AVERAGE PRICES of CORN, from the Returns ending January 17, 1801 S INLAND COUNTIES. 074 072 Wheat Rye Barley Oats Beans Stafford 154 0100 099 158 882 0174 000 079 246 ogo 2 98711 Hereford 145 096 092 944 700 p Worceft. 169 496 0196 943 799 8 0109 456 093 10 146 800 080 445 483~ 4 145 1100 071 3/40. 680 200 078 844 3179 Wilts 138 075 69 441 869 6 Average of England and Wales, per quarter.. 136 10/93 281 1/43 3178 3 Average of Scotland, per quarter. 114 8171 6160 545 1081 I AVERAGE PRICES, by which Exportation and Bounty are to be regulated. Wheat Rye Barley Oats Beans 121 3 96 4 3 2 78 125 1093 271 337 248 1143 149 893 074 4 57 659 547 178 114 10 76 70 544 6800 228 071 661 11 45 489 9 92 1/71 $135 3/4+ 1177 2 1205 to 180s. | Horfe Pollard PRICES OF FLOUR, January 26. Fine 115s. to 120s. 36s. to 40s. OATMEAL, per Boll of 140lbs. Avoirdupois, 78s. od. PRICE OF HOPS. Suffex Pockete Ditto Bags 151. 11s. to 161. OS. Ditto Bags Farnham Pockets 141. 00s. to 191. PRICE OF HAY AND STRAW, January St. James's-Hay 41: 165. od. to 61. 8s. od. Average Price of SUGAR, computed from the returns made in the week ending Jan. 219 1801, is 845. od per cwt. inclufive of the duty of Customs paid or payable thereon on the importation thereof into Great-Britain.. Beef SMITHFIELD, Jan. 26. To fink the offal-per ftone of 816. 5s. 8d. to 6s. 8d. os. od. to os. od. 35. 8d. to s. 8d. 55. od. to 75. c. Pock Veal 65. c. to 7s. 6d. TALLOW, per tone of Elb. 4s. 78 COALS. Beft in the Pool bos. cd. to os. od. Sunderland, -oos. od. to oos. cd. SOAP, Yellow, ocs.Mottled, cos.--Curd, Dos. 80 39 40 3.0 foggy A. M. clears up P. M. .8 light fhowers, fun at intervals 4. A very tempeftuous night.-9. The fea, although apparently withont motion, yet very noify.-17. The blades of crocus and daffodil appear.-19. The buds of fycamore turning green. Sea gulls in land.-21. A panfey in flower.-. The fea very noify. 30. Black willow puis forth bud. The season continues remarkably mild, in consequence of which vegetation is for ward, and that not less than a month at the fame period last year. Fall of rain this month 1.62 inches. Evaporation o.o inches. Walton, near Liverpool. METEOROLOGICAL TABLE for February, 1801. Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer. J. HOLT. Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer. 42 47 46 40 29,62 cloudy 12 26 30 13 27 29 28 29 45 50 41 ,56 fair and windy 31 ,46 cloudy 73 cloudy 52 cloudy 73 cloudy 32 57 cloudy 75 fair. 53 cloudy 21 43 48 49 56 43 45 23 rain ,77 fhowery 22 39 44 40 38 14 rain ,21 fair 46 56 fair ,50 thowery ,83 cloudy 37 44 36 30,09 fair 32 41 40 ,16 fair 9960046 W. CARY, Optician, No. 182, near Norfolk-Street, Strand. THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, For Mr. URBAN, *** FEBRUARY, 1801. Feb. 18. **OUR valuable correfpondent, "The Rambler" (vol:LXX. p. 1158) feems to have enjoyed the benign Christmas day with the taste of a Naturalift; and I perceive, by his laft two letters, that he can write as agreeably from his garden as from Waterdown or "Skiddaw. I noted it, as a circumftance remarkable on Chrifimas day, that many honey-bees were wandering fome diftance from their hives in fearch of food; and I was pleafed that my fhrubbery afforded them fome wood-laurel flowers. The bee is an infect, Mr. Urban, that I never can fee or mention without reflecting on its value; and therefore I hope you will allow me to expatiate on its merits, which are become of more confequence than ever, now that heavy taxes, and the exorbitant prices of the common articles of houfe-keeping, have reduced middling people to fhort allowance, and the poor nearly to ftarvation. We are now entering on a war with the nations that have hitherto principally fupplied us with bees-wax; and even were it not fo, I know not why we fhould be obliged to other countries either for that or for any other commodity that our own is capable of producing; for I would have our United Kingdom be independant of all other states in as many refpects as is poflible. The Royal Society, as feveral other Agricultural Societies, have been feveral years holding out encouragement for the nurture of bees; yet the practice of that branch of rural economy is not fo general as it might be. The yeomanry are too wealthy to attend to it; and in the peafantry there Exifts a strange indifference towards making any exertions for their own benefit. In attention to bees our cottagers are excelled by many of the unenlightened hordes that live within the gripe of the Imperial Ruffian Bear; for travellers inform us, that the Finns, &c. keep hun dreds of hives; and that they at tach fo much confequence to honey, as to confider it as a bribe or offer ing of fufficient value to render their adored luminary, the Sun, propitious to their marriages. Even one of the wretched tribes of Guiana is in the habit of forming candles of bees-wax and ruthes; but that is a practice that cannot be adopted in England, on account of an arbitrary law that impofes a penalty on making candles in private houfes. Our housewifes used to make their own candles of the refufe-greafe that accumulated in their kitchens; but, when the duty was laid on candles, the exercife of that piece of ingenuity, frugality, and industry, was put an end to by act of parliament. All forts of food for hogs and poultry are become unpurchafcable by the poor; and the difficulty of earning an honeft maintenance has fo much increased the practice of pilfering, that it is almoft impoffible to fecure any, thing from thofe people who get their living by moonlight. Bees are therefore now the only liveftock that cottagers can prefervé : they require not any food to be bought for them, nor any locks to protect them; for they are fo induftrious they can feed themfelves nine months in the year; and fo pugnacious, that a thief muft cafe himself in ox's hide to fucceed in carrying them off. In extraordinary long durations of froft, it is neceffary to give the weakly ftocks,, a little honey; and it is adviteable to cultivate crocutes and wolfsbane /for |