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fore it fhall have been really blockaded, befieged, or invefted, by the other, thall be pre- 
vented from going out with its cargo: if it fhall be there when the faid place thall furrender, 
the fhip and cargo fhall not be confifcated, but feat away to the proprietors. 
XIIL. To regulate what fhall be underftood by contraband warlike-ftores, under this de- 
nomination fhall be comprifed powder, faltpetre, petards, matches, balls, bullets, bombs, 
grenades, carcafles, pikes, halberts, {words, belts, piftols, {cabbards, faddles, harnefs, can- 
nons, mortars with their carriages, and generally all arms and ammunitions of war and uten- 
fils for the ufe of troops. All the above articles, whenever they fhallf be deftined for an 
enemy’s port, are declared contraband, and juftly fubject to confifeation ; but the fhip in 
which they thal! be laden, as well as the reft of the cargo, fhall be confidered as tree, and 
fhall in no manner be vitiated by the contraband merchandize, whether they belong to the 
fame or different proprictors, 
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MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 
HE ftate of the feafon about the clofe of the laf month was very favourable for the com- 
~ mencement of the Wheat-teeding: and in fome of the more fouthern parts of the king- 
dom much of this fort.of grain was then put into the ground ; and fince that period, during 
the greateft part of the prefent month, the weather has ftill continued fuitable for the per- 
formance of the faine important bufinefs ;. fo that in almoft every arable diltriét, even thofe 
of the northern parts of the rfland, the Wheat has been put into the earth with much facility, 
and probably 1 in a fomewhat larger quantity thanufual, and, from the complete and perfect 
manner in which the lands deftined for this kind of grain have been prepared, on account 
ae the finenefs. of the fummer, in that fort of condition which is the moft promifing for a 
good crop the next feafon. 
The Wheat-crop of the laf harveft, we find, turns out well as to quality in moft of the 
northern counties of England, as weil as in Scotland, but the preduce uot great, thé crops 
having been generally thin on the ground in thole diftri¢ts. The Oat-crops in thefe parts 
have not heen found to turn out fee well as might have been expected : they are faid to be 
mean in quality, and to yield httie meal Thefe Gaeue fences have probably tended to 
the advance. The average price of Wheat throughout England. amd Wales is 108s. 7d. ; 
oe Rye, 62s. 2d. ; of Barley, 56s. Gd.; of Oats, 34s. 8d. ; Beans, 63s. 4d. ; and Pails: 
62s. ed. 
The Pea-crops have fuffered confiderably in fome of thefe diftriéts, from the opening of 
the pods, and the Peas being permitted to fall out upon the ground. 
‘Furnips are but an indi ferent crop in many parts of the northern counties, and in fome 
parts of Scotland ; we have however obf rved many good patches of this ufefal food in the 
midland and more fouthern parts of England. 
This being the feafon for taking up different root-crops, we are informed from feveral” 
places that the potatoes are in general fmall, yielding badly, and frequently not good for 
the purpole of eating, efpeciaily thofe that were planted early. This is moft probably ow- 
ing to their beginning to vegetate anew aiter the hot feafon termmated. ~ The great extent of 
ground planted will however moft probably make up for the deficiencies in the crops. In 
the London markets potatoes are fold from 1d. to 14d. per Ib. 
Hops.—Lhe fcantinefs of the crops Te ‘ders the prices of this fort of produee extremely 
high. From the fupply at Weybiil Fair on the 10th, it is mferred there is about one-fiith 
ney acrop. The ber Farnhbams fold fo high as 251. ; Crondalls, 22}. and 231. ; Kents, 181. 
andi9I. At Canterbury the prices are, for bags, 1 141. to idl. 15s., and for pockets, 1 15l. to 
171. Inthe Borough the current prices are, bags, from 15 to 16 guineas, and pockets, 16). 
to 18}. i 
Hay is ftill high, and fetches in St. James’s market from 5}. to 61 10s. ; Straw from 36s. 
to 45s. 
The great flufh of after-grafs in the grazing-diftriéts, fince the firtt falls of rain, has ad- 
vanced the prices of Lean Stock very confiderably. Fat Stock of all forts is likewife high. 
In Smithfield, Beef fells from Ss. 4d. to 4s. 8d. per ftone of 8lb., finking the offal. Mut- 
ton from 4s. to 5s. 2d.; and Veal, 4s.8d.to6s. | 
Hogs are on the advance ; and Pork setches in Sinithfield from 5s. to 6s. the ‘tone. 
Hortes of the better fort fetch good prices. ; ) 
Cheete is extravagantly bigh. Cheihire is fold in the fhops in London at 1s, and Glou- 
cefter at 11d. ; Frefh Butter at 18d. and Salt at 15d. In moft of the country-iairs Cheefe 
has lately fold from 75se to 80s. the cwt 
Where the fituation and-nature of orafs-lands rendered it neceffary to put dunk upon 
them at this feafon of the year, there was fcarcely ever a finer opportunity afforded the far- 
mer for it than during the prefent month ; contequently much of this work has been per= 
formed in fuch fituations, and without the leaft ifjury to the furface. 
