7 
$10 
accepted, and, by his merit, rofe to the 
xank of Lieutenant-colonel. For many years 
he held the lucrative employment of adju- 
tant-general to the forces in India; and is 
fuppofed to have accumulated a fortune of” 
not lefs than z00,00cl. As he has )<ft no 
legitimate iffue, the greater part of this fum 
will go to his eldeit brether, Sir John 
M‘Gregor Murray, bart. of Qaurte, in 
Perthfhire. The thock which the news of 
the afurefaid melancholy event muft give to 
the relatives, and more efpecially to the 
two brothers, of te unfortunate gentleman 
deceafed, (who expecied jto have fpent, in 
happinefs, the remainder of his days with ~ 
them in his native land) may be moe eafily 
conceived than defcribed. What muft add 
to their grief on the prefent occafion is, that, 
between four end five years ago, rhe Colo- 
nel had returned from India with an in- 
tention of retiring from fervice; but, find- 
ing his health not fo good in Britain as ip 
Bengal, he went out again, in the Autuma 
of the year 1800, in hopes of being bétter 
feafoned for his native climate at his fecond 
‘yeturn, The eldeft brother (the Baronet) 
has the rank of Colonel in the Eaft India 
Company’s fervice, and, having been bred 
to the law, filled, for feveral years, with 
credit to himfelf, the high and important 
ftation of a Judge in India. The other, 
Alexander, is at prefent Colonel of the regi- 
ment of Royal Highland Edinburgh Volun- 
teers. 
Monthly Commercial Report. 
[April I, 
At Verfailles, in the feyeaty-ninth year 
of his age, Francis Dezeteux, formerly con- 
fulting-furgeon of Camps and Armies of the 
French King, and Knight of thé Order of 
St. Michael, He was, one of thefe enlight- 
ened Phyticians to whom France was in- 
debted for the introdu@ion of the Inocula-— 
tion of the Smali-pox. Dezoteux was fuccef- 
fively Surgeon to the Field-hetpitals of the 
army af “Flanders; Surgeon Major of the 
regimept du Roi; Infpect6r of Military Hof- 
pitals, and Phyfician to the Invaliis at 
Verfailles, His whole life was devoted to 
the caufe of humanity. He miade feveral 
journeys to Loudon, in order to increafe and 
perfeGionate his knowledge in the art of 
Tnoculation 3; the fir experiments with which 
he made at Nancy, and at Pafly, in the 
neighbourhood of Paris; and was obliged to 
cétry on a celebrated procefs againft the 
Parliament of Befangoa, which had declared 
againft Inoculation. Duting the ftorms of 
the Revolution, hé lu& his whole fortune : 
but his poverty did not deprive him either 
of the gratitude of his country, or of the 
attachment of his-friends. : 
On the 24th of Augu®, at Milan, the 
Abbate Fontana, one of the moft celebrat- 
ed Natural.its of Europe. 
In March, at Goa, in the Eaft Indies, Lieu- 
tenant-col. Robert Ker, in the Eait India 
Company’s fervice. ; 
At Reme, in his 51ft year, the Portuguefe 
Embafiador, Alexander de Souzae Holftein. 
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MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT. 
T now appears, by accounts from Bergen, in Norway, that the late embargo vpog 
fhips bound with cargoes of merchandize for the North Seas,: was a feafonable meafure 
Of no fmall commercial utility. A fmall fquadren of Dutch gun-brigs had efcaped into 
thofe feas to intercept our trade at the time when, on account of the immediately previous 
interruption of the winter, the number of the cargoes fent to the northern parts of the 
Cntinent is the greateft. Government appears to have had timely intelligence of that 
expedition. The embargo, impofed at the very proper moment, has probably faved to the 
Value of feveral hundred thoufand pounds, to our merchants. 
Sixty Veffels laden with timber had been cut out of the ice at Bergen, on the roth of 
February ; and were then to fail within ten days. 
The Londoa Dock Company have agreed to add, by a new fubfcription, 360,c001. Rterling 
totheir former capital of 1,200,ccol. With this addition, the works, comprehending the 
éock and warchoufes, will be completed in fummer. . 
The prices of cattle and of leather were fenfibly lower than they had lately before 
been, at laft Briftol fair. They decline, in general, over the country. 
The coinage of money in Great Britain, amounted, in the reign of Queen Anne, only ta 
twolnillions fesling. That of the reign of George the Firft, was eight millions. That 
of the much longer reign of George the Second, amounted but to eleven millions. In the 
reign of his prefent Majefty, money has been coined tothe value of fixty-four millions 
fterling : and of this, thirty-two millions within thefe laft twenty years. ie 
A number of tons of dollars have been fent down to Birmingham by the Canal, to be 
converted into crown-pieces, at leaft to receive the fame inipretiions by the machinery of 
Mr Boulton. This meafure will tend to prevent the circulation of counterfeits; as the 
efie& of Mr. Boulton’s machinery cannct be eafily imitated by any fecret apparatus; and 
4s no counterfeits executed abroad will be fubmitted to the new imprefiion. But we much 
fear that the fcarciry of filver will not entirely ceafe, till a happy change in the fituation 
of the country fhall make it eligible to remove the reftrictien by which the Bank of 
fEsvland is'now prohibited from making its payments in money. It is, indeed, true, that _ 
ii. xate-at which thefe dollar-crowns are to pafs_in circulation is fuch, as to leave {mal} 
Tn 
tcmptation’to export, or melt them down, as bullion. oath. 
