BILL OF MORTALITY, from December 24, 1811, to January 28, 1812. AVERAGE PRICES of CORN, from the Returns ending January 18, 1812. INLAND COUNTIES. Wheat Rye Barly Oats Beans Middlesex 112 351 746 1135 556 9 Essex Surrey 112 452 646 835 029 131 831 033 832 MARITIME COUNTIES. Wheat Rye Barly Oats Beans s. ds. d. s. d.js. d. s. d. 105 454 047 832 454 0 108 654 045 433 051 112 000 049 835 000 103 552 044 431 248 99 754 036 10 27 845 2 101 554 96 100 857 6 Kent 255 8 Sussex 655 0 Suffolk 452 11 Camb. 451 0 Norfolk 643 731 347 0 957 of Lincoln 047 11 28 551 5 445 8 York 90 049 844 029 255 5 654 0 Durham 95 800 044 330 200 0 94 800 048 256 0 Northum. 84 751 443 129 200 Stafford 102 900 054 962 2 Cumberl. 90 650 440 929 200 @ Salop 106 1169 058 535 583 6 Westmor. 92 850 040 028 300 0 Hereford 111 1164 057 035 065 6 Lancaster 93 1100 047 432 800 0 Worcester 113 659 456 1037 756 5 Chester 92 000 057 635 1100 0 Warwick 115 600 061 539 664 8 Flint 105 700 057 700 000 0 Wilts 112 058 056 835 860 4 Denbigh 100 1100 055 530 400 0 Berks 113 400 049 1133 260 of Anglesea 00 000 046 028 000 0 Oxford 110 000 048 730 856 3 Carnarv. 96 400 049 827 000 0 Bucks 112 600 046 934 955 1 Merionet. 102 053 1032 000 0 Brecon 122 100 062 428 1000 oCardigan 116 057 923 1100 0 Montgom. 103 200 051 233 700 0 Pembroke 96 Radnor 116 600 0/57 431 200 o Carmarth114 Glamorg. 113 Average of England and Wales, per quarter. Gloucest. 116 105 11155 5151 2131 9156 9 Average of Scotland, per quarter: 83 11144 0142 9128 6149 2 Aggregate Average Prices of the Twelve Maritime Districts of England and Wales, by which Exportation and Bounty are to be regulated in Great Britain....... Somerset 123 PRICES OF FLOUR, January 27: OATMEAL, per Boll of 140lbs. Avoirdupois, January 18, 50s. Kent Pockets..............51. Os. to 71. 7. AVERAGE PRICE OF HAY AND STRAW, January 27: SMITHFIELD, January 27. To sink the Offal-per Stone of 8lbs. Beef....................5s. Od. to 6s. 4d. COALS, January 27: Newcastle 44s. to 53s. Sunderland 00s. SOAP, Yellow 92s. Mottled 102s. Curd 106s. CANDLES, 13s. per Doz. Moulds 14s. TALLOW, per Stone, Sib, St. James's 4s. 11d. Clare 46. 11d. Whitechap 8d. EACH DAY'S PRICE OF STOCKS IN JANUARY, 1812. 31 229 230 shut 1 Holiday 5 Sunday 7 8 11 14 15 2314 19 Sunday Printed by J. NICHOLS and SON, Red Lion Passage, Fleet Street, London. WILLIAM CARTER, Stock-Broker, No. 8, Charing Cross. Met. Diaries for January and February... 981 On Close of last and Opening of New Year 132 and a Delineation of a Branch of the UPAS or Poison Tree, of Jaya. Printed by J. NICHOLS and SON, at CICERO'S HEAD, Red Lion Passage, Fleet street, Londer where all Letters to the Editor are desired to be addressed, POST-FAID. 1812. 30 39 46 29-6 31 35 46 29-14 mostly cloudy, afternoon light rain mostly clear, evening light rain mostly cloudy, some light rain, high wind cloudy, rainy, tempestuous morning clear, afternoon cloudy, light rain The average degrees of Temperature, from observations made at eight o'clock in the morning, are 33-87 100ths; those of the corresponding month in the year 1811, were 28-87 100ths; in 1810, 32-24 100ths; in 1809, 33-17 100ths; in 1808, 33-47 100ths; in 1807, 31-33 100ths; in 1806, 37-7 100ths; in 1805, 33-16 100ths; and in 1804, 33-50 100ths. The quantity of Rain fallen this month is equal to 79 100ths; that of the corresponding month in the year 1811, 2 inches 62 100ths; in 1810, 90 100ths; in 1809, 4 inches 12 100ths; in 1808, 1 inch 5 100ths; in 1807, 2 inches 28 100ths; in 1806, 5 inches 97 100ths; in 1805, 2 inches 44 100ths; and in 1804, 4 inches 43 100ths. METEOROLOGICAL TABLE for Feb. 1812. By W. CARY, Strand. Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer. Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer. Feb. O 48 40 60 cloudy 32 46 12 40 40 29, 72 fair 50 42 36 showery 33 ,56 fair 48 37 22 fair 14 40 48 41 ,30 stormy 31 46 36 47 78 fair ,60 showery 47 46 ,59 small rain 50 48 ,63 cloudy 47 42 ,52 rain 17 50 48 46 ,42 cloudy 40 ,90 fair 47 47 47 ,77 cloudy 43 30,03 cloudy 47 29,90 fair ,62 cloudy 21 47 56 46 ,67 cloudy 40 ,52 fair 40 75 rain 33 40 92 foggy 46 55 43 ,46 storm, &c. 44 52 40 ,65 snow in night 24 33 43 33 ,62 fair ,38 rain THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINË, For FEBRUARY, 1812. EDUCATION OF THE POOR. "Just education forms the man." GAY. Mr. URBAN, Feb. 1. TH HE "bountiful eye" sees the poor, and the "benevolent heart" feels for them, as brethren, who contain within them the common excellent nature, intelligent minds, and capacities for improvement. The truth and liberality of this sentiment, to the honour of the age and country in which we live, is spreading through the king dom, from the worthiest motives, the warmest hearts, and with the most extraordinary pro ptitude and energy, to ameliorate the condition of the poor, from the pressures of extreme poverty, to a practical system of intellectual culture and proficiency. It is only to develope talents, in order to improve them; and it is not too much to say, we may expect, from the obscured endowments amongst the lower classes of the people, "to hail the general dawn" of understanding that illumines and invigorates the mind of man, as the dawning day opens all nature, and expands all her powers. Acts of charity are distinguished in as many different ways as there are different occasions for them: but the finest feelings of humanity are those expressed in the comprising plan and happy combination of" eleemosynary alms and elementary instruction," that the poor, provided not only with sustenance, and other human comforts, to the relief of their necessities, may be taught" also to improve their condition in common life, and in the approach of death to acknowledge thankfully the " gift of knowledge," and religious education. We have an instance upon record, and that record, it is to be hoped, indelible, where an Act was proposed [Ric. II.] "that no villaines should put their children to school," or, in plain language, that the poor should not be taught to read; and was rejected, in the Council of the Nation, from the most generous feelings, and lively sense in the cause and interest of humanity. If ever there has been a question, it is no longer entertained in these enlightened days, whether "in having been taught to wri'e," the poor have not derived, from this manual ac quirement, a benefit to themselves as essential as their services to the community.-Instruction, it is true, may be perverted, as fine penmanship may lead to forgery: but, if semina ries for educating certain classes of the people, "who are unable to pur chase instruction," are not encour aged; if institutions similar, for in stance, to that of Chris's Hospital, are not filled as at present, and, it is hoped, ever will be filled, with youth trained to industry and integrity, edu cated and exercised in all branches of knowledge useful to themselves and to the community; then the successi ›n of able men, and of assistants, must fail to serve the commercial world, the church, and state. Here the "original observation of Sir Robert Ladbroke, knt." in the House of Commons, is to be recorded, "that not one of the thousands educated in Christ's Hospital had ever held up their hand at the Old Bailey." If then material qualifications are obtained from education, for the purposes of common life, how deplorable is the state of the “uneducated," where the seeds of knowledge have never been sown, or the latent sparks of improvement have not been elicited! The mind of man, depressed, detained, en laved by ignorance, is lost to virtue and exertion, in the deprivation or neglect of the "intellectual better half," whilst the machine of body, the wonderful structure, and the work of God, remains on earth to vegetate and rot, till it shall be restored to a |