270 
rate, jointly, towards their future, perma- 
nent, just independence and well-doing. 
The fall of lambs has been, thus far, generally 
successful, with partial complaints of defi- 
ciency. Our late letters are silent as to 
the rot in sheep, whence we have hopes 
that calamity is stayed. As usual, no com- 
plaints from our fortunate Scots farming 
correspondents. The price of butcher’s 
meat continues at such an extraordinary 
price, as must encourage an extension of 
breeding and feeding. 
Smithfield :—Beet, 3s. Sd. to ds. 2d.— 
Mutton, 5s. Od. to 6s. 2d.—Veal, 5s. Od. 
Medical and Commercial Reports. 
[April 1, 
to 6s. 4d.—Pork, 4s. Od. to 5s. 8d.—Best 
Dairy fed, 6s, 4d.—Bath Bacon, 5s. 4d.— 
Best Irish, 4s. 10d.—Raw Fat, 2s. 8d. 
Corn Exchange :—Wheat, 48s. to 825.— 
Barley, 32s. to 48s.—Oats, 22s. to 32s.— 
Bread (London), J]d. the loaf of 41b.— 
Inferior ditto, 7}d.—Hay, per load, 60s. to 
105s. —Clover, ditto, 80s.-to 115s. —Straw, 
39s. to 52s. 6d. 
Coals in the Pool, 28s. 6d. to 41s. 6d. 
Middlesex, March 21. 
ERRATUM, p. 130, last Month:— 
For ‘* Mr. Duke,” vead Mr. Burke. 
MEDICAL REPORT. 
O long as man be the subject of artifi- 
cial associations, both mental and cor- 
poreal, a medical report, though interesting, 
must, at the same time, be humiliating and 
painful. 
Man, with a most imperfect knowledge 
of his own structure and organical powers, 
as well as of the nature and influence of 
the elements that surround him—pregnant 
with volition—resisting control —can it 
be matter of surprise that disease should 
abound ? 
He, however, who formed the great 
powers of nature, and governs by them, 
prevails. He prolongs or shortens human 
ills, or human existence, by the instrumen- 
tality of the whole, as He will. The agency, 
however, of the whole, during the past 
month, appears to have operated favourably 
for humanity; there has been less of dis- 
ease, less of indisposition, than has been 
witnessed or endured for many months 
preceding. Diseases of the acute form 
have been of more rare occurrence, and 
nothing of that striking character to inte- 
rest the public, has appeared in our insti- 
tutions. The chronic form of disease has 
principally engaged professional attention, 
and from the development of mind in all 
ranks of society, and the consequent de- 
clension of charlatanical principles,—from 
the more simple and scientific mode of 
medical treatment daily obtaining among 
what is styled the Faculty,—human suffer- 
ing is upon the decline, even in those 
maladies that were heretofore considered as 
attendants for life upon those who were 
once subject to an attack. 
MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT. 
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ON the 8th March an alteration took place on duties and drawbacks; and the fol- 
lowing are to be paid on importation: viz. 
French Wines, in British ship, per gallon, 6s. All wine not otherwise described, 4s. 
per gallon.—British Plantation Coffee, 6d. per Ib. East-India Coffee, 9d. per Ib. 
Of 
any other country, 9d. per lb.— Russia Hemp, 4s, 8d. per ewt. 
In consequence of the foregoing alterations, speculations in Wine particularly took 
place for a few days only, which have already ceased—the stock in the London Docks 
being so very considerable ; and the only change we find is, that hotels and tavern- 
keepers have generally lowered their prices about one shilling per bottle to the public. 
The duties on French wines were hitherto 11s: 54d. per gallon, and Spanish and Por- 
tugal, 7s. 7d. per gallon; Madeira, 7s. 8d. per gallon. The consequence of the foregoing 
alterations will benefit the revenue, by the increased consumption of all sorts of wine, 
and add to the comfort of individuals, by substituting wines in place of pernicious spirits. 
The late speculations have been attended with great profits: circumstances were par- 
ticularly favourable for the investment of money in produce, on account of low prices, 
the absence of supplies, and the general flourishing state of the country: the discou 
raging high prices of all government securities yielding but little interest, and the check 
given to the formation of Joint-Stock Companies by measures likely to be adopted, toge- 
ther with the relief afforded to commerce by an abatement in import taxes, have a very 
favourable influence on the trade of the country. Spices were the article at first selected 
for the operations of speculators ; and the same goods changed hands many times a day, 
leaving a considerable balance to the several individuals concerned: but they extended 
their views to East and West-India, and other produce ; and the prices, as will be 
seen by the following list, were forced up in a short time to an unnatural value. But 
this elevation of prices is, at the present moment, such as is certainly attended with 
great hazard: consequently, to effect sales, a considerable loss must be submitted to. 
Hence 
