823 full moon on the 23rd DAILY PRICES OF STOCKS, FROM JANUARY 26, 1815, TO FEBRUARY 23, Days. India Long Irish 13 per Ct Imp. Omnium. Stock, Anns. 5 per Cu Imp. Anns. 16 dis. 19111901 27 258 2578051 65% 16% 64 32 dis. dis. 28 653 16 64 33 dis. 191 192 Feb. 1 258 257 63 82 943 16 dis. 193 1 dis. 1921 12 3 259$ 8;}65 405 65.823 16 635 1 2 dis. 1933 65 !05 4824 132 dis.. 6 259 2583 65 43 65 43823 16 2dis, 1935 7 258 258 64 64 3,82} 04 16 dis,'193 31 25 8 Holiday. 1645 9 258 103 034 3 3 dis. 10 258 71 649 645 dis. 193 63 3 dis, 193 033 3 34 dis. 1923 164 #dis, 10 dis. 1921 1645 dis, 10.17 dis. 1634 dis. 93 dis. 16 93 16 2 3 $ dis. 1923 102 16 62 3 3 dis. 192 191 10 25 3 dis. 192 101 4 163 AA142 14 645 3D Nicaise, which is near the Thuileries, Vol. III, means of which he accomplished several with gun-powder were provided and plan formed by Buonaparte, and by ripened in his black souli objects at once: of these I shall touch placed by secret agents. The Rue St. He had, several months before, pro- leads to the Opera-house; the chariot of explosion of the miernai pav..., only upon the most important. Now MONTHLY MAG-No. 15. 2 82 61 I'rinted by J. Gillet, Crown Court, Flcet Street, 29.793 13 47.577 All Exchequer Bills dated in the Months of January and February, 1814, TO BE PAID OIF for exchanged for New and including Saturday, February 18. N. B. The above Table contains the highest and lowest prices, taken from the Course of the Exchange, &c. originally All Exchequer Bills dated prior to January, 1814, have been advertised to be paid off, an published, every Tuesday and Friday, under the authority of the Commitlee of the Stock Exchange, by JAMES YETENHALL, Stock-Broker, No.7, ( On application to whom, the orig 194 Table containing the prices of Bullion and Courses of Exchange, from January 27, to February 21, 1815, shewing the Intrin. -775. 1074 Portuguese Gold in Coin, per ounce do. do. Silver in Bars, standard, do. New Dollars, do. Prices of Bullion and Courses of Exchange. Hamburg bills at sight or on demand, per Pound Sterling do. do. Amsterdam, at sight or on demand, do. Do. at two to three month date do. Rotterdam, do. Leghorn, Pence Sterling per Pezza, or Current Dollar Genoa, do. do. do. do. 885, 89s, $59. 86s. 7040.70d. 70d. 31 931 9 31 931 931 0 31 61 23 9 32 132 1/32 132 132 1132 131 101 17 15 22 10/22 1022 1022 10 22 10/22 10 22 0121 801 30/22 3022 3022 3022 3022 3022 20122 29 8 33 1033 8/33 8 33 8 33 8 33 833 833 81 2/34 34 134 34 30 9 10 1010 910 910 10/10 10/10 9 10 16 53 53 53 53 53 53 1493 4023 4023 4023 40/23 40 45 453 45 51 40 40 40 40 140 40 40 393 773 078 67 167 67 167 67 67 67 7 7 78 75 78 4 7 7 7 7 7 7 34 3 3 28 57 & 35 1 1 910 53 491, = (March 1, • The French Livre has lately been introduced, 82? Tko to dis. %D 165 full inoon on the 23rd From the first quarter on the 17th to the 2 Oletron DAILY PRICES OF STOCKS, FROM JANUARY 26, 1915, TO FEBRUARY 23, Days. India Long Irish j3 per Ct Imp. Omnium. Stock. Anns. 1797. Anns. 5 per Cu Imp. Jan. 26 258 65 $65 16 Tž 31 11 dis. 19141005 27 258 25705 65 823 64 32 dis. 165 16 64 32 1 13 dis. 191.1923 Teb. 1 64 3 258 2573 63 16 65% dis. 193 3} 1 dis. 1925 653 163 651 3 2593 665 105 65 8241 16 631 2 dis. 193 65. !6544824 |94 33 15 2 dis. 6 259 258 651 465 44 825 16 dis. 1934 7 258 258 643 648 3,823 404 16 35 i 21 dis, 193 101 34 24 3 dis. dis. 193 63) 11 3 dis. 193 04 811 33 105 161% 3$ 3$ dis. 192 14 dis. 64 64 64 3981 164 621 dis. 1923 93 3 dis, dis. 1600 3$ 24 dis. 16 dis. 935 21 257 25865+ 404 35 21 34 dis. 1921 192 625 191 3 3) dis. 192 23 10 64 | 641 811 101 2 3 dis. 192 4 1641 Trion The carriages Nicaise, which is near the Thuileries, Vol. III, plan formed by Buonaparte, and by ripened in his black soul. ineans of which he accomplished several with gun-powder were provided and objects at once : of these I shall touch placed by secret agents. The Rue St. Ke had, several months before, pro. leads to the Opera-house; the chariot al explosion of the miernas yasmus only upon the most important. NEW MONTHLY MAG. No. 15. 167 I'rinted by J. Gillet, Crown Court, Ficet Street. 3 29.793 101 T-IT 1 47.577 All Exchequer Bills dated in the Months of January and February, 1814, TO BE PAID OIF (or exchanged for Now and including Saturday, February 18. JAMES YETENNIALL, Stock-Broker, No. 7,4 On application to wlion, the old ( 196 ) METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER. From January 23, to February 23, 1815. Kept by C. BLUNT, Philosophical Instrument-maker, 38, Tavistock-st. Covent Garden. Barometrical Pressure. Temperature Moon. Day Wind. Max, Min. Mea. Max Min. Mean. 24.66 36 Jan, 20 NE 27) SW 28 SW 29 sw 302 sw 31 SW 2 N E W 29.80 29.52 29 73 31 29'2 40 45 20 4333 Clear 50 43.66 RESULTS OF THE MONTH. Mean barometrical pressure 29.5482 | Mean temperature wind at S.W. Maximum, 57 wind at S.W. Minimum, 20 4109487 wind at S. wind at N.E. SCALE EXHIBITING THE PREVAILING