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“ éions of thofe articles which are chiefly wanted from that country can arrive fooner than next 
{pring. But the ceflation of the equipments for the royal navy, in the mean time, cannot sina | 
leffen the prices of hemp, cordage, fhip-timber, &c. f 
The prices of Cotton, Sugars, and Weft India Coffee, continue for the prefent, at the fame 
yates in-the London Market, to which they had rifen above a month fince. Had it not keen 
for the peace, both fugar and cotton muft of late have fallen in price. Melaffes are lower 5 
as grain will again be freely ufed in the diftilleries, and more coptoufly than of Jate in the brew- 
eries. Fine Weft India Coffee is now at 7l. 5s. per cwt. Méocha Coffee at only 51.158 per cwt. 
Teas remain at the September prices. Spirits of all forts are lower. Taris allo lower in price ¢ 
and fo is Yobacco. ee) ) ee) Soe. 
The manufacturers of Fire Arms, Swords, Bayonets, Gunpowder, Shor and Balls, &c. in 
London and its vicinity, at Birmingham, at Sheffield, and in other places throughout thefe king- 
doms, cannot but, for the moment, find themfelves fomewhat at a lofs by the ceffation of their 
ufual orders. But, the demand of arms and toys for export to diftant regions, —the ufe of me* 
tallic utenfils and implements in agriculture and the other arts at home,—-and the invention af . 
new fancy-works of metal,—will, foon, in peace, more than reftore that activity of bufineft 
which they enjoyed during the war. TU Nt ah 
Briftol, Liverpool and Glafgow already find the ftate and profpects of their trade, fexfibly ime 
proved by the effectsfof the Preliminary Treaty. ‘The woollen- manufacturers in the weftern, the 
middle, and the northern counties, begin to find their Jabours equally animated by the increafe 
of orders, and the diminution in the prices of provifions. Manchefter, and all the feats of ‘the 
cotton-manufaéture, northward to Dundee, on the one fide of the ifle and the Barks of the Leven, 
on the other, had begun to feel a revival of induftry from the reftitution of peace in the Baltic, 
‘They feel it much more in confequence of the pacification with France. 
Around the whole coaft of Scotland, the fitheties,efpecially of Herrizgs, have afforded prodi- 
gious returns of wealth, during the prefent year. The herring-fifhery in the Frith of Forth is — 
jutt beginning to be in its greateft activity, Fifhermen from all parts of Scotland refort thither, 
to take a fhare init. We have good authority for affirming, that the grols product of the Forth 
heiring fifhery alone will be little lefs than 300,000l. 
A thriving manufaéture of coarfe and light woollen ftuffs, has for fome time exifted at Ga/z- 
Joields, in the South-eaft of Scotland. Its profperity is, at this time, in a way of rapid advances 
ment, i 
The manufa@ture of fockings, in Alerdeenfbire, and the other northern counties of Scatland, 
even to the extremity of the Shetland Ifles, is now thriving, and is likely to be much advanced by 
the effects of peace. It is furprifing that the exquifitely fine wool of Shetland fhould not be tried 
as well as the Spanifh, in fome of our lighter and more elegant fabrics, in the Englifh woollen 
manufacture. \ 
Great efforts of manufaCturing, naval, and agricultural improvements are now made at the ma- 
ritime town of Thurfo, in Caithnefs. meri 
The lrifh Board of Truffees are now zeaious in their exertions to connect the Shannon with 
the Liffy, by a fyftem of inland navigation, Permiffion has been given, in Ireland, again to 
ufe grain in the diftilleries, The Exchange between London and Dublin is at par. 
America will fenfibly feel the pacification between France and Britain. Much Britifh pro- 
perty will be withdrawn from the American carrying trade. And that trade will in various 
other ways be unfavourably affected by the peace. The Americans at Charlettown in South 
Carolina, at New York, Bofton, and Philadelphia, are much diffatisfied with the impofitions ow 
their trade hy the agents at Hamburg and other continental parts. . 
The French Tiers Confolidé is at 59 3 
SS EW ee EO A 2 
re s MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 
HE feafon in the fouthern parts of the kingdom, has ftill, on the whole, continued fa- 
vourable for preparing the landand putting in the wheat, much of which has now been 
fown ; but inthe more northern diftriéts of the ifland it has not been fo favourable, there- 
fore a great part of the’ bufinefs of wheat-feeding is ftill to be performed. 
On threfhing out the different crops of grain, though they, in general, turn out extremely 
good, in fome places, efpecially in the north, the produce has been found coarfer than ufual, 
particularly wheats and-barleys. . 
The ceffation of hoftilities and other caufes, have now had a very great effet in leflening 
the prices of all forts of grain, efpecially in the country markets. 
Average price of England and Wales, October 17, wheat, 77s, 24.3 rye, 48s. 34.3 barley, 
46s. 6d. 5; oats. 26s. 10d. 5 beans, 46s. 11