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Prices of Bullion and Courses of Exchange.

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HAMBURG bills at st. or short date, (shil. Flem.) per £ Sterl. 34 3
Do, at two and a half or three months date,
PARIS, at sight or on demand, francs & cents
Do. at two to three months date

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Table, containing the Prices of Bullion and Courses of Exchange, from Nov. 24, 1815, to June 25, 1816, shewing the Intrinsic Va
of Bullion in Great Britain, and the Intrinsic Pars of Exchange, according to the Mint Regulations for the Value of Gold and Silver
at the respective Places; shewing also the extreme High Price of Bullion, and extreme Courses of Exchange, occasioned by the extended
Commercial Proscription that prevailed throughout Europe in the Years 1811, 1812 and 1813.

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AGRICULTURAL REPORT.

THE weather through the whole of the last month has been favorable to the crops of
every description, and, except a very few days, has been remarkably beneficial to agricultural
pursuits. Wheat has the appearance of a full crop even upon those lands where any crop
at all was doubtful at the beginning of spring. The drilled and dibbled crops, at a good-
sized interval, and where they have been clean hoed, look as well as in any preceding year;
the flag is of a fine healthful colour, and the stem strong, but backward in earing.

Barley has much recovered upon tenacious soils, and the crops upon the sands and
loams are the most luxuriant and promising: nothing can exceed their appearance upon
the highly cultivated breadths.

Oats are breaking out into bell from a large luxuriant stem, and promise a full crop.
Beans, peas, and all the legumina, are a large crop, knot well for bloom, and appear
free from the fly.

The soiling crops are thick set, but, from the very backward spring, have not given that
early produce that was expected.

The turnip fallows are very foul and backward, for want of some settled dry weather.
Hops and apples have the most promising and prolific appearance.

The pastures are full of grass, but the hay crop upon cold bottoms, very bad, and re-
quires dry warm weather before there will be hold enough for the scythe.

CORN EXCHANGE, JUNE 24.--Wheat, foreign, 54s. to 82s.-Do. English, 58s. to 885.
Rye, 30s. to 36s.-Barley, 22s to 32s.-Malt, 53s. to 65s.-Oats, 19s. to 31s.-Fine Flour,
70s. to 75s.; Seconds, 65s. to 70s.

SMITHFIELD MARKET, JUNE 24.-Beef, 4s. to 5s. 6d.-Mutton, 4s. to 5s.-Lamb,
4s. 8d. to 6s.-Veal, 4s, to 5s.-Pork, 4s, to 5s. per stone of 8 lbs.

Hay, 31. 10s. to sl. 10s.-Straw, 11. 12s. to 21. 5s.-Clover, 41. to 61. 10s.

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Hops, New Pockets. Kent, 61. to 10l. 15s.-Sussex, 51. 155. to 81. 85.-Essex, 71.
to gl.-Farnham, 101. os. to 161,

Average Prices of Corn,

By the Quarter of Eight Winchester Bushels, from the Returns received in the Week ended
June 22, 1816.

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METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER.

From May 25, to June 25, 1816.

Kept by C. BLUNT, Philosophical Instrument-makes, 38, Tavistock-st, Covent-Garden

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GENERAL INDEX

TO THE FIFTH VOLUME.

ABBOTT, Lemuel, particulars respecting,34
Acts of Parliament, abstract of, 45, 157, 255,

354, 457, 547

Addison, on intemperance, 2
Admiralty, the, remarks on, 124-telegraphic
frames to be removed from, 460
Agricultural interest, on the means of reliev-
ing, 214, 272

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- reports, 87, 183, 287, 383, 483,

Agriculture, on the depression of, 196-Mr.
Western's resolutions on, 359
Aikman, Wm. particulars respecting, 34
Albany-house, remarks on, 218
Ali Bey, account of, 330

Allen Viscount, account of, 174
Amateur, extracts from the port-folio of an,
34, 132, 228, 417, 521

Amboise, manufactory of files at, 427
America, commercial treaty with, 72-lite-
rary inteligence from, 332
Americans, rancorous spirit of the, 430
Amiconi, Giacomo, anecdote of him, 35
Amwell, inquiry concerning a resident at, 32
André, Major, particulars concerning, 35—
correction respecting, 207

