1802.) ey i 2! ea 
o MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT. 
EACE being at length fully eftablifhed, it is to be hoped, that the revival of commercial 
connéétions between the different countries, will fpread and eftablifh more- thoroughly, the. 
€OnviCtion, how infinitely greater the advaniages are, derived from friendly intercourfe, than al- 
moft any poflible objet of war, and that the fhips of all nations may long traverle the ocean un 
protected by convoy, and free from many of thofe reftraints which, though neceflary during a 
itate of warfare, are fources of perjury, evafion, and deceit. It will afford an opportunity which 
we truft will not be neglected, of adopting a more liberal commercial policy, by a proper regu- 
lation of many import duties, and an extenfion of the bonding fyftem, to all articles deftined 
chiefly for exportation, 3 : 
A confiderable quantity of woollen goods has been fhipped during the laft month from Hu//, 
for Kiga, Peterfburgh, and other ports in the north. -~ ‘ 
_ The export to As//and has been chiefly coffee, rice, fugar, and tobacco. The demand for 
Dutch butter has for fometime paft been very confiderable, and a much greater quantity than 
can at prefent be procured would finda ready fale- It is of an excellent quality, fit for fummer 
confumption, and the only butter which the London cheefemongers can fubftitute for Cam- 
bridge, of which the quantity fent up has for feveral years paft been decreafing from the neigh- 
bouring towns, requiring a/greater fupply- “here is g jarge quantity of Dutch cheefe at pre- 
fent in hand, particularly Gouda cheefe, which is now retailing at 4d and $4 a pound; and 
though little can be faid in praife of this article, itis bought by great numbers of the poor who 
cannot afford to pay for better. . Sei 
The ftock of bacon in London is at prefent confiderable ; and in general it is better fed than © 
laft year’s, the price is much lowex than fome time back, and we hope the ufe of it will contri- 
bute to lower the prefent high prices of frefh meat. 
The fum of 1,620,218]. 19s.‘6d.2 has been granted by parliament to make good to the con- 
folidated fund, the like fum paid out of the revenue of the cuftoms for bounties on Corz and 
Graia imported into Great Britain to the goth of March 1802. 
The merchants, manufacturers, and dyers of Leeds and Wakefield, have petitioned the Houfe 
of Commons for relief in a cafe in which they conceive the Board of Excife to have mittaken the 
intention of the Legiflature. By an act of 34 George III, an excife duty of ros. 6d. is charged 
for every hundred weight of pafteboard, millboard and fcaleboard, and alfo a duty of 6s. for every 
hundred weight of glazed papers for clothiers and hotpreflers made in Great Britain, and by the 
act paffed laft year for increafing the duties on paper, an additional excife duty of 10s, 6d. was 
charged on every hundred weight of pafteboard, millboard, and fcaleboard made in Great Britain, 
but no addition was made to the duty of 6s, charged upon glazed papers for clothiers and -hot- 
preflers by the former a&t. The different conftruétions which have been put on the late act by 
the excife and the parties interefted, arifes from the circumftance that there are two forts 0: pas 
pers ufed in the finifhing and preffing of woollen goods, the one a thin fort, highly glazed, for 
the finifhing of ftuff or worfted goods, the other a thicker kind, not fo much giazed for the fi- 
nifhing of woollen cloth, and this thicker kind, the Board of Excife fince pafling the late act 
have deemed as pafteboard, and charged with the additional duty. : 
The fum of ¢o,o00l. wanted for completing the Cava/ in the [le of Dogs, has been granted, - 
and is to be repaid out of the monies to arile by the fale of fuch lands or tenemenis as have 
been purchafed for the undertaking, and fhall not be employed therein, and the remainder, if 
any, outot the monies to arife by the rates granted by act of parliament, for which purpote the 
tonnage duty made payable by the act is to be continued till the whole monies advanced out of © 
the confolidated fund is repaid with intereft. 
The reitrictions on the Baxé from paying in money has been again continued, on the ground 
of the Exchange being much againft this country at prefent, and likely to continue fo for fome ~ 
time to come. f ; 
According to the New York Daily Gazette, of the 23d of February, lately received, the ex- 
ports of the United States increafed laft year, nearly 49 per cent, amounting to 22,043,613 
dollars excefs. This is in fome meafure, owing to the progreflive augmentation of the quantity 
-of produce and merchandize exported, but in a greater degree to the high prices of provifions 
_ occafioned by the dearth, exported to Great Britain. 
MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 
PP HE feafon has continued fo fine fince our laft, than an unufual large proportion of land, efpe- 
cially of that ot the wetter kinds has been cropped with grain; and on all forts of foil the 
crops have been put into the earth in the moft perfec ftate. 
The young wheats ftill continue to have a promifing appearance, particularly fince the ate ~ 
fhowers of rain have failen. Average price of grain for Ikngland and Wales, to the week ending 
April 17—Wheat 68s. ad- rye 44s. 10d. barley 35s, Gd. oats tgs. 7d. beans 35s. od. peafe 
338. 2d. : | 
Large tra¢ts of land have likewife been got into a ftate of good preparation for the 
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crop, and in moft of the fouthern diitrits they have been put into the ground. a 
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