1802. ] Monthly Commercial Report. | 627 
The pate ftatement of the Exports from this ‘country to France and Holland, in the 
year 1792, being the year previons to the late war, will fhew the extent of our. trade with 
them at i t period, which in all probability will be niuch exceeded at prefent, if a liberal 
fyitem of intercourfe is adopted. 
Britihh Manufactures. Foreign Merchand. Total. 
To France, , £.743,980 £484,885 £.1,228,166 
Flanders, 381,287 649,806 ” 4,031,098 
Holland, 788,207 731,242 1,516,449 
The French Government having agreed to take off the duty paid by Britith packets 
arriving in their ports with the mails from this country, on condition of a fimilar regulation 
being adopted here, the vefsels employed in conveying the mails of letters from France to 
Great Britain, are not in future to be 4ubject to any tonnage duty whatever. 
An alteration has been made in the rates of Poflage for letters to France ‘and Holland, 
which in future are to be, for ey fingle letter to or from bee from or to London, 10d. ; 
for every ir a letter, 1s. 8d. ; for every treble letter, 2s. 6d.; and for every ounce 7 
weight, 38. 4d.: Letters to or from the Batavian Republic are to pay, for ever 'y poe let= 
ter, is: S eeitie. Qs.'> treble; "3s:"; ‘and for every ouncein weight, 4s, 
An wet has been pafsed for allowing, until the 20th May, 1803, additional bounties on 
refined fugar exported, and difcontinuing the duty lately granted thereon. 
An Order of Council has been ifsued, continuing tothe 1ft January, 1803, the prohibition 
to export bulls, cows, oxen, calves, fheep, Hinhs: {wine, beef, pork, mutton, veal, lamb, 
or any bacon, butter, onions, or pulfe of any fort; alfo, an order to continue to the fame 
‘period the permifsion to import, duty free, all forts of pulfe, live ‘cattie, frefh and falt 
meat, butter, cheefe, potatoes, poultry, eggs, game, and other articles ef provifions. 
The Act of Parliament pafsed in 1766, to prohibit the importation of foreign wrought. 
Jilks and velvets, which had been continued by feveralfubfequent aets, fo the 14th June, in 
the prefent year, has been further continued ; it certainly could not be permitted to expire 
without i injury to the filk manufactory of this country, which is ftill in nN) refpects inferior 
to that of France. 
The Deputation of the Committce of Worfted Manufacturers having teprefented to’ ‘Go- 
vernment the hardthips and embarrafsments that would arife to the trade ‘if the intended 
abolition of the drawback on foap took place, have received an afsurance that Gov ernment 
will continue the dyawback, if the Manufacturers can pointovt any nieans of preventing the 
frauds on the revenue which it has enabled the unprincipled to pract, fe. 
The injurious effects of the high duties on Paper having fulty thewn the abfolute necefsity 
ef fome modification, the du ities of cuftomés and excife on puper, p alteboards, millboards, 
&c. have been repealed, and the following granted in leu thereof: On every pound weight 
ef paper of the firft clafs made in Great Baca, or made in Ireland, and imported, directly 
from thence into Great Brita, an excife duty of three-pence ; on every pound weight of 
paper of the fecond clafs, an excife duty of three-halfpence ; on every hundred weisht of 
glazed paper for clothiers and hot-prefsers, and of millboard and fcaleboard made in Great 
Britain, or made in Ireland, and imported directly from thence into Great Britain, an excife 
duty of il. is. Od. : on every hundred-weight of pafteboard made in Ireland and imported 
directly from thence into Great Britain, an. excife dufy of il. 1s. Od. ; on every pound 
weight of books, whether bound or unbound, and of maps or prints, imported into Great 
Britain from [re sland, an -excife duty of three-pence : on every pound weight of foreigit 
paper, of the firft clafs, imported into’ Great Bntain, acyitom duty of one filling and one 
halfpenny ; on every pound of foreign paper of the fecond clafs, a cuftom duty of fix-, 
pence farthing; and on every hundred-w eight of foreign palteboard, millboard, fcaleboard, 
and glazed paper for clothiers and hot-pre fserg, MiverOd. 
Some compenfation is intended to be made to the Sugar Coopers, and to the Owners of 
lighters and atlier vefsels ufed in unloading We? India hips i in the port of London, for the - 
lofs they may fuftain by the removal of the eget to Blackwall. 
The principal dock in the Ifle of Dogs is nearly finthhed, and is expected to be opened on 
the 10th.of July, if the loc Es are completed by that time : three {tacks of warchaules, which 
have been fome time covered m, are nearly ready for the reception of goods, and three 
other ftacks are in great forwai dnefs. The fhares of she ie Company’s itock tell at a confiders 
able premium ; and the fhares of the London Dock ae which fometime fince were at a 
difcount, are now likewife at a premium. 
The duty on Sea Afurances, which bears fo lare ge a proportion. to the prefent premiums Ss, ig 
intended to be reduced to 2s, 6d. per cent. on, all afsurances in which the premium does not 
_ exceed 203. per cent. 
Copper—The prefent very low price of copper it is feared will be the means of ftopping 
fome of the principal mines in Cornwall, as the returns are found unequal to the expence of work. 
ing them. 
Nazy—It is ftated from authority, that more than eleven millions of acorns have been 
planted this year, in the roval forefts and Chaces, fer the farther increafe of tim. ber for the ule 
f the NAVY. 
Pia AGRICULTURAL 
