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562 Monthly Commercial Report. 
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efq. ‘barrifter at law, of Gray’s-inn, and 
cierk of the peace for the county of Carmar- 
then, This gentleman pofleffed high quali- 
fications to render him ufeful and amiable 
in the world. Endowed with an ardent, in- 
quifitive, and powerful mind, his legal know- 
ledge and opinions were folid, clear, and in- 
@ifputable. Even thofe who envied his ge- 
nius and talents, allowed him the juftice due 
to them. Inhis public capacity, the county 
of Carmarthen has fuffered a fevere lofs; 
ever zealous, and awake to its interefts, all 
his attention and efforts appeared directed to 
its profperity. 
ment in the county gaol, which is now an 
excellent one. The a& for paving and light- 
ing the town was alfo the offspring of his in 
telligent and induftrious mind. The Agri- 
cltural Society of the county owe him much: 
he forwarded its defigns, and ever fupported 
it with a@tivity and warmth. No trouble, 
no fatigue, were obitacles to hig inceflant en- 
His agricul- 
fural improvements on his own eftate were 
many and valuable. He attempted by his 
example to eftablith a rational and profitable 
mode of farming among his neighbours; by 
this means he employed a number of poor, 
who, with their families, were comfortably 
Maintained and fupported by his bount¥. Ih 
private life, no man appeared more amiable. 
Steady and fincere in his friendthip ; kind and 
foothing to the diftrefled in their moments of 
Gifficulty and doubt; ever happy to ferve 
‘thofe friends he aed and efteemed ; eager 
to oblige, he anticipated the withes of all: 
a hutbarid,. tender, indulgent, and ae 
‘This is written by a friend who knew him 
He firft planned the improve- . 
Macdonald. 
pleted ; 
| October, 
well; whofe remembrance and friendfhip will 
be care revered and refpeéted. When the - 
contefts and buftle of life will be at an end, 
he enjoys the pleafing hope of a renewal of 
friendthip beyond the- grave. re 
At the Palace of St. Afaph, Mrs. Bagot, 
wife to the Lord Bithop of Se, Afaph, and 
daughter to the Hon. Edward Hay, Governor 
of Barbadoes. 
At Bangor, Carnarvonfhire, Mr. John 
Gibbs, ftock-broker, of London. - 
At Welthpool, Montgomeryfhire, Mr. 
John Nicholas, fon of the late John Nicholas, 
efq. . 
At Abergavenny, Monmonthfhire, Dr. 
At Swanfea, the Rev. Mr. Thomas. 
SCOTLAND. . . 
_ A Stamp-Office is aboutito be eftablithed 
in Scotland; in confequence of the great ex- 
pence and delay in purchafing ftamps from 
London. The arrangements are nearly com- 
and fev se of the workmen, and ~ 
others employed at Somerfet-houfe, have 
been fent to Edinburgh to forward the efta- 
blifhment. 
Died.} At Edinburgh, Mrs. Mary Clerk. 
Mrs, Alexander. - Mifs Catherine Campbell, 
fifth daughter of John Campbell, efg. 
At Dundee, Mr. Wm. Nielfon. 
At Stirling, Lieutenant Marcus Marr, aged 
273; he was a young man of very promifing 
talents in his profeffion, and univerfally re- 
{pected as a man. 
At Dumfries, Mr. Robert Hannah. Mifs 
Aynes Grive, fifter of Mr. Grive,~ mer- 
chant. 
¥* Biographical Mesirs of Reinhold Forfiery Charles Borda, and Francis Callett, are defect em 
till next month. 

MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT. 
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HE trade of this country’with the principal part of Europe having of late been confined 
almoft wholly to one channel, the unufual flow of bufinefs it prgduced to thofe places. 
through which it was carried on led many perfons to extend their concerns in a degree to 
which their capital was inadequate, and encouraged a fpirit of adventure and {peculation, 
particularly in the chief articles of fugars and other Weft India produce, which at length 
has been carried too far. 
The confequence has heen the failure of fome confiderable hones 
at Hamburgh and other places, which has affeéted their conneétions in this country fo far 
as to caufe the ftoppage of feveral houfes which had hitherto maintained no fmall degree of 
commercial reputation. 
The fhock given to the commerce of Ireland by the late unhappy fituation of that coun- 
try, produced ue, obvious and Bee! effects on its manufactures, from which they have 
mot yet recovered; but it was the LINEN manufa@ture, the great ftaple of that country, 
which moft feverely felt the evil influence of the commotions. 
Of that manufacture it is 
Known that the principal feat is Ulfter, an} although in that province there was lefs blood 
{pilt and fewer enormities committed than in the fouthern parts of the ifland, yet the ope- - 
rations of induftry were very generally fufpended, partly in confequence. of the minds of 
the labouring people being diverted from their ufual habits and occupied by the hopes of 
Cie see and of a new order of things, and partly becaufe the very hazardous circumftances 
of the times deterred the purchafers of linen in that province, for many months, from in- 
_vetting their property in goods of any kind, or embarking. in any commercial fpeculation- 
The manufa@tur ‘ing poor were thus forced into idlenefs, as well as inclined to it from the 
caufes juft mentioned, and the demand for linen from this eountry and other markets con- 
tinuing equal to what it oe ufually been, the quantity on hand was of courfe foon greatly 
exhaufted, 
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