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place where they were t6 bé depofited; and 
there Fourcroy pronounced a fecond eulogy on 
thedead. Ai fine clear {ky addediuftre to the 
ceremony. 
The arts have tc:/ament the death of Ju- 
LIEN DE Parma, avery diftinguifhed hifto- 
rical painter. He was born in 1736, of poor 
parents, at the village of Carigliana, near 
the little Swifs town of Locarno, upon the 
borders of the great lake. His genius fur= 
mounted all the obftacles which poverty threw 
before him, in his road tu the fine arts. For 
a confiderable time nature was his only guide, 
becaufe he had not the means to procure any 
other. At length he fet out to Rome, which 
he reached by means of painting portraits in 
every town, to defray the expence of his 
Monthly Agricultural Report. 
that city he firft exhibited his piéture of /Ju- 
piter fleeping in the arms of Juno; the en- 
/graving of which, is to be fecn in every 
print thop; all the city of Rome, and every 
ftrauger.refiding. there at the time, went to 
fee the great work of Julien. At his arrival 
in Paris, he expofed the pi€turea fecondtime, 
and there he alfo found a creud of admirers, 
This pi€ture, now in the cabinet of the cele- 
brated fculptor Dejoux, his friend, is, above 
all, remarkable for the noblenefs of ftile and 
beauty of its colouring. There age fome other 
valuable works of his, in the: faloon of the 
ci-devant hotel de Nivernois. Julien formed both 
at Rome and Paris feveral diftinguifhed pu- 
pils. He died inParis r1th of Moeffidor laft, 
(June 23) at the age ot 63, and inthe great- 
C. PeprELLi, a very able 
_ [May 1, . 
travelling. In the capital, he ftudied the 
ancien: anc mosern chef-d euwvres for the {pace 
of tweive years, acquiring at the fame time 
the art of .seaking and writing ina matterly 
manner. Concerning his profeffion it was in 
eft indigence. 
defigner, to whom he had been both a father 
and mafter, evinced towards him in his Jatter 
moments all the tendernefs of a fon, “arid alk 
the attachment of a grateful ichofar. 


: ‘ MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 
EGETATION has feldom made a more rapid progrefs than during the prefent month. 
This has chiefly arifen from the mild and yery feafonable falls of rain that took place in the 
early part, and the warm weather that fucceeded. All the different kinds of crops, both of graffes 
and g:ain, have, at prefent, the motit promifing appearances.. The graffes, both the common, 
and thoie of the artificial forts, are generally luxuriant and flourifhing. This is equally the ftate_ 
of the meadow diftri€ts and the more elevated mowing grounds; and in the paftures too, boih 
thofein the lower and higher fituations, there is a confiderable fpring of grafs.. The early fown 
winter wheats have, in general, the healthy.colour, and cover the ground very weJj, and thofe. 
of the {pring kind are coming forward in the mo‘t promifing way. Oats and Bary ley in many 
diftricts are alfo in a vigorous ftate of growth, and look well. In fome wet fituatio ns, however, 
portions of ground ftill remain to be fown with thefe grains even in the fouthern diftri@s Sibag: 
this is not the cafe to.any very great extent. hefe are the common appearances which the re-" 
porter obferved in ajouraey of fome hundred miles through-the middle of the kingdom. In the 
more northern parts of the ifland much field work is ftull to be performed, efpecially onthe wetter 
forts of foil; but, on the whole, we believe farmers were feldom more forward at this period of 
the year in their different operations. ‘ . 4 
In feveral diftricts much ground has already been planted with potatoes, and confiderable tracts. 
of land in others, are under preparation for’that valuable root.. The fcarcity and dearnefs of 
good feed has, however, prevented the planting of this vegetable tothat extent which would other= 
wife have been the cafe. 
The prices of all forts of grain fill keep up. Wacaz, at Mark-lane, yields from 1108. to 
134s. per quarter, The average price is ti$s, The average of the different kinds of grain, ia 
England and Wales, is, Wheat'113s- Barley 59s. 5d. Ours 48s. 5d. Beans 73s. 1d. Peas 6gs.84.. 
The prices of all forts of fat cattle are now very high ; but, from the*great. and fuddem change’ ‘a 
which has lately taken’ place in the fate’of the paftures, it is not probable that they can centinue _ 
fo any great length of time. In Smithfield Market at this time, Beef yields from: 4s. 6d. to 
6s. 4d.peritone. Mutton and Pork from 5s. 4d. to 6s, 8d. Vea! from ¢s. to 7s. and Lame 
from 6s. to 7s. 6d. In-Neweate and Leadenhall Markets, Beef tells, by the pound, from od. to. 
rs. 2. . Mutton from 8d. to rod. Veal from od. to 1s. Pork irom od. to iod. and Lamb- 
trom a\id.\to 13d. 2) é } : 
Lean ftock, though fomewhat higher, is not by any means dear in many parts of the ifland. 
Lambs have been greatly improved by the increafé of food in the paftures, and much meat of 
this fort muft foon be brought to the markets: : 
\. Hay, and all forts of fodder is fill ftarce. The prefent prices of Huy in St. James’s and 
Whitechapel Markets are nearly as laft month; viz. from 61s to 132s. per load. — i 
} S/raw may be confidered as not dearer. Jt yields trom from 52s. to Gos. 
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TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
We defire to be excufed from entering any farther into the difpute ¢oncerning the Commence- 
ment of the Ceitury. , : - 
The ‘“ Fragmeutof an Ancient Poem’’ will not ‘fuit the poétical department. of our mifcel= - 
lany. r - 
We mutt beg leave to decline inferting the’ account that has been fent us of the eletion=politics 
of a weitern borowgh. 
The admonitions concerning the exhibition of yeaftin putrid fevers will more properly be fent 
to fome of the periodical publications devoted to medicine 3 and we muff, in general, obferve _ 
that it is our-with to avoid medical dicufions of a nature ablolutely profefional, - ° 
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