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£28,365 18s. 2d. of dock-dues, and bearing 489,719 tons freight, appear to have entered the 
port of Liverpool. From Africa, from the Weitt Indies, and from North America, cottons, 
ivory, fugars, tar, flour, &c. were brought into that port, .in very large quantities, in the end of 
July.- It has imported much timber from the Baluc fince the reftoration of peacetul intercourle 
between Britain and the nations on that fea. “In the third week of July, not fewer than 480,009 
herrings were brought into the port of Liverpoo! only. 
Judicious and fpirited effofts are now made, in confequence of the Union, to improve the. 
trade, with the manufactures, and the hufbandry of Irevanop. The agricultural focieties 
for the improvement of the Irth oreeds of cattle, have offered premiums to be diftributed in 
October and April next, the moit munificent which we remember to have feen propofed, Li- 
mens are now, in Scotiaud and. England,’ lomewhat lower in price, than they have lately been; 
yet, the field for the fale of Infh linens is {till vait, and it affords views of fufsicient profit. 
We fhould hope, that the exertions of the Lineu- aang and the manufacturers, will be directed 
to hinder both the coarfe linens of Ruifiz, and the fine lineus of Germany, Flanders, Holland, 
and France, from being produced in any market with advantages which may give them a fale in 
preierence to the {rth, |The Iriilr participate confiderably in the prefent tucceis and induftrious 
activity of the herring fifhhery, They prepare kelp on their fhores. They are opening new 
coal-works.. Several new evnals are in a. progrefs of execution, Their woollen manufactures 
hegin to experience new profperity; not properly in rivalfhip with thofe of Englaid, but as an 
extenfion of them, [Ireland is likely to participate continuaily more and more in the advantages 
of the American and the Weit Ind.a trade. 
It is proper to ftate, for the information of the manufacturers and bleachers of Scotland, Eng~ 
land, and Ireland, that both on the Continent, and in this, country, very general copes 
have beenexcited againit the effects of the new modes of bleaching upon the Cloths fubjecied to 
it, Our cottons, &c. bleached in this way, have been found to break out into holes very gene- 
rally, and almoft immediately after they began to be worn; and, they are allio fubject to be 
entirely difcoloured after one or two wa fhings. 
All our Wett India goods, fave fugar, have fallen in price, fiace the laft arrivals from the 
Wett Tidies, As the diftiliers are not yet permitted to re{ume the ufe of grains it is probabie, 
that their demand for fuga ir and melafies, will prevent thefe articles from falling very low in 
rice for the prefeat feafon. ‘The confumption of coffee in this country, Continues to be 
extended. The coffee piantations in the Weli Indies are alfo from time to time enlarged. 
Stocks have not lately exhibited any extraordinary mfe or fall in price. Fhe Englith 3 per 
cents are, in London, at a market value, one third greater than that of the French 6 per cents 
on ’Change at Paris: in other words, the French Tiers Confouid’, bearing 6 per cent intereft, 
is at 4o, with a fluctuation of 1 or 2 per cent. upwards:—‘The Englifh 3 per cents at Go witha 
fluctuation upwards. 
A keen competition has been lately excited in the bee of paper- money, between the Bank 
of Engiand, and the country Banks. ‘The trade requires. regulation, © The country ‘bankers, if 
tor she beach of general commerce, encouraged, fhould be obliged to give full fecurities s, and ta 
fib mit to certain limitations. 
Englifh wool continues to be fmuggied into Havre and other French ports. A great number 
of Englifh workmen in our ftaple manufactures of cottons, woollens, leathers, and pottery, have 
found their way over to Normandy; and are now, under the aufpices of the French Government, 
acting for the ruin of the manufactures in their mother country. The filk manufactures of 
the South of France are ttill in a {tate of extrsme depreffion. The mo& extravagant rage for 
every thing that is Engiith now prevailsin France, The prohibitions of the Government are 
yain.—Horfes, dogs, cottons, wooliens, laces &c. &c- muft all be Englifh.—Such is the voice 
of fafhion. We give this information on authority the moift Unquetionablet 
In the Eaft, it ‘appears, that the demand tor Britifh manufa€tures among the Chinefe, 
continues to encreale. 
Large quantities of grain are fti!! imported. It is‘fuppofed, that by Chriftmas, fix fhillings 
2 bufhel may be the average price of good wheat. 
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SINCE our laft Report, every thing has proceeded in the moft favourable manner for the 
purpofes of agriculture. A heavy thower or two in the early part of the month, came 
extremely feafonable for the fil ling of the later forts of grain crops in the more early diftriats, 
and for the whole, in fuch as are rendered more late from their fituation, In moft of the 
Youthern and inidland counties, all-the wheats end the greater part of the other forts of crops 
are now fecured. | In many of the more northern counties too, the harveft has madea confiderable 
progrefs ; mo{t of the wheat crops being reaped, anda great part gotten in. The weather has 
peen fo particularly fine and fuitable, that the harvett field perhaps feldom, if ever, ditplaycd 
a greater {cence of a¢tivity and buftle. The crops of almott ev-ry defeription are unufially good 
and abundant. In a journey of nearly 200 miles through the bef grain diftri€ts in the } kingdom, 
the Reporter fcarcely obferved a field that could be /#rié/y faid to have a bad crop. In many 
he noticed crops of uacommon goodnefs both in retpect to the quantity and quality of the grain. 
‘The oat and barley crops feemed in general to be equally good, and in many inftances berter than 
the wheat,—Average price of wheat for England and Wales from the returns, in the week 
ending Auguft is;—Wheat 1245. ‘gd, barley 653. 10d, oats 3538) 11d, rye 76s. 4d, 
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