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jievolent objeA ; and it gives us pleafure to add, that the Concerts 

 given in the AfTembly Rooms, George-Street, for the fame purpofe, 

 were remarkably vi^ell attended. The Sieur Herman Baaz has like- 

 wife given an CKhibition of his wonderful performance, for the bene- 

 fit of the fund, at which twenty guineas were collefted. 



By letters from Glafgow and Perth, we are informed that fub- 

 fcriptions have been opened in thcfe places for the importation of 

 corn from abroad. 



Dunfe, Dec. 21. — A confiderable quantity of corn in the diftrift 

 of Lammermuir ftill remains in the fields, and, it is to be feared, 

 will be of very little value. Indeed, the crop, in general, in this 

 county, does not promife to have great tffedt in keeping down the 

 markets. 



Glafgo'w, Dec. 2 1 . — American wheat is felliag here at 5 7s. to 58s. 

 per boll. Dantzick, 56s. to 60s. New north country wheat, 42s. 

 Barley, 30s. to 32s., but poor in quality ; and oats of this country- 

 growth, from 22s. to 26s, — all per Linlithgow meafure. Old beans, 

 36s. to 38s. New ones, 28s. to 30s. per Stirlingfhire meafure. 

 Oat-meal, 30s. to 32s. per boll of 8 ttone Dutch or Amfterdanx 

 weight. The quartern loaf of bread is is. 4^d. 



The Clyde being already fliut, and every appearance that the ca- 

 nal will foon be frozen up, gives us fmall profpe£l of a decline of 

 prices for fome time hence. 



Haddington, Dec. 27. — The weather, during the paft quarter, has 

 been unfriendly to every objeft of rural work ; and the operations of 

 the farmer have not, in the memory of man, been carried on at 

 greater trouble and expence. It was near the beginning of Odlober 

 before a general harveft commenced ; and many farmers had laft year 

 finifhcd, by the time they this feafon put a fickle in the crop. 



Notwithftanding thefe difaltrous circumftances, there is caufy to 

 believe, that a great part of the diftrift has efcaped as eafily from 

 the confequences, as any other in the kingdom. Wheat, however, 

 is worfe, both in quantity and quality, than was ever known, being 

 fmall in the grain, thick in the huflc, and much of it unfound. Per- 

 haps it is not equal, in point of confumption, to the half of crop 

 1798, and 15 per cent, at leaft inferior to the crop 1782, which en- 

 countered a feafon fomething fimilar to the lalt. 



With refped to barley and oats, they have often been known, up- 

 on good lands, in former years, as defeftive as the prefent crop ; 

 but it is upon the high expofed fituations where thefe grains (chief- 

 ly the laft) are molt below an average. WJierever they were not 

 fully ripened when the froft fet in, they are worft, and the extent 

 of the deficiency is in diretl proportion to the ftage of their growth 

 when the froft took place. The wet weather in April, which 

 happened immediately after the generaliLy of oats in the low dif- 

 trid virere fown, prevented thcfe in the high diftrids from being 



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