hal £88 nF et [ Aug.I, 
MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT. 
RY EN in-the!mid@:ofta’ war by.which fo much of our population 1 is fruitlefsly wafted, and fo 
much of the ngtwral:and: avtificial produce of thefe idles is.confume as fi ithout. replacing itfelt 
by any Féproduction, thill the vrcteraal trade of Great Britain continues, imfpite of every obflacie, 
io hecagne more extenfive. and more active: The number-of new caza/s which have been dately- 
completed or begun, the éighways and er ofs-roads now in formation in every part of the country, 
‘and in every veriety of direction, the new ¢radi: vz companies which afieciate in fuch numbers 
tor the tranfaction of different branches,of, ur domeitic bufinels,- are fo many remarkable and 
“unequivocal proois ef the genera} truth. 
The Grand Funétion (oot was opened early, laft month, at Paddington. Its completion 
has perfected a feftem of navigable communication between Pon don ‘and the midland counties, 
‘from which advantages incaleulably great muft arife, both to the capital and to all the inland 
aiftris through. which the ramifications of thefe canals are extended. The Grand Sur rey Canal 
is new in a train for execution. _itis reafonably expected to contribute greatly to the benefit 
both of private trade and of the euee navy, by the-communicatiéns which if is to open between 
the fouthern part ofthis metropolis and the fouth- eaft counti¢s: “The Tusnel under the Thames 
has ceafed to appear impraGicable: fuitable means have been adopted to fuirmount the firft 
di®eulties of the attempt, and we have now every reafon to believe, that in as fhort a time as 
the nature of fuch a work can permit, this fingular and moft convenient channel! of communica. 
jon between Kent and Effex will be opened. in the North, the Cxizaz Gazal has been, at length, 
completed; and the advantages which it mutt ,infallibly give to all. navigation between the 
Merfey, the Solway Frith, the Clyde, .and the H-bredean Ifles, are hkely, even within a few 
years, fo accomplifh 2 An} extraordinary advancement of trade and induftry, elpecially on the north- 
weft coait of Scotland.  Fyre/ wed Sa/t;in particular, muft hencefoxth be coufiderably cheaper 
on thefe coafts. In the north eat .of Scotland, the foundation dtone was, within thefe few 
weeks, laid, of abridge oyer the Spey, at Fochabers, the erection ef which has long been ex- 
ceedingly wanted to open | the counties of Bam, Moray, Rofs, Cromartie, and Caithnefs, to the 
intercouife of inland taific with the fouth. 
Such an improvement of the.channels of inland trade might be fuppofed to leffen, our coating 
navigation ; - but this ftili increafes. More than ro,ooo veifels in the coaft trade fail to and ‘from 
the port of London only. © It is eftimated that thefe are lithe more then one tne of the whole 
number of coafting veflels which the home’trade’of thefe ifles employs. 
The whale ffee ery on the Coaft of Greenland, ‘and efpecially in Dayis’s = Strebuhien has we 
this year unuiually fuccefsful” Lever veffels returned ‘with’a quantity of blubber, which, ex- 
clufively of the fpermaceti and the whalebone, will yield a clear profit of above 44,000l.- fterling. 
Qtbers have. fince returned to Newcaftle, “Hull, and Leith, and others are, .as.we learn, at 
Strommefs, on their way, with ladings not Jefs confiderable. The profpe& of a prefitable year.in 
; she. herring-fifhery on the north ealt/ and north welt coatts already begins fo. be extremely pro- 
_mifng. That fithery is caleulated to yield toithe Aithermeén of the Frith of Forth only, an annual 
preiit “of above '200, 0001. ferling,..of which there-was not, twelve years fince, a fingle fart hing 
among.the ordinary returns.of indufiry on thofe faces... We are antonped that, for-rzrbar alone, 
above 1000, guineas a week have, forjmany weeks paft, been paid from London to the fifhermen 
enthe Dutch coat. It is good, that articles of fubfitterce at.once fo wholefome, and fuch fa- 
wourites with the luxurious, are to be had at the prefent moderate price of turbot from any 
qusrter, Butwe fhould certainly be much better pleafed, if the thouland guineas a week went 
only inthe Enclith fithermens’ pockets, 
‘Our late differences with the nations on the Baltic threatened to deprive us of the raw materials 
for fome of our principal mantfaétures. For thefe lait tvo months our Baltic Trade has been 
beginning to revive. “Since the conclufion of the Treaty at St. Peterfburgh, ‘by Lord St. 
Flelené andthe Rulian Miniter, every ftep has been taken to reftore to full activity the’ ancient 
trade-becween Ruffia and this chantry: A ‘number of fhips have already arrived from the Baltic 
with grain, tiaber, iron, flax, hemp, &c. Fleets of merchant-fhips have failed tor the Baltic 
4 grom the ports-on the eaft fide of this ifland. But, asthe ufe of Englifh capital was withdrawn, 
) dor the latt feafon, from the Ruifian merchants, it is not toibe expetted that the fupply of Ruffian 
and Swedifh commodities can’ be, . for fome months to Papa foamp'e in.the Englifh market, as 
ft No interruption in: this oranch of our commerceshad taken places 
__ ‘Phe Germans have, for a number .of) years, been, to a prodigious degree, gainers by. the 
. dnterruption. of. the wonted commercial intercourfe between Bntajin and.France. ° They,are, this 
qh alrsady, great gainers by.the temporary ceffation of our trade with the, Baltic. At the 
airs of Frankfort pe Lrigpe, vait quantities of, Brith goods , were purchafed for the Ru 
market. Eyen_atlate the fair of StrafLug Zh great quantiti esof our manulactures were clandeftinely 
produced, 2t great “rill. fo be, fmuggled inio France. -1 he cotton- manufacturers of, Germany, 
though they take a great deal of co:ton.yarn from this country, are not yet able to. “produce 
“muflins, éalicoes, and other cotton. ftutfs, in the markets, at the low. price of our Briti 
imanupaures. . The Empersy of ‘Germany has juft forbidden the exportation’ of tin ‘from “his 
dominions’ “And whatever tends to Kiger this yaluable metal from being readily procured’ from 
‘the tin! mines of other countries, ‘mutt, of courte, ake? the working and the be ae aap of tin 
‘frony Cornavall, *' | 
‘Our trade with the Mediterraneay,: ade pthsty dhecledd, is not deftroyed by. the wat.” 
beat quantities of wines have beer Fecently imported from¢Gibrajtar, St. Lucar, ‘Lifton,’ and 
Opario, not only into the po:t of:London, but fo-Cork, Dublin, Liverpool, Greenock, Reith, 
- .&e. Of \Lifban.and Port-wine “alone, nearly o80,000 gallons. were entered in the -pdrt: of 
London between the ,roth and the i7th of July. |The Venetian ports in. Italy preferve.an 
intercourlé, thi open to us, with that.cauatry- ; Qur trade with the States of Barbary. increafes- 
-Fhey furnifh us with provitions for our deets and garrifons, in return for our woollens, and works 
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