1811. | 
‘4st of October the surgeon took out a frac- 
tured piece of the outer table of the frontal 
‘bone, about the size of a sixpence. The 
brain began to ebtrude on the 2d, and on the 
d4cth, a portion of it, about an inch 1n dia- 
meter, and two inches long, came away with 
the dressing, to the innermost part of which 
a piece of the inner table of the frontal bone 
‘was attached, about the size of that formerly 
taken out. On the 16th he became very rest- 
less, and much pained, his pulse 72, anda 
considerable quantity of the brain continued 
to force itself outwards, mingled with blood. 
He became totally insensible on Thursday 
the 18th, his pulse then 120, and was seized 
with an universal quivering, which conti- 
nued till his death, on the 20th, 
In Caithness, Mr. Marcus Gun, tacksman 
of Dalemore, within one day of completing 
the 95th year of his age. It is singular, that 
he and his predecessors have possessed that 
farm for seventeen generations in succession. 
He is succeeded in it by his son, who makes 
the eighteenth. 
At Kaith, Fifeshire, Robert Ferguson, esq. 
father of the gallant Major-general F. 
At Prestonpans, Rebecca Galloway, relict 
of John Mennons, aged 92. She lived to see 
108 of her children, grandchildren, and great 
grandchildren. 
IRELAND. 
A very curious piece of Irish antiquity, of 
pure gold, nearly in the form of a crescent, 
184 inches in diameter, with hooks at each 
termination, was found in che month of July 
jJast, near Derry, by a poor man cutting turf. 
it is supposed to have been part of an orna- 
ment of some Irish chief, and to have lain 
many ages inthe earth. The man who found 
it, had it tossing about his house for a con- 
. siderable time, till a travelling tinker stepped 
in to ask tor a job, and upon seeing it ina 
child’s hand, took and broke it into five 
pieces, and then offered a 20s.-note for it, 
— 
ing tothe close of his life. 
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which excited the owner's curiosity so much, 
that he took it toa jeweller in Derry, who 
paid him agreeable to its intrinsic value. Ig 
wejghs near nine ounces, and is now, with 
the parts soldered to their original shape, ia 
the possession of a jeweller in Dublin, The 
workmanship is very curious, being ham- 
mered out of a thick piece of round wire inta 
a triangular form, and each plane concavé. 
Although of simple appearance, the more re~ 
fined of our days would experience much per- 
plexity in executing a piece of hammer-work, 
which it is evidently, on a similar principle. 
Dicd.] At Clones, the Hon, and Rey. 
R.H. Koper, brother of the late Lord Daire, 
At Everjobh, Mr. Evan Jones, late of 
Chelsea. 
_At Trew, parish of Killyman, county Ty- 
rone, Edw. Rafierty, 105. The only circum- 
stance he had to regret was, that of sleeping 
one night out of the parish he was born in. 
He was perfectly sensible to the last moment 
of his life, and never had an hour’s sickness. 
Near Lisburn, Mr. Robert Galway, aged 
104. He retained the use of his understand= 
There was scarce 
an event took place in the religious er poli- 
tical world, from his youth till the last year 
of his existence, but he could correctly ree 
late. j 
at Newton, near Kilmacthomas, in his 
95th year, Denis M‘Nemara, commonly 
knowmby the name of Rurah, or Redhaired, 
an obscure school-master, but whose works, 
in the judgment of those skilled in the Gae~ 
lic language, entitled him to the appeliatios 
of the last of the Irish bards: his writings im 
the mock-heroic, lyric, and sonnet style, 
were humerous, and many of them mastere 
pieces of poetic beauty ; butin his latter yea:8 
he dedicated more to the compgsition of 
hymns, admired tor their piety aud sublime 
Spirit of devotion. 
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SS RE ES a CS NL OE RE I OT AR i Raa 
MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT 
RITISH TRADE AND MANUFACTURES.—lIn our last report we stated the vast inerease 
of Bankrupcies within the last mouth, compared with similar mouths for seven years 
back, and we regret to say that they still increase in number, and that confideuce in the 
mercantile world seems nearly atanend. With respect to specie, none of either gold or 
silver is scarcely to be seen; and in the shops, &c, it is difficult to get change of a single 
pound note, unless a part of it 1s jaid out tn purchase of some article. Discount (unless bills 
ec. of a few of the first houses in the city) can only be done through the medium of bill: 
brokers, gt au extra commission, exclusive of the regular interest. : 
In Laneashire, the cotton manufacturers appear by the late Gazettes,.as well as by private 
information, to be greatly distressed ; and business quite at a stand. In Manchester, and 
other places, houses stop notonly every day, but every hour. Cotton-wool is inno een at 
any price, and no export of the manufactured goods, except a few fine sorts co Rio, &c. &e 
The trade of Birmingham, Shefheld, &c. quite at a stand, aud no erders for éxecutida 
there, except a few tor our home-consumption. At London, Liverpool, and Bristol, the 
King’s stores are full of al! kind of colonial produce, as cuffce, sugar, rum, &c. for om 
cunty of their duties, and the preprictoys in the greatest possible distress, not being able 
zo force sales of these articles. 
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