Prices of Grain.-Theatrical Regifter.-Bill of Mortality. 279 AVERAGE PRICES of CORN, from Mar. 12, to Mar. 17, 1787. COUNTIES upon the COAST. Wheat Rye Barley Oats Beans s. d.ls. d.js. d.fs. d.s... .d. 4 73 43 012 COUNTIES INLAND. 4 80 113 33 93 0/2 23 10 Durham Bedford 4 60 Cambridge Huntingdon Northampton 4 102 61 10 Rutland 3ww40 Northumberld. 4 43 2 71 10 4 Cumberland 5° Weftmorland Cheshire Leicester Monmouth Nottingham Derby 5 8 Scafford Salop 92 11/2 Hereford 02 8'2 Worcester 4 100 02 112 Suffex 4 Warwick Gloucester 513 4 65 Wilts Oxford Bocks WALES, Mar. 5, to Mar. 10, 1787. North Wales 5 314 52 101 REGISTER. COVENT GARDEN. 1. Such Things Are-Devil to Pay 2. 3. Ditto-Poor Soldier 5. Ditto-Enchanted Caftle 6. Artaxerxes-Barnaby Brittle 7. 8. Man of the World-Enchanted Castle 9. 10. Such Things Are-Rofina 12. Ditto-Love and War 13. Love in a Village-Enchanted Castle 14. 15. Way to Keep Him-Love and War 16. 17. Duenna-Devil upon Two Sticks 19. Such Things Are-Love and War 20. Man of the World-Ditto 21. 22. Such Things Are-Love in a Camp 23. 24. Love in a Village - Barataria 26. King Henry the Eighth - Rofina 27. Confcious Lovers-Intriguing Chamber[maid 28. 29. Such Things Are-Love and War 30. 31. Careless Husband-Comus Bill of Mortality from Feb. 27, to Mar. 27, 1787. Buried. Males Females 8021631 | Females 8841692 Whereof have died under two years old 454 Peck Loaf 2s. od. EACH DAY'S PRICE OF STOCKS, IN MARCH, 1787. Ann. 1777. Ditto 14 per C |; per C Long Short Ditto India | India India S Seat Old 1726 Confol. 1778. Stock. Aan. Bonds. Stock. Ann. New 13 per C Ann. 1751 75 74 New ; per Ct 4perCt Excheq Lottery Navy. Scrip. Scrip. Bills. Ticket! 2 dif. 754 74 95 22 14 1544 54 NB. In the 3 per Cent, Confols. the highest and lowest Price of each Day is given; in the other Stork the higheß Prise only. METEOROLOGICAL TABLE for April, 1787. Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer. in. pts. in April, 1787. w.froft, thickish ice, fair, harsh air. w.froft,thickith ice,fun,harthwind. ftorms of wind and rain.2 fun and clouds, rain. rain, hail form, heavy clouds. heavy clouds & fun, heavy fhowers OBSERVATIONS. Alopecurus pratenfis in bloom.-2 Cuckoo fearches ftandard fruit-trees for caterpillars to feed on. A martin feen.-3 Martins and fwifts appear.-4 Germander (veronica chamaedrys in bloom.-5 Hyacinthus non fcriptus in bloom.-6 Winter-crets (eryfimum barbarea) in bloom. This plant, being a native, is a good winter-falad when all others fail from fevere froft It alfo boils very green.-7 Broom (fpartium fcoparium) in bloom. - Horfe-chefnut in bloom and in full leaf. Paftures yellow with bloom of ranunculi. 9 Dragon-fly (libellula grandis) efcapes from its chryfalis.-16 Italian poplar in full leaf-White-thorn (crataegus oxyacantha) and citifus laburnum in bloom.,-12 Wall (283 THE Gentleman's Magazine: For APRIL, 1787. BEING THE FOURTH NUMBER OF VOL. LVII. PART 1. ORIGINAL LETTERS OF STEELE TO *** CAME to your houfe I this night to wait on you; but you have commanded me to expect the happinefs of feeing you at ano. XXXther time of more leifure. I am now under your own roof while I write; and that imaginary fatisfaction of being fo near you, though not in your prefence, has in it fomething that touches me with fo tender ideas, that it is impoffible for me to defcribe their force. All great paffion makes us dumb; and the highest happinefs, as well as highest grief, feizes us too violently to be expreffed by our words. You are fo good as to let me know I fhall have the honour of feeing you when I Dext come here. I will live upon that expectation, and meditate on your perfections til that happy hour. The vaineft woman upon earth never faw in her glafs half the attractions which I Your air, your fhape, your every glance, motion, and gefture, have fuch peculiar graces, that you poffefs my whole foul, and I know no life but in the hopes of your approbation: 1 view in you. know not what to fay, but that I love you with the fincerelt paffion that ever entered the heart of man. I will make it the bufinefs of my life to find out means of convincing you that I prefer you to all that is pleafing upon earth. I am, Madam, your moft obedient, most faithful humble fervant., R. STEELEE. MADAM, Lord Sunderland's Office, 1707. WITH what language fhall I addrefs my lovely fair, to acquaint her with the fentiments of an heart the delights to torture? I have hot a minute's quiet out of your fight; and, when I am with you, you ufe me with fo much diftance, that I am fill in a state of abfence heightened with a view of the charms which I am denied to approach. In a word, you muft give me either a fan, a mask, or a glove, you have wore, or I cannot live; otherwife you must expect I'll kiss your hand, or, when I next fit by you, fteal your handkerchief. You yourfelf are too great a bounty to be received at once; therefore I must be prepared by degrees, lett the mighty gift diftract me with joy. Dear Mrs. Scurlock, I am tired with calling you by that name; therefore fay the day in which you will take that of, Madam, your moft obedient, moft des voted humble fervant, RICH. STEELE. bid or cherry-fucker (mufcicapa grifola) returns. This bird always re.wins a few ways before or after the twentieth, according as the feafon is early or late.-13. Quince (malús cydonia) and yellow goat's beard in bloom-14 Wood lark (alauda arborea) ings hovering and taking circuis round in the air at a vast distance from the ground. Wood-larks in fummer fing all night in the air, and their delicate fong is frequenly mittaken for the nightingale *.-15 Infects destroy the expanding foliage of the oaks. Orobanche in bloom.-16 Rye-grafs and clover mowing, a large crop. While high in air, and pois'd upon it wings Unfeen, the folt, enamour'd wood lark fings." MADAM. |