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MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT. 



HE vigour with which nieafures have bern, o/ la'e, taken to interrupt t'ns imporfitio* 



of Dutch goods from Indij, in Anglo-Ameiican veffels, has been (uccefsful. That car- 

 rying trade has been checked. Confiderable benefit has refulted to our Eaft India Company. 

 Should the fleet, of which we lately had accounts, from St. Helena arrive fdfe in England, 

 the market will be found fufficiently open, and the imports will be difperfed with good ad- 

 vantage over Europe. 



The Anglo American traders now wholly engrofs the profitable fur-trade with the Norlh- 

 Weft coait of America, They cinne anJ (jo b.-twsen that coalt and the Chint mirket, \n 

 sumbers of (hips, an^l with a regularity ^hich enauks ihem to exclude M rivalry. One 

 trader tells another what goods were the moil in requcft among the natives of the Fur-Coaft, 

 when he himlelf maiie up his cargo. That trader afts upo:i hh friend's information, and 

 takes only what he is fure to fi id a dimanJ for. On the contrary, traders from Biitain are 

 liable to take out cargoes, w!)ich, from the change of liu:nour or necelhty among the na- 

 tives, there arc no longer purchafers to be found fuv. So many adventurers from England 

 have been, by this means, unfortunate, that the merchants of this country are forced to 

 abandon the traffic. 



The propagation of the race of Snarifh (Tieep in this country b?<;"r5 to m.ike us Independ- 

 ent, in our nianufattures, of Spain, for the greater part of that lupply of wool which waB 

 formerly fo indifpenfably re^uifite. 



The trade between Sweden and this country begins to increafe, in confequence of the 

 Swediih monarch's new attention to ihe commercial intere'ls of his fubjefts. 



The efforts or France to interrupt tne trade between Sritain and Holland hive proved but 

 too fuccelaful. 



MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL RErORT. 

 T^HE recent continuance of fine weather has brought forward the corn harveft much fooner 

 than was e.tpected, which is now become general in all the fouthern and midland coun- 

 ties, where much of the wlieat and early fo«n harley, and oat crops are already cut, and 

 prove every where to be heavy and good. Field peal'e and beans are well podded, nearly 

 fit for the hook, and promil'e great abundance. The crops of canary, siid various other 

 garden fe;ds, are equally good. The white Dutch clover and trefoil grown for feed pro- 

 mife great abundance. — The average price of grain in England is — Wheat, 100s. ; Rye, 

 58s. 6d. ; Barley, 49s. 2d.; Oats, 31s. 7d. ; Beans, 50s. lid,; Peafe, 49s. od. ; Oatmeal, 

 46s. 2d. 



Hay has in general proved all over the kingdom an heavy crop, well made, and properly 

 fecured. The after-math, and fecond crop of clover, grow faft ; and the red clover laved 

 for feed proniifes to head well.^ln Whitecliapel market, Hay fetches from 41. 2s. to 51, ; 

 Clover, 51. 5s. to 61. 8s.; Straw, 21. 10s to 31. 10s. 



The paftures at this feafon of the year never were better, and the feeding and dairy 

 cattle have done well. • 



The early town turnips, in fomc well managed diftrifts, have been hoed and look well. 

 The later fown have fuft'ercd much by the ravages of the tiy ; and in Ibme fituations the 

 lands have been (own over again. 



Our accounts of the prcfenl crop of Hops continue very unfavourable. The Midfummer 

 flioots that gave a frefti appearance, induced a hope of an improvement ; and the ideal duty 

 (old duty) role from 20 to 30,0001 , but the effort was too weak, and the plant being 

 afterwards attacked with the mould, all hopes are banilhed that this crop can e.\cced 

 that of 1802, i.e. about 15 or 160001. The Worcefter and Herelord diltriit it is faid, 

 will not pay this year 3001., although in 1801 it exceeded 65,0001. ! Prices have llu6tuated 

 a little fince our (aft; they fell on the fuppojed improvement, but when it is underflood 

 tow very fuiall the crop will be, a conliderablu rife iiiuft be the confequence. The fiuau- 

 tity on hand militates, however, againit a rapid rife; but when this year's coufuinption i» 

 taken away from the quantity on hand, the advance may be e.x|)eiHo(l to be fo coiUiUerable, 

 that few prudent coiifumers will, at tbefe prices, rilk what 1806 may, produce. Ba»» of 

 180.} fell at prefent from 51. tool. I'.'s. and of 1801, from 6J (is. to 61. 16s, 



Lean cattle, both beaits and Ihecp, uotwitliftaiiding the iiniuenfc (lock on hand (owing 

 to the plenty of keep, and the promillng appearance of much winter I'ood), have, at all 

 the late fairs, been much in requort, and produced liiuli prices. In .Sniitlitiold Market, 

 Beef fetches from 4». to 'U- 6d. per (loiu; of 8lb. JMulloii, 4s. to 4s. 4d. Veal, 5s. to 5s. Od. 

 Pork, 4s. to 4s. 41. Lamb, 4s. to 4s. lOd. 



Store hogs, to turn into ftubblos, are in demand, and at adfancfd prices. 



Frolli liorf«», fit for llm collar-, aud th« uriiiy, arc much waiUud, and are both fearce and 



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