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State of Commerce, Manufactures, Sc. for Auguft. 
N the beginning of the month, a fleet arrived from the Eaft Indies, of five thips from Ben» 
gal, and two from Bombay. Accounts have fince been received of the lofs of four of the 
company’s thips, in the Eaft Indies; the two captured, had taken in part of their cargoes, 
confifting chiefly of price poods and pepper. ’ 
A large fleet trom the Weft Indies, has alfo arrived fafe, confifting of 82 fail from Ja- 
maica, and 3¢ from the windward iflands, which however has but little affe@ted the 
market: all Weft India goods continue high on account of the demand for the continent. 
The quantity of raw fug rs on hand is very great, notwithftanding which they continue to 
rife ; the averaze price from the returns made in the week ending the 18th Auguft, was 
gl. 98. 6d2. exclufive of duty. Barbadoes clayed Sugars are from 41. 5s. to 51. 143. 3),Gre- 
mada ditto from 41. §s. to 51. r1s.; Martinico ditto trim 41. 9s. to 5]. 14s.; St. Domingo 
ditto from 41. 5s. to cl. 12s. Refined Sugars experience a like advance; Lumps are from 
61. 2s. to 61. 8s. ; Single loaves from 6]. 1s. to 61. 12s.; Powder loaves from 61. 6s. to 6. 17S. 
There has likewife arrived a fleet of 18 veffels from Peterfburg, of which the following 
are the particulars of the cargoes 
77,07 Bars of Iron, 595 Bobbins and 62 Bundles of Flax, 
4,034 Cafks of Tallow, 54. Bags of Feathers, 
/3176 Cafks of Athes, 122 Cafks cf Briftles, NS 
465 Bales of Linen, 10 Bags of Becs-wax, 
7,248 Bundles of Hemp, 74 Bags of Ifinglafs. 
The late very contiderable imports into the port of London, having confilted chiefly of bulky 
articles, the inconveniences arifing from a crouded ftate of the river, and the want of fufi- 
cient wharf room have been much felt, and afforded additional proof of the great neceflity of 
fome remedy being adopted. ‘The merchants have in confequence given nutice, that in the 
en{uing feflion, they mean to renew their application to parliament, for an aét to make Wet 
Docks at Wapping: and in order to provide a more effe€tual check upon the plunder of 
lumpers, till a more fecure mode of delivering fh'ps cargoes cin be adopted, a Marine Police 
Office has been e/:ablifhed at Shadwell under the fan@tion of government. An idea may be 
formed of the extent of this fpecies of depredation in the port of London, from a calculation 
made about five or fix years ago, that the lofs by plunderage on Weft India produce alone, 
Was above 150,000]. per annum to the proprietors, and 50,0c01. to the revenue. 
After the port of London, the trade of Liverpool appears to have been lefs affeted by the 
War, than tMat of any other port in the kingdom; from the 26th of July to the 2: cf Au- 
guft, 21% vefiels have arrived in this port, and 202 cleared out for fea. Its commerce with 
the Weft Indies, both as to impotts and exports, has gr idually increafed. The importation 
of Weft India produce by the fleet lately arrived, of which there’ were 34 veffels for this 
port from Jamaica and St. Domingo, and 19 from the Leeward iflands, exceeds confiderably 
any former import 5 and notwithftanding this increafing influx, the markets have not fuftain- 
ed the leaft diminution, either with refpe& to fale or price, nor is it probable that this wild 
happen, as the demand for thefe articles for the continent continues very brifk. The 
trade of this port with America alfo appears advancing, and indeed the oniy branches of 
its commerce which feem on the decline are; the Baltic trad°, and perhaps the Mediterra. 
nean trade; but the decline of thefe branches is by no means peculiar to Liverpool: the 
Baltic trade, confifting chiefly in Naval ftores, the principal fiates of Europe are obliged ta 
get fupphed through a different channel, and the moft valuable articles of the Mediterranean 
trade are now conveyed over land to Hathburgh. g 
The foreign trade of the Clyde has for fome years been: regularly upon the increafe: the 
{fips which arrived this month from Jamaica and the Windward iflands brought 
3835 Hogtheads, 611 Tierces, 288 Barrels of Sugar, 
1040 Puncheons, 286 Hogfheads Rum, 
27 Calks, 180 Bazs Coffee, 
1072 Bags, 260 Packets Cotton, 
Io4 Tons Logwood, 
42 Tons Fuftic, 
817 Hides. ; 
The iron manufactures of Birmingham, innails, chains, locks, hinges, carpenters? tools, fad- 
lers’ ironmongery, &c. had increafed from exportation to America; but at prefent t!.efe branches 
do not employ near fo many hands as they did formerly. The making of gun barrels and 
gun locks is now a ftaple manutactory 5; and the war has confiderably increaled the demand 
for mufkets; piftols, fabres, and for military accoutrements, as helmcts, belt plates, ieddlest 
but this advantage is trifling when compared with the luis of bufinefs in the toy trade, which 
comprehends innumerable articles in mixed metals. of copper, brafS, fpelter, ‘tin, ec. 
the gilding, plating, and filvering branches; the annual exports of which hay- been 27d in 
at a million fterling, Thefe articles; however trifling they appear when enumerate yalyeg 
ployed an incredible number of hands, and the prefent extert, population, and em. d ie 
tne town, is owing principally to the ingenuity of its workmen in this line, Brade napce af 
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