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DEVONSHIRE. very extenfive charity. By profeffion through 
Married. | Mr. T. Squire, foap-boiler, of life fhe was a Proteftant Diffenter ; to an ar» 
Exeter, to Mifs M. Sowden, of Whitftone. —- dent zeal for freedom of enquiry and religious 
At Exeter, Mr. J. Straw, mafter of the liberty, fhe united a modeft, unaffected can# © 
Elephant-inn, to Mifs E. Manley, of Barns dour. In converfation, whatever were this 
ftaple-—The Rev. J. Lane Kitfon, to Mifs fubjects, fhe was cool and temperate, buc 
Georgina Buller, youngeft daughter of the yet ever open and ingenuous ; calmnefs and 
Right Rev. Dr. Buller, Bifhopof thisdiocefe. equanimity apparently proceeding from the 
—Mr.S.. Soper, cabinet-maker, to Mifs E. brighteft Chriftian profpeéts, might be traced | 
Manning. in her countenance and manner, even when 
Died.| At Exeter, aged $8, Mrs. E. Clarke, growing bodily infirmities marked the rapid 
widow, a lady of great refpeétability, and and certain approach of deaéh. 
MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT. 
NE of the moft remarkable events influencing the ftate of commerce, which have 
taken place lait month, is the diminution in the prices of the {tock of our public debts 
ot ali denominations. That diminution is the moft ftriking in the difcount at which the 
Omnium, or total allowance from Government for every 100]. of the new loan, Is now on 
fale in the Stock Exchange, a difcount of not lefs than 11 per cent.. The 3 per Cents have 
fallen to 681. Many failures have taken place among the monéy-dealers ; and vari- 
ous engagements, for both real and fictitious fales of ftock, remain, on the part of thole by 
whom the itock was to be received, without fulfilment. For this fluctuation in the price of 
our {tocks, various caufes are plaufibly afligned. The bargam with the Minifters for the 
loans were, in the eagernefs of the money-dealers to out-bid one another, concluded on 
conditions too unfavourable to the lenders. A number of the richeft dealers in money and 
ftocks, and of thofe who do the moit bufinefs, were offended that the negotiation of the loan 
fhould not have been otherwife managed, and have, therefore, as is believed, regulated their 
tranfaétions, as much as poflible, in a2. manner to make the bargains for the loans to turn out 
ferioufly difadvantageous. The {tate of the Continent is now fuch as partly to occafion ftill 
a good deal of money to be withdrawn from the Britifh Funds, which was depofited in them 
during the war, or before it broke out, and, in part, to hinder money from being brought 
hither, which, in a different condition of affairs on the Continent, would {till have conti- 
nued to be laid cut here in the purchafe of ftock. The circumitances of this, as an ele¢tion- 
year, too, have neceflarily occafioned large fales of ftock, for the fupply of Bank of Eng- 
land notes to be laid out over the country ; and much money is now expended in purchatfes 
of land, in adventures of trade, in colonial {peculations, and in eftablifhments of manufac- 
ture, which would otherwife have been employed in the Funds. Befides, for thefe few weeks, 
much money has been withheld from purchafes in the ftocks, merely on account of the ex- 
treme uncertainty and alarm which prevail in regard to the fluctuations and the depreflion 
which, it is fuppofed, that thefe may ftill continue, about this time, to undergo. 
It appears from the reports of the French Minifter of Police, that there are now in Paris 
not fewer than 16,000 vifitors from Britain and Ireland. Thefe perfons may be eftimated to 
expend, one with another, each ten fhillings fterling a day, of money drawn from this coun- 
try. Thus, the fum of Englifh money which is now transferred to France, at the capital 
alone, is not lefs than 80001. fterling a day. No wonder, then, that the exchange with 
Paris fhould be, as it now is, 6 pence in the pound fterling againft London. The commer- 
cial treaty between Britain and France, is believed to be in a train of negotiation. By ac- 
counts of the 25th of June lait, which have been received in Paris from St. Domingo, it 
appears that Port Cape Frangois, Port Republicain, Cayes, and Jacmel, the four principal 
harbours of that ifland, are declared free ports to ail French thips for the importation of any 
goods of whatioever nature, as alfo for the exportation of all goods but iugar, coffee, taflia, 
and rum. A duty of about 6 per cent. is impofed on all forts of provitions imported by 
foreigners, and a duty of about 12 percent. cn any other goods which foreigners fall 
bring into the ports of the iland. The duty on coffee exported is to be, to Frenchmen, 
‘about 6 per cent.—to foreigners, about 12 per cent. On raw fugars, the duties are to fe- 
reigners, about 6 per cent—to Frenchmen exporting the commodity in French thips, only 
3 percent. The belt clayed iugar is now fold at Cape Frangois at 5i. 10s. fterling per ew 
The price of the beft raw fugar is, atthe fame place, 21. 7s. 10d. fterling per ewt. 
Inthe fix firft months of the prefent year, the Dey of Algiers has piratically exatted from 
the trade of the different nations of Europe, in the Mediterranean Sea, the value of 
2,918,500 piatftres. d ‘ 
An alarm has been excited among the merchants of Bourdcaux, left the re-eftablifhment 
of the free mavigation of the Scheldt, and of the commercial profperity of Antwerp, fhould 
injure the trade between Bourdeaux and the French colonies in the Weit Indies.. From the 
siucidaiions which have been published in France upon this fubject, we learn, that the falted 
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