1801.] 
his improved mode of planting potatoes, 
by which the laft feafon produced a very 
extraordinary increase of that ufeful ar- 
ticle, as mentioned in our laft. . 
A handfome fub{cription has been raifed 
in Exeter and applied to the relief of the 
indigent fufferers, by the late inundation 
in that city and its fuburbs, whofe lofs is 
eftimated at 650]. The donations amount 
to nearly 200]. of which sol. was fub- 
fcribed by James Buller, éfq. 
The freedom of the borough of Barn- 
Devonfhire. : 583 
for the purpofe of reducing the vrice of 
coals to the poor, is very liberally fup- 
ported. The Exeter Volunteer Fufileers,. 
and the fourth and fifth company of the 
Exeter Volunteers, have given one day’s 
pay (officers and men) in aid of this cha- 
ritable purpofe. 
At the late annual meeting of the Dul- 
_verton and Bampton Acricultural Society, 
the premium for the bef half {core of ftore 
ewes was adjudged to Mr. Thomas Sur- 
ridge, of Bampton; and for the beft bull 
ftaple has lately been prefented to ‘Sir 
Edward Pellew, as a token of refpect for 
the fignal fervice rendered by him to his 
country. Sir Edward has offered himfelf 
a candidate for that borough. 
The fubfeription now on foot at Exeter, 
to Mr. John Fill, of Weft Auftey. Pre» 
miums were alfo given to John Down, 
William Hydon, and William Bindon, for 
having brought up the greateft number of 
legitimate children without parochial af 
fittance. 
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MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT. ; 
HE embargo which has been laid on all Britifh fhipping in the ports of Ruffias 
muit be attended with much inconvenience and lofs to the merchants in this 
country. No lefs than ro5 veffels are detained at Peterfburg, 71 at Riga, and a con- 
fiderable number in the other ports. In confequence of this event, hemp, iron, tallow, 
and other articles imported from Ruffia, have greatly advanéed in price. A liberal 
fubfeription has been entered into by the principal merchants in the Ruffian trade, for 
the relief of the feamen detained, and they have agreed to continue the pay of the men 
till they fhall be liberated. ‘The difpute is, however, likely to be of great ultimate 
fervice to the country, by the exienfion of its iron produce. More than twenty addi- 
tional furnaces are now building in Monmouthfhire, Glamorganfhire, and at Llanelly 
in Caermarthenfhire; averaging the produce of each at forty tons of pig-iron weekly, 
the additional annual produce will be 51,600 weight. And at leaft as many more _ 
furnaces are in contemplation in the neighbourhood of Swautfea. : 
The Government of Holland, finding that the exportation of grain to this country 
is ftill continued, has again more ftriétly prohibited it. ‘The trade between Holland 
and this country is however {till carried on in other articles, under authority of fome 
Jate acts of parliament and orders of council. . 
An A& has been paffed, continuing till forty days after the commencement of the 
firit feffion of Parliament that fhall be held after the firft of September 1801, the Acts 
paffed in the laft fellion for prohihiting the exportation, and permitting the importa- 
tion of corn and other articles of provifion without payment of duty ; for allowing the 
ufe of fugar in the brewing of beer; for reducing the duties upon fpirits diftilled from 
melaffes and fugar ; and for prohibiting the making of low wines or {pirits from wheat 
and certain other articles in Scotland. . 
Further bounties have been granted on the importation of corn, viz. On every 
quarter of oats weighing 264lbs. or upwards, imported into Great Britain before the” 
xft of October 1801, a bounty equal to the fum by which the average price in Lon- 
don, publifhed in the Gazette in the third week after the importation thereof, {hall be 
" defs than 40s. per quarter. On every quarter of barley, weighing 3521bs. or upwards, 
ditto, equal to the fum by which the average price is lefs than sos. per quarter. On 
every quarter of peafe, ditto, equal to the fum by which the average price is les than 
75s. per quarter. On every quarter of beans, ditto, equal to the fum by which the 
average price is lefs than sos. per quarter. : 
Government being defirous of encouraging as much as poffible the Herring Fifhery 
in the Frith of Forth, have direéted, that all perfons who are willing to engage 
therein fhall be allowed falt, duty free, fufficient for preferving their fifh for fix or 
eight weeks, with complete protection from the imprefs, as well while employed in 
the fifhery, as while gomg thither or returning home ; befides which, perfons defiroiis. 
of going to the fifhery wiil be allowed a free paffage to the Forth, and a conveyance 
for their nets, on application to the Collector of the Cuftems. An Ac has alfo been 
paffed to permit till the firft of Ofober 48or, the importation of herrings and other 
fifh, the produce of the fifhery carried on in Nova Scotia, New Brunfwick, Newfound- 
land, and the Coait of Labrador, into this country, without payment of duty. 
The manufactures of G/afcow have been almoft at a ftand for nearly a mvelyemonth 
paft, which has produced great diftrefs; this has arifen chiefly from an obfruGion 
created in the Welt India markets, by capturing the Spanifh veffels coming there to 
- trade, 
