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IRELAND, 
Died.] Lately at his houfe at Moletwarth, 
Dublin, Charles Dubets Angier, efq. a gen- 
tleman much efteemed by the higher circles 
for his unrivalled fill in removing every {pe= 
cies of defeGtive utterancé, and who only 
furvived his amiable confort five months. 
His private life was the moft exemplary ; 
he conftantly practifed every domeftic and 
endearing virtue, and his unwearied perfeve- 
rance in the attainment of profeffional emi- 
nence was happily experienced by many, and 
admired by all who knew him. His eldett 
fon, Dr. Charles Angier, who praétifed under 
hint many years, is in poffefiion of all his 
valuable manufcripts, and continues to exers 
cife the ufeful art in which his ingenious fa- 
ther fo greatly fucceeded. 
DEATHS ABROAD. 
On the 18th of February laft at Halber- 
Gleim, father of the German poets. During - 
the feven years war he fung the exploits and 
victories of the great Frederic; and publithed 
his animating martial odes, under the aflum- 
ed name of a Pruffian Grenadier. This name 
he cherifhed with fingular predile@ion, tiil 
the laft moment of his life ; and he exprefsly 
defired in his laft will, to be buried in the 
fame manner as a veteran grenadier. 
Lately at Nice, the Hon. Mrs. Charles 
Ellis, only daughter of the late Lord Hervey, 
whofe premature death, on board the Zealous, 
which he commanded in the laft war, was ° 
deeply deplored by his famfly and friends. 
She died of a confumption at the eatly age 
of 22 years anda half. She has left two fons 
and adaughter, the eldeft fon _wi!l inherit 
through her the barony of Howard of Wale 
en, upon the death of her lponort se 
the earl of Brittol. 
fade, in the 84th year of his age, Mr. Canon 
MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT. 
HE ftate of-trade has been, during laft month, deeply affected by the alarm of a re- 
newal of war between Great Britain and France. When his Majefty’s meffages to the 
two heutfes of parliament firit moved that alarm, our {tocks fuddenly fell 10 per cent. Both 
the gamolers and the dona fide buyers and tellers were entirely nnprepared to mect a change 
fo great and fudden. ‘the general- expectation had been, that ftocks would, for fome 
months, coatinue to rife. The molt opulent and active dealers im this funded property had 
contracted vatt engagements on that belief; and the difappointments and failures on the 
Stock Exchange have, con! equently, been great in proportion to the greatnels of the {pecu- 
lations im the view of a rife in the prices of itocks. Since that period a coultant fluctuation 
of the prices, and a prodigious activity of gambling {peculation, have prevailed on the 
Stock Exchange. One morning the news has been all for war, with an eagernels fierce as 
that of the {peech of Sempronius in Cato. Perhaps by noon, but certainly before the next 
morning, the notes of peace have been with no lets eagernefs and confidence founded. 
Within thefe laft two or three days the news of peace have prevailed : and our 3 per cents 
have rifen in confequeace up to 66. But the glorious uncertainty begins to be renewed ; 
and a fall in the prices of itock, on rumours merely, may, perhaps, ite a day or two, 
again take place. It is pleafant to reflect, that amid “thiy activ ity of {tock-jobbing, and tlicle 
difappointments of the hopes of tome of the {tock-jobbers, there is however no actual dimi- 
nution of the real effective property of the whole nation. One man makes himnfelf fuddenly 
"poorer ; another gets fuddenly richer: but the quantity of thofe things belonging to the nation, 
which are actually convertible to the direct fupport of the lite and powers of man, is not 
at all affected by the lofles and gains of the gamblers in the funds. 
The effect of the alarm of war is more to be regretted, as it is felt by the manufacture 
and the merchant. ‘he prices of Weft India produce have begun to rife both in Britain 
and France. Speculations of different forts, in trade, begin to be hazarded in the prof{peét 
ofawar. The wonted courte of orders to manufacturers, and of the engagements natural in 
trade, during a peace, begin to be‘interrupted. Various undertakings for canals and other 
works of public improvement are left tuddenly ata paute, becaufe money is not now eafily to 
be railed for carrying them on. The applications of ditferent clafles of manufacturers, and mer- 
chants, to Parliament, for relief from taxes, which they thought injurious to their refpective 
bulinefles, are now either fuipended for a time, or are at leatt more hopelefs of fuccels, than 
before the rumour of war was renewed. 
A bill for renewing the reftriction to prevent the Bank of Ireland for a limited time, from 
’ making payments in coin, is now before the Houle of ee A detive has been expreifed, 
that, for the fake of equalizing the Exchange, that Bank fhould, however, be permitted, by a 
claute in the Biil, to make its “payments in notes of the Bank of En gland. A new ichedule 
of the duties on cominodities of trade and manufaéture in Ireland had been prepared by 
the Chancellor of the Irith Exchequer. But, as the variations in it were very numerous, and 
as it involved the impotition of fome additional duties on certain articles, it has been, by the 
earmett oppofition of fome of the gentlemen of Ireiand in Parliament, laid afide till 
the wifhes of the merchants and manuiacturers of that country can be more fully confuited 
phe it; and the rates of the cultoms and duties of Ireland, remain, tor this year, preciiely 
fuch as they were during the laft. 
The Weit India Dock‘ Company, having en its capital of 500,0001. had for the fix months, 
ending the 2ath of February lait, a profit. of 17,9631. and 4d. has fixed the dividend of -this 
“profit at 31. 10s. per cent. tor that Gx months. An additional ftock of 160,000]. is wanted 
