Monthly Commercial Report. 



[Sept. 1, 



170 „ - 



niav under the law, as it now stan.Js, be bound at any ase, providpd they cease at the 

 Tae ot" "wentv-onr vears, and tl.ey are no longer restricted to those persons whose 

 Barents pos>e>s freehold estates. All are tquallv eligible; and they are equally binding 

 on all wnether thcv are entered info for seven years or seven months, ^or is tm>ie 

 anv res.riction as to the conditions upon which tl.ey are entered into. The cond.tinn* 

 have no limit but the interest of the parties who make them: whatever the parties 

 titem^elves a-ree to, is now lawful and binding. The right of every man to the tree use 

 of his hands is established by law; he is a; free in this respect as the air in which he 

 lives He i- no loi.f;er compelled to continue in a trade to which he was boumi, at a 

 time' when lie wa- incapable o^" making a judicious choice; nor is he reduced to tiie 

 nece«itv of starving,, because his health or his circumstances will no lonser permit him 

 to carrv on tli. par icular trade in wliich he was educated. Consequently, one ot tlie 

 Still numerous vesii-es of ancient slavery, th.it by which the labourer was conhned to 

 hLs cast and attached to th.- soil on xvhich he was born, is destroyed, never again, we 

 trust to be renewed, and anew era in manufactnrins industry is thereby opened, la 

 testimony of their gratitiidf, the principal master-nianufactureis of London and its vici- 

 ni'N presented a ma..:iiificent silver salver to Arthur Onsi.ow, esq M.P. for 

 Lisdi'^thvuistipd and oatri.tic exertions in obtaining, in the year MDCCCXiv, an Act ot 

 Parliament thai repealeth so much of the statute of the 5th of Elizabeth, as subjected 

 to penalties' those who earned on or followed certain trades without having served aft 

 appienticesiup of seven a ears, winch has emancipated the British artizan, and given to 

 bim the full aud free exeicise of his genius and industry, and laid the foundation of a 

 new aud prosperous era in the political economy of Eneland." By the published ac- 

 counts, it appeals, thai they also voted a gratuity of 200J. to Mr. John Richteb, 

 their s.'creiary, f^'r his merit.Mious services. ^, ^ , , 



Of the stale of trade, manufactnies, and a^nculture, we are not enabled, by the actual 

 circnin-tances of the couiitrv, to improve our late Reports. The policy of every nation'* 

 mani.factui in" for itself seems to have been so forcibly demonstrated by Napoleon, 

 during the long wars that were bO passionately made on him and his allies, that mo-t of 

 the Eu^lish goods sent abroad arc doomed to rot in foreign warehouses, or are sold at less 

 than the prime cost. The effect is of course felt in all our populous manutartnring 

 districts while the distress is greatly auL'mented by the diminution of thirty or forty 

 millions in the factitious consumption of government in stores, clothing, and material* 

 of war The existing taxes in the mean time sink our depressed industry still loweri 

 and in consequence, the state of the labouring and middling classes is deplorably 

 wretched while the falling off of business at the ctistoui-liouses of London and the 

 out-poris'n>i"'t seriously affect the revenue. 



PRICES <.F MERCHANDIZE. July 26. Avg. 25. 



- •• -^ " to 4 1(1 



0—06 



— .5 10 



O — 7 



1 



2 



10 







Cocoa, K\ est India . 3 5 

 Coffee, W.India, ordinary a 13 



. , Mocha 



Cotton, VV. I. common 



, , Deinerara . 



Currants 



Fi'-'s, Turkey 



Flax, Riga 



Hemp. Higa Rhine 



Hops, new. Pockets 5 



1, --_, Bai^s . 4 



Iron, British, Bars 11 



. , Pigs • "^ 



Oil, salad . • 15 



, Galipoli . . 75 



Rags, Hamburgh . 2 

 KaiMUs. bloom or jar, new 6 

 Rice, Carolina, new 



, Kasi India 



Silk, China 



, Bengal, skein 



Spices. Cinnamon 



_ , Cloves 



, Nutmegs . 



_ Pepper, black 



. ^, white 



Spirits, Brandy, Cognac 

 .-, , Geneva Hollands 







18 



1 3 

 15 

 10 

 3 



7 

 10 





 

 



























































— 



— 



3 — 



, — 





 

 4 

 3 

 

 

 11 

 8 

 

 8 

 16 

 

 

 

 

 1 



1 5 

 1 



to 



3 



60 



43 

 5 

 4 



n 



7 

 15 

 75 



2 



6 







18 



1 3 

 15 

 10 



to 4 

 3 

 5 

 7 

 

 

 4 



0—11 

 0—8 

 0-0 

 — S 

 0—16 







— 

 4) 

 

 1 

 1 

 1 



10 

 3 



pcrcwt, 

 ditto. 

 ditto. 

 ditto. 

 7 per lb. 

 ditto, 

 o per civt. 

 ditto. 

 per ton. 



ditto. 



per cwt. 



ditto. 



per ton. 



ditto. 



per jar. 



per ton. 



per cwt. 



ditto. 



ditto. 



ditto. 



per lb. 



ditto. 



9 ditto. 



6 ditto. 



2 ditto. 



8| ditto. 



4 ditto. 



8 per gal. 



8 ditto. 

 Spirits, 



