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tion of the obfervation. The correéted firft obfervation by Mechain is now as fol- 
lows: on the 6th of Auguft, dire& afcenfion 1070 55' 41”; declination north 42, 
50° 5’.. Immediately on the difcovery of the error, Dr. Burckhardt calculated from 
the obfervations of the zoth and 21{t of Augutt, and of the 2d of September, ele- 
ments of the orbit, and found the following : time of the paffage through the peri- - 
helium, 1799, 0n the 7th of September, at 6n 46'49'' medium time at Paris: lon- 
gitude of the node 9°15'21”5 inclination of the orbit 51° 10’ 7”; longitude of the 
perihelium 3° 40! 25; elongation of the perihelium 0,341,456 motion retrogade. 
Mechaiz calculated this orbit according to La Place’s method, and found the follow- 
ing elements : time of the paffage through the perihelium, 1799, 0n the 7th of Sep- 
tember, at 4% 34’ 20” mean time; longitude of the node 3° 9° 33' 33”s inclination 
BOM G2" 975 longitude of the perihelium oz 3° 36/ 4”; elongation thereof 0,83868, 
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“MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT. 
"THE cargoes of the East Inpra Fleet, lately arrived from Bengal, Madras, and Bombay 
confiit of the following articles, viz " 
| Pieces. Pieces. 
Coaft Piece Goods, Muflins, : 11,84¢@ Bengal Piece Goods, Muflins, OR seam 
Calicoesy;- %, 144,144 Calicoes, : 30,085 
Prohibited, . 1305734 Prohibited, . 10,763 
Surat Piece Goods, Calicoes, .. « 2,100  Ajengo and Mahe Piece Goods, 223558 
_ Prohibited, . 91,644. 
Sugar, 1611 bags, BM te 2,o17 cwt. Diftilled Oil of Nutmegs, 55 quart bottles, . 
Cochineal, 4 chefts, : - 829]1b. Cardemoms, 5 bags, ‘ ; 266 Ib. 
Pepper, 1149 bags, . - 100,000 Ib. Cinnamon, : 2 , oe) Sera: 
Rlack Pepper, ° » 2,441,117 |b. Raw Silk, 184 bales, 2 bundles, 25,057 Ib. 
Nutmegs, in hufk, .. 50,040 |b. Saltpetre;9764 bags, 6. 8555 8 CWE. 
Ditto, Amboyna, ditto, . ‘ 182 1b. Lack Lake. 8 boxes, - ‘ 4,053 Ib. 
Cloves, ; : . ‘ 34,638 lb. Opium, 25 boxes, . F ~ 3,988 le 
Mace, . A ‘ . 18,126 1b. Carmenia wool, 4 bales, . 5 804 Ibe 
'Befides Privilege Goods, confifting chiefly of Cotton-Wool, Sugar, Coffee, Pepper, Cochi. 
neal, Indigo, and other Drugs. 
Raw Sugars continue to advance, as there has been of late a greater demand for exportation $ 
the deitruction of a confiderable quantity by fire, may likewife have had fome little influence on 
the price in London. St. Kitt’s are from 60s. to 84s. per cwt. St. Vincent’s, Nevis, Jamaica, 
and Tortola, from 58s. to 79s. Granada, from 57s. to 80s. Ditto, clayed 67s. to 98s. Domi- 
nica, Antigua, Barbadoes, Martinico, and St. Domingo, 58s. to 78s. Refined Sugars are of 
courfe adyanced. Lump Sugars are from g1s. to 104s. Single Loaves, from 98s. to t1os, and 
Powder Loaves, from 1k08. to 120s. 
Coffee is hkewife higher within the laft three or four weeks. Good Coffee is at prefent from 
132s. to 144s. percwt, Fine Coffee, from 145s. to 158s. 
The Eaft India Company have declared for fale on the 25th of April next, $500 bags of Black 
Pepper, prompt the rift of Auguft following; and that they will fell no more Pepper untii Sep="' 
tember fale, except fuch as may be damaged, uncleared, in privilege or private trade, or under 
the neutral property act. 
Spanifb- Wool has lately rifen a little ; Leonefa is at prefent from 4s. 6d. to 4s. od. per lb. 
Segovia, from 4s. to 4s.¢d. Soria, from 3s. 6d. to 4s. 3d. and Seville, from 3S. to 3s. rod. 
* Cotron-tVool has advanced about 1d. per pound. 
» Grafs Seeds have advanced confiderably notwithftanding the late impertations of this article 
from France and Holland. Foreign Red Clover is from 21. to 61. 5s. percwt. White Diito, 
“from 21. 163s. to 61. 
_ The Pustse Fuwnns continued pretty fteady for feveral weeks, notwithftanding the ex- | 
pectation of a large loan, 3 per cent Confols being from 60 to 61 from the beginning of tlie 
month to the arft, the day on which the loan was negotiated, when they got to 63, but feil a°- 
little the next day, The amount of the loan was fixed at 20,500;001. making 32,185,000], 
new ftock, and though it was taken on terms lefs advantageous tothe fubfcribers than any of 
the loans during the prefent war, it immediately bore a premium from 2 to 3 pet centr, “which 
however has fince been fomewhat lefs. 
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