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Soh M nthly Commercial Report. [ Oober 1, 
On his paffage home from India, the lat of Luxembourg and Maeftricht, from 1774 
and only fon of Col. Holwell, of Tunbridge. to 1794-3 3 of a Diciee aiu Hiftorigue, and other 
The Colonel, a widower, Bad tix fons, five works, making in the whole mere than 13¢ 
of whom he ‘lott at an early age, by a con- volumes. 
currence of unfortunate events, and the fixth, On the road to Verfailles, at the age of 
2 young man of great promife, went a few 64, Ducreux;-a French painter, much em- 
years fince to Indiay where he had realized a ployed formerly in the court, and, as fuch, 
handfome property, by his own induftry. In much known and talked of, but efteemed by 
the laft letter the father received from his the beft judges to be but an indifferent artift. 
darling fon, he learned that he was on his Like the reft of his brethren of the old aca~ 
way to England, to pafs a fhort time among demy, he neglected no means to excite atten- 
his friends. The communication was afub- tion among the nobility ; and this frequently 
jet of much joy to the parent, who antici- anfwered the fame end as the exertion of real 
‘pated the pleafure he fhould derive from abilities. He executed feveral portraits at the 
feeing the only furviving branch of the fa- Court of Louis XVI. and was fent to Vienna 
mily; his feelings were, however, dread- to take that of Marie Antoinette. The pic- 
fully fhocked, when he received, a few days tures he painted there were indifferent, and 
ago, a letter from the Captain of the thip, without colour; and, to give fome excufe for 
informing him, that the veffel had arrived the greyifh hue rae prevailed and fpoiled 
fafe inthe Downs, but that his fon fell over- the effeét of his work, he complained that the 
board on their way to the Cape, andthough ky of Vienna was abominable ! The Emprefs 
every exertion was ufed to fave him, he funk Maria Terefa, turning round with a fneer, is 
and appeared no more. faid to have replied, ‘¢ Good Sir, if you had 
At Ratifbon, aged 68, the Ex-jefuit Fa- but acquainted me, I would have ordered that 
ther Xavier de Feller, author of the Fournal a Parifian day fhould have been fent on pur- 
Hifloriqué et Literaire, printed at the towns pofe to.aflift you.” 
MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT, 
HE feafon for reaping and harvefting the grain- crops has ftill continued unufually fine 
and favourable, fo much fo, indeed, that even in the moft northern diftrits the harvei 
is in aconfiderably more advanced ftate than is ufual at this period. We have, likewile, 
the moft pleafing accounts of the goodnefs and the abundance of moft of the grain-crops in 
thefe places, fo that the Larveft of this year may be faid to have been generally favourable 
over the whole kingdom. The barley-crops in Hampfhire and Wiltthire have been eftimated 
at feven quarters per acre. The prices of wheat and barley are on the decline, but that of 
oats more ftationary. . 
Average price of corn in England and Wales, to the week ending September 18,—Wheat 
67s. 34. 5 rye, 42s. 4d. 5 barley, 30s. $4.5 oats, 21s. 8d.3 beans, 36s. 2d.; peafe, 4is. 
The potatoe-crops, where they have been taken up, turn out better i in quality and more 
abundant than has been the cafe for feveral years paft. 
The long-continued dry weather has-been rather unfavourable for the turnip-crops, efpe- 
tially on the very dry foils. 
The pea and bean-crop have not, in fome places, turned out fo good a fample as was ex~ 
pected on being threfhed out. 
The grafs-lands in the more elevated fituations have been greatly injured by the heat and 
drynefs of the feafon ; but in the low and more moift places they are in general pit, good 
and full for this ftate of the year. 
Hops are in general, we believe, a very indifferent crop. 
_ Apples are this year a very partial crop. 
In addition to the favourablenefs of the feafon for the purpofes of harvefting the corn- 
rops, it has afforded an excellent opportunity for preparing the lands intended for wheat, 
and in many diftri€ts very extenfive traéts have been made ready 1 in the moft perfeét manner, 
for the reception of feed. 
In fome places, it has been obferved, that a new fpecies of beetle has been committing 
much mifchief on the young ames of firs, by eating out the pith of the latter fhoots, 
leaving the tender branch a mere excavated tube, which foon afterwards i is feen to y droop its 
head and die. It is faid to be of the /carad or beetle tribe. at og, aha 
Smithfield Market, Monday, September 27.—Beef, 33, 8d. to qs. 8d. ; 3 mutton, 58. te 
§s. 6d 5 lamb, §s. to 6s. qd, 5 veal, 4s. 4d. to 5s. $d.5 pork, §s. to 6s. gd. é 
' Newgate and Leadenhall Markets. Si cinae gs, to 38s Tod. 5 or 48. aa to §38.5 
weal, 4s. 8d. to ss. 4d.3 pork, §s. to Os, ad. ” 
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