to pity, but to relieve the diftreffes of the 
poor, which he did, ** not to be feen of - 
men,’ but in eheiiance to his God, and to 
gratify his own benevolent heart. 
At Whitehoufe, near Belfaft, aged 57,5 
Nicholas Grimthaw, efq.; a gentleman of a 
placid temper, gentle manners, and a moft be- 
-nevolent hearts. the patron of induftry in his 
neighbouthood, and the ‘ufwearied benefac- 
tor of the indigent and diftrefled. He might 
juftly be ftyled the father of the cotton manu- 
faSture in this country, for he firft eftablifhed 
it in this part of rhe kingdom in its feveral 
branches, and brought it to a degree of per- 
fe€tion and excellence formerly unknown in 
Treland. His fine tafte and exalted genius 
were ftrikingly difplayed in every part of his 
extended manufatture, and:in the numerous 
improvements he made. For the few years 
before his death in whichhe afed as a magif- 
trate, he was eminently ufeful in’that cha- 
rater in his neighbourhood. As a matter, a 
parent, and a friend, he was furpaffed by none. 
The lofs of a moft amiable wife made an im- 
preffion on his feelisig heart, which time could 
not cure, ner years érafe, which unhappily 
tended to impair his Health, and haftened his 
diffolution. By his death his numerous fa- 
mily are deprived of a moft affectionate and 
indulgent. father 3 the poor, of a compaffionate 
and liberal friend 5 and the community, of an 
intelligent, ufeful, and valuable member, 
DEATHS ABROAD. 
Aged 4o, M. Claude Chappe, adminiftra- 
tor of the telegraphs, and whofe name is ine 
feparable from that uféful invention.- 
_At Gottingen, John Frederic Gmelin, one 
of its moft laborious and learned profeffors, 
whe was born at Tubingen, in’ 1748. He 
was the auchor of feveral performances on 
vegetable phyfiology, and-the clafiification 
of plants, and likewife publ#fhed numerous 
works on the materia'medica and chemifiry, 
mineralogy, and»every. part of natural hif- 
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edition of the Syftem of Nature of Linnzus. 
‘He, however, introduced great diforder into © 
the fcience, by multiplying _ the fpecies, 
Gmelin was alfo the author of a Hiftory of 
Chemiftry, forming a part of the Hiftory of 
Arts and Sciences, undertaken by the pro- 
feffors of Gottingen. The world is indebted 
to’ him for the difcovery of feveral ‘excellent 
dyes, extraéted from vegetable and mineral 
fubftances. As a man, he pofleffediunime 
peachable integrity 3 he was mild, modeft, 
and laborious ; a good hufband, an excellent 
father, and a faithful friend. 
At Lifbon, aged 83, Theodore de Almneys 
da, member of ‘the Royal Academy of Sci- 
ences of that city, and of the Royal Society 
of London. The works pvublithed by him 
amount to forty volumes, exclufive of five 
volumes of tranflations. He has left feveral 
‘manufcripts, for the publication of which he 
had obtained the periniffion of the cepforthip, 
At Paris, M. Julien, member of the clafs 
of fine arts of the National Inftitute.- Though: 
advance¢ in years, he {till laboured ‘with gnee 
cefs. He was one of the beft ftatuaries that 
France pofleffed; his laft work was the marble 
ftatve of Pdufiin: His Bathing Nymph, in 
white marble, and the ftatue of La in rp 
are confidered as his chefs’ d’euvres. 
isd 3 Calcutta, Henry Kennedy, M.D. late 
of Cultra, in the county of Down, efq. and 
phyfician in the Flon. the Eaft India Com- 
pany’s fervice. Suddenly cut off in the 
flowcr of his age, and in a diftant quarter of 
the world, ‘his lofs is the more feverely felt 
hy his friends and relations. A found under 
‘fanding, added to talents of a fuperior nature, 
promifed fair: (had be lived but ‘a few years) 
to ree raifed him to the firft rank in his pro- 
fefho In him his family have fuftained an 
ise parts lofs ; his profeffion has loftone who’ 
would have been to it an ornament; and foe. 
ciety at large an ufeful and valuable member. 
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: MONTHLY, COMMERCIAL REPORT. 
NOTHING | is fo remarkable in our commercial review of the préfent month, as the general 
torpor ahd Geadnefs of almoft évery fpecies of trade and manufacture, 
So. feverely i is this 
fiagnation felt In our great manufa€turing towns, that at Manchefter fome’confiderable houfes 
have been. compelled. to. fufpend their payments, and this has: been followed by the failure of. 
niany others im‘the-metropolis. - All cotton gocds are greatly deprefied i in bree, and Ls ex= 
pected to Bo yet lower. se . 
Owing to the unexpeéted movements of the enemy’s 
tion of the combined force, a great check has been given to our export’ trade. 
the oceen as:traverftd in almoft every dire@tion by our mérchantmen, it is alike fortunate’ 
and extraordinary. that not more of them have fallen-into the hands of the French fquadrons, 
either in the’ Welt Indies,- or in their paffage to and from thence to Europe. “The premium 
of infurance iat ! 
neas onthe fame titks,. : 
The re fraints fo tytanaical Uy impofed by Boneaite on the commerce 2 of Holland, has exe 
_ceedingly embarraffed our intercourfe with that country. 
pofe the new code of Dutch commetce, ithe following are the moft important, and are immee 
diately levelled acainft its trade’ with Great: Eritain.—z. The repeal and abolition of all 
taxes and sefotutions exilting before the decree againtt trading with Great Britaim-—z.- Ao 
prohibition’ of all: -dire& commerce from~ ary, of the Dutch ports with Great Britain. 
3. Every veffel Sin fhall. arrive in. es of the i pe 
E Lites : re 
s fleets, and the yet uncertain deftiniae 
‘Confidering: 
Lloyd” s has’ varied in the courfe of this month, from . to twenty- -five guile 
Of the various Articles oni ch com- 
S chiee ports, with falfe or nareee ee i ae 
aly eas a 
‘One of the mot ceMbraed’ is his - 