WINDS DURING THE MONTH. N NE E SE S SW W NW 2 1 1 1 Mean Barometrical Pressure. Mean Temperature. From the full moon on the 25th of January to the last quarter on the 1st of February } 29.274 33.386 From the last quarter on the ist, to the / new moon on the 9th 29.573 41.46 From the new moon on the oth, to the 29.554 first quarter on the 17th 45.372 THE NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. No. 15.) APRIL 1, 1815. [Vol. III. MONTILY MAGAZINES have opened a way for every kind of inquiry and intormation. The intelligence and discussion contained in them are very extensive and various; and they have been the means of diffusing a general habit of reading through the nation, which in a certain degree hath enlarged the public understanding. Heke, too, are preserved a multitude of useful hints, observations, and facts, which other wise might have never appeared...Dr. Kippis. Every Art is improved by the emulation of Competitors.--Dr. Johnson. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. ANECDOTES ILLUSTRATIVE OF THÈ Csa- posed to enlarge the Place du Carroussel RACTER OF NAPOI EON BUONAPARTE. by demolishing some streets and a con (NOTWITHSTANDING the inultiplicity siderable number of bouses. It was; of works which have been published during however, represented to him, that the the last twelve months, for the purpose of purch-se of those bouses, which were let delineating to the world the character of te at very biglı rents, and for which it would most execrable tyrant that modern times be necessary to indemnify the tenants have produced, we are of opinion that the according to this standard, would res following paper will be found to contain both quire a more considerable sum than the novel and interesting information. It is the coffers of the state could then afford. production of an intelligent foreigner, who He replied, that he had no such intenresided at Paris from 1800 to 1810, and was tion; as he thought these old houses, written shortly before the great catastrophe many of which were, besides, in very bad which delivered France and Europe from this condicion, might be estimated at their intolerable scourge.) real va'ue and even below it, and pure I have passed ten years of my life at chased at this rate of their owners. He Paris. On my first arrival in that city, was assured that such a priceeding would at the commencement of the year 1800, render the government un popular, and I beheld in the man who soon afterwards that, moreover, it was nui compatible contrived to secure his election to the with a free republic. He seemed upon consulship for life, what every intelligent this to relinquish the idea, but his mind person considered him,-a hero, a wise was still secretly engaged in devising the and bold director of the important af- means of carrying his unjust scheme into fairs of an extensive empire. He lived execution. The second and very imat that time quite on the footing of a ci- portant object which he had in view, was tizen in the full signification of the term. to obtain a pretext for crushing a number Josephine strove to distinguish herself of families, whom he knew to be apprized from all those who surrounded her by of his real character, and to have it in affability, urbanity, and amiable mat- their power to obstruct his plans. In ners alone. She was found with her husé maturing his infernal project, it struck band in all the houses of fashion, and I him that such an event would afford full may venture 10 assert, that her presence scope for arrests, confiscation of property served only to heighten the pleasure of and transportation. A third motive was, the company. By an imperceptibly in- to incense the people against the English, creasing assumption of consequence, and as the alledged authors of the plot; and an insensible enlargement of the sphere fourth and probably not the least powó of her pretensions, she at length attained, erful ras, that in consequence of his apa and Napoleon, through her, to that de- parently miraculous escape, he might be gree of etiquette, which they did not eso furnished with an opportunity of trumtablish till a later period, because at first peting himself abroad, as a favourite of it would have kept the people at too heaven and of fortune, and as the chosen great a distance, instrument of divine providence for rege The affair in the Rue St. Nicaise (the toring the prosperity of France. explosion of the infernal machine) was a Thus was this atrocious plan gradually plan formed by Buonaparte, and by ripened in bis black soul. The carriages means of which he accomplished several with gun-powder were provided aud objects at once : of these I shall touch placed by secret agents. The Rue St. only upon the most important. Nicaise, which is near the Thuileries, He had, several months before, pro. leads to the Opera-house; the chariot of Now MONTHLY MAG-No. 15. Vol. III. |