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Receipt of the Cuftoms for the yeat 1639 13,191 12 Ie 
Ditto 1730 3 7H t9H0 W293 
Ditto (firft year of the Dock) = 1732 443,804 GQ @ 
Ditto — 1783 86,525 I9 52 
Ditto 1784 126,660 2 3&3 
Ditto 1793 199,983 4 35 
» Ditto 1798 273,664 7 8 
At the beginning of the war, the foreign trade of this place declined a little, till the year 
1795, fince which it has advanced confiderably, as appears by the cuftoms of the year 1798: 
By comparing the receipt of the latter year with that of 1689, both of which may be ac- 
counted medium years, it appears that the revenue has increafed to more than twenty times 
its former amount, and confequently that the commerte of the port is augmented nearly in 
the fame proportion. The receipt of 1781, and the fubfequent years compared with 1780, 
fhews the importance of the Dock to this place, though the increafe of trade has fo far ex-. 
ceeded the ideas of thofe who planned that accommodation, that we are informedconfiderable 
dock-room is already wanted, and it is to be hoped that the fpirit of the inhabitants wili 
lead them to undertake adequate improvements of a port which from its fituation, and the 
progrefs already made, pofieffes fo fair a profpect of attaining the afcendency over all the _ 
maritime towns of England, London excepted. Hull was the firft port that engaged in that 
precarious branch of commerce the Greenland fifhery, in 1598, about forty-five years after 
the difcovery of Greenland by Sir H. Willoughby. in the prefent year, twenty feven fhips 
“have failed from Hull in this trade; twenty three for Greenland, and four for Dayis’s 
fireights. : 
An application has been made to the privy council for permiffion to import naval ftores, in 
neutral bottoms, into the ports of Great Britain, there being at prefent a want of Engliff& © 
fhips to carry on the trade. ‘This is a meafure of much importance to the carrying trade of 
the country, and fhould not be adopted but under the moft evident neceflity. 
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MONTHLY. AGRICULTURAL REPORT. ; 
INCE our laft report the ftate of the weather has been fuch as to da much injury to the 
‘ late hay crops in the fouthern parts of the kingdom, efpecially fuch as had been cut pre-' 
vioufly to its commencement ;-and in the northern counties we find much has been fwept 
away and deftroyed from the low grounds by the inundations of the rivers. In thefe diftri€s 
too, though the grafs has cut thicker than was expected, hay is extremely dear, the whole 
of the old ftacks being nearly exhauited. The fecond crops in the fouth are almoft every 
where promifing.—Hay averages in St. James’s market, 41. 1s. Clover in Whitechapel, 51. 
tes. per load.—But the exceflive wetnefs of the feafon has not only done great mifchief to 
the hay, but the corn crops alfo, by beating them down, as much of the lodged grain will 
probably never be able to rife again. With regard to corn crops in general, though the 
harveft muft of ceurfe be late, they will probably not be far fhort of the average of former 
years. But little grain has yet been cut, even in the fouthern parts of the ifland, and in the 
more northern there is nothing nearly ready for the {cyckle, except alittle early fown barley 
in warm foils and fituations. 
Potatoes have generally a very favourable appearance... The prices of grain of every kind 
are high, and feem ftill on the advance. Wheat on the 17th averaged throughout England 
and Wales 73s. Barley 38s. The quartern loaf is roid. 
Live Stock. The prices of both fat and lean cattle are fomewhat lower. In Smithfield 
market, beef fetches 3s. and 4d. to4s. and 6d. and lamb. 3s. and 8d. to 5s. per ftone, of 81b. 
finking the offal. 
' Horfes. Thofe for farming purpofes are ftill low, but good faddle horfes fetch high prices. 
Late Fairs. —Evefoau x Ew fair was very well fupplied with fat beafts and fheep, infomuch 
that many of the former were turned out unfold. At Warwick fair there was, however, a 
very fmall thew of fat beafts, but a tolerable one of fheep and lambs ; the whole fold high. 
At Lanfdowzn fair, which was numeroufly attended, there was a confiderable fhew of grazing 
cattle, the fale of which was heavy, owing to the apprehended fhortnefs of feed. At 
Shrewfbury fair, fine fleece wool fold from 28s. to 30s. per ftone: low fleeces declined ia 
price, and fome remained, unfold on Tuefday : lambs’ wool, of which there was not a large 
quantity, from 20s. to 22s. 6d. per ftone. Cattle nearly at the prices of laft fair. 
CH Our agricultural and commercial correfpondents are requefted to difpatch their favours in fucd | 

iijpe that they may reach us by the 24th infant. 
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