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oe. 
ffered te dignified ftrangers, who fought for 
thetter in his diftant dominions, in fuch terms 
as fhewed the Spanifh nation that he knew 
what-was due te -himfelf and to them. Mean- 
time, Charles Steuart arrived in England, 
where his good conduét was known and re- 
fpefted. The Spanifh ambaffador, Prince 
Mefflerano, welcomed him as the protector 
of his countrymen. The king’s minifters 
endeavoured, by their attentions to him, at 
once to do juftice to themfelves and to gratify 
that dignified minifter. The chancellor of 
the exchequer, Mr. Grenville, appointed 
Charles Steuart furveyor-general of the cu- 
ftoms in North America; an office of truft, 
wihch he difcharged, during the difficult 
times of the ftamp aét, with the approbation 
of his fuperiors, and the applaufe of the peo- 
pie. Onthe eftablifhment of the board of 
euftoms at Bofton, he was appointed the re- 
ceiver-general of the cuftoms in North Ame- 
rica; an ofhce, which he executed fo as to 
gain additional character. In 1769 he re- 
turned from America, and was, by the conv 
tinued troubles of the times, confined there- 
after to Britain. While enjoying, in London, 
his well earned fame, and cafe, his quiet was 
interrupted by a fingular inftance of ingrati- 
tude: his negro, Somerfet, becoming idle, 
from indulgence, and bafe from idlenefs, de- 
ferted his fervice, and infulted his perfon. 
An indulgent mafter was thus induced to 
fend athanklefs flave on board a fhip in the 
Thames, which was bound for Jamaica. 
S 
Prompted by a little party fpirit, the law 
now interpofed. Somerfet was brought, by 
the noble writ of Eabeas corpus, before Lord 
Scotland.—TIreland—=Agricultural Report. 
Mansfield and the court of King’s Bench > 
and it was at length decided, in 1772, that 
a mafter could not forcibly fend his negro fer= 
vant from England to the colonies. From 
this decifion, it followed, whatever fuch 
judges as Talbot had thought, or Hardwicke 
had faid, that negroes could not be confidered, 
in this country, as flaves, This inftance of 
ingratitude did not prevent this benevolent 
man from devoting much of his attentron, 
and his income, to the education and efta- 
blifhment of his nephews. He now repaid 
tothe fons, by helping them into life, the 
care and the expence of his elder brother: he 
educated the three fons of his fitter, Cecilia, 
who had married the rev. Alexander Ruddach, 
the minifter of Kirkwall. And he had the 
confolation to fee, that the nephews, whona 
he had thus affifted, by giving, like a wife 
man, in his life-time, what he intended te 
give by his will, all did well, and diftin- 
guifhed themfelves. In this manner did he 
diftribute, among his relations, full as much 
as he had to leave behind him. Having fet- 
tied his affairs at London, he retired, in 1790, 
to his brother’s houfe in Edinburgh, where 
he lived in the. bofom of his family; and 
where he died, ina good old age, with the 
faith of a Chriftian, and the confidence of a 
man who was confcious, at the moment-of 
death, that he had endeaveured well through 
life. The foregoing faéts furnith the truet 
character of this worthy man. 
IRELAND. ot 
Died.] At Williewadtown, near Dublin; 
Major General James Stewart. ame 
At Cork, Capt. Wm. Bright. 
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MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 
"THE copious falls of rain in the middle of this month have confiderably leffened the fears 
which the dreughty weather, in the clofe of the laft, and beginning of the prefent, had 
@xcited. Crops, in general, continue to put on the moft promifing appearances. Clovers, as 
well as other artificial grafles, and particularly thofe whicly have not been eaten in the Spring, 
look uncommonly well, and the paftures are extremely frefh, efpecially thofe fown down 
the laft feafon. For fallows and fallow crops, the feafon has alfo been unufually fine, and 
With a¢tive agriculturifts, the potatoe feed time is nearly finifhed, and much of the turnip 
grounds prepared. Summer fallows have already been moftly twice ploughed over. 
WHEAT,_&c. in the midland counties, is rather lower. - 
Our reports of the fruit crops are likewife equally promifing. Inthe cyder diftri@s, there 
is, generally,’ avery favourable appearance, and in other counties the apple crops have fel- 
dom had a more plentiful afpect. eae 
Cattre. The price of cows in calf and lean ftock, have in fome degree advanced. 
Butchers meat is alfo fomewhat higher than in our laft report. ; A 3 
Surrpe. Ewes and lambs, and indeed theep of every kind, are getting confiderably higher 
in price. Wool is alfo on the rife. Beef fells in Smithfield Market from 3s. 2d. to 4s. 2d. 
per ftone; mutton from 3s. ad. to4s.5 pork, 2s. 8d. to 3s. 8d. “a 
Hocs. Thefe ftill continue low. 
Horses. The better fort of horfes are till dear, but the ordinary kinds continue low, 
Hors. Kentifh hops produce, in bags, frem 96s. to r15s. in pockets, from 1008. te 
126s. The duty is laid at g5§,c00l. 


Errata.—iIn Mr. Lanpsser’s letter refpefting Mr. Tirrocx’s plan for preventing 
the Forgery of Banx or Eneranp Notes, the printer omitted part, and printed incor- 
re€tly the names of the gentlemen who were prefent with Mr. LanpseEeEr at the examina- 
tion made at the bank, and who approved of the plan. The names fhould have been gives 
as follows: Mefirs, HzAtu, Bygnzt, Firtier, Lowry, SuHarp, and BARTOLOZZIe. 
