1 COMMERCIAL REPORT. COLONIAL PRODUCE.-Sugars.-The sugar market, which revived considerably about the middle of last month, is again dull. The stock of British plantation sugar is now 5400 casks less than last year at this time, and the present prices 7s. per cwt. lower, per Gazette average. At the East India House last week nearly 11,000 bags were brought forward to public sale. Bengal brown, sound, sold at 30s. 6d.; yellow, 33s. to 40s. 6d. ; damp, 28s. to 37s.; grey and ordinary white, 38s. to 46s. ; damp, 35s. 6d. to 43s. 6d.-Java, in baskets, yellow, 40s. to 41s.; grey and white, 42s. to 47s.; damp, 39s. to 45s.; brown, in casks, 22s. to 23s; Benaries good white, 45s. to 49s.; damp, 43s. to 45s. 6d. Cotton.-The demand for cotton, particularly Bengals, has been increasing for some weeks, both for export and on speculation; the sales, however, have been limited, since sellers evince great firmness, while buyers are yet unwilling to give more than a trifling advance. The improvement in price cannot be stated at more than d. to d. per lb. Coffee. The demand was very animated about the middle of last month, and prices for some time improved considerably. Within this fortnight the market has been in a very fluctuating and unsettled state, and may be again stated heavy. The stock of West India coffee is now 4030 tons, being 430 more than at this period of last year; present prices 30s. per cwt. lower. Rum. On the 29th ult. a Government contract for 80,000 gallons caused a small improvement of price, but subsequent extensive arrivals have again depressed the market. Prices are again lower, and little business doing. The present stock of rum is 11,769 puncheons, and price of proofs 2s. 4d. per gallon. Stock last year same date, 14,895 puncheons, and price of proofs 3s. 3d. per gallon. Tobacco. The business done in tobacco in the latter end of last month was considerable, although the prices were without improvement. The demand has again subsided. Oils.-There are no accounts yet received of the success of this year's fishery. The prices of Greenland oil continue to advance. Southern oil is also a shade higher. The arrival of two extensive cargoes of sperm yesterday has had great effect on the market; the price is nearly nominal. Linseed improving. EUROPEAN PRODUCE.Tallow. The demand has been rather improving, but without any advance of price. Hemp and Flax continue heavy. The exchange at St Petersburgh has fallen very considerably; by recent accounts it had declined to a fraction under 11d. Brandy in the end of last month experienced an advance in price, on account of unfavourable intelligence as to the vintage. It has again become dull, and lower. Geneva is also lower, and sells heavily at the decline.July 11. Course of Exchange, London, July 13.-Amsterdam, 11: 17. Ditto, at sight, 11: 14. Rotterdam, 11: 18. Antwerp, 12 0. Hamburgh, 35 : 9. Altona, 35 10. Paris, 3 days sight, 25: 0. Bourdeaux, 25: 30. Frankfort on the Maine, 149. Madrid, 37. Čadiz, 374. Gibraltar, 32. Leghorn, 492. Genoa, 451. Lisbon, 53. Oporto, 54. Rio Janeiro, 61. Dublin, 15. Cork, 15 per cent. Prices of Bullion per oz.-Foreign gold in coin, L.3: 180. Foreign gold in bars, L.3: 180. New doubloons, L.3: 16: 6. New dollars, L.0: 5 0. Silver in bars, standard, L. 0:5:2. Premiums of Insurance at Lloyd's.-Guernsey or Jersey 15s.-Cork or Dublin 12s. 8d.--Belfast 15s.-Hamburgh 10s. 6d.-Madeira 20s. to 25s.—Jamaica 30s.--Greenland out and home 31g. Weekly Prices of the Public Funds, from June 16 to July 14, 1819. 15 0 16 0 36 87 (p.brl.)— 91 38 90 5 67 59 112 110 7 35 36 7 13||} 9s 6d 11 6 4 5 4 | || | | | | | ~~~ || ∞ | | 6 | | 8 | || | 114 114 100 66 26 36 32 6 Uncertain. 8 10 9 0 63 10 2 4 1 3 ALPHABETICAL LIST of ENGLISH BANKRUPTS, announced in June 1819, extracted from the London Gazette. Arliss, J. Newgate Street, London, printer Adams, G., and T. Nash, Gloucester, jewellers Brade, W. Preston, Lancaster, liquor-merchant Blanch, W. and J. Bath, tinmen Buchan, T. London, piano-forte-maker Beavan, J. London, wine-merchant Bradley, S. Sandwich, brewer Joy, E. Christ Church, Southampton, fishmonger Knight, A. Wilson Street, London, calenderer Lankester, R. Newington, Surrey, linendraper Lord, E. Burnley, Lancaster, cotton-spinner Longworth, D. Little Lever, Lancaster, bleacher Bowker, T. D. Warmsworth House, York, mer- Linsley, J. jun. Leeds, merchant turers Bealey, R. Lancaster, cotton-manufacturer Buckley, J. Mossley, Ashton-under-Line, clothier Clayton, J. Stockport, Chester, cotton-spinner Case, G. Whimple, Devon, hop-merchant Catterson, J. Kingston-upon-Hull, currier Crandon, C. Fenchurch Street, London, merchant cutler Chilcott, T. Bristol, broker Copland, S. Holt, Norfolk, miller Carr, W. Leck, Stafford, silk-manufacturer masters Cohen, B. London, watchmaker Cavett, W. Angel Street, London, cook Deakin, F., and J. Oughton, Birmingham, wire- Duke, R. Gateshead, Durham, merchant man Dobell, J. Cranbrook, Kent, brewer Eddlestone, R. and E. Lancaster, cotton-manufac turers Frears, W. jun. Liverpool, merchant Frears, E. Ravinglass, Cumberland, silversmith Featherstonehaugh, H. Bishop