mended him so strongly to the dealers in his line, that credit to a very large amount was given to him. In proportion as he became successful, he embarked in various speculations, but in none was so fortunate as in the funds. He at length amassed a sum sufficient to enable him to decline all business what ever. Mr. Capper, having now lost his old master, was resolved to lead a sedentary life. This best suited his disposition; for although he possessed many amiable qualities, yet he was the most tyrannical and overbearing man living, and never seemed so happy as when placed by the side of a churlish companion...... For several days he walked about the vicinity of London, searching for lodgings, without being able to please himself. Being one day much fatigued, he called at the Horns, at Kennington, took a chop, and spent the day, and asked for a bed in his usual blunt manner, when he was answered in the same churlish style by the landlord, that he could not have one. Mr. Capper was resolved to stop, if he could, all his life, to plague the growling fellow, and refused to retire. After some altercation, however, he was accommodated with a bed, and never slept out of it for twenty-five years. During that time he made no agree ment for lodging or eating, but wished to be considered a customer only for the day. For many years he talked about quitting this residence the next day. His manner of living was so methodical, that he would not drink his tea out of any other than a favourite cup. He was equally particular with respect to knives and forks, plates, &c. In winter and summer he rose at the same hour, and, when the mornings were dark, he was so accustomed to the house, that he walked about the apartments without the assitance of any light. At breakfast he arranged, in a peculiar way, the parapharnalia of the tea-table, but first of all he would read the newspapers. At dinner he also observ ed a general rule, and invariably drank his pint of wine. His supper was uniformly a gill of rum, with sugar, lemon-peel, and porter, mixed together: the latter he saved from the pint he had at dinner......... From this economical plan he never deviated. His bill for a fortnight amounted regularly to 4/. 188. He called himself the champion of government, and his greatest glory was certainly his country and king. He joined in all subscriptions which tended to the aid of government. He was exceedingly choleric, and nothing raised his anger so soon as declaiming against the British constitution. In the parlour he kept his favourite chair, and there he would often amuse himself with satirizing the customers, or the landlord, if he could make his jokes tell better. It was his maxim never to join in general conversation, but to interrupt it, whenever he could say any thing ill-natured. Mr. Capper's conduct to his relations was exceedingly capricious; he never would see any of them. As they were chiefly in indigent circumstances, he had frequent applications from them to borrow money. "Are they industrious?" he would enquire; when being answered in the affirmative he would add, “ tell them I have been deceived already, and never will advance a sixpence by way of loan, but I will give them the sum they want; and if ever I hear they make known the circumstance, I will cut them off with a shilling." Soon after Mr. Townsend became landlord of the Horns, he had an opportunity of making a few good ready money purchases, and applied to the old man for a temporary loan: "I wish," said he, " to serve you, Townsend; you seem an industrious fellow; but how is it to be done, Mr. Townsend? I have sworn never to lend, I must therefore give it thee:" which he accordingly did the following day. Mr. Townsend proved grateful for this mark of liberality, and never ceased to administer to him every comfort the house would afford; and what was perhaps more gratifying to the old man, he indulged him in his eccen tricities. Mr. Capper was elected steward of the parlour fire, and if any person were daring enough to put a poker in it without his permission, they stood a fair chance of feeling the weight of his cane. In summer time, a favourite diversion of his was killing flies in the parlour with his cane; but, as he was sensible of the ill opinion this would produce among the bye-standers, he would, with great ingenuity, introduce a story about the rascality of all Frenchmen, "whom," says he, "I hate and detest, and would knock down just the same as these flies." This was the signal for attack, and presently the killed and wounded were scattered about in all quarters of the room. This truly eccentric character lived to the age of 77, in excellent health, and it was not until two days before his death that a visible alteration was perceived in him. Having risen at an earlier period than usual, he was observed to walk about the house, exceedingly agitated and