i tions: inal tolled a deep and bhovoaet acs 
»squaintance with thé principles of commerce, 
/anda great deal of that jJearning which the 
_symind of acomanof buftnefs would only feek 
_forin the hiftory of manufa€tures. . The mo- 
tion, aftera very long debate, was lo&, nor 
“has it fince been revived, unlefs the cele: 
‘brated:commercial propofitions ‘of Mr. Ord, in 
» the-year 178§,:may- be confidéred as includ- 
~Angite Previous.to this time, Mr. Gardiner 
had matriedithe eldeft of the three celebrated 
Milfs Montgomeries, daughters af Sir Wm. 
o‘Montgomery, oof Macbie. Hill. By: this 
Mparriage, if he did not greatly enlarge his 
fortune, he fecured avery wideand ufeful 
extent of family connedtion, the other two 
Gifters of his wife being thortly married, the 
one tos the:Right Hon. Mr. Beresford, firit 
commiffioner of the Irifh revenue, a man of 
s ‘well known and powerful -intereft; the other 
_to-the prefent Marquis of ‘Townfend. : ‘This 
lady, whofe perfonal-and mental acconiplith- 
ments were of the moft extraordinary and 
seen RS aa Mr. Gardiner idolized. _~By 
Monthly Report of the Sins of. Commerce. 
her he had four children. Charles, born ig — 
1782, who fucceeds his Lordthip, and three 
daughters, the eldeft of whom was recently 
married to the: Rev. Mr. Fowler, fon of: ee 
Archbifhop of Dublin. It was by his: ¢on- 
nexion with this lady, that Mr. G..was‘ena- 
bled to eftablifha claim tothe Mountjoy eftate. 
This led the way to his. fubfequent applica- 
tion for the title, which had: long lain dor- 
mant...'The application was favourably ~re- 
ceived, and in. 178g he was created Baron 
Mountjoy. But connubial happinefs is not im- 
mortal; this beloved wife his Lordfhip was 
doomed to lofe. He bore the lefs likea lover, 
but alfo like aman. The wound wasdeep — 
which this calamity infliéted, but not incura- 
ble, forin the year 17955 hie Lordthip, after 
a long period of wooing, efpoufed a Mifs 
Wallace, who had been bred to the océupa- 
tion of a miliner. The public are im poffef- 
fion of the train of public evens which 
brought on the catraftophe of his death, at 
the head of the Dublin sper chaci of which he 
was colonel. : 

ooReport of e profi State o 
Commerce, ee ae Sew: 
( To be continued monthly. ) 
“ft being intended to gives-in the fucceeding numbers, a monthly report of the ate of 
» the commerce. and manufactures of the country, it may not be improper to: a . it. 
bya general.view of the extent-and nature of our foreign trade. 
:/Fhe commerce: -of Great Britain, and its colonies, at prefent employs about 16,000° ¥ef- 
enfalsp the navigation of which requires near 120,000 feamen; of this number of veffels, 
-‘about -r0;000 annually arrive in, and as many clear out from, the different ports of 
England and Scotland. 
“Some idea may be formed of the immenfe value of our commerce 
elftgm: 1 Khe cuftom-houfe* accounts of the exports and imports, by which the total of the éx- 
ortg-of Great-Britain for one year, ending sth January 1796, amount to 27,270,000}. 
madd of the imports to 21,360,cco01.:it_is well known that thefe accounts are formed’ac- 
: Paces ‘to: rates» eftablifhed acentury ago, and which muft, therefore, in many inftances, 
“give the value of the articles at a very different rate from their prefent price, and in gefie- 
oral much-below it, confequently the extent of our foreign trade would appear much Maneeety 
aifa real-valuation of the different articles could be obtained. 
The great increafe which has appeared in our exports and imports fince the commence- 
“ment of the war: obvioufly arifes, principally, from the fituation of other powers’; the co- 
lonial trade in: particular, of France and Holland, was very great, a-confiderable part “of 
which muftat prefent be in the hands of the Englith merchants ; although, whenever a 
peace is concluded, it may poffihly, in a great meafure, revert to its former channels. 
The 
*Ancreafed expenditure of government alfo contributes, in many inftances, to caufe the “ap- 
-4pearance of an.increafe of trade, as-eftimated from the cuftom-houfe accounts; and if the 
Tate increafe has not, in fome degree, arifen from this caufe, it is a very fingular cir¢um- 
-? ftance that it fhould not-have produced a greater increafe in the revenue of the cuftoms. 
-- >. The value of goods imperted by the East InpIA coMPANY, amounts to about one- 
» fourth of the total of our imports; their exports cunfitt chiefly of woollen-cloths, metals, 
-vand naval.and military ftores3 onthe fale of the woollens they. generally experience a Iofs, 
notwithftanding which, the export is continued regularly, as without this article they 
would be obliged to carry out a greater quantity of bullion, or to fub{titute fome other ma- 
® mufaéture, which certainly could not be done with equal advantage to this country. . 
\ OD he -capital employed:in the West Inpia TRADE‘ eftimated at-70,000;c00 1. 
3 the 
» svalue of goods exported:from Great Britain and herdependencies, including the profit of 
-ofreightvon ‘the: feveral branches: of fupply, infurance, &c..3,800,b001. ; the:imports trom 
thence into great’ Britain and Ireland, and other ports, the profits of which centercin Great 
Britain, 7,200,0001.; the duties paid to ai ape i ,800,0001.5 
© dire& 150,000 tons. 
the thipping es 
The MepiTERRANEAN TRADE, in ‘time: of peace, is very valuables but of late — 
~ @§ the principal articles come by wayof Hamburgh.. 
Phe Barrie TRADE, confifting of more bulky articles, employs a much 
prenter nhum- 
ber of fhipping ; ; and the value of the imports from. thence, which are chiefly- articles: of 
the greate{t importance to our manufactories, and for the fupport of the navy, is eftimated 
at upwards of 3,000,000]. 
