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duty of one halfpenny per gallon on the latter after the 1ft of June. Additional duties have 
likewife been granted on Spirits »made in Scotland and imported into England; alfo on Brandy, 
Rum, and other foreign fpirits imported. The aét paffed in the prefent feffion of parliament to’ 
prohibit the making of low wines or fpitits, from: wheat or: other forts of grain, of from meal, 
flour or bran, in Scotland, has been continued to the rftof February, 1801. An additional 
excife duty of § per cent., has likewife been laid on a)l rea fold by the Eaft India Company for 
2s. 6d. per pound or upwards, from the 24th of February, or which having been fold fhould be 
found ih any warehoufe belonging w the company after that day; to be computed on the grofs 
prices at which the tea fhall be, or fhallhave been fold. Though this duty does not extend to the 
loweft priced teas it produced an immediate advance of fuch teas at leaft equal to the amount of 
the new duty’ ft 
~ The quantity of wrought copper exported during the year 1799 was 97,125 Cwt. 2 qrs. 7.1b.,, 
and the nominal valuethereof £515s.043 os. 4d. The average price of wrought copper exported 
during the year appears, by the declarations of the exporters, to have been 1203- per Cwe. and’ 
agreeably to that rate the total value of the avove copper is£626,459 19s. 6d. The quantity of 4/a/s 
exportéd in the courfe of the year 1799, was 77,033 Cwt. 3 qrs.-:61b. and the nominal value 
, thereof £346,652 165. ; the nominal and real value of plated ware exported was {15,172 85. od* 
The average price of the wrought brafs exported, appears by the declarations of the exporterste 
have been £7 145. 82. per Cwt. and agreeably to that rate, the total value of the above brafs 
amounting to 77,033 Cwt. 3 qrs. 16lb.is £595,728 15s. od. According to thefe accounts it appears 
that although the high price of copper and brafs has continued, and even increafed, during the 
loft year, the quantity exported has been greater than during feveral yearsspreceding. - 
Since our laft, yaw fugars have not experienced any material alteration in: price, but refined 
fugarsare higher; lumps are at prefent from 94 to Ios. fingle loaves, 107 to 118s, powder 
loaves, E10 to 126s. tips, 60 to 69s. middles 65 to 80s. and faces 82 to gos. : 
Coffce is rather lower ; ordinary at prefent from 110 to 124s. middling 125 to 129s. good 
130 to 1398. and fine 146 to 157s. 
The importations from Rotterdam, Oftend and Calais, continue; the articles imported being ~ 
chiefly Geneva, ox, cow, and horfe hides, calf fkins raw. and tanned, madder, cloyer-feed, 
ftarch, cheefe, &c. 
*.* The Communications of our Friend’, who refide in Manufadiuring Difiriéts or Seas 
Poris, to this Ariicle, will be acceptable. 
MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 
PFHE bufinefs of hufbandry has proceeded without much interruption during the greateft part of 
“the month, in -all the fouthern and many of the northern diftricts, the plovgh has, been 
_almoft conftantiy employed; a great deal of land has of courfe been broken up and prepared for 
the reception of different forts of crops. Much oats and fome barley has been already fown, 
‘The bean and earlier potatoe crops tuo have in fome places been put into the ground, . 
Good feed of every fort is{carce and difficult to be obtained, that of potatoes now is ata mo 
énormous price. This caufe we are feartul may Operate in fome degree to leffen the extent of 
grounds intended. for the growth of fuch crops. : , 
The young wheats, from the fudden fharp frofts and the cold eafterly winds, have been a little 
checked in their growth, and‘have not quite fo healthy an appearance as mightnow be expected, 
Some indeed of thofe that were /ate fown, are only juit beginning to fhew themfelves above the, 
furface of the ground- . 
_ The latter part of the month has been uncommonly favourable for harrowing, rolling and-put- 
ting the grafs and hay lands into complete order, as well as for the fowing of all forts of grafs-feedy 
and much bufinefs of this kind bas been performed, efpecially in the vicinity of London and 
many large towns, 
‘Grain, ‘The prices of this article ftill continue extremely high, it would feem however, pro- 
bable from many circumftances, that fome diminution muft foon take place. The rate of wheat 
$0 Mark-lane is at prefent from 80 to 122s..the quarter; the average of England and Wales is 
ac%s. 1od. and of barley 58s- 6d. é 
Potatoes in the London markets are fram 8 to 18s, the hundred eight, and but few that 
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are really good. 
5 Cartle-1urnips being now either wholly confumed by the theep and neat cattle, ordeftroyed by 
oe feyerity of the repeated froits, and hay continuing in moft places extravagantly dear, it ig 
vident that the fupphies of fa: ftock muft confiderably diminifh in the markets, and that of courfe 
an augmentation of price in different kinds of butchers meat muft take place, probably for mof& 
or all ofthe fpring months. In Smithfield market at this: time, beef is from. 3s. 8dy to 5s. ade 
mutton, from ss. tos. Veal, trom 4s. to 6s. pork, 4s. 8d. to gs. $d. per ftone of 8 Ibs, finking 
the offal, 
Hay. This continues a moft fcarce and expenfive article in moft of the diftri¢ts of the king- 
dom ; but in che northern ones not quite fo much wanted as laft-year. In fome pro¥inciaP fitua- 
ions it now fells at the enormous price of feven pounds per ton. In St. James’s market it is from, 
72 to 132s. per load. i 
piraw is higher than our Jaft return. In St. James’s market itis’ from ¢4.to 63s. 
Horfes are rather on the advance, efpecially thofe for the faddle. 
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