1804.1 
His Serene Highnefs the Reigning Duke 
of Saxe Gotha 5 born January 30, 1745. He 
forbade, in his will, all ceremony to be per- 
formed at his. burial, except fuch as are ufual 
for his loweft fubjeéts. He defired to be bu- 
ried in his Englifh garden, at the feet of the 
coffins containing the bodies of two of his fore 
merly deceafed children. No fpeech or fer- 
mon was to be pronounced on the occafion, 
and no monument to be ereéted over his re- 
mains; but he defired his fecond fon, Prince 
Frederick, would place a tree upon his grave. 
To this prince he has bequeathed his Eng- 
lith garden, which is to be open, as formerly, 
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the ifland, in the Englifh garden. The 
reigning duchefs, with herchild on her arm, 
had, the evening before, ftrewed flowers 
round the grave. The midnight hour ftruck 
when the body entered the garden, carried 
by the fervants of the lateduke The walle 
to the ifland was laid with black cloth, ag 
likewife was the boat that carried it over, A 
dark but quiet night favoured the performance 
of the ceremony, which was only interrupted 
by the fighs and tears of eli prefent, which 
ran in abundance on the coffin. The grave 
had been dug by the courtiers of his late 
highnefs, and was filled by the hands of the 
members of his family. No drums were 
beat, no fermon was pronounced, no cane 
nons were fired, no bells were tolled, 
to all vifitors, The fimple funeral ceremony 
of this fovereign took place onthe night of 
the 2sth of April, according to the with 
expre fled in his wiil, The grave was dug on 
MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT. 
LE the manufaétures and the fhipping adventures, dependent on the flave trade, are now 
entirely at a ftand, in confequence of the fuccefs with which Mr. Wilberforce’s perfe- 
vering endeavours for its abolition are at length crowned inthe Houfe of Commons, It has 
extenfively affected the orders to the manufa@turers, in Lancafhire, who were employed 
chiefly in making cotton-cloths, fit only for the ufe of the Negroes, and for the African 
market. At Birmingham, the manufaéturers who make toys, arms, &c. for the fame mar- 
Ieet, find themfelves likewife, for the fame caufe, difappointed of a part of their ufual orders. 
It has an unfavourable efieét too on the prefent a€tivity of fome of our woollen and coarfer 
linen manufactures. It tends to raife the prices of Weft India commodities, and probably to 
diminish the difpofition of our merchants to advance money for the clearing and culture of 
lands in the Weft Indies. . 
The delay in the arrival of the China fleet, has oceafioned a rife of full 23 “per cent, in the 
retail prices of teas. The prices were alfo higher at the company’s laft fales. And we have 
been told, that they were influenced by certain monopolizing fpeculations of the principal 
dealers, There has been lately, from fimilar caufes, and from an increafe in the demand 
for the American market, a rife in the prices of calicoes. 
Some of the Hull, Newcattle, and Leith fhips, have begun to arrive from the whale- fifhery, 
in Davis’s Streights. It has been in general very fuccefsful this year. The Norwegian 
fifhermen have been equally fuccefsful. ‘Their fuccefs has afforded great relief, from the ex- 
treme fcarcity by which they have for the two laft years grievoufly fuffered. 
Mr. Boulton, of Birmingham, after coining 59 tons of dollars into crown-tokens for the 
bank of England, has executed a fimilar coinage of 800,000 dollars for the bank of Ireland, 
which circulates them as tokens for 6s. each, He is about to export, by permiffion from 
the parliament, an eftablifhment for coinage in Denmark, upon a contract with the Danifh 
government. 
The total amount of the poor’s rate in England and Wales for twelve months, ending 
May goth, 1804, was 5,246,506]. 13s. 73d. The average rate of the levies for the counties 
of England was 4s. 6d. in the pound, on the rents. The average rate in Wales was 7s. 3d. in 
the pound. Above 10,0001. a year, are collected from the public, in London, by beggars in 
the ftreets. | 
The total value of the imports into Ruffia, by the Baltic and by the White Sea, in the 
year 1802, was 33,533,150 roubles. The total value of the exports for the fame year was 
51,713,151 roubles. Among the imports were gold and filver, in coin and bars, to the value 
4,000,000 of roubles. LPintas 
The prime coft of the beft port wine is 721. per pipe. A pipe contains 138 gallons, or 
about 563 dozens. It never cofts the confumer, who buys it in bottles, lefs than at the rate 
of fomewhat more than rool. fterling, a pipe. 
Within thefe laft thirteen years, more than 30 millions fterling. has been paid for grain im< 
ported. f 
The French have for fome time occupied Meppen, for the purpofe of intercepting the paf- 
fage of Englith goods from Embden, into the interior part of Germany; but the King of 
Pruffia protects the trade of Embden fo vigoroufly, that all goods fent from Embden, with 
fuitable certificates, now pafs free from feizure, and are refpected as Puffian property... 
All commercial letters between Norway and England now pafs by the way of Gottenburg. 
The proper effect of muriatic acid on the linens and cottons bleached with it, 1s about to 
be clearly demonftrated to the public, by the law, procured by Mr. Fofter, which enjoins, that 
the word « Muriatic” fhall be conipicuoufly ftamped on linens bleached with preparation 
on this acid, 
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