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{tock will be chiefly influenced. There is little reafon to fear, that, as fome perfons pretend, 
they will be much deprefled by the withdrawing of the property of Foreigners now invefted in 
them. Novother pubiic funds in Europe can ftand in competition with them for ftability : and 
if much be withdrawn; a good deal, even from France, and certainly from fome other parts of the 
continent, wiil, on the other hand, be now placed in them. Not to fpeak of ‘that property’ 
which will be immediately thus difpofed of by Britifh fubje&s. 
Government had announced to the merchants, that, ia confequertce of the fufpenfion of: hoftie. 
lities, the convoy duty fhould immediately ceafe. It muft have been the meaning of the mi- 
nifters, that the duty fhould ceafe as foon as the fufpenfion could agtually take effet in the dif- 
gerent {cass Many of the merchants, however, are faid to have underitood that it was to ceafe 
from the day of the final ratification of the preliminaries. From this mifunderftanding have 
enfued a number of troublefome enquiries, remonftrances, and demands at_ the Cuftom-houfe ; 
and a good deai of diffatisfa€tion on the part of the merchants. ; 
‘Tne rates of Jnfurance have, however, univerfally fallen, except where they are regulated 
by circumeftances independent of the war, or the preliminaries of peace, The infurance to Ame= 
yican ports, for American fhips, is the fame as it was a month fince ; the infurance on voyages 
to the North Seas and the Baltic, is now higher, on account of the greater danger of winter navi- 
gation ; and for voyageson feas where the fufpenfion of hoftilities is not known to have been yet 
pudlithed, the infurance muft be ftill the fame as formerly. ~ In all other cafes the reduction has 
tiken place. The infurance, for inftance, to Malaga and places adjacent, for a voyage from 
the Thames was, on the 25th of September, from 19 to 12 per cent.; it was, on the 23d of 
Odober, only 12 per. cent. Ce Si ey a 
As the courfe of mercantile correfpondence between London and mot places again opens ; the 
Ratio of Exchange with almoft every mart or capital is now much lefs againft us than it was a 
month fince. On the 25th of September the Exchange with Hamburg was at 24 months ufance, 
31f.g. 6f. per pound fterling; it was, on the 23d of October, at 2 months ufance, 321. g. and’ 
6 it. per pound fterling, The abundance of the harveft diminifhing the exportation of -money for 
grain, and the late large tranfmitfion of Britith goods and Weft India. Produce to the Baltic, &c. 
have contributed, as well as the ceffation of hoftilities, and the approach ef general peace, to ac- 
complith this favourable alteration in the courfe of Exchange. HOES 
The price of Si/ver Bu/lion has alfo decreafed, as the courfe of our trade with the countries 
from which it is fupplied, has become more free and fecure. New Dollars were fold, on the 
25th of September, at ss. and rod. anounce 3 they were, on the 23d of OGtober, at 5s. and od. 
per ounce. ; i 
The chief Imports into the port of London, fince the preliminaries ef peace were figned, have 
been in brandy, coffee, cotton, Swedith herrings, ifinglafs, nuts, oils, hides and ‘kins, fugars, Ruffian 
wheat, wines from Portugal, Spain, Madeira, France, and Germany, and Spanifh and African 
wool. Ofifinglats, not lefs than 20,ocolb. weré laft week imported. The importation of cot- 
ton was nearly 1,450,c00lb. More than 30,000 gallons of French and Spanifh brandy were 
brought in. | Among the other imports were nearly 2000 cwt. of rags for paper, from Germany 1 
and Holland. _We have heard of large importations of eggs and fowls into Dover from France, ; 
but cannet fpeak of them with certainty. Among -laft week’s imports into the Thames, we have 
ebferved fome beans, butter and pork from France. From our African colony of Sienna Leone, 4 
v-ere entered, laft week, 14 cwt. of dry ginger and a fingle deer-fkin. . 
Sugars, teas, coitens, woollens, inftruments ef art, and utenfils of elegant domeftic accommo- ; 
cation, to a large amount, were laft month fhipped in the Thames, for Exportation to the Elbes 
the Ems, and the Weiler, and to the ports in the Baltic and the North Seas. __ Large quantities 7 
of linens, pottery, iron work, cabinet work, implements of hufbandry, with cotton ftuffs, and ‘} 
woollens, were alfo, during Otober, thipped for America and the Weft India Ifles. Glafs now ; 
goes to a great value from this country to Kuffia. Our exports to the Mediterranean begin to in= 
creafe. Tek eink 
Minifters expet, Paf/ports from the French Government, for the. admiffion of Britith 
goods, in Britifh bottoms, into the French’ports, during the courfe of the negociation. They will, 
in return, no doubt, tranfmit to France, fimilar pafsports for the provifionary admiffion of French’ 
fhips into the ports of Britain. Thefe pafsports will, on both fides of the channel, be delivered 
_to the merchants defiring to profitby them, This will be the firft renewal of direét mercantile 
intercourfe between France and Britain. hak ‘ 
It isnot fo much the a@tual quantity of provifions bought, as the manner in which it is bought, 4 
that in fuch a country as this, affeéts the level ofthe markets, The fame quantity purchafed in’ 
half a dozen great contra€ts, contributes much more to raife the prices than if it were bought — 
only in 50,000 fmall portions. Hence the C-farion of the Contra&s with Gcvernment for the - 
fupply of the army and navy, has already occafioned a prodigious fallin the prices of moft of the 
neceflaries of fubfGiftence. The price of bacon fell, in one day, from 1s. 6d. to tod. per Ib. - 
The prices of other articles of provifions have been diminifhed in fimilar proportion. Whearand 
- Rye were, on the 25th of September, each 20s. a quarter higher inthe London market than om 
the 23d of O&ober. 
. Wood afhes, a&ording potath for the manufacture of foft foap, for bleaching in its fimple ftate, 
&c. have for this laft month continued ftationary in'price.. Afbes of Barilla and fea-weeds, for 
joap, glafs, &c. Lave failen in price ; becaufe thofe of this year’s burning have now come into the 
market. wahes : cts ¥) peas 
Rifia-goods have not recently fallen in their market-price; for yery no large importa. 
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