convulsed. Mr. Townsend pressed him to suffer medical assistance to be sent for, which Mr. Capper then, and at all times, had a great aversion to. He asked for a pen and ink, evinced great anxiety to write, but could not. Mr. Townsend, apprehending his dissolution nigh, endeavoured, but in vain, to get permission to send for Mr. Capper's relations, and tried to obtain their address for that purpose. He refused, saying that he should be better. On the second day, seeing no hopes of recovery, Mr. Townsend called in four respectable gentlemen of the neighbourhood, and had seals put upon all Mr. Capper's property. One of the four gentlemen recollected the address of Mr. Capper's two nephews of the name of Dutton, who were immediately sent for. They resided in the neighbourhood of Rosemary-lane. were As soon as the old gentleman's dissolution had taken place, his desks, trunks, and boxes opened by the Messrs. Duttons and their lawyer; when they found 100%. in bank notes, a few guineas, a great many government securities, and a will; which the parties present proceeded to read. It was curiously worded, and made in the back of a sheet of banker's checks. It was dated five years back, and the bulk of his property, which was then upwards of 30,000l., he left equally amongst his poor relations. The two nephews were nominated executors, and were bequeathed between them 8000l., in the three per cents. What has become of all the property which has been accumulating since the will was made, does not appear. From Mr. Capper's declaration in his lifetime, there was reason to suppose he had made another will, as the one found did not appear to be witnessed. REPORT TO THE LEGISLATURE OF NEW JERSEY ON THE MANUFACTURING SOCIETY AT PATTERSON, IN THAT STATE. THE number of shares originally subscribed were four thousand, at one hundred dollars each; seventeen hundred have been forfeited, two thousand three hundred shares have been paid. The original stock, two hundred and thirty thousand dollars, has been expended in erecting the works, and in fruitless attempts to carry them on: there now remains of the original stock unexpended twenty thousand dolI have lars, put out at interest. made a faithful enquiry in order to find the books containing the parti. cular items of expenditures, but have not come at them. I was informed these accounts were in the hands of a person who is gone into the western country. During the time the works were carried on by the society, there were no rents or profits Remains unexpended on the last five years' rents There are belonging to the society seven hundred and fifty acres of land, valued at thirty dollars per acre One mill seat leased to Kinsey and Crane, for seventy-five dollars per year, making a principal of The dwelling houses, shops, and out houses, fifteen in number, valued at One grist mill, and new saw mill MACHINERY. Fourteen carding machines, value Eight drawing and roving machines Seventeen frames for spinning, &c. Six mules with eight hundred and eighty-two spindles Ten jennies, with seven hundred and fifty-one spindles The society have leased one mill 3,350 00 seat to Kinsey and Crane for seventy-five dollars per year, on which they have erected a paper mill..... 170 37 There is room for forty others, equally as good, which, at some future time, will become valuable; at present the value cannot be ascertained. 22,500 00 1,071 43 7,500 00 2,500 00 October, 1804. JOHN DODD. GENERAL HAMILTON. GENERAL HAMILTON's grandfather, Alexander Hamilton, Esq., of Grange, in Ayrshire, married Elizabeth Pollock, daughter of sir Robert Pollock, in Renfrewshire, by whom he had a very numerous family. The general's father, James Hamilton, being the fourth 2,100 00 son, was obliged to seek his fortune in the West Indies, when the gene340 00 ral was born in the island of St. Vincent's. His mother was an 4,000 00 American lady, and to her relations at New York he was sent, at the age of sixteen, for his education. 1,373 00 After attending the college at New York for three years, he entered the American army as captain of artillery, and, soon after, by general Washington's invitation, became his aid-de-camp, in which station he 550 00 Two batting frames, with reels 340 00 served until the capture of lord Cornwallis' army, at York Town, in Virginia. In 1780 he married the second daughter of general Schuyler, a gentleman of one of the most respectable families in America. much greater than on the eastern coasts of England and Scotland, arising probably from the vicinity of the former to the vast Atlantic. CLIMATE OF GREAT BRITAIN. THE inhabitants of Britain, in the southern part of the kingdom, enjoy the light of the sun, at the winter solstice, for eight hours, and at the summer, sixteen; on the borders of Scotland, the shortest day is six hours and a half, and the longest seventeen and a half; but, in the northernmost of the