Damascus, and threaten Aleppo; they have summoned Bagdad. It is reported that they have received supplies of ammunition and military stores from the English in India, and it was believed at Bussorah, that a British officer of rank had arrived in their camp. AUSTRIA. Statistics.-Vienna, Jan. 20. The Prince of Lichtenstein has, by permission of the government, just published a new and comprehensive edition of the Statistical Tables of the Austrian Empire. According to these tables the population amounts to 23,965,000 persons; the regular army comprises 390,000 men, of whom 271,800 are infantry, 50,800 cavalry, 14,840 artillery; the rest consists of guards, invalid corps, &c. There is, besides, an ar my of reserve of 49,530 men, and a militia of 250,000 men, independent of the Hungarian insurrection. The empire comprises 11,328 square miles, 790 towns, 2046 fairs, 65,460 villages and hamlets, and 3,673,610 dwelling-houses. The revenue is now 146 millions of florins, 28 of which are for the support of the court, and 48 millions for that of the army. Vienna contains 6,935 houses, and a population, exclusive of strangers, of 222,808 persons. Scarce Medicines. Our government has offered premiums for the discovery of substi tutes for certain medicines, which are rendered either scarce or unattainable by the war with England. Waal, by the breaking of the ice, and six passengers were drowned. Public Debt.-The Councillors of State have presented to the Legislative Body the plan of a great book of the public debt, to be introduced into this country. The King promises that the interest of the state debt shall never be reduced. State of Commerce.-The Dutch merchants are loud in their complaints of the embarrassments of trade. Immense quantities of cheese are rotting in their warehouses, and their rich butters are converting into soap; yet they indulge a hope that the intercessions of Louis will obtain for them some relaxation of the severity of the commercial laws on the return of spring. Ships entered-Mortality.—No more than 361 ships arrived at Amsterdam from sea, during the last year. Within the same period, 8,962 persous died in that city. Distressed State of Inhabitants.—Letters from Amsterdam of January 14th mention, that great distress prevailed there, and that the number of the poor were increasing every day. Many necessaries, such as salt, soap, and potashes, as well as colonial produce, were daily increasingin price. Present State of the Island.-Madeira, Dec. 14.-The garrison here is without any sick; neither the wines nor the fruits have, at this season, the least ill effect on the constitutions of the soldiers: The Portuguese inhabitants are amused with balls and theatricals, and are entirely our friends, The situation of their mother country appears a matter of perfect indifference to them. Their exports are chiefly to the British colonies, and their importations only from England. I send you this by the Walsingham packet, which had the mail from the Brazils on board. PORTUGAL. here, and there are hopes of its continuance. determination to fix his residence in Asia, as in the times of the Osmans and Amuraths, should the least disorder again occur in the city. The infant son of the late Sultan, Mustapha IV. has received the name of his grandfather, Abdul-Hamid. A herald has announced this event in all the public places. Patriotic Donations.-The whole of thediately laying down their arms, declared his voluntary subscription, whether in specie or notes, does not amount to forty thousand pounds. The following is a list of various articles supplied to the 20th ult. :-Horses 472, saddles 19, mules 59, bridles 5, boots 34 pairs, stirrups 54 pairs, bayonets 1380, shirts 4430, shoes 244 pairs, linen cloth 2332 yards, &c. &c. Donations have been collected in Estremadara and Beira: others, in Tra los Montes and Algarve, but the returns had not been received. RUSSIA. Manufacture of Cloth-The minister for the home department has recently published a proclamation, inviting all persons connected with the manufacture of cloths of every des. cription, in foreign countries, to proceed to Russia; he promises that they shall be well received, either in the old Russian towns, or in the provinces newly incorporated with the empire. In addition to derfaying the requis site expences of the journey, the Russian government undertakes to furnish them with lodgings, workshops, utensils, and wool, and to maintain them, free of expense for six months. Theyare to be allowed the privilege of choosing their own wool, and a fixed price is to put upon it by the government. Every piece of be cloth manufactured by them is to be paid for ready money. When they have given proofs of their dexterity, houses are to be built for them, to which garden ground will be added. They are not to be called upon for the repay ment of any of these advances, so long as they work on account of the government. If at any time they should prefer working on their own account, they will be at liberty to enter into trade at large, with all the privileges of ordinary manufacturers, on refunding the advances which they have received. They will also enjoy the same privileges as the other colonists of New Russia, and will not be obliged to pay, during ten years, any other impost than the ordinary per centage. TURKEY. State of the Capital.- Constantinople, Dec. 11. Tranquillity continues to prevail OBSERVANDA INTERNA. National Debt.-An Account, shewing what has been redeemed of the National Debt, the Land Tax, and Imperial Loan, to the 1st of February, 1800: Redeemed by annual million, &c. 73,258,171 Ditto on account of loans .........74,130,334 ..23,214,395 Ditto by land tax ......... Ditto by 11. per cent. per ann. on Imperial loan Transferred for purchase of life annuities.. 