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tion, and bene efteem, of her affli@ted and 
aifconfolate family. As a daughter and a 
fitter, fhe wasa model well worthy of imita- 
tion. In her were united, not only the ami- 
able, accomplifhed, aiteCtionate wife, but the 
fincere and fteady friend, the prudent counfel- 
lor, the tender foother & every forrow, the 
Monthly Commercial Report. 
brightened its clofing fcene. In attempting 
to draw the general outlines of a character fo 
rich in every. accomplifhment, let not the 
writer be fufpedled of tranfgrefling the limits 
of truth. ‘The juftnefs of the reprefentation 
will be felt and acknowledged by all, who, 
like him, enjoyed her friendfhip, and had an 
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cheerful happy fharer of every joy. She was 
one of the kindeit and beft of mothers. Her 
time and talents were devoted, with pleafure 
and hope, to the delightful duty of? inftilling 
intu the minds of her infants the fentiments 
f gooodnefs. Her day of life was. foon 
fpent, but exalted virtue marked its fleeting 
pailagerefigned ferenity and Chriftian hope 
opportunity of appreciating her real worth. 
SCOTLAND. 
Married.] AtEdinburgh, the Hon. Panera 
Arch. Macdonald, fon of the late Lord Mac-- 
donald, to Mifs janb Campbell, eldeft daugh- 
terof D. Campbell, efg. of Sts Andrew’s-{g. 
. Died.) At Bialnes the Rev, W. Paul, 
minifter of St. Cuthbert’s, 
MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT, 
NQUI RIES into the ftate of the mercantile employ ment of fhipping in the ports of Great 
Britain.and Ircland have lately evinced, that, fince the peace of Amiens, Ships to the 
burthen of 20,000 tons, have been broncht ints the commercial navigationof this country, 
mre than were, immediately before that period, fo engeged: It is inferred, that, fo enable 
as to triumph over the competition of foreigners, in the carrying trade of the world, no re- 
peal of the ‘act impofing the tounage -duty can be at all wanted. But this inference is de- 
duced without coulides® ation; that the carrymg navigation of other countries has, at the fame 
time, increafed; that fome of elie mealures for improving the mereantile navigation of France, 
are but juit coming into operation ; that a part of the augmentation of the thipping in oir 
merchant-lervice 1s owing to the diminution in the demand from government -or tran!ports 
and itore-fhips ; that, to prove, for a country like this, that the tonnage-daty fhould not 
ceafe to be levied,it ought to be firtt fhewn,that its abolition would afford no new encourage- 
ment to fhip-owrers, and would not in the fnelleit degree, leflen the charges:of freights. 
An imtention has been fignified,on the part oi government, to extend to a certain number of 
thote which are called the “Out-ports,the ‘benefits of | permibon to land, and depefit for a time 
on thore, without payment of the duties, tuch goods as are deitined for re-exportation, ‘and 
would, by the prefent revenue-laws, if re- exported, entitle the owners to draw back tire du- 
ties, even if paid for them. The advantages of this arrangement have been already highiy 
convenient to the port of London. Briftol, Liverpool, Hull, Newcaftle, Yarmouth, Leth, 
Aberdeen, may probably derive, in regard* tothe circumitances ot the trade of each, ad- 
vantages of the greateft importance towards their general Peerpen from the fame. te a oe 
_ ments in their favont. i 
The fociety of the fhip-owners of Great Britain have already indetagea inquiries, and. en- 
tered upon prudent, iteady, and moderate meatures of vigilance and remonttrance, ‘in ref- 
pect to hie e enforcement ot the navigation-laws, and the protection of the commercial flip- 
ping of this country from unreafonable impofts and reftraints, from which, purfued ‘with 
zeal and perfeverance, we cannot hefitate to expect the moft effential fervices to the trading’ 
intereits ef this country. Itis highly prohable that they will be enabled to fupport the pe- 
titions for the repeal of the tonnage-duty with {tatements of tacts too numerous—tvo pre- 
cifely applicable tothe partieular point in que{tion, and too undeniably authenticated by un- 
impeachable documents, not to be ee ee. effectual to fupprets every objection againit a 
meafure, which the true interefts of the Brituh empire fo forcibly demand. * . 
The extenfion and improvements of the woollen manufactures of Great Britein have 
gradually introduced into them a-clafs of eapitalifts and workmen, as well as a num- 
ber of manipulations, unautherized by the ancient Jaws, which the beft attention of our 
forefathevs to their ftap!e branch of manufa¢turing induftry had contrived. Profecutions 
were lately inftituted by attornies, perhaps little icrupulous of attempting to thrive m-the 
trade of informers, and in the names of men who would have been little gamers by their 
filccefs, for the purpcfe of enforcing the provifions in faveur of regular apprenticethips to 
weavers, dyers, &c. agamft thole who attempted the bufine’s, without having thus learned 
it. difappoint fuch profecutions, a bill to fufpend, tll the 3d of July next, the laws on 
which my were founded, was brought lately mto parliament. It had received the falleit 
fanction of the commons. The peers, confidering that the woollen manufactures of Great _ 
Britain had rifen to their prefent profperity under thofe laws of which a fufpenfiion was pro- ~ 
poled, and being averfe from the idea that laws thoula be ealily fufpended,, to ipare the 
trouble of abclithing them, would not ‘immediately give their approbation to the: bill, : ne 
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