AVERAGE PRICES of CORN, from the Returns ending April 15, 1809. Wheat AGGREGATE AVERAGE PRICES of the Twelve Maritime Districts of England and Wales, by which Exportation and Bounty are to be regulated in Great Britain: Rye Barley Oats Beans Pease Oatmeal | Beer or Big. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. 44 11 32 6 58 558 0 47 0 91 10 63 5 PRICES OF FLOUR, April 24: S. d. 00 0 Fine 85s.-Seconds 75s. to 80s.—Bran 14s. to 16s. 6d.—Pollard 32s. to 36s. Average Price of SUGAR, computed from the Returns made in the Week ending Od. to 11. 18s. Od. Average 11. 15s. Od. Average 51. 15s. 6d. Od. Average 61. 18s. Od. Average 11. 13s. Od. Smithfield-Hay..... 51. 5s. Beef..... Veal.... Clover....61. 6s. ......6s. Od. to 8s. Od. Pork... EACH DAY'S PRICE OF STOCKS IN APRIL, 1809. Printed by Nicots and Sos, Red Lion Passage, Fleet Street, London:] SIR J. BRANSCOMB and CO. Stock-Brokers, 11, Holborn, 87, Cornhill, 58, Haymarket, 269, Stran! stu GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE LOND. GAZETTE Cornw.-Coventry Doncafter--Derb. Exeter 2, Glouc, 2 Hereford, Hull 3 Sherborne, Suss. Stafford-Stamf Taunton-Tyne. Shrewsbury WakefiWarw. Worc. 2.-YORK3 IRELAND 37 SCOTLAND 24 Camb.-Chath. Carli.2.-Chefte12 ChelmsCambria. ... Jerfey2.Guern.25 Meteorolog. Diaries for April and May 1809 394 ARCHITECT. INNOVATION, No. CXXXIV.. 430 440-452 453-456! List of Greek Proverbs for absurd Actions 438 Average Prices of the Markets for May Embellished with a faithful Portrait of JAMES ANDERSON, LL.D. &c. ; and with a Perspective Inside View of ST. MARY'S CHAPEL, KINGSTON UPON THAMES. Br SYLVANUS URBAN, GENT. Printed by NICHOLS and SON, at CICERO'S HEAD, Red Lion Passage, Fleet-street, London: where all Letters to the Editor are desired to be addressed, PosT-PAID. 1809. The average degrees of Temperature, according to observations made at eight o'clock in the morning, are 39 25-30; those of the corresponding month in the year 1808, 43 3-30; in 1807, 42 10-30; in 1806, 43 24-30; in 1805, 42 28-30; and in 1804, 37 22-30. The quantity of Rain fallen this month is equal to 3 inches 75-100ths; that of the corresponding month in the year 1808, was 5 inches 37-100ths; in 1807, 0 inch. 42-100ths; in 1806, 1 inch 29-100ths; in 1805, 2 inches 78-100ths; in 1804, 2 inches 27-100ths; and in 1803, 1 inch 80-100ths. METEOROLOGICAL TABLE for May 1809. By W. CARY, Strand. THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, Mr. URBAN, J For MAY, 1809. May 25. OHN LOVEDAY, D. C. L. whose death is recorded p. 284, was the only son of John Loveday, Esq. of Caversham, near Reading, by his first wife, Anna-Maria, eldest daughter of William Goodwin, Esq. of Arlescote, in the county of Warwick, by his second wife, Abigail Bartlett. He was born Nov. 22, 1742; and for a twelvemonth received instruction at the Grammar School in Reading, under the Rev. Haviland John Hiley, M. A. "a name," as Mr. Coates observes, "still remembered and revered as the Busby of that Seminary" Mr. Hiley having resigned the School in 1750, Mr. Loveday continued and completed his School education under his successor, the Rev. John Spicer, M. A. a man of considerable ingenuity, talents, and worth, who was a frequent contributor, in prose and in verse, to Mr. Urban's pages. In the year 1760 he was entered as a Gentleman Commoner of Magdalen College, Oxford; where he was distinguished, as, in the same situation, his father had been before him, by the regularity of his conduct and attention to his studies. It was the singular felicity of his early school-intimacies, that they were permanent; and of his play-mates in the Forbery, George Vansittart, Esq. M.P, for Berkshire, and Charles Fanshawe, Esq. of the Middle Temple, Recorder of Exeter, feelingly regret the termination of an uninterrupted friendship of more than sixty years. It was less surprising, but not less happy, that his College connections were also lasting; and the learned Bishop of St. Asaph, originally a Demy of Magdalen College, and the Rev. Dr. Chandler, sometime Fellow of that Society, share largely in the sorrow of his earlier acquaintance; for, indeed, as has been truly observed on the occasion, an uninterrupted, friendship" eyen "of fifty years is no ordinary event in life. When Dr. Chandler * History of Reading, p. 344. was preparing his splendid edition of the Oxford Marbles, Mr. Loveday assisted him in that elaborate work; a circumstance which gave his mind a predilection for the fascinating study of Antiquities, but with no advantage, as he would sometimes say, to his classical and more important studies. Having been regularly admitted to the Degree of B. C. L. October 10, 1766, and D. C. L. June 5, 1771, he became an Advocate with increasing repute and practice in Doctors Commons, till in 1777 he married Anne Taylor Loder, only daughter and heir of William Taylor Loder, Esq. of Williamscot, near Banbury (great grandaughter of Mr. Goodwin before-mentioned, by his first wife, Abigail Booth) by whom he has left four sons and one daughter. He possessed a very ample library; his father's noble collection of books, having been nearly doubled by his own acquisitions, including many that were scarce and valuable bequeathed to him by that admirable scholar, Mr. Merrick. Few men indeed, if we except perhaps his incomparable father, were better acquainted with the contents of a library; and no one ever was more willing to communicate the stores in his possession. Accuracy was the governing principle, and, as it were, the very life of all he did; which, in point of analogy and orthography, he endeavoured perhaps, in some few instances, to carry to unattainable or untenable consistency and perfection; for in language, which was never yet framed by philosophers, established usage must, in many cases, be a law, from which there is no appeal. Of accuracy not pushed too far, and of useful information by him on various subjects, innumerable specimens are to be found in the Gentleman's Magazine; to which for many years past he was a contributor, under the signatures of Antiquarius, Academicus, Vindex, Scrutator, and others; though there were letters occasionally under each of those signatures, |