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MONTHLY COiVIMERCIAL REPORT. 



IN fp'ite of every prohibi'ion, Britidi goo.Hs continue to find their way in vaft quantit?e« 

 into France. They are exported upon French orders. It is eafy to infure them for the 

 whole tranfit to the town in France where they are to be delivered to the purchafer. They 

 are introduced at almoft all parts of the line of the land-confines of the French empire. 

 No fuoncr are they received into the French merchant's warehoufe, than evidence is procured 

 that they are of French manufadlure j the proper marks are ftamped ; and the goods, whether 

 CBttons, woollens, linens, or whatever other article of Britirti fabric, are in a ftate to be 

 ctliibited in proof that the manufaflures of France quite outrival the Dritifti. The writer 

 has had this information from gentlemen who have a concern in the trade to which it re- 

 lates. 



Saxony, being the principal feat of thofc cotton manufaftures of Germany which rival 

 the Britilh, the devaftation it has luftered cannot but tend to increafe the demand of that 

 part of the continent for Britidi gonds, is fjun as the country /hall he in a ft.ite to admit 

 the correfpondence and transfers of trade to- be renewed in it. The manufaftures of linen 

 in Ofnabiirgh, and other parts of Germany, are necelVarily injured by the war. The con- 

 fequences are highly favonraWe to the Scottifh manufacture of coarfe linens for the Welt 

 India mirkct. The war, conlhming vaft quantities of folciiers' clothes and camp-equipage, 

 increafes the demand of coarfe Britifo woollens for Ruffia, and for the ports on the Baltic in 

 gencial. 



The returns for the Britifh goods imported into France are made in bills of exchange on 

 commercial men and cities, with which it is perfeftly lawful for she ful)jefts of France to 

 have pecuniary correfpondence. From theic, other bills or" exchange then tranfmit the 

 value to Enjil.ind. 



T he adventures to Buenos Ayres liave been immenfe. The goods which that market 

 wanted were eafily provided upon fiiort notice ; for they were chierty furh as it h.id been 

 ufual to manufafture for rhe Weil India market, and formerly for Spain, to be re-exported to 

 South America by the Spaniards themfelves- They were likewife, in great part, the fame 

 fpecits of goods which we have been accuftomerl to make for the Hortu^uefe market, to be 

 fent to the Brazils. Sir Home Popham's letter, in no refpecl intended to impofe on the 

 merchant", and written with competent information, pointed out both the extent of tlie 

 rurket, and the fpccirs of the goods wanted. From tlie circumftances of the war, the 

 previous fcarcity of Hritilh goods, almoft of primiry necefTity, throughout South America, 

 inuft have been very great. Even the Anglo-American trade to the Hivannah, and the 

 fmugglingconcourfeof the Spaniards to Jamaica, could not furnilh any thing like an adequate 

 fupply. The export!;, of wh.ifver kind, tliat the inlialtitant; of Spani.Oi America had to give 

 in payment for imports were at the fame time accumulatvd in the Cjuntry for want of opportu- 

 nities of fafe and lucrative exportation. Not only a large demand, therefore, but wealth with 

 which to malx adequate returns, meets the wiihcs oJ'ourmcrchants who havcfei-.t out goods for 

 fale at Buenos .''.yvvis. The returns will be in bullion, hide^, talb*, cottyns, dyeing frufls, 

 aJid other materiah the moft efTentially ufeful in our manufadlures. The iiidullry of the 

 inhabitants of Spanilh America, routed by the new poflibilit-ies of bringing their produce to 

 prompt and adv.'ntagcous fale, will furnifh their returns every feafon in greater abundance, 

 lb that the trade may continually increafe. 



The fuccefi'es of the French in Gcrm.nny have had one effeft that was naturally to be 

 expeftcd. They have occafioncd much property to be transferred to En;Iand, from the 

 countries v.hich Bonaparte is now over-runnint;. They have induced foreigners to leave 

 here large funis, which were othsrwife to have h^en remitted abroad, in the due courfe of 

 trade. Not lefs than three millions ftcrling, for.-ign property, is faiii to lia.ve been placed, 

 within thcfe few days, in the EngU.li funds. 



The aftivity of the wojllen manufaChires, in both the north and the weft of England, 

 is a .';<':ddeal quickened. The deman.l for the 4ijlit cloths, which it has Seen ufual to ma- 

 nufacture fur the Weft India market, has been of late greatly increafed. Tiie general ufe 

 of the ipring-fhultle enabling one man to perform the >A(ork of two in weaving ; of tlie gig- 

 min fcrdi-elfing ant! n-.ofmj;, which at once abbrevl.ites the labour and improves the execu- 

 tion j of the Ihrarinj-machinc, to finilh the (ivcfTcd cloths for fale ; has exceedingly advanced 

 tile manufacture, \\ithi:i thefe few .years, in the counties ot Gloucefter, Wilt.s, ;ind Somerfet. 

 Ti'.c quantit\ of t!ie l.'.bour employed in it in thefe counties is now, in fad, three times as 

 gtt at as that which they cfnp! lycJ but a few yeS'S (ince. 



• The gradual redufliora of the African Slave Trade threatens cnnfequenes to the woollen, 

 tlie linea, the catton, and tlie hardv. are mamifaftures of Great Drit.iin .ind Ireland, which 

 nothing can avert 'tut ,-.n inajienable monopoly to the country of the whole trade of Spanifli 

 Arriericj. It is certain, tiiat the linens, woollens, and hardware, exported for the purchal'e 

 of the Haves on the African coaft, were among chofe forts of manufadlure hy which the 

 people or Lanc.;ih:re, l-irmingiiam, av,d Vorkihire got the largell profits ' it is equally cer- 

 tain, on the dther hatid, that, without a continue.! importation of ne^ro labourers, the 

 coHte-plantations cannot be enlarged} nor • can Trinidada, tke mo.l promifin;; «( all" our 

 fugar illihds, be brought to any due extent under cultfvatiyn. 



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