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mereshaat of Birmingham direéts his attention, the profpect is ftill very difcouraging. Ruffi 
has prohibited nearly all articles in this line, except tools, fo that in faét we are at prefen 
furnifhing that country, only with the means of eftablithing manufactories, which may ulti- 
mately rival our own; of which they feem to be well aware, from the great encouragement 
given to fuch manufatories. The prohibitory laws impofed by this ftate are fo rigid in 
themfelves, and fo itrictly executed, that the quantity of goods fmuggled into the country is 
at prefent very infignificaut ; and among other inftances of the decline of the trade of Birming- 
ham wich Ruffia, it appears that Mr. Boulton has not, of late, exported to thar country a- 
tenth, nor even a twentieth part of the buttons he ufed todo, In many parts of Germany, 
which might be fupplied by ports {ill open to us, Birmingham articles are alfo prohibited ; 
this is the cafe in all the imperial ftates, and mof of tho‘e ftates, where “commercial serie 
tions are more friendly to us, are not yet recovered from the revag-s of war, and have no 
money to {pare for fuperfuities, as moft of the articles we ufually fupply the n with are 3 nor 
is there any profpeét of a more extenfive trade in thefe parts, as in many of our leading 
articles the Germans already underfell us. The trade with Holland is now entirely at a ftand, 
for although confid-rable quantities of goods have been exported for that country, even after 
the French took pofleffion of i it, yet fince the laft regulations r- fpecting Englifh manufactures, 
by which it is made death to import them, no one has had courage either co order or fend 
goods thither. France, Spain, and Italy, which together before the war, confumed more 
than a fcurth of the Birmingham manufactures, have of courfe been fhut markets for fome 
time paitj feve-al orders have indeed been lately received from Spainy but few merchants 
have venture: to pu: them in hand; a renewal of the Italian trade may however be confident- 
ly «xpected, from the important changes that are taking place in that country ; in fact fome 
confiderable orders have been already delivered for sane. for the Italian trade. Portugal had 
lately been the beft foreign market for the manufactures of Birmingham, till the trade was 
checked by the dangers which threatencd that country, which being in a great meafure re- 
Moved, it may now revive again. The exports to America are itill very confiderable, and 
might be more fo, were our merchants inclined to continue that extent of credit to the 
Americans, of which generally ipeaking they have rendered themtelves fo undeferving. Un- 
ger all thefe difcouraging circumftances, the prefent very high price of the principal raw 
snaterial copper, is felt by the Birmingham manufaét-rer as no fimall aggravation of his dif- 
refs; the great and rapid rifeof thisarticle has caufed a parliamentary inveftigation of the 
fubject 5 the Commitiee appointed have made their report, but the aét intended to have been 
paftzd has been deferred till the next feffton. 
The Eaft India Company have declared for fale, on the 4th of September, 3.§0,000]b. 
cinnamon, 200,000lb. cloves, and 1561b. ofoil of BuEmess or ands foap 5 3 and if any nutmegs 
ez mace arrive, there will alfo be a faie of thofe articles at the fame time. 

MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 
[HE « drynefs of the weather for feveral w eeks pat, has been upon the whele, fomewhat 
unfavourable tor the corn crops; but fhould rain foon take place, a good harveft may 
Rill be expected. Some of the more early fown wheats, efpecially thofe on clover fallews 
Sook well, but fuch as were fown later and thote on pea or potatoe grounds in many diitriGs, 
eppear rat ther thin as well a s patchy. 
yin fome of Ae e turnip difrigts, farmers have letely been extrensaiys bufy in preparing their 
grounds and fowing the feed of that valuable root 3 for which the feafon has been uncom- 
monly fine and tempting. 
The hay crop is we believe almoft every where, evenin the beft fituations, but a mi ddling 
one, and in many places it is extremely thin indeed, probably little more than haif the 
quae Dey of laft year, 
In the fruit counties too, where the appearances were the moft promifing, much injury has 
lately been fuftained, and the expectations of the farmer are confiderably leffened 3 but a 
Wises crop may, we apprehend, {till be looked for. 
Gratin ftili continues high. Wheat avarages throughout Engiand and Wales, 64s. 2d_ 
Barley 35s. $d. Oats jos. 2d.. f 
CATTLE. Lean cattlearc fomewhat Tower; but fat ones and milch-cows, keep up, Bee 
averages in Smithfield market 3s. 4d. to 5s. per ftane of ‘Bibs. finking the offal. 
SHEEP. Mutton from qs. to ss. ditto. 
Hos. Perk, from 4s. to 4s. 34. ditto. 
Hay, woweoe 12 ad ames market 31. 328. 6d. 
TRAW. Ditto, 2). ae gi 
