INLAND COUNTIES. MARITIME COUNTIES. Wheat Rye Barley Oats Beans s. d. s. d. 5. d. s. ds. do 50 627 028 422 730 425 427 d. s. d. s. d. Effex Suffolk 44 to O 027 622 50 629 029 023 333 330 429 11 330 O 829 10 132 7 830 417932 Northum. 43 327 524 of19 227 4 319 900 0 420 822 729 10 19 027 10/21 732 11 032 021 1041 035 521 700 6 Denbigh 54 500 034 617 744 000 Carnarv. 56 040 4 Merioneth50 1039 435 717 6,46 229 028 Montgom.43 1100 028 013 6,00 o 0100 о Average of England and Wales, per quarter. 49 6/31 11/29 419 1033 3 Average of Scotland, per quarter. 41 0/28 222 0/18 026 5 Chefter Cardigan 55 200 029 512 ofoo Somerfet 54 Hants AVERAGE PRICE, by which Exportation and Bounty are to be regulated. 9 53 3130 0 II 129 621 234 4 42 228 221 17 1123 7 53 236 10 28 319 33 3 14 816 834 0 51 431 1134 7/21 336 51 15 6/30 9 55 4139 34 217 445 41 16 37 2/28 2/21 PRICES OF FLOUR, Jan. 17. t Middling Fine Pollard 255. to 325. 35s. to 52s. Horfe Pollard es. to 148. 6d. 20s. to 22s. Bran OATMEAL, per Boll of 140lbs. Avoirdupois, 36s. 8d. PRICE OF HOPS. os. to 11s. od. to 145. Kent Pockets Ditto Bags gl. gs. to r. 113. 91. es. to rot. 158. Farnham Fockets 121. Suffex Pockets PRICE OF HAY AND STRAW. Straw Il. s. od. to 11. 135. od. Average Price of SUGAR, computed from the returns made in the week ending Jan. 23, 1799, is 68s. Id.4 per cwt. exclufive of the duty of Customs paid or payable thereon on the importation thereof into Great-Britain. 4. od. to gs. 4d. TALLOW, per ftone of 81b. 38. 4d. SOAP. Yellow, 769.-Mottled, 829.—Curd, 86s. COALS. Beft in the Pool, oos. od. to ous. od. Sunderland, oos. od. te cos. od. Days Ann. 1797 Ann. EACH DAY'S PRICE OF STOCKS IN JANUARY, 1799. Bank 13perCt.13 per Ct. 14perCt5perCt. 5perCt. Long | Short Stock. B Red. Confols. Confol. Navy. 28 1374 53 54 New S. Sea India India Stock. Bonds. Loan. Stock. 166 pm. Old New Exchq. Imp. | Imp. frith Eng. Lott Year Ann. Ann. Bills. 3perCt. Anu. 5perCt. Tickets. 123 13 O Tickets. 29 128 544 604 8c4 15 61 4 51. 23 13 531 54 6612 8c4 153 61 Jif 51 13 14 J. BRANSCOMB, Stock-Broker, at the Lucky Lottery Office, No. 11, Holborn. 31 E moderate 35 30 32 fun and clear .Igloomy 11. A most beautiful sky, vailed over fancifully with white.-13. A pair of houfe fparrows chirping and sporting as if on the look out where to build. Fall of rain in the space of the two last months, 4.77 inches. The gauge could not be examined the conclusion of last month, being locked faft by the froft; which, intense as it was, was not attended by unpleasant circumftances, the wind continuing moderate, Thaws, though frequent, were of the mildest nature; no rains, or flippery roads. The evaporation veffel, as ufual, was burst by the froft, Walton, near Liverpoal. METEOROLOGICAL TABLE for February, 1799 Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer. J. HOLT. Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer. Month. D. of Night. 27 45 51 28 30 29 26 29 25 33 30 ,65 14 40 33 31 38 fair 40 ,88 rain 28 29 48 (now 16 41 46 46 40 ,co Showery 37 ,06 mowery ,20 fnow fair 04 fnow 49 ,60 rain 142 fair 48 frain ,41 cloudy 37 rain 947 cloudy fair ,60 cloudy 25 27 24 ,82 fnow 24 38 24 30,00 fair 38 32 39 38 38 29,80 fair,ra.atnight|| 25 24 54 38 26 42 40 39 30 28,86 fair ,05 cloudy W. CARY, Optician, No. 182, near Norfolk-Street, Strand. 47 49 48 96 2 moo ,89 ffair 42 30,10 fair ,16 fair THE (91 Gentleman's Magazine: For FEBRUARY, 1799. BEING THE SECOND NUMBER OF VOL. LXIX. PART I. Mr. URBAN, Feb. 22. ☀☀☀☀ AVING remarked in your vol. LXVII. pp. 1019, H 1020, 1081; LXVIII. 