Wearmouth, coal- Fielder, R. Tenterden, Kent, victualler Garnett, R. Nantwich, shoemaker Hunt, R. H. Great Yarmouth, wine and spirit merchant Hederle, J. Leicester Square, Westminster, tailor Hunsley, W. Wetherby, York, grocer Howard, J. Wooburn, Bucks, papermakér Lanham, H. Dorking, Surrey, grocer Musgrave, J. New Laiths, York, cloth-manufac turer Millward, J. Reddish, Worcester, needle-maker Mackenzie, C. Caroline Street, London, merchant Molling, F. and G. London, merchants Navell, J. Redridge, Southampton, timber-mer Nathan, S. Chandos Street, London, butcher Pollitt, R. Manchester, calico-printer Parkes, W. West Teignmouth, Devon, innkeeper Riding, J. Blackburn, Lancaster, cotton-manufac ALPHABETICAL LIST of SCOTCH BANKRUPTCIES and DIVIDENDS, announced in June 1819, extracted from the Edinburgh Gazette. SEQUESTRATIONS. Alexander, W. jun. Paisley, manufacturer Broadfoot, J. Leith, merchant Carrick, J. lately carrying on trade in Martinique, Dove, J. Leith, merchant and ship-owner Jameson, C. and Sons, Inverness, merchants Kennedy, H. Glasgow, cabinet-maker Laird, J. and Co. Greenock, and W. Laird and Co. Liverpool, merchants Macindoe, Galbraith, and Co. Glasgow, calender ers M'Donald and Gibson, Glasgow, cotton-yarn merchants M'Laren, D. Edinburgh, spirit-dealer Parker, M. Dunfermline, hardware merchant Rankin, J. Irvine, banker and messenger Shortridge, G. Y. Glasgow, merchant Todd, Shortridge, and Co. Leven Printfield, print ers Wilson, J. Leith, merchant DIVIDENDS. Caw, J. Milnal, miller; by J. Gentle, writer in Durie, W. Firhill, grain and cattle-dealer; by J. Fulton, A. Kilmarnock, cotton-spinner, at the Hamilton, W. Glasgow, grocer; by M. Neilson, merchant there, 20th July M'Millans, W. and T. Castle-Douglas, merchants; by J. Liddesdale, writer there, 20th July Scott, J. and A. Muir, Monkland-canal basin, near Glasgow, coal-merchants; by W. Waddell of Stonefield, 30th July. THE LATE HENRY GLASSFORD, ESQ. Died at No. 4, Shandwick Place, on the 19th May 1819, HENRY GLASS FORD, Esq. of Dougalston. Endowed with a powerful intellect, and distinguished even among the few by his inflexible integrity, and unsullied honour, Mr Glassford seemed born for a public station, and was qualified for a high one. His mind was capacious, firm, and energetic; his understanding clear and collected; he was prompt in decision, and indefatigable in pursuit. In those situations of a public nature, which his necessary avocations, and particularly his unwearied exertions for the benefit of those with whom he was connected, allowed him to occupy, his services were marked and important. During the most trying periods of national difficulty and alarm, which commenced with the late war, his exertions were conspicuous. He held the situation of a Vice-Lieutenant in Stirlingshire, and commanded a corps of Yeomanry Cavalry, and afterwards of Infantry and Cavalry united, in that county. To the formation and discipline of these corps he devoted his attention and his time, with unremitting energy, training them by his labour, and animating them by his example, and his spirit. He was, besides, a member of the Volunteer Regiment of Light Horse, which was embodied for the public defence in Glasgow, and to his duties in that capacity he paid the same assiduous attention. Mr Glassford was more than once chosen to represent the County of Dumbarton in Parliament. In the zealous and able discharge of his duties in this and all other VOL. V. situations undertaken by him, he was surpassed by none; sacrificing to them all personal considerations of convenience, emolument, and ease. At the time when the numerous body of merchants in this and other parts of the kingdom, who had sustained such losses by the American war, and whose indemnification was left in a great measure unprovided for at the peace, resolved to prefer their claim for compensation, first to Government, and afterwards to the Houses of Parliament, Mr Glassford was one of the small number, three on the former occasion, and two on the latter, who were deputed by the merchants in this city, to conduct the application: and although these claims were, through the opposition given to them, by his majesty's ministers, ultimately thrown out by a very small majority in the House of Commons, a due estimate was made by the whole body of merchants interested, both here and in London, of his important and persevering exertions in the management of their cause. For the service of the public in Parliament, Mr Glassford was qualified in a very eminent degree by the consistency of his principles and the independence of his views; by his clearness in the arrangement of business, and his accuracy in detail. But even that object of favourite and laudable ambition, disinterested as it was in him, and unconnected with views of personal aggrandisement, the sense of what to him appeared a stronger duty, and a severe regard to the rule of conduct which he had laid down, determined him to forego, and to confine his attention to other objects, and M other toils, far less congenial to his own disposition, as well as less prominent in the eye of the world, but