194 
year, which his uncle could have willed to 
whom he pleafed. | The colonels vait perfo- 
nal property, devolves on Mrs. Hyde and his 
fitters, one of whom is married to Lord Boylej 
eldeft fon of Lord Shannon. 
The death of the late Lord Clare, is fuppofed 
to bea fevere blow to the Orange party in 
— Monthly Commercial Report. 
March 1,. 
owed his rapid promotion in life, to his fteady 
and able condu& in the Ivifh Parliament, du- 
ring the memerable debates on the Regency 
Bill. To the government of Marquis Corn- 
wallis he was an avowed enemy, and he ear~ 
ried his anger fo far, that he has been even 
heard to declare he would bring articles of 
impeachment againft his lordfhip. The lex 
nient and conciliatory fyftem adopted by that 
nobleman, did not fuit Lord Ciare’s iaeds of = - 
this country. \He was amen of ftrong in- 
telleéis and great firmnefs of mind, but his 
difpoftion was fo violent and fanguinary, that 
he wasas much dreaded in the United Parlia- governing Ireland. is ° 
ment by his friends, as by his enemies. He 
MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT. ee oe: 
HE Britith trade to Zvdia is not, at this period, beneficial to this Country in- any degree rea- 
fonably proportionate to its apparent magnitude.. We are fixkizg in India, as we did in 
(America, an iramenfe capite!, which muit finally go to enrich that country, to the diiadvantage 
of this, Government is never a profitable concern for a trader; and we have loft, in the pride 
of immenfe dominion, aad in the perplexities of military power and of political influence, a} 
yegard to the true benefit which we might derive from our commercial intercourfe with the 
coafts of Malabar and Coromandel, When the trade with that diftant part of the AGatic con- 
tient was firft attempted, an incorporation of a company with exclufive privileges, was perhaps 
neceffary, on account of the rifk, and the requifite union of enterprizing {pirits. . The incorpo- 
ration and the monopoly, now ferve only to make us puth a lofing trade to ftill greater and 
greater difadvantage. Unlefs ovr commerce to India be as fpeedily as poflible thrawn open, 
and the limits of our political ambition on the Indian continent, gradtially contracted, the Danes, . 
the Butch, the French, the Swedes, and by a northern route the Ruffians, cannot but quickly 
intercept from Britain, thofe few advantages which it now derives from its Indian pofleffidns. 
The introduction of the fafhion of wearing Engilith broad-cloth in Chiza, is incredibly flow- 
The Ruffians gain at prefent, more than we, by the fur-trade with the\Chinefe. The gains by 
the importation of opium irom Hindooftan to China, were confiderable; but muft, for a time, 
ceafe ; fince the Government has, on good grounds, iffued a prohibition againft opium; and ihe 
precautions employed at Canton againft {muggling are exceedingly ftri€t and vigilant. The 
Chinefe, in their prohibition of epium, evince much greater wifdom than we fhew in our al- 
Jowance of fuch an exceffive forced fale of Tea, for which European and Weft India fubfitutes 
might be eafily found, vet 
The fale of European and India goods, at the emporia, on the Per/iam gulph, increafes. 
The commerce of the Red Sea, with the refort of the caravans to Mecca, were confiderably 
deranged by the French invafion of Egypt, and its confequences. But, 1f tranquillity thal! be 
effeciually reftored in the adjacent ccuntries, by the expulfion of the French from Egypt, and by 
the new fettlement of the Egyptian Government, that commerce wi!l probably, within a fhort 
time, become much more confiderable than it has hitherrobeen. Gold, grain, and hides may be 
obtained in very great abundance, from Abyfiinia. one 
The difturbances ftill prevalent towards the fouthern European frontier of the Turkith empire, 
confiderably interrupt the inland waffic between Germany and Turkey. The Britifh trade by 
the Mediterranean, to the coaits of Grerev, and the ifles in the Grecian Archipelago, fhould be, 
on this account, for the prefent, fo much the more confiderable. . ih 
It is reatonabiy expected, that if the petty powers of Barbary fhall, in confequence of out’ 
new arrangements with the Turks, be compelled to iorego their piracy, our trade both to thofe 
ports of Africa which lie"upon the Mediterranean, and to thofe on its north-weft coaft, which 
open into the Atlantic, may be foon greatly improved. 
The colony at Sierra Leone, the fettlement of which is one of the moft meritorious enter- 
prizes ever attempted by the merchants of Great Byitain, has of late again fuffered materially | 
by the hoftilities of the natives, But the cojonifts have triumphed; and, we fhould hope, that 
the fettlement will focn give fuch advantages for the fale of Briufh manufa@tures of woollen, 
cotton, iron, tin, and copper, and for the ob:aining of’ valuable raw commodities from Africa, as 
fhall amply compenfate for all the trouble and ezpenditure it has coft Pav GA 
With France, and the countries under French dojninion, our ancient commercial intercourfe 
has not been yet reftored. “The French arg not willing to renew the commercial treaty which 
was negociated by Lord Auckland, While the conclufon of the Dcfinitive Treaty is delayed, 
our only traffic with France, Spain, Holland, Belgium, and the Tfalian States, in the intumace 
alliance of France, is by fhips failing with paffports from the Governments of the refpestive 
countries ; by the fhips of neutial-nations; and by fmuggling. By the lait of thefe meassefpe> 
cially, much bufinefs feems to be done, but not fuch as can prove uitiinately gainful tat party. 
Spain, to prohibit the introduction of Fnglith goods, as- if they were-French; mto %* Pores, has 
iffued a prohibition again French gcods from the Pas de Calais. French iac~ 4fe detected in. 
gheir entrance into this country, in hogtheads of pickled mangeés, Soi BBS French Govern- 
znent fhews the fevereft jealouly againftour Enelith {mugglers, 2-4 OF twelve days fince, a. 
waggon-lead of French eggs, in crates, containing each 32.77 paticd through Caitle- Cary, for 
the fuppiy of the Bath and Briftol markets. Our Rog Tae en hasdmuch more 
hemp than Uny can hee find fale for, await im-vedtly for the conelufion of the Definitive | 
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