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Merthyr, may be imitated by other towns in 
Wales, and with equal fuccefs. 
Died] At Brecon, Mr, Charles Prichard, 
aged 73, who was eminent in his profeffion as 
a furgeon atid man- midwife, which he had 
prattifed | with mu:h fuccefs in that town and 
neighbourhoed, upwards of forty years. 
At Nantynavyn near Llandovery Carr arthen- 
fhire, aged 6:15 Mr John Rolley, who for a 
period of upwards ef 35 yeers, had conducted © 
the lead-works of Lord Cawder, in that neigh- 
bourhood, with equal jufice to his employers 
and credit to himfeli. From: his earlieft years, 
he had made mineralogy his ftudy, and his 
knowledge of that icience was profound and ex- 
tenfive. R 
SCOTLAND. 
The magiftrates of Edinburgh, have. given 
notice of an intended application to parliament, 
for an act for citablifhing a general fyitem of 
police in that city, and tor vetting the Provoft 
and Magiftrates wich more ample powers for 
Menthly Commercial Report. 
[Dee. 1, 
making and inforcisg a variety of regulations, 
relative to Hackney eoath fares, the weight of 
bread, &c- fimilar to thole eftabl fhed in Lon- 
~don. 
IRELAND. 
Died.] At his feat, Abbeyleix, Queen" g 
County, Thomas Vefey, Vifcount de Vefci, 
Baron of Abbey Knapton. He fuccéeded his 
father, the late Lord, June 25,1761, and was 
created a Vifcount in 1776. In 1769 his lord- 
fhip married Elizabeth Selina Brooke, davgh- 
ter and coheir of Sir Arthur Brooke, by whom 
he has teft iffue three fons and two daughters. 
Ever tenacious of his honor as an ancient peer’ 
of the realm, his title is transferred without 
a {tain together with his hereditary eftates, 
to his eléeft fon, the Bon. John'de Vefci, 
born in +7713, and married to Mifs Brownlow, 
fitter of the Countefies of Darnley and Powerfs 
court, and daughter of the late Right Hon, 
William Brownlow. 
MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT. 
T was earnefily fuggefted, a month or two fince, in one of thefe Reports, that governe 
ment ought to ‘provide, iunmediately, a newend plentiful coinage of gold and filver mo~ 
mey, for the general ufes of our internal trade. That fuggeftion is, we are told, about to be 
carried inte effect. The buliion imported in fuch great quantities from the Continent, by 
Hellingoer, is to be comed into half-crowns, thillings, fixpences, &c. to be iflued to the 
public, inthe payments from government. A new mint is to be built in a convenient fitua~ 
tion nearthe lower. ‘Lhe coinage machmery of. Mefirs. Watt and Boulton, or at leaf 
coming apparatus luch as thele mechanifts lately furnithed to the King of Denmark, is to be 
purchated for ule in the new mint; and in the whole, a fyftem is to ‘be adopted for the ocs 
cafional renewal of our ci-culating gold and filver money, é nd for guarding ifs genuinenefs 
-and purity, which will remove fome of the moit grievous inconveniericies nider. which our 
retail trade now foffers. 
The prices of grain and bread have continued, almof tniformly, to fife oe the 
whole month of November. Large quantities of wheat from the Baltic have been imported 
into London, and expofed to falein Mark-lane. In one week, toward the end of the month, 
the importation was not iefsthan 24,480 quarters. Within thefe la{t two or three days, the. 
prices have fallen a very little ; but the fall cannot be permanent. The crops of the corn 
countries of Europe, taken in general, have been deficient. However, in this and fome 
other countries, the produce may have been realonably abundant. The war, as it extends, 
mutt, of neceility, occafion many of thofe large purchafes of ftores, naval and military, 
which always favour monopoly and raife the prices. Our Minifters and Legiflators have 
never céigned to digeft any’ wife plan for the perpetual prevention of dearth and {carcity. 
It is too late for any meatures of this approachtig Seflion of Parliament effentially ta allevi- 
ate the dearth of the prefent feafon. Nothing bat unequalled mildnets in the winter and 
fpring, or a fudden aiid general cedlation of war over the world, can well fave us from fufe 
fering a good deal by dearth of grain, and otber-firtt neceffaries of life, between this time 
and next harvett ; though it be n not, indeed, probable, that we have any thing like extrem6é 
wailt to fear. : ‘ , 
‘The prices of cetton-waels are advancing ; yet, the planters of Demerara complain that 
the prices are low, and the demand not "brik: The :y allure us, for our comfort, that the _ 
flowers of the céttva have’ been, this year, greatly hurt by worms; and that the produce 
will ot conrie be fcanty. ‘The crop of coffee will not, it is faid, be above one third ef what 
it has been im former years. he produce of the fugar-canes will alfo, it is faid, prove 
greatly deficient. From others of the Weft Tudia fettiements we have fimilay accounts! 
Phe late hurricanes, too, though much lefs deftructive than was feared at the fir, have dif 
ordered the rural labour end trade ot the Weft Indies and South America, enough to afford 
room for railing the prices of the commodities we have from thofe parts; and hence a gene- 
ral rife of price on-almott all Wet India goods. 
The prices of leather conunue to rife ; in this there is nothing furprifing; the confumption 
of that-articie m boots, thoes, harnefiing, &c. becomes continually greater: the army and 
Havy cOnlume one third more leather, we are told, than the fame number or perions would 
do, it difperted over the kingdom in the quiet mdufry and amutements of civil life. Befides, 
there is nothing im which the: attempts of echeapening } nnproveinent have 
lefs fuccefsiul than in the sannfacture of leather. 
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