924,236 465,951 Total......£171,993,087 Eulogium of Sir John Moore, by Duke of York. GENERAL ORDERS.-The benefits derived to our army from the example of a distinguished commander, do not terminate at his death his virtues live in the recollection of his associates, and his fame remains the strongest incentive to great and glorious ac tions.In this view, the commander-inchief, amidst the deep and universal regret which the death of Lieutenant-General Sir John Moore has occasioned, recals to the troops the military carcer of that illustrious officer for their instruction and imitation.Sir John Moore, from his youth, embraced the profession with the feelings and sentiments of a soldier; he felt that a perfect knowledge, and an exact performance of the humane but important duties of a subaltern officer, are the best foundations for subsequent military fame; and his ardent mind, while it looked forward to those brilliant achievements for which it was formed, ap plied itself, with energy and exemplary assiduity, to the duties of that station.-In the school of regimental duty, he obtained that correct knowledge of his profession so essential to the proper direction of the gallant spirit of the soldier; and he was enabled to establish a characteristic order and regularity of conduct, because the troops found in their leader a striking example of the discipline which he enforced in others.-Having risen to command, he signalized his name in the 2 X 3 this city, all in good health, twenty-two persons that are from eighty to ninety-two years of age. Three have been buried, hot long ago, reputed to have been aged upwards of one hundred years each. Patriotism.-Plymouth. Many women and children, from Spain, have been relieved with money and clothes, by the humane and active exertions of W. Langmead, Esq. chief-magistrate, the gentlemen of the com leat a hand to make up flannel dresses, and other garments, for those distressed objects of their country's bounty: 753 women received clothes and money; 525 children, clothes; and 124 pregnant women additional relief on account of their situation; so that the number of women and children assisted by the liberality of the inhabitants of this town and its vicinity is 1401, rescued from the utmost distress and penury. west Indies, in Holland, and in Egypt. The unremitting attention with which he devoted himself to the duties of every branch of his profession, obtained him the confidence of Sir Ralph Abercromby, and he became the companion in arms of that illustrious officer, who fell at the head of his victorious troops, in an action which maintained our national superiority over the arms of France. Thus Sir John Moore at an early period obtained, with general approba-mittee, and the ladies of Plymouth, who all tion, that conspicuous station, in which he gloriously terminated his useful and honour able life. In a military character, obtained amidst the dangers of climate the privations incident to service, and the sufferings of repeated wounds, it is difficult to select any one point as a preferable subject for praise; it exhibits, however, one feature so particularly characteristic of the men, and so important to the best interests of the service, that the commander-in-chief is pleased to mark it with his peculiar approbation. The life of Sir John Moore was spent among the troops. During the season of repose, his time was devoted to the care and instruction of the officer and soldier; in war, he courted service in every quarter of the globe. Regardless of personal considerations, he esteemed The Auriol. By this name, after its prothat to which his country called him, the prietor, is distinguished a very superb building post of honour, and by his undaunted spirit, in the Mall, Clifton, near Bristol, now very and unconquerable perseverance, he pointed fast approaching towards completion; comthe way to victory-His country, the object prising an Assembly-Room, 100 feet long, af his latest solicitude, will rear a monument and nearly 50 feet wide, having on the inside to his lamented memory; and coinmander-16 columns, 23 feet high, of the Ionic orin chief feels he is paying the best tribute to der, supporting a dome 30 feet in diameter his fame by thus holding him forth as an ex- and 50 feet above the entablature. Oa ample to the army,-By order of his royal either side the large room are a card and a highness the commander-in-chief, tea-room, each 30 feet square, with cared ceilings in the roof. In the hotel are twelve sitting-rooms, a billiard-room, and sixty bed HARRY CALVERT, Adj. Gen. Horse Guards, Feb. 1, 1809. Hemp. We understand the Court of Directors of the East-India Company has sent. orders for as large an investment of hemp as can be procured, to be sent to England by the next homeward-bound fleet. The private investments of that article that have been recently brought home have more than doubled their capital. Thus, besides af fording to the country a very useful and timely supply of one of the most essential naval stores, the directors will secuje to the proprie.ors of East-India stock a very considerable profit on the speculation. d. f.. Hop Duty. The following is a correct statement of the hop duty for the last year: £. s. d. Old Duty at 1 0 12-29ths per lb. 251,675 19 7 New Duty at 08-20ths per lb. 186,021 7 8 Total Duty at 2d. per lb. or 18s. 8d., per cwt..... 487,697 7 3 Longevity-Bangor.-There are now livng within the parish of Llandegai, near Scarcity of Fish.