Shetland isles, the shortest day is only four hours and three quarters, while the longest extends to nineteen and a quarter: indeed here the inhabitants see to read at midnight. A table of the mean annual and monthly temperatures, which the atmosphere, in the different latitudes of the country, has a tendency to observe, gives the following results from which it will be seen, that the climate is, in general, milder than could have been expected in so northerly a latitude, owing to insular situation, high state of cultivation, and, perhaps, to other causes. Lat. April 50 53 56 59 61 PUBLIC PLACES AT PARIS IN 1802. UNDER the monarchy, nothing like the present number, which amounts to seventy, was ever known. Such a variety of amusements is almost incredible, in the midst of a war, unexampled in its consumption of blood and treasure. It proves that, whatever may have been the public distress, there was at least a great show of private opulence. Indeed a spirit of indifference, prodigality, and dissipation, seemed to pervade every class of society..... Placed at the bottom or top of Fortune's wheel, a thirst of gain and want of economy were alike conspicuous among all ranks. Those who strained every nerve to obtain riches, squandered them with equal profusion. No beings can be fonder of diversion than the Parisians. Like the Romans, they are content with panem et circenses, which a Frenchman would render by spectacles et de quoi manger. On the score of amusement, at least, the republic is one and indivisible. In times of the greatest scarcity, many went dinnerless to the theatre, eating whatever scrap they could procure, and consoling themselves with being amused for the evening, and saving 52.91 50.2 47.5 45.091 43.5 fire and candle at home. July The average quantity of water supposed to be evaporated from the surface of the globe, in the course of a year, is 35 inches: in Britain, it is calculated at about 30; whereas the mean quantity of rain in that country is found to be 32,532 cubic inches. In Ireland, and the western coasts of Britain, the quantity of rain is The following list of public places, though fewer than existed here two years ago, will show the ardour of the Parisians for "runnning at the ring of pleasure." Few of these are shut up, except for the winter; and new ones succeed to such as are finally relinquished. Theatre des Arts Francais Feydeau Louvois Theatre Favart, now Opera Buf- de la Porte St. Martin de l'Ambigu Comique des Jeunes Artistes des Jeunes eleves Cabinet de demonstration de Physiologie et de Pathologie. Before the revolution, Paris could boast of no more than three principal theatres, exclusively of l'Opera Buffa, introduced in 1788. These were l'Opera, les Francais, and les Italiens, which, with six inferior ones, called petits spectacles, made up ten in the whole. The subaltern des Delassemens Co- houses were checked by the privi miques sans Pretension du Marais de la Cite des Victoires de Moliere de l'Estrapade de Mareux des Aveugles leges granted to the Comedie Francaise, which alone had the right to play first-rate productions: it also possessed that of censorship, and sometimes exercised it in the most despotic manner. Authors, bickering with comedians, who dictated the law to them, solicited in vain for a second French theatre. The re de la Rue St. Jean de volution took place, and the unli Beauvais Bal masque de l'Opera de l'Opera Buffa Ranelagh au bois de Buologne Frascati Idalie Hameau de Chantilly Paphos Vauxhall d'hiver d'ete a Mousseaux a St. Cloud au Petit Trianon Jardin de l'hotel Biron Thelusson Marbœuf de l'hotel d'Orsay Fetes champetres de Bagatelle Colisee mited number of theatres was presently decreed. Many new ones were opened; but novelty dispersing the amateurs, the number of spectators did not always equal the expectation of the managers; the profits, so much divided, proved insufficient for them all, and several were soon reduced to bankruptcy. Three theatres of the first and second rank have been destroyed by fire within two years, yet upwards of twenty are at present open, almost every night, besides several associations of self-denominated artistes-amateurs. Amidst this glare of dramatic wealth, theatres of the first rank have imperceptibly declined, and at last fallen. The Theatres Favart and Feydeau, at which French comic operas were chiefly represented, have been obliged to unite their strength, and their disgrace has not affected any of those which do not disdain scenes more coarse, and language more unpolished. At present (1802), government appears to have taken this decline Amphitheatre d'equitation de of the principal theatres into consi Franconi Panorama Exhibition de Curtius deration. It is rumoured that the stage is to be subjected to its former restrictions. The benefit resulting to the art itself, and to the public, from rivalship, is questioned, and |