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HURSDAY, JULY 5, 1821.

CURRENT PRICES AT ONI O'CLOCK :

Bank Stock 2302311,4-3 per Ct. Redu. 76% % 77
3 per Cent. Cons. shut-3% per Cent. 87
4 per Cent. 941 7/3-5 per Cent. Navy shut
i Long Anns. 19 3-16 y4—lndia Stock 233% ex. div.
'Each. Bills. ss. 4s. pre.—Bank for Acct. 2311,4
Consols for Account 77M 18.

We announced yesterday the arrival of official ac-
counts of the death Of BONAPARTE. Those to the
Admiralty were brought by Captain HENDRY, of the
BOSARLD sloop of war, and those to the Colonial
Office and East India House by Captain CROCKAT,
who was the Officer in attendance on BONAPARTE at
the time of his decease. The illness of the Ex-
Emperor lasted, on the whole, six weeks. Our
Readers may perhaps recollect that, not long ago,
we mentioned the fact of his being dangerously ill ;
and they will also do our contemporaries the justice of
recollecting how studiously most of them endeavoured
to discredit the intelligence. We bad the information

from the most authentic source. The effects of this

long illness on the frame of BONAPA RTE,aS described by
an Officer who had frequent opportunities of seeing
him during that period, were so powerful as nearly
to reduce him to a skeleton, and to obliterate all
traces of his former features. During the latter part
of his illness, he frequently conversed with his medi-
cal attendants on its nature, of which he seemed to

be perfectly aware. He declared that it was heredi-
tary, and that his father had died of the same dis-
, ease. IL is said that he gave directions about his
affairs and papers till five or six hours before he died,

ha►ing retained his senses till that period. He said
he wished to be opened, in order that his son might
be informed of the nature of his disease. The body
was opened by his own Surgeon. On examination,
the stomach was found in a state of extreme ulcera-
tion, so that it appealed in some places perforated in

large openings. His medical attendants gave it as
their decided opinion, in which the Physician who
was called in coincided, that the disease was in-
curable, and that the climate had had no effect in
prolucing it. One trait of character displayed itself
in his last moments, which ma► ks the
ruling passion, strong in death."
As he found his end approach, he was habited, at his
own request, in his uniform of Field Marshal, with
boots and spurs, and placed on a camp-bed, on which
he was accustomed to sleep when in health, and pre-
ferred to every other. In this dress he expired.
It has been asserted that the ROSA a ro,which brought

the dispatches, also brought the bo-ly of IIoNAPA HTE

t•) England; but this, we understand, is not the case,
His attendants wished his body to be conveyed to
Europe; but on opening his Will, it was fund that
he had left a request that it should be interred in the
island, and pointed out the spot where he wished his

remains to rest, in a beautiful valley near his reA-
dence. Though BONAPARTE is supposed to have
_ suffered much, his dissolution was so calm and serene
that not a sigh escaped him, or any intimation to the
by-standers that it was so near. At the departure of
the RosA RIO, no day had been fixed for the funeral,
but it was understood that it would be solemnized
with the military honours due to his rank.
A likeness of 130NAPARTE, after his decease, was

skctched by an English Officer, and is brought to

England. Count MoNxirotoN, we hear, arrived by
the ship which brought the intelligence of this event,
and immediately forwarded it by an extraordinary
courier to the French Ambassador. Numerous ex-
presses left town yesterday morning to announce the

death of BONAPA avu to the different-European Courts.
The extracts from the different Papers of the
morning, which we subjoin, will chew our Readers
the manner in which the news of this event has been
generally received in the British metropolis. The
sentiments expressed respecting the departed Gene-
ral's character and end, are, upon the whole, credit-
able to the national feeling—a praise to which even
those of our contemporaries who have been hitherto
most opposed to the pretensions of the revolutionary
leadds of France form no exception.
That BONAPARTE was a great man, in the usual,

though perhaps not the most genuine sense of the
term, it were vain to deny. He filled not only a
larger space in the history of the times in which he
lived than any of his contemporaries, but a larger
space, perhaps, than any one individual ever did, of
the history of the world ; and in that light alone he
stands among the greatest of the great.
The first passion of BONAPARTE% soul was ambi-
tion, and the first quality of his mind audacity ; but
the impossibility of remaining at rest was the main-
spring of his fortune and of his fate. When dis-
charged from the service, after the siege of Toulon,
he dreamed of expeditions into Persia and Turkey,

THE FUNDS.
The news of the death of BONAPARTZ was expected
bv many to have caused a depression in the Funds,
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and in consequence the sales yesterday were to a very
great extent ; one Broker sold upwards of a million,
and many others followed his example to a large
amount. Consols began yesterday at 773/4, and left
off at 773/4 ; they began this morning at the latter
price, but shortly went to 77% 78, and the market
looks brisk at that price.