-On Wednesday, Jan. 4, the fish market at Billingsgate produced only four codfish: they were bought by a fishmonger, at the moderate price of FOURTEEN GUINEAS! The price of salmon has since been still more exorbitant: it has been sold for a guinea a pound ! rooms. Manchester Exchange Building. This building comprises an exchange-roon, diningroom, and drawing-room, ware-rooms, shops and counting-houses, a suite of rooms for the post-office, with cellaring under the whole, well adapted for the depositing of merchandize.-It presents a semicircular front to the Market Place, and a straight one to Exchange-street; is built of Runcorn free-stone, ornamented with half columns of the Grecian Doric order, supporting an appropriate entablature, upon which is placed an attic, divided by a pedestal over each column, and the intermediate spaces are adorned with ofnamented pannels. The exchange-room is contained in the semicircular part of the edifice, and comprises an area of four thousand superficial feet; it is lighted by eight windows, and a semicircular sky-light in the centre of the dome covering the roof, which is 40 feet in height, the dome is supported by eight Ionic reeded columus, standing 12 gibly situated, may be obtained on moderate terms, for an adequate number of years, and no place is or can be better situated for ob taining materials for building of every description, than Newport and its vicinity: and it is an indubitable fact, that those who have already built and building, clear not less than 20 per cent. for their monies, upon an average, on leases of 61 years, and some for 99 years. French General Lefebvre.-The following describes the character and appearance of the French general taken prisoner by Lord Paget's brigade of cavalry in Spain, near Rio Seco. feet from the wall of the room, forming a colonade ; four of which inclose cylindrical tubes of iron, heated by a proper apparatus, affording a regular temperature, aided by three fire places. The dining room is 66 feet long, and 33 feet wide: the drawing room 36 feet long, and 26 feet wide, of a proportionate height, and communicating with each other by means of folding doors, which slide into the partition wall dividing them; and the approach to these rooms is by a commodious geometrical stone stair case, fronting Exchange-street. The site of this building is the property of the right hon. lord Ducie, and is held by the proprietors (who have erected the building by subscription) upon payment of a yearly chief rent.-Lord Ducie has in this instance, as on every other occasion in which the convenience and accommodation of the inhabitants of the town of Manchester have been concerned, displayed his wonted liberality. The underta-Fidelitas ;" and on a scroll round, these king has far exceeded the most sanguine expectations of the proprietors, there being already 1147 annual subscribers, producing a revenue of £2,200 per annum, and an increase is daily making to the list of subscribers, and of the income which will arise from the various ware rooms, shops, &c., before described. Manchester, Jan. 21.-Such was the spirit evinced at the sale of shares in the new Exchange building in this town, on Tuesday last, that in less than half an hour the remaining ones, twenty-nine in number, were sold at a considerable advance on the original .price: Prosperous State of Newport. The town of Newport, Monmouthshire, is so very rapidly advancing in trade and commerce, that houses or apartments cannot be procured for the reception and accommodation of the artificers, tradesmen, labourers and others, necessarily required to be employed in the business of the place; and consequently houses of very mean appearance are advanced in general from 51. to 301. a year. A common labourer's daily pay is 5s. 6d. and frequently, from the scarcity of hands, 6s. and 7s. a day, even at the present season. It is with difficulty also that a traveller can procure even ordinary accommodations for the night, in any of the inns or public-honses in the progress of a journey through Newport, for want of room, every apartment being generally crouded, from the principal inns to the humblest pot-house. It is to be lamented that a proper spirit is not manifested amongst the very wealthy tradesmen and others of the town and vicinity, for promoting the building of a sufficient number of convenient houses for the residence of mechanics and inferior tradesmen, journeymen and labourers, especially as any quantity of building ground, eli He is a well looking man, about 34, extremely reserved, but, from the splendour of his dress, is supposed to be of greater rank than he wishes to allow. His cavalry mantle was beautifully embroidered; in the centre was a brilliant star, with " Napoleon" in the midst of it; under which was the word words in French: " The gift of Napoleon to the Faithful." Over this was the Imperial Eagle, surmounted by a ducal coronet. It has been said he is the celebrated Marshal Lefebvre, Duke of Dantzic, but this is not proved; though he was known to be seen near the seat of action the day when our ar my and the French were engaged. His assistant servant, who is supposed to be a man of rank in disguise, says, he never saw such a body of men and horses as the British dragoons their charge," he said, emphatically, was irresistible in all its points of at"tack." Assistance to Swedish Sufferers.Clapham, Feb. 20, 1809.-Dear Sir,If it is not too late for this month, I beg to inform you that a most impressive sermon was preached here yesterday, by Mr. Owen of Fulham, for the relief of our suffering allies the noble Swedes. The collection amounted to £125. 14s.-Yours, &c. C. W. SCOTLAND. Child-stealing.