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to 493. No real good oats at raarket. Hog peas 63s. and 66s. ; 

 beans 46s. to 56s. j good rye-grafs. 5s. 6d. per bufhel. Tlie 

 prices of clover feeds are varioss; fine from 120s. to 126s. ; 

 ordinary very low. The quantity of foreign grain imported 

 into London for three months, paft, has been bj^it fmall ; not 

 more than 15,000 quarters of wheat, and 10,000 quarters of 

 oats. By letters from Embden, we learn that the prohibi- 

 tion of exporting flour, and all kinds of grain from Holland, 

 is continued to the 31 ft Auguft, fo that the ports of the Baltic 

 are the only places on the Continent from whence any fupply 

 of confequence can be expefted. The regulation adopted, of 

 not allowing bread to be fold till twenty-four hours after it is 

 baked, together with the economy which the rumour of fear- 

 city has produced in noblemens and gentlemens houfes, have 

 lefTened the confumption in London fully one third. Potatoes 

 are very ordinary, and much advanced in price. The beft 

 Yorkfhire fort are now felling at J4I. per ton, bej^ng 3s, 6d. 

 per peck, according to your meafure. Inferior qualities at 

 lol. and J2I., and are retailed at 2d. per lib. Garden ftuffs 

 are equally fcarce and dear, in confequence of which the prices 

 of boiling and fplit peas have advanced ; fine SufFolks to ic"s., 

 and fpHt peas to 130s. and 140s. Hay and ftraw have for 

 two months paft increafed in price. Beft meadow hay 126s. 

 to J32S. per load ; clover ditto 130s. to 140s. ; ftraw 60s. to 

 638. Smithfield market, for fome time paft, has been well fup- 

 plied with cattle, fheep, and pigs. The prefent price of beef, 

 linking the offal, is from 4s. 8d. to 5 s. 8d. per ftone of 8 lb. 

 avoirdupois. Mutton 4s. 6d. to 5s. 6d. ; veal 5s. to 6s. 1 

 pork yd. per lib. by the carcafe. There has been a greater 

 proportion of fat cattle at market, of late, than appeared be- 

 fore Chriftmas, numbers of them being ftall fed. 



Extra^ of a letter from Neivcajlle, March 3 \[l. — The high- 

 eft price given for wheat of this country's growth, at our mar- 

 ket this day, was 104s. per quarter. Some famplcs from 

 Norfolk brought 112s.; but we muft obferve, that the latter 

 is about one tenth lefs meafure than the former. We have ve- 

 ly little old wheat on hand. Good Dantzig would bring 

 nearly 120s. per quarter. Barley fit for malting is worth 50s, 

 per quarter, and upwards, Oats jos. j ditto for feecj 60s. 



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