the relinquishment of which he considered would be injurious to the interests and welfare of others. He accordingly resigned his seat in Parliament, and retired in a great measure from the scenes of public life. Stedfast to his principle, and unswerving in the line of right which he pursued, difficulties could not deter him, and disappointments did not change. His own exertions and his own attainments he ever valued low. He stopped not to receive outward distinctions, nor placed his account in them. His virtues were of the elevated order, and it was their excess which constituted his failings. Liberal and indulgent to others, he was severe and unrelenting to himself, flattery could not reach him, and he shunned applause. Mr Glassford was elected Rector of the University of Glasgow in the years 1805 and 1896. The election was, on both occasions, unanimous. He was named, in 1815, to be one of the Board, constituted by Royal Commission in the month of February of that year, for inquiring into, and regulating, the fees of Officers of Justice, in the Courts in Scotland. But this appointment also, and the emolument attached to it, he resigned in a few months afterwards, from motives similar to those which had induced him to relinquish his seat in Parliament, and from other private considerations of the purest and most disinterested nature. Mr Glassford was of an uncommonly healthful and robust constitution he died, after a few days illness, in the 55th year of his age. As a character, to which those in public stations may fitly be directed for an example of public virtue, we have thought ourselves privileged to express those sentiments respecting him, in which every one to whom he was known will unite, and to offer this imperfect tribute to his worth. Of his more private virtues, and of his importance to those connected with him in the relations of domestic life, it is not our province to speak, nor to estimate their grief, who mourn in secret the loss of such a friend, and the failure of such a prop. How repeated, and how impressive are the warnings which we receive from God. "Be ye also ready, for in such an hour as ye know not, the Son of Man cometh."-"Prepare to meet thy God." THE LATE LORD CHIEF BARON DUNDAS. June 17, 1819.-Died at Arniston, the Right Hon. ROBERT DUNDAS of Arniston, late Lord Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer. His Lordship had been for a long time in a very delicate state of health, and, although he occasionally recruited strength, his friends have for a considerable period felt great alarm for the fatal event which they all now so deeply deplore. Mr Dundas was the eldest son of the late Lord President Dundas of Arniston, by Miss Grant, youngest daughter of the Honourable William Grant, Lord Prestongrange, and was born on the 6th of June 1758. He entered advocate in the 1779, and at a very early age was appointed SolicitorGeneral for Scotland, at the time the now venerable Sir Ilay Campbell got the situation of Lord Advocate; and at the promotion of the latter as President of the Court of Session in 1789, (on the death of Sir Thomas Miller,) Mr Dundas succeeded to the office of Lord Advocate, while his friend, Mr Blair, the late President, was appointed Solicitor-General. Mr Dundas continued to hold this high office till 1801, (during which period he sat in Parliament as member for the county of Edinburgh,) when, on the resignation of Chief Baron Montgomery, he was installed into that office, which he held till within a short period of his death. It is so common to eulogise public men, when the silence of death has hushed all hostile feelings of which they might have been the object, that it may be thought we only beat the common tract when we speak of the amiable and valuable qualities of the late Lord Chief Baron. It is, however, the universal feeling that few public men have descended to the grave with stronger claims to the respect and affection of all who knew him. His Lordship cértainly was not endowed with those brilliant talents which were conspicuous in many of his family; but, joined to very respectable abilities, he possessed in an eminent degree those graces of mildness, moderation, and affability, which blunt all personal and political animosity, and were so particularly displayed in the very trying times in which he held the situation of his Majesty's Advocate. We allude, of course, to those recently after the French Revolution, when the minds of men in this part of the country, as well as in others, were agitated with feelings of no common interest. At that eventful period it required, in the person holding the powers and responsibility of Lord Advocate, decision and firmness,-command and moderation of temper; and men of all parties now agree that Mr Dundas, in that situation, possessed and displayed those qualities in a degree salutary to the public, and most honourable to himself. Firm in his official duties, he blended the discharge of these with a spirit of tenderness to those whom he thought misled, and of conciliation to all who differed from him in the opinions at that time agitated; and |