1805.1 ( 495 ) 



MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT. 



fT^HE policy of government for fome yeara paft in their conduft towards the Weft India Colo- 

 nies, has been extremely exceptionable, and founded upon a narrow view of the real in- 

 terefts of the State ; it would feem as if they were determined to exhauft the very patience of 

 loyalty, and try to force the Colonift into fome defperate eflbrt by the meafures uniformly 

 adopted. Not content with levying heavy, and almoft exterminating duties on their produce, 

 but in regulating the fupplies of I'ubfulence for the lilands, tliey fubjedt them (in war time) 

 not unfrequently to the anticipated horrors of famine. Tlie Houfe of Affembly in Jamaica 

 have made a very able reprelentation to tlie Lieutenant Governor, in which they detail with 

 unexaggerated feeling, the deplorable fituation of the Colony under thcfe impolitic and ruinous 

 r-egulati-Jns ; the Governor's anfwer concedes the admilTion of the importations v/hich they 

 require ; but how lamentable is it, that tliei;e is not a political forefight, which is calculated 

 by the exercife of a wife dil'crecion, to remedy thefe continual inconveniencies and which 

 might be fo fatal in their reiults. 



Though the trade of Hamburgh is opened, the markets for Weft India produce are ftilJ 

 tlull ; this may arife from the approach of the feafon, when the Elbe will be clofed by 

 the froft and therefore the ihipments are fmall ; tha ordinary and middling kincs of coffee 

 however are fomething higher prices at foot. Rum has advanced a little but the fale is nut very 

 brifk. The manufafturing trade ftill continues flat, and from the few fales at tlie laft Ger- 

 man fairs, is very much diftreffed, and we fear during the winter muft remain fo for the 

 want of markets to confume their produiflions. 



The Batavian Government about the end of Oftober ilTued an order, that all vefTels having 

 any thing on board from England flioul.i be detained, and prohibiting under fevere penalties 

 the fhipment of provifions of any del'cription j alfo in a report by the Secretary of Finance 

 great rewards were olFered to thofe who were aftive and vigilant in difcovering and feizing 

 Englilh manufaftures, and threatening thofe with vigorous punifhment, who were negligent 

 or fraudulent in putting the decrees of government into execution, 



Thefe repeated reltriclions and the feverity of the punhTiments wheni a party is detefteij 

 prevent any perfon hazarding his property in Holland or France ; thus we have fcarcely a 

 market open to us that we can at prefent avail ourfelves : America is out of the queftion, for our 

 manufafturers have long fmce given over crediting them ; the depredations they have com- 

 mitted and the impofitions they have praftifed, deter any man of sommon •xperience fruc 

 trufting them with an ounce or a yard of goods without money or ample fecurity. 



By a communication from the American Minifter here to the refpe£live confuls of thai 

 nation, it is announced that our Government has granted permilfion to American veHels to en- 

 ter Cadiz with any articles not contraband or provifions. 



The exchange upon Hamburgh ftill declines being now 32s. gd. j but v.;hen the trade b^"- 

 comes brilk, andii Cevernment are able to continue their remittances in fpecie it will get up, 

 from the balances that will then be due to this country for the goods exported. 



Coffee from lOZs. very ordinary to 180s. very fine ; fugar-s, Weft India, from 70s. to icAS. ; 

 Havannahs, from 50s. to 76s. ; Eaft India, 406. to 60s. ; cocoa, uns. to 130s. Gv=r.aJa, 

 for exportation ; Trinidad, 145s. to 15-s. j cotton, Weft India, is. 7d to 2S. ^d. j Sea 

 ifland, IS. 7d, to 33. ; Bourbon, 2S. 6d. to 3s. ; Cochineal, 27s. 6d. to 31s. 6d ; Indigo, E. 

 India, 8s. to 13s.; Brandy, 17s. to l8s. gd. ; Hollands, 17s. gd to 18s. ; Rum, Jamaica, 

 3s. 6d. to 4s. 6d. j Leeward Ifland, 3s. to 3s. 6d. ; Saltpetre, rough, 8l.-i., refined, 90s.— 

 Hops are lower ; Bags, from 61. 10s. to eight guineas ; Pockets, 61. I2s. to nine guineas.— 

 Oati have advanced confiderably lately, prcfeat price from 38i. to 40s.— Wheat dull. 



Alamfejl of the Car^o of the Indus Eaft Indiaman. — Private; 85 chefts Capia ; ii cafes 

 Mace ; 5 chefts Cardamums j 20 boxes Nankeens j 4 pipes, 4 hogiheads and i calk Madeira i 

 1 bale-piece, goods, j 57 bags Pepper; 47 bags Cloves. Privilege ; 2360 bags Sago; 202. 

 bale-piece, goods; 145 chefts M(jtlier o'Pearl SIkIIs ; 177 bales Turkey Galls ; 25 bales 

 Tragacanth ; 21 chefts Galbanum ; 7 chefts Indigo ; 22 bales Coculus Indicus ; 66 c he it* 

 Ammoniacum ; 15 boxes Ion;; Pepper. N. B. The Sago js suppofci to be throw;i over- 

 board. 



3 per cents. Confols. 59J to 6c| ; Omnium, 5^ to 6 j Bank Stock, 1955; India ditto. 



MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 



'T'HE mildnefs of the weather in the preceding month has enabled the farmer to .'inislj Ims. 

 wheat fowing in the moft pcrteft man.'ier ; and the grain whicli was early fown .lircaJy 

 wears a favourable appearance. The Winter lares and Rye appear equally proii.iliijj. 

 Turnips have improved much lately; and the- Feeding fliccp do exciedingjy wclL Th; 

 Paftures ftill afford good fupport to the out-lying ftock ; and the drynefs of the feafon ."...s 

 permitted much manure to be carried on the Meadow grounds. The winter opcraiions of 

 hedging, ditching, and gripping, have already comrae.nced. In Enjjiand and Wales, Vih;at 



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