--The High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh, having revised the informations ordered in the case of Rachel Wright, convicted of child-stealing at Glasgow, delivered their opinions at great length. Their Lordships unanimously agreed in finding that child-stealing is a crime, according to the law of Scotland; and one, that, so often as it had occurred, had been punished capitally. Sentence of death was therefore pronounced on the prisoner, who is to he executed at Edinburgh March 8. Before pronouncing sentence, the Lord Justice Clerk made a most impressive and eloquent address to the prisoner.-All their Lordships were present. J Mortality-Glasgow. The Mortality Bill of this city and suburbs for the year 1808 amounts to 3265; that for 1807 amounted to 2463, being an increase in the burials of last year of 80%.-This arises chiefly from the great mortality which took place last year in the measles. In the city and suburbs 805 died of this disease last year, whereas, in 1807, the number of deaths in the city was only 33, and in the suburbs about as many. It is worthy of remark, that, in the Town's Hospital, where 48 were affected with measles, only 3 died; and that the small-pox, formerly the most destructive disease incident to infants, has now in that place almost subsided. In the year 1795, there died, in Glasgow, of the small-pox 265; and, in last year, only 14. Intelligence Communicated. During the last month, the weather has been so very stormy, that no communication could take place between the coast of Fife and the isle of May. The following extraordinary and ingenious method was put in practice to convey information which completely succeeded. Saturday afternoon at one o'clock, the wind blowing hard S.S.E. the fishermen, from their look-out station, the Castle Yard, Crail, observed a bladder driving ashore at the mouth of the harbour. This they picked up, when a small piece of wood attached to it was found to bear the following inscription:-" Whoever finds this, keep the bladder, but deliver the inclosed parcel to David Horsburgh, Crail." The parcel was delivered as directed, and was found to be a letter from William Martin, the person appointed to keep the light-house, dated the 7th inst. (the very day it arrived), informing his friends there of the welfare of his family. What renders this the more remarkable is, that the bladder should arrive at the very port it was intended to reach from an island distant about 6 piles, and probably within a very few hours from the time it was committed to the waves Compare accounts of bottles committed to the ocean, with a similar intention, Panorama, Vol. III. p. 364, and Vol. IV. p. 153. AGRICULTURAL REPORTS, : | The extreme severity of the weather, du ring the last month, reduced our communications on this subject to little more than what was felt by the public at large and that little, owing to the interruption of the mails, &c. was very late in arriving. Indeed, it arrived too late for our use, We are happy in the consideration that the corn, and vegetation in general, has suffered but little, taking the average of the island, in comparison with what it might have suffered, and the succeeding weather has contributed to re-establish, in most places, the progress which had been suspended. The actual state of this important branch of our annual statistics will appear from the following statements for the present month. Midland District, Warwickshire.→→ The frost, which has prevailed during the greatest part of the present month, has not by any means injured the most forward wheats; they of course look well and healthy. This has most probably been the consequence of their being in most places slightly covered with snow. The operations of the field have, however, been very much retarded by the above cause, and it has been quite impossible to proceed with them. The business of repairing the fences, and that of ploughing, has been quite at a stand; cart-work and threshing out the grain being only practicable. The young stock in the farm-tards, and the stall-feeding beasts, have in common gorie on well, food being in general pretty plentiful, especially in the more northern districts. The turnips, and other green winter crops, have stood the severity of the weather, in most cases, in an unusual manner. The sheep-stock has however, in many cases, been greatly injufed by the snows, and in some situations great numbers are lost. The sheep in the inidland districts áre, in many instances, rotten; owing to ilie want of proper winter food: such as thinips, &c. all which are the result, of tillage. The wheat looks particularly healthy: and the present open weather has already made a great alteration in the appearance of spring vegeta tion. All sorts of grain have been considerably on the advance and both flour and oatmeal are now getting high..... Potatoes have likewise had much rise in price, though they are very abundant in most of the northern countries. The prices of both fat and lean stock keep very steady. Eastern District, Suffolk.Considerable damage has been done in every part of the county from the late excessive floods; since which, except manuring, the operations in the field have been few. We are waiting patiently for the drying of the ground, for which purpose the present fine weather has been particularly beneficial, the plant of wheat and turnips has held in extremely well, and has no damage of any consequence: yet the price of wheat and four has considerably advanced since our last. Lincolnshire. The flooding of the fens in Lincolnshire, has produced incalculable damage to individuals from the drowning of the flocks, as a far greater stock is kept in the fens than in the uplands. The inundation has extended 15 miles in length; and above 150,000 acres of land were flooded, bearing the appearance of a sea. The water in the hundred feet washes was 6 feet 6 inches above the causeway; and the difficulty of finding food for the cattle preserved and driven to the uplands, has caused them to be sold at great loss, |