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was Provoft of Elgin in the year 1745, and 
deciared for George II, notwithftanding the 
threats and vivelence of the oppofite party. 
2 ERELAND, 
ifarried.} At Dublin, the Right Hon, 
John Chambre, Earl of Meath, to Lady Me- 
lefina Adelaide Meath, fourth daughter of 
the late Earl of Clanwilliam. 
At Dublin, Mr, Powell, barrifter, to the 
Countefs Dowager of Aldborough, 
Died.| In Dublin, the Right Hon. John 
Earl of Clare, Lord High Chancellor of Ire- 
land. His Lordfhip had fuffered extreme 
pain, for fome months paft, in confequence 
of the accident which befel him about a year 
ago in Hyde Park, London. The diforder, 
however, which proved fatal to ‘him, was 
the dropfy in the chef, and the hurts which 
he then received are not fuppofed to have 
accelerated his death, 
At“ his family-manfion, 'Caftle Jordan, 
county of Meath, Sir D. Giffard. 
DEATHS ABROAD. 
Lately, in his rcoth year, Count Stalke- 
be, a Swedifh general, He entered into 
the fervice under the celebrated Chatles XII. 
In July laft, the Nabob of the Carnatic. 
Flis adopted fon has been fetafide, and his ne- 
phew elefled in his ftead, but the entire civil 
and military government of the Carnatic, is 
transferred to the hands of the Eaft India Com- 
pany. 
At Paris, Madame Choifeul, widow of 
Monthly Commercial Repirt. 
4 
[Feb. 1, 
the celebrated minifter of that. Name, and 
mother of the Duc de Choifeul, who lately 
went from this country to fee her aged parent. 
At St. Hellicr’s, in Jerfey, T. Pipon, efq. 
Lieutenant Baily, and Chief Magiftrate of the 
ifland, Before he attained that diftinguifhed 
fituation, he was Attorney General of the 
‘ Wland, for upwards of jo years. f 
In the ifland of Jerfey, on the 16th of 
December, the Lady of M. Goffer, efq. Vi- 
count of the ifland, and fifter af Sir Thomas 
Frankland, bart, 
In the ifland of Madeira, on the 2d of 
December, in his 21{t year,.H. Frankland, 
efq, eldeft fon of T. Frankland, bart. ae 
in Spain, the celebrated Count Rice, whe 
many yearsago killed Count Barry, ina duel, 
near Bath. He was found dead in his bed ;— 
his death was occafioned, as is fuppofed, by 
fu focation. 
At Mednapore, in the Eaft Indies, on the 
1ft of February laft, P. Begbie, jun. efq. of 
Cafile-hill, and Neutenant in the fervice of 
the Eaft India Company. | 
On the r2xth of December laft, at Fort 
Marlborough, in the ifland of Sumatra, Mr. 
A. Webfter, only fon of Major, Webfter, of 
Ayr. 
‘ "A Rofetta, in Egypt, Lieut. Col. P. Gar- 
den, of the 2d battalion of the 1it Royal Re- 
giment of Foot. 
At Hamburgh, on the 26th of Oober 
Jat, D. Mitchell, efg. 
MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT. 
"YT HE Doren have already taken advantage of the termination of hoftilities, fo fir as to fend 
hither gin, flax, butter, cheefe, rags, fkins, tanned leather, madder, and Rhenith wines, in. 
large quantities. 
They renew with eagernefs their wonted traffic, and they will undoubtedly 
endeavour as much as poflible to engrofs the carrying trade between Britain and all the Belgian 
and other Northern provinces of France. 
comparifon with the imports from Holland hither. 
The experts from Lendon to Holland are few, in 
A regular courfe of exchange does not. yet 
take place between the two countries, but the Dutch receive immediate payment in hard cath 
for a great part of the articles of provifions, &c. which we purchafe from them, 
The mott confiderable izaport which has been receatly brought irom France, confifts of 16,702 
gallons of brandy, of which there has been’alfo a large importation from Hamburgh, Guernfey, 
Ireland, Malaga, Gibraltar, and Malta. 
There is not yet a regular courfe of exchange between 
London and Paris, but fo much more money is for the prefent transferred from England to France 
than is brought from France to England, that a pound tterling paid in London, will yield by a bill 
of exchange only about 22 francs in Paris. By the accounts of Englifh gentlemen who have gone 
to vifit France fince the ratification of the preliminary treaty, we learn that its trade and manu- 
factures are in a very unprofperous ftate ; in confequence,of the ftorms of laft fummer and au- 
tumn, provifions are fearce and dear; nothing is current as money fave gold and filver, not that 
the precious metals are abundant, but becaule credit 1s too low to give currency to paper-money. 
An importation of, it is faid, not lefs than 20,000,0001, fterling in gold and filver, the produce 
cf the mines during the war, is expected foon to arrive in Spain from South America. 
quaatity of bullion will be fpeedily diftributed in trade over Europe. 
Such a 
It will, of courfe, occafion 
a temporasy diminution in the market-value of gold and filver, and will fubftitute, it is to be 
hoped, for a 
value. 
the powers of Europe. 
part of our paper money, a more univerfal and lefs uncertain reprefentative of 
AMERICA already begins to feel, moft fenfibly, the effect of the ceffation of hoftilities among, 
All the wonted articles of American importation have fallen in price in 
the European markets. The news has been received in the American ports, and trade of courfe 
already meets there a confiderable ftagnation. The exports from New York, in the three months 
of July, Auguft, and September, 1801, amounted to the value of above 3155,000 dollars. — 
‘Che treedom of exportation eftablifhed by the Jate treaty of union between Great Britain and 
Ireland, appears now to operate confiderably, in producing a re-expertation to Britifh ports of 
foreign goads which have been in the firft inftance imported into Ireland. 
Among ‘the imports 
trem ireiand to the port of Leadon, in the week ending on the 23d of January, 1802, are 1300 
gallons, 
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