Count of the Holy Roman Empire. Being a Roman Catholic, his Lordship has never had a seat in the House of Peers. He is succeeded in his honours by his eldest son, the Honourable James Everard Arundel, who married Mary, the only daughter of the late Marquis of Buckingham. 18. In London, whither she bad gone to attend the Yearly Meeting, Martha Routh, aged about 77, many years a Minister in the Society of Friends. A woman of exemplary conduct, whose memory will be dear to all who had the pleasure of her acquaintauce. Zealous in the cause she had espoused, she twice crossed the Atlantic in the work of the ministry; and at home extended her labours through almost every part of the United Kingdom. Her residence was in Manchester. 18. At Seaford, Lady Prescott, relict of Sir G. W. Prescott, Bart.-At Boston, Wm Chapman, Esq.-At Winchester, Miss Jane Austin, youngest daughter of the Rev. Mr. G. Austen, rector of Steventon, Hampshire, authoress of many interesting works.-At Appleton Roebuck, near Tadcaster, aged 77, Mr Yates, an eminent farmer. 24. At Hodsack Priory, near Blythe, universally lamented, Lieut. Col. Mellish, one of the Equerries of H. R. H. the Prince Regent. 16. At Paris aged 49. Wilhelmina, Baroness de Stael Holstein, only daughter of the celebrated M. Necker, by his wife Susan Curchod the friend and correspondent of our historian Gibbon.- Few females have attained the celebrity of Madame de Stael; few writers have been more contradictorily criticized: none more generally read. Enjoying an uncommon acuteness of observation, and possessing an astonishing felicity in expessing her ideas, ber delineations are correct, her sketches of character striking, and her des criptions bold, forcible, and fascinating. Grossly attacked by the hirelings of party, her works have been frequently represented as the reverse of good, and herself as destitute of morality and of the virtues of her sex. That she was at least a good parent the piety of her children is a convincing proof. Subjected for a long period to disease, she had a presentiment she should die in her sleep, she therefore requested her son the young Baron, when he should find her apparently lifeless, to watch her corps for the space of twenty-four hours, as she might perhaps in that time, if not really dead exhibit some marks of returning animation. While bis mother was afflicted, young Holstein never left her; nor till the expiration of three days after her death did he ever quit her chamber, and then only to shut himself up in the same carriage that contained the remains of his mother, and which was by easy stages conveying her to her vault. A bad parent would not have been so revered. Madame de Stael was born in Paris, in 1768, and under two such characters as M. and Mdme. Necker must have received every advantage which education, and an early introduction into the first literary and fash ionable circles, could bestow. When very young she married the Baron de Stael Holstein, at that time Ambassador from the Court of Sweden to that of France: by whom, who died in 1798 she had two children; the present Baron, and a daughter married to the Duke de Broglio, Peer of France. Her writings of the political kind have generally involved her in persecutions. In 1793 she sought an asylum in England; she afterwards resided in Switzerland, Frankfort, Berlin, and Stockholm; and we again find her in England in 1814, when on the restoration of Louis 18th she returned to France, where she finally settled. Her published writings are numerous, and it is understood that several are yet left behind in manuscript, among which is said to be a history of the French Revolution Monthly Report. AGRICULTURAL The continuance of warm showery weather, has a good influence on the appearance of the corn crops, which every where, present the promise of an abundant harvest. In the North of the county, the crops of hay are uncommonly heavy; and the corn fields, of all descriptions, have as fine appearance as can be wished for. Table vegetables, though later than in the southern part, are equally abundant. Potatoes promise to be a very great crop. On the whole, no report can be more favourable for the country, than what we have in our power to present this month. The effect it has already had on the price of flour, is very visible in numbers of poor families, who have thus been enabled to procure a little more of that most useful of all necessaries, Bread. Hops, in the fine dry weather, had begun to revive, and to promise fair for a good produce; this showery weather, it is feared, will have a contrary effect. The sheep in the North, have shorn well; the fleeces are very heavy, and of good quality. Wool seils at 1s. 6d. or 18. 7d. per lb, or at the rate of 21s. per stone, STATE OF THE MARKETS. Corn Exchange, Monday, July 28. Foreign Wheat from 2s. to 3s. lower than this day week. to 4s. per quarter, dearer. Malt on demand, and 2s. higher. Beans and Oats each 25. higher. Best flour 95s. per sack. Malt Fine Ditto 90 to 100 Fine Ditto 76 to 82 Old Ditto 52 to 62 We learn from Manchester, that the cotton trade is becoming rather brisk,---and from Birmingham, that the iron trade is reviving. But however, our manufactures may flourish, while we have artists, void enough of that amor patrie, which should teach them to prefer the welfare of their own country to that of any other, as to induce them to carry their machinery to our neighbours, we can never expect very permanent prosperity. That we have artists of that description, men who prefer a neighbouring state to their own, and who would wish to have the arts flourish in a strange soil, rather than mature them on their own, is evident from the following extract from a Birmingham Paper, the substance of which is taken from the Moniteur. A fellow-countryman, known for one of the finest and most useful enterprisers, which England and France boasts, intends to import from the first of these kingdoms to the second, a rotatory machine, proper for manufacturing of nails. He is in the possession of the designs, the details and the sketch of this machine. Moved by a stream of water, or by a steam engine, of an eight hotse power, it forms every minute 3600 nails of an inch long. If the matrices, which are moveable, be changed, it makes nails from two lines in length, to ix inches and a half. It also forms any sort of small iron work, as triangles, chimes, balustrades for staireases and balconies, and knife-blades; in a word, a great number of the articles of an ironmonger's 8.10p Three persons are sufficient to attend to this machine." Weekly Register of the Price of STOCKS, for July 1817. |