304, 305, 757, that feveral of your correfpondents have folicited informa tion concerning the Arabic MSS. of the Arabian Nights Entertainments now in England, and finding my name occa fionally introduced with that of Mr. Profeffor White, I fit down to communicate what I know of the matter, in hopes that the learned Profeffor, as well as others who have it in their power, may be induced to answer the queries of your correfpondent M. N. in a manner much more fatisfactory. In a note, in the laft edition of the Natural Hiftory of Aleppo, I have afferted, "that the Arabian Tales, a Thousand and One Nights, is a fcarce book at Aleppo; that, after much enquiry, I found only two volumes, con taining 280 Nights, and with difficulty obtained leave to have a copy taken. I was thewo (1771) more than one complete copy in the Vatican library; and one at Paris in the King's library, faid alfo to be complete." It may be proper to add here, that what is faid of the Vatican and Parifian MSS. of which I had only a tranfent view, refts on the authority of the librarians. The first three volumes of M. Galland's tranflation contains 238 Nights; in the fucceeding three volumes, each flory proceeds uninterruptedly. The repetition of the dialogue between the two fifters at the beginning and conclufion of each Night, which is continued throughout the MS. was intentionally omitted by M. Galland, after the first volume. From the beginning to the 75th Night, with fome flight variation in the divifion of Nights, the MS. and the tranflation agree. The ftory of the three Calenders terminates in the MS. in the 75th Night: in the tranflation in the 69th. The ftory of Sinbad, which occupies from the 70th to the gift night in the tranflation, is entirely wanting in my MS, the ftory of three Apples following immediately that of the Calenders, and terminating in the 79th Night: whereas, in the tranflation, the ftory of the Apples terminates in the 934 night, on account of the intervening ftory of Sinbad. From the 93d Night in the tranflation (MS. 80) to the 210th (MS. 200) the ftories, with little variation, proceed in the fame feries: but, after that, there is a total deviation from the order preferved in the MS.; for, the ftory of Noureddin Aly, which in the MS. is continued from Night 200 to 229, does not appear in the French tranflation till the beginning of the 4th volume, and is followed by the ftory of Bider Prince of Perfia, which in the MS. commeoces in the 229th Night, and ends in Night 272. Part of the ftory of Camaralzaman, from Night 272 to 281, finishes the MS, while that ftory, in the tranflation, is found in the 3d volume, comprehended in 17 Nights, from 211 to 228. The stories related in the other ten Nights of that volume are not in the MS. From the foregoing detail, there feems no ground to doubt that M. Galland tranflated from a copy fimilar to the MS. now in my polleffion. In the conduct of the principal incidents, as well as in the termination of the tales, there is no material difagreement. The variation remarked in the divifion of the Nights, and arrangement of the ftories, may eafily be accounted for. In general, with relpect to the tranflation, no doubt great liberty, in accommodation to French manners, has been taken with the original. A reafon for omitting the ftanzas and elegies, which |