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‘Batic. The ports of Sweden are closed against British shipping, and the consequence 
has been a rise upon most articles of Swedish produce 5 this rise would have, been mure con- 
siderable, were it not tor the timely arrival of a fleet from Gottenburg, which has entered oar 
ports within the last- fortnight. The vessels are well Jaden with Swedish commodJities :— 
Swedish iron in bars, sells at 24], and 251. per ton.—~Stockhulm deals, ‘etch from 801. 10s. to 
861. perloud.—Tar, from 2. 8s. to 21. 10s. per barrel; and pitch, from 214s. 6d. to 23s. per 
ewt. -With respect to other branches of the Baltic trade, it will be sufficient to state thgc 
prices have continued pretty steady since our last, and thet the market has on the whole been 
rather cull. : fF et eee 
GreRMANY. The Silesian linen trade has, in consequence of the occupztion of Trieste by 
the French, lost its only channel. Silesia formerly exported linen to the amount of 6, oF 
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countries have been supplied with Irish iinens. , if 
Prices of Canal, Dock, Fire-Office, Water Works, &c. Sec. 21st of October, 1809.—London 
Dock Stock, 1311.. per ceat. ‘West India ditto, 1831 ‘ditto. East India ditto, 1281. ditto. 
Commercial ‘aittds +1751. ditto. East Country ditto, 961 per share. Grand function Canal 
Shares, 2201. ditto. Gyand Surrey ditto, 80i. ditto. Grand Union ditto, 61. per share pre- 
mium. Thames and Medway aitto, 221. ‘ditto. Kennet and Avon ditto, 45]. per share. 
Globe Fire and Life Assurance Shares, 121i]. ditio. Albion ditto, 551. ditto. Hope ditto, . 
par. Eagis ditto, par. Atlas ditto, par. Imperial Fire Assurance, 64). per share. Kent 
ditto, 471); ditto. Rock Life Assurance, 4s. to 5s. per share premium. Commercial Road 
Stock, 4261, peF cent. London Institution, 341. per share. Surrey ditto. par. ‘South Lon 
don Water Works’ 1371]. per share. East London ditto, 2261. ditto. West Middlesex ditto, 
156}. ditto. Portsmouth and Farlington ditto, 10}. per share premium. ~Kent ditto, 301. 
ditto. Huddersfield Canal, 411. per share. Wilts and Berks ditto, 461. ditto. Croydon 
ditto, SOI. ditto. Auction Mart, 361. per shore premium.—At the Office of Messrs. Lewis, 
Wolfe, and Co. Canal, Dock, and Stock Brokers, No. 9, Change Alley, Cornhill, 
The average prices of Navigable Canal Property, Dock Stock, Fire Office Shares, &c. in 
Octover (to tne 26th), 1809, at the Office of Mr. Scott, 28, New Bridge Street, London.—= 
Moamouth Canal, 116) per share, dividing 6l. clear. Grand Junction, Zi0l. to 291i. Ken- 
net and Avon, 411: to 45h paid up New ditto, 441. 10s, to 461. 10s, - Wilts and Berks, 
421, to 481. Crovaon, 441 to Sul. Thames and Medway, 211. premium, Huddersfield, 401. 
Peak Forest, 521. 10s.° West’ India Dock, 1821. -London Dock, 1971) to 1341. Commer- 
cial Dock, 801. premmum, “East London Water \Vorks, 2001. to 2301. | West Middlesex ditto,’ 
4541.. Kent Ditto, 301. to 311. 10s, premium. “Imperial Assurance, 631. ; e 
8,000,000 doliars to Pertugal, Spain, and America; but, since the war with England, these | 
MONTHLY BOTANICAL REPORT, ~ .-..) > 
ESIDES the ordinary monthly publications, we have, since our last report, met with two 
botanical works, viz. Dr. Mavor’s Butanicai Pocke: Book, and the first volume of a new* 
edition of Dr. Hull's British Flora. Of the first of these, we shall not have occasion to say 
much ; it isa mere enumeration of the genera o- British plauts, according to Dr. Withering’s’ 
arrangement, with afew very trite observations uncer each class, and a blank space*after each 
genus proportioned to the number of its species. It is intended to affurd-the student an op. — 
portunity of recording the habitats, or other observa‘ions he may make;.a purpose, as it ap¢ 
pears to us, much better obtained by carrying a few slips of blank paper, of a determinate sizey 
in lis pocket book ; on the top of which he may write the name of his ‘plant, and then record 
kis observation. “These slips of paper may be preserved, alphabetically or classically arranged, 
@s may be most agreeavle, and can be as easily referred to at any future time; as by turning 
ever the leaves of Ur? Mavor’s Botanical Pocket Book. — ; eh even 
Phe British Flora is a‘work of a very different kind; within thecompass of a small. vos 
lume Dr Hull has given us, not a mere enumeration, but generic and specific characters, of 
every species of phemogamic plants, known or supposed to be indigenous to the British isles. 
The cryptogamic piants are intended to be comprised in a second volums ‘The arrangement 
the doctor has fotlowed, is that of Linnzus himseif, in preference to the system as rerormed 
by Thuaberg; but es this latter is approved by many modern botanists,- he has inserted in 
italics, in the gencral synopsis of genera, at the head of cach class, thé names of such genera 
as would be foend there in the reformed system, as well as of such’species as a ‘student 
would expect to meet with under this ciass from the number of the stameosy; but which are 
necessari!) arranged. with the resc of the genus in another, ana has referred to the classes 
Where cach OF these wil! be found. By these means no'grest inconvenience will be teit-by 
these who lave been moré accustomed to seek for piasts undec Thunberg’s distributions 
Fiav.tats are inserted, and several otier useful observations noted. “Nothing, in short, ‘has 
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been omitted ‘that couls be compressed into a small pocket volume. ‘Thus, Dr. Hull’s new ~ 
éditien of the British Flora, as tar as i¢ extends, is rendered as useful a wade weoum, as the 
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