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MOCHA. 
Bales. 
In ! 795, 5154 ; of which 2100 for the India Company. 
1796, ^000 for the India Company. 
1797, 130 for a private merchant. 
/ 1798, 72 for a private merchant. 
1799, 1866 for a private merchant. 
1800, 6441 ; of which 1000 for the India Company. ^ 
1801, 1340; of which 716 for the India Company. 
1805, 
The Company have, according to the above statement, which was 
given me by their broker, taken in the eight years not quite six 
thousand bales of coffee, a circumstance that seems, at first sight, 
unaccountable, as the Americans not having then made their way 
to Mocha, the market remained free from competition, and coffee 
was at its usual price of from thirty-six to forty dollars the bale of 
305lbs. net. At present a competition having arisen, by the Com- 
pany's broker and the Americans bidding against each other, the 
price has been raised to fifty dollars ; but, at that price, above eight 
thousand bales have been exported direct for America, and two 
thousand bales for Bombay, for the use of the Company. 
The actual expense at which this has been brought to market, 
will appear in the calculations No. I. and II. That the subject of 
the coffee trade might be brought into one view, I have added in 
No. in. a calculation of the expense of bringing coffee direct from 
Mocha, by sea, to England ; in No. IV. of bringing it, in dows, by 
the way of Egypt, to Alexandria ; and in No. V. of bringing it the 
same way in a vessel, hired at Bombay for the purpose. 
* The French were in Egypt. 
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