1803.] 
pious and amiable temper which he recom- 
mended to others. Such was his charadier as 
a hufband, parent, and friend, that he will 
long be remembered as one of thofe who ex- 
celled in performing the duties of fuch en- 
dearing. and interefling relations. ‘The ten- 
der and affe€&tionate anxiety with which his 
domeftics hungover him on the bed of ficknefs, 
and‘the loud burft of their grief when he had 
refigned his mortalibreath, are tne bett proofs 
of the kindnefs which accompanied his com- 
mands, and the fidelity which diftinguithed 
his condu&t towards them. To record the 
talents and virtues of fuch a minifter of the 
Gofpel, is part of the duty we oweto the 
public and to religion; anditis with nofmail 
pleafure we add, that the vaft-concourfe of 
citizens, of all ranks and denominations, 
which attended his funeral, aud the lively 
fentibility with which. they, liftened to.an ele- 
gant difcourfe delivered on the foiemn occa- 
fion, are the beft eulogies of the life of the 
deceafed—afford a pleafing hope that fuch an 
example has not been exhibited in vain, and 
to his furviving relatives impart the foothing 
confolation, that, at the refurreCtion of the 
juft, he will be found to have entered into 
the joy of his Lord. 
Lately, M. Mechaig, the affronomer, 
Member of the. firft clafs of the National: In- 
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03 
ftitute, who was fent by the Government to 
make obfervations. He was born at Lyons, 
onthe 16th of Augutt, 1744. On the 13th! 
of Auguft, 1774, the Academy approved) of 
his firft memoir on an eclipfe which he had 
obferved at Verfailles on the 11th of April. 
He then belonged to the marine arfenal, ia: 
which fituation he executed immenfe calcula- 
tions for the improvement of charts. He: 
difcovered and calculated feveral comets, He 
gained the prize of the Academy in 1782, en 
the comet of £667, the return of which was 
expe€ted in £790; and he was received into 
that body the fame year. He was made edi- 
tor of ‘the ‘* Connaifjance des Temps,” and 
fince 1728 that work has affumed a new per- 
feftion.; it has, been every year enriched with 
the labours of M. Mechain.. In 1792 he was- 
employed in the great work of the meridian - 
from. Dunkirk to Barcelona, conjoinily with 
M, Delambre. He returned from it in 179%.° 
But to complete that work, he withed to con- 
tinue it as far the Balearian Iflands, and he fet: 
out for themin 1803. He had, already, with 
great difficulty, recognifed; all the ftations,- 
and terminated three, when he was cut of 
by afever, which prevails every year-on the 
coaft of Valencia, by reafon of the. morafles: 
produced from the overflowing of the rivers. 
MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT. 
HE prices of Stock have again fallen ; but not fo confiderably as was to have been ex- 
pected, from the removal of the aeaince of peace, and from the addition of a. new Loan: 
of fo many millions to the funded debt of the nation. 
reduced flu€tuate between 58 and 59. 
The three per cents, confol and 
The Loan was taken by an union of the principal divifions of the avakea intere%, at a 
ratio equal tO. 59» in. confols, for all the confols and the reduced three per cents, in 
which this ftock is funded. 
Omnium has already rifen to4é premium, 
The goods from the Baltic, do not rife fo much in price as has been ufual, in other fea- 
fons, while the navigation of that fea was fhut up by the ice. 
The re-exportation of Baltic 
goods from England to the Mediterranean, is partly interrupted by the war with Spans 
and in part otherwife diminifhed by. the new trade to the port of Odelfa. 
The exportation of manufaCtured Britifh goods, and :hofe in the higheft and mot poli thes 
manufa&ture, to the Eaft and Weft Indices, and to America, was never greater than at 
prefent. 
The importation of Coals into the port of London in the month of January, was 52,4374 
chaldrons ; being a full general average for that month. 
Coals have gradually dec lined, the . 
laft two months, and Walls End, which always fetch the higheft price, were fold the 22nd, 
of February at Sos. 49s. and 43s. gd. 
The loweft price of that fort of coals in the year 1804, was the 3d of February, 47s. and 
the 27th ditto, 47s. and 46s. od. 
Since then an additional aky of 1s, 2d. per chaldron, has, 
been laid on coals, fo that the prefent price, is very nearly as low as laft year. 
The operation of the New Coal Market A&, 
mixed with fupericr, or rather by compelling the name and fort of coals to be authenticated, 
to the buyer, has reduced the fale and ‘the price of the inferior forts 
by preventing inferior coals, from being. 
confiderably ; as a proof, 
Brinfly coals fold at 32s. 6d. per chaldron, on the 224 February, Bris 16s. 3d. per chaldron, 
lefs than Walls-End, and jutt two-thirds of their price. 
Though fuch inftances have occurred, formerly, as a difference in price of ros, 3d. per 
chaldroa, or equal to 334 per Cwt. on the higheit price, yet the experience of the lat two 
months, fhews a more conttant deprefiion of the relative value of coals, which muft there. 
_ fore be attributed to the caufe affigned. 
Should this difference continue to operate, 
we can never look to the bef fort of 
s 
caals 
being fo low in price, as they have.been, while on the other haod, the inferior forts wil! be 
Rill lower, and it may then become a quettion of domeitis ecoaosny, whether the bet coals 
are always thé cheapeft. 
The 
we 