Andrews, John, his longevity, 567
Angelo, Michael, account of a picture by, 35
Anglesea, Marquis of, coal mines to be open-

ed on his estates, 275

Animal Magnetism, proposed work on, 326
-experiments on, 426

Baillie Capt. particulars respecting, 132
Bank, the, remarks on, 124

Bankrupts, lists of, 90, 185, 278, 377, 474

570

Barbary Corsairs, on their extermination, 505
Barberry-tree, its injurious effects upon
wheat, 53

Bardwell, Thomas, particulars respecting,

132

Baring, J. bis death, 175

Barker, Robert, particulars concerning, 133
Barron, particulars respecting, 133
Barrow, J. C. particulars concerning, 133
Barry, J. anecdotes of, 133, 228

Bartolozzi, Francesco, anecdotes of, 229
Bastard, J. P. particulars respecting, 565
Bastard Mr. his election for Devonshire, 565
Bates, Rev. Dr. his death, 180

Battle of Prague, composers of, 296
Baxter, Mr. on the properties of Clarke's
night-soil, 211

Bazaar, the, account of, 26

Bedford, Duke of, his gift to the Royal Aca-
demy, 521

Beeston Castle, mineral waters discovered
near, 365

Beetle, curious fact respecting one, 54
Bellingham, father of the assassin, an artist,

229

Belvoirlee, destructive fire at, 370
Bentley Hall, remarkable tree near, 293
Berkeley Square, remarks on, 219

torture, sentiments of the Royal So- Bernard, Sir Thomas, extract from his Spu-
ciety on, 307

Animals, cruelty of experiments on living
ones, 394, 510

Appointments, official, 74, 169, 266, 362,
461, 559

April fools, inquiry concerning, 318-an-
swer to it, 507

Apthorp, Rev. Dr. account of, 364
Archer, Mr. particulars concerning, 35
Arithmetical error, correction of an, 315
Armstrong, Dr. on temperance, 128
Artaud J. A. anecdote of, 35

Articled clerks, on the premiums required
with them, 305

Artists, answer respecting some, 32
Arts, fine, review and register of, 58, 152,
245, 333, 447, 542

Society of, proceedings of the, 53, 530
Arundel church, remarks on the state of, 213
As drunk as a piper, origin of the expression,

131

Ashlin, Mrs. error respecting, 369
Astley, John, particulars respecting, 36
Athenæus, anecdote related by, 2

Atkin, Mr. on the murderers of Sir Edmond-
bury Godfrey, 405

Atkinson, Mr. his loss in sheep, 369
Austria, states and population of, 429
Austrian Netherlands, on their union with
Holland, 491

Aylesbury, Earl of, oaks felled on his estate,

374

Bacon, Mr. the sculptor, anecdotes of, 36
NEW MONTHLY MAG.-No.30.

rinna, 513

Bertuch, C. J. his account of Ali Bey, 330
Bethelsdorp, account of the Hottentot Mission
at, 10-present state of, 497

Bibby, Mr. remarks on his performances,

349, 453

Bible, suggestion for one with new references

413

Bideford, discovery of a substance for making
black paint near, 371
Birmingham, regulations at, 372

Pitt club, account of, 434
Births extraordinary, 79, 86, 178, 375, 470
Bisset, J. lines addressed to, 358
Blachford, B. P. death of, 463

Blackburn Pitt Club, account of, 434
Blackburne, Rev. Francis, his death, 182
Bligh, the engraver, particulars concerning,

229

Bloomfield, Robert, subscription for, 233
Blue Coat School, account of, 97
Blunt, Mr. meteorological register kept by,
96, 192, 288, 381, 484, 580
Bodmin, ruinous state of the church at, 564
Bolton Pitt Club, account of, 434

Boosey, Mr. his German Catalogue, 233
Boston, refusal of the magistrates to licence
comedians at, 82

Böttiger, Mr. on the academic institutions
for the modern Greeks, 236-on the ex-
termination of the Barbary Corsairs, 505
Bottles, experiments with corked ones sunk
in the ocean, 212, 389, 390
Bourn, Mr. remark on his Gazetteer, 406
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