BILL OF MORTALITY, from July 21 to August 15, 1812, Males - 1012 ? Buried. 1924 Females 912 Females 729 1501 2 and 5 167 50 and 60 122 62 Whereof have died under 2 years old 479 Peck Loaf 6s. 8d. Salt £1, per bushel; 4 per pound. Between AVERAGE PRICES of CORN, from the Returns ending August 15.. 000 082 ooo ooo Worcester 162 676 O Cardigan 144 O Pembroke149 0Carmarth 153 Glamorg. 168 Average of England and Wales, per quarter. Gloucest. 155 155 0,98 2179 10156 2177 6 Somerset 165 100 Average of Scotland, per quarter: Monmo. 184 0100 000 I Devon 151, 200 081 Aggregate Average Prices of the Twelve Ma-Cornwall 150 500 082 845 400 ritime Districts of England and Wales, by|| Dorset 159 900 0180 056 000 which Exportation and Bounty are to be Hants 155 100 060 regulated in Great Britain...... 397-1177 per Sack -s. to 120s. Seconds 110s.to115s. Brau per Q. 18s. to 20s. Pollard 34s.to37s. RETURN OF WHEAT, in Mark Lane, including only from August 10 to August 15: Total 11,161 Quarters. Average 140s. 8d.-2s. 44d. higher than last Return. OATMEAL, per Boll of 140lbs. Avoirdupois, August 15, 57s._7d. PRICE OF HOPS, IN THE BOROUGH MARKET, August 28 : Essex Ditto..............54. 10s, to 7. 03. AVERAGE PRICE OF HAY AND STRAW, August 28: St. James's, Hay 4/. 10s. Straw 31. 5s.-Whitechapel, Hay 4l. 18s. Straw St. 1s. Clover 7. 10s.-Smithfield, Old Hay 5l. 12s. 6d. Straw 21. 16s. 6d. Clover 71. 10s. SMITHFIELD, August 28. To sink the Offal-per Stone of 8lbs. COALS, August 24: Newcastle 47s. to 54s. 3d.-Sunderland 46s. SOAP, Yellow, 90s. Mottled 104s. Curd 108s. CANDLES, 13s. per Dozen. Moulds 14s. TALLOW, per Stone, 8lb. St. James's 4s. 9d. Clare 4s. 9d. Whitechapel 4s. Sd. Days Stock. Red. Consols. Consols. Navy. Ann. EACH DAY'S PRICE OF STOCKS IN AUGUST, 1812. Bank 3 per Ct. 3 per C. 4 per Ct. 15 perCt B. Long Irish Imp. | Imp. India South Sea S. Seat S. Sea India Ex. Bills (Ex. Bills. Om 5perCt. 3perCt. Ann. nium. Stock. Stock. Aun. New An. 2 pr. 2122 561 561 73 881 15 9 dis. 3 dis. pr. Sunday 21 pr. 163 8 dis. 2 dis. pr. 3 2124 881 151 21 pr. 1624 601 8 dis. 1 dis. pr. pr. 561 8 dis. 1 dis. 5 pr. pr. 6 dis. par pr. 885 15% 88 15% 55 2 pr. 1634 61 6 dis. par pr. 2 pr. 1624 883 158 Printed by NICHOLS, SON, and BENTLEY, Red Lion Passage, Fleet Street, London.] THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE: LONDON GAZETIE GENERAL EVENING M.Post M. Herald Morning Chronic. Times-M. Advert. P.Ledger&Oracle Brit. Press-Day St. James's Chron. Sun-Even. Mail Star-Traveller Pilot--Statesman Packet-Lond. Chr. Albion--C. Chron. Courier-Globe Eng. Chron.--Inq. Cour d'Angleterre Cour. de Londres 15otherWeekly P. 17 Sunday Papers Hue & Cry Police Lit. Adv. monthly Bath 3-Bristol 5 Berwick-Boston Birmingham 4 Blackb. Brighton Bury St. Edmund's Camb.-Chath. Carli.2--Chester 2 Chelms. Cambria. SEPTEMBER, 1812. CONTAINING Staff-Stamf. 2 Wore. 2-YORK 3 Sunday Advertise. Jersey 2. Guern. 2. 239 Meteorological Diaries for August & Sept. 202 | Dr. Lettsom's LXXVth Letter on Prisons 226 of W. Poyntell, esq.-Mr. Daniell 295 Obituary, with Anec. of remarkable Persons 296 Bill of Mortality.-Prices of the Markets 303 Prices of Stocks on each day in September 304 By SYLVANUS URBAN, GENT. Printed by NICHOLS, SON, and BENTLEY, at CICERO'S HEAD, Red Lion Passage, Fleet-str. London; where all Letters to the Editor are desired to be addressed, POST-PAID. The average degrees of Temperature, from observations made at eight o'clock in the morning, are 59-10 100ths; those of the corresponding month in the year 1811, were 60-90 100ths; in 1810, 61-32 100ths; in 1809, 61-44 100ths; in 1808, 63-17 100ths; in 1807, 63-52 100ths; in 1806, 62-22 100ths; in 1805, 63-33 100ths; and in 1804, 60-33 100ths. The quantity of Rain fallen this month is equal to 97 100ths of an inch; that of the corresponding month in the year 1811, was 2 inches 5 100ths; in 1810, 2 inches 66 100ths; in 1809, 4 inches 38 100ths; in 1808, 3 inches 6 100ths; in 1807, 2 inches 55 100ths; in 1806, 4 inches 27 100ths; in 1805, 2 inches 22 100ths; and in 1804, 2 inches 26 100ths. METEOROLOGICAL TABLE for September, 1812. By W. CARY, Strand, Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer. Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer. THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, For SEPTEMBER, 1812. Mr. URBAN, Sept. 7. Lay not up for yourselves treasures WHEN I was, not long since, upon earth, &c. but lay up for your 66 reading the late Mr. (Soame) Jenyns's Cursory Observations on several Passages of the New Testament," I paid some attention to his notice of Luke xvi. 9; which he considers as an ironical Reproof of the Pharisees, and not an Exhortation or serious direction for conduct. I rose from his book, fully agreeing with him in his previous observation, that "no Commentator, antient or modern, has YET been able to give us a satisfactory explanation of this passage." I have, since, been looking at the new Edition of Bowyer's Conjectures, and I there find that Professor Schultz also considers what is said as "ironical, and consequently negative."--But did Irony ever proceed from the mouth of the Divine Speaker? I believe, not. Be this as it may, I feel an inclination examine if the passage will not admit another interpretation. I would premise, that xxyw, in the words xayw yw, appears to me plainly adversative: it is Ego VERO dico vobis, &c. That it is often thus used, we have the strong authority of Leigh's Critica Sacra.-We may therefore expect the ra you to contain a precept opposite, in tendency, to the example which it refers to. Looking thus at Tonate ἑαυτοῖς φίλες ΕΚ τα μαμμωνα της αδιI am tempted to understand it, "make to yourselves friends ELSEWHERE THAN FROM the mammon of unrighteousness," &c. &c. This plain exhortation (PERSONE loquenti omnino CONVENIENS) perfectly accords with numberless Texts of Scripture. I will instance two: selves treasures in Heaven, &c. &c. Mat. vi. 19, 20: And, The FRIENDSHIP of the world is ENMITY with God, &c. James iv. 4. I may add a third Text, reported by St. Matthew, as built on the former of these, but connected, by St. Luke, with the passage we are considering: Ye cannot serve God and Mam mon. sense, How desirable then is the "Make to yourselves friends altogether different from the Mammon of Unrighteousness;" i. e. Make God your friend, by faith and righteousness; make HIM your friend who goes before you to prepare a place for you in his Father's House, and there to receive you unto himself! John xiv. 3, 4-But how is this desirable interpretation of the words εκ το Μαμμωνά κ.τ.λ. το be justified? No Commentator even glances at it: nor is it supported by any interpretation of the Preposition ex in the Lexicon of Schoettgenius, Stockius, or Parkhurst.Finding this to be so, I turned, rather hopeless, to Schleusner, and, præter spem, I found him speaking to the point. In his 19th interpretation of this Preposition, having explained ex by sine, and having thus applied it to James ii. 18. (εx TWY YW 08, WITHOUT thy works) as simplicissima ratio locum explicandi ;" he proceeds to observe, 66 nec desunt loca, e Græcis Scriptoribus, in quibus ex pro w ponitur." Here then, I say, is ground for my construction of the passage. — It may be asked, Has Luke thus used EX upon any other occasion? I think he has. The same construction of the Preposition seems at least de. sirable, |