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months paft has arrived in this country from Smyrna, is a fubject that may deferve the attention 
of the Faft India Company, as there is no reafon to believe that there is any increafed demand 
for Turkey filk ; but for China filk, there certainly 1s ademand-for a much greater quantity than 
the company have of late fupplied the trade with ; 266 bales of China fold at the Indiathoufe on 
the 21ft of November, from 31s. 6d, to 33s. 1d. per Ib. exclufive of duty: the next fale of 
China fiik will bein February- . 
In confequence of the high price of grain throughout the kingdom, the Eaft India Cempany, 
with the concurrence and approbation‘of his Majefty’s Minifters, on the 28th of Auguft laf, fent 
directions to their governments in India to afford every encouragement to indivjduals to fend rice 
and other grain to England, engaging that the fhips fo employed fhould be allowed to carry out 
return cargoes, as formerly allowed to country fhips ; ie on the 30th of September followihe, 
in order to encourage as’ large an importation as poftible before the next harvet is got ing they 
fent further directions to India, authorifing {uch fhips as brought three-fourths of their tonnage in 
rice to bring alfo fuch other goods as are ufually imported into this country, with an indemnifica- 
tion in cafe rice fhould be under certain prices here on their arrival, They have alfo fince offered 
to grant licences to any fhips to be fent from this country to the Eaft Indies for the purpofe of 
bringing home rice, on very liberal conditions, but under the exprefs ftipulation that the fhips 
fhould be cleared out from the Cuftom-houfe before the 1{t of December inft, or from any port 
in the Eaft Indiés before the 1ft September, 18or. 
An Act of Parliament has been paffed for prohibiting the ufe of corn in the diftilleries, and in the 
making of ftarch ; alfo for preventing the exportation of rice; and larger bounties have been 
granted on the importation of graim, viz, on every quarter of wheat weighing 424 Ibs. that fhall 
be imported before the 1ft of October, 1801, a bounty equal to the fum in which the average 
price fhall be publifhed in the London Gazette the third week after fuch importation, lefs than 
1oos. per quarter: on barley weighing 352 lbs. ditto 45s. per quarter: on rye weighing 408 lbs. 
ditto 658 per quarter: on oats weighing 280 Ibs, ditto 30s. per quarter: on fupertine wheaten 
flour weighing 196 lbs. per barrel, and fold by public auction within two months after importa ~ 
tion, a bounty equal to the fum at which the flour fhall fell lefs than 70s. per barrel: on Eait 
India rice, ditto 32s percwt, on Americanrice, ditto 35s. per cwt- yng 
The quantity of foreign wheat and wheaten flour imported into Great Britain from the 26th of 
September, 179g, to the 26th of September, 1800; diftinguifhing England from Scotland, and 
the Port of London from the Out Ports was as follow: ? 


Wheat Wheat flours 
London 558,430 qrse 110,097 CWts : 
Out Ports 505,243 158,976 
Scotland 121,980 21,428 
Total 1,185,653 110,240 

MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 
ROM the open and temperate ftate of the weather, during the greater part of the ptefent 
month, the operations of the farmer have been but little interrupted. In moft of the arable 
diftricts of the kingdom, and efpecially the more northern ones, an unufual extent of land has 
been converted to the wheat hu{bandry. . Befide the fallows, much of the clover leys.and grounds 
on which other grain crops had been produced, have been fown with this kind of grain. ‘Dhe 
very high price obtained for the late crop feems to have excited a more than ordinary attention 
to the culture of this fort of crop. Almoft every where the wheats which are above ground jook 
healthy and promifing, , Wheat ftill continues to fell extravagantly dear. dear averages 
throughout England and Wales 19s. 4d. ; Barley 67s. 8d.; Oats 38s. 5d. 
The winter fallows in moft places have been already'ploughed over, and much other field 
work finifhed. 
Turnips. The earlier fown turnips in the fouthern parts of the ifland, in general appear to be 
a good crop, but thofe that were fown late are but indifferent. In Cumberland we however 
find that they have in general {welled much both in the rootand top, within this laft month or fix 
weeks, and upon the whole feem to promife the beft crop that has been for many years. This 
circumftance with that of the great fearcity of {tock in Scotland, and the mountainous diftricts 
of England, our correfpondent obferves, have caufed aconfiderable fall in the price of turnips tor 
three or four weeks patft. 
Potators have in fome diftrits been rather an indifferent crop, efpecially where they were fet 
at an early period ; but in others fuch has been the improved ftate of them, fince the rains thet 
fucceeded the fummer drought, that where it was fuppofed the crops had entirely failed, they 
have turned out more abundantly than could have been poffibly expected. In Newgate-market 
the ox-nobles fell at 8s. per cwt. the round 11s, and kidneys 14s. 
The unufual abundance of grafs at this feafon has tended greatly to prevent the advance of 
price in fat ftock. In Smithfield-market beef tells perftone.ot $ lb. from 3s. Sd. to 5s. Mutton, 
trom 4s. 4d. toss. 4dy, Weal, from 4s. 6d, to 6s. 6d, and pork trom §s- 40, to 6s. In the re- 
tail fhops, beef averages 8d. per Ib. sutton $5, and pork rid. 
Good mutton is on the advance, and fromthe great expence of fattening hogs, .pork muft ne- 
ceffarily be high. 
Hay averages in St. James’s market 5]. ros. and Srraw 21s. : 
Frefly butter is fold in London, at 17d. Cambridge, 16d. and Salt, r4d. per Ib. © Chefhire 
cheefe, 1s, Gloucefter, tod, and Dutch gd. per lb. Bread is 18id. the quartern loai, Eggs are 
aid. the dozen. 
