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Ediiihurgh, Dec. 20. Lad week the Magiftrates of A- 



berdeen fined a perfun for coupinj meal, or buying it from 

 country people when coming to market, and felling it at an 

 advanced price. 



The above is another inftance of municipal wifdom. Could 

 this poor couper fell the meal one farthing per peck higher 

 than what the country people would have done, to whom it 

 originally belonged I Whenever the pnrchafe was made, the 

 one ftood in the (h )es of the other, and confequently was en- 

 titled to all the after profits, juft in the fame way as if he had 

 bought a parcel of Jlocklngs. 



Extracts from Frifate Correspondence. 



SCOTLAND. 



Edinhirgh, March 10. 1800. By a letter from a gen- 

 tleman in Virginia, dated the i8th January laft, we learn that 

 tobacco ha: been falling in price for a confiderable time, and 

 can now be bought at 17s. or i8s, per cwt. Good wheat fells 

 at 6s. pd. Sterling per bufhel ; and flour 8^ to 10 dollars per 

 barrel of if cwt. 



Extra B of a Letter from /Aberdeen/hire, March 11. The 



flate of the- crop this year is very bad indeed ; and 1 have no 

 occafion to fuppofe that there will be one half of the oat-mcal 

 produced this year which we had in 1798. 1 fliould rather 

 fuppofe, from fome inquiries which I have made at different 

 Killls, that the quantity will not exceed two fifths of the pre- 

 ceding year ; for there is not above four fifths of the oats which 

 were raifcd in 1790 ; and the average of meal from the boll, 

 is rather above than below 8 pecks, or 4 ftones Dutch weight. 



The ftate of the forage in the higher parts of this county, 

 is ftili worfe than that of the crop. I have heard of corn and 

 flraw being fold as high as 4I. Sterling per boll, and of young 

 cattle being fold for a mere trifle. We have bad another ftorfn 

 lately. If the weather does not fet in mild in a very fliort 

 time, many of the cattle aiuft perifti for wa:it of food. 



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