments remaihed with him to 

 the last. He wrote some 

 poems in Dodsley's collection, 

 'and some Hudibrastic transla- 

 tions j but never put his name 

 to any thing he publiflied. 



On Wednesday, Jan. 4. the 

 sugar lately imported by the 

 East India Company, was sold 

 at the India House. 



It was partly in bags, of a- 

 bout two and a half hundred 

 weight each, and partly in calks 

 of about three hundred weight 

 each j the whole quantity sold 

 was about 15,000 cwt. 



It was all, except four lots, 

 bought by one man, at the price 

 of nearly L. 7 per cwt. The 

 real purchaser is said to be a 

 sugar refiner, who profefses to 

 deal in sugar that is not raised 

 by the labour of slaves. 



The West India planters be- 

 gin to fear that parliament will 

 lower the duty on sugar im- 

 ported from the East Indies, 

 to the standard of the duty on 

 sugar imported from the West. 

 Such prices as the above would 

 be a sufficient inducement to 

 import from the East Indies 

 without any alteration of the 

 duty. 



The mere marble of Mrs 

 Darner's Colofsal statue of the 

 king, costs between two and 

 three hundred pounds ! It is for 

 the Register Office in Scotland. 



chronicle. 



We hear that a question of 

 infinite concern to retail linen 

 drapers will be brought forward 

 the ensuing term. The ques- 

 tion is, whether gown patches, 

 or part of pieces, are liable to 

 seizure as whole ones, not ha- 

 ving stamps on the end. A 

 seizure of this kind was lately 

 made at Sunbury,in Middlefex ; 

 and this important question will 

 be tried in the Court of Exche- 

 quer, in order that no future 

 misunderstanding may ariic, 

 and a final period be put to an 

 affair whicli for many years haS 

 proved a great inconvenience 

 to the retail traders in this 

 kingdom. 



Ihe late elopement of Mifs 



S with Mr N has been 



much spoken of. It appears 

 that the young lady found home 

 rather disagreeable, from the 

 severity of her parents toward 

 her, and therefore availed her- 

 self of the opportunity of recei- 

 ving the offer of Mr N , 



who took her off to Gretna 

 Green, from whence they are 

 just returned. The young la- 

 dy is only seventeen, and has ? 

 very handsome fortune \ the 

 gentleman is much older, and 

 has nothing. 



The effects of novel residing 

 (hew that tliey ought to be dis- 

 •couraged in boarding-schools. 

 A school girl affecting to faint 

 in churcl), for the purpose of • 

 going off with a jovial tar, in a- 

 clerical habit, is doubtlefs an in- 

 cident suggested by some mo- 

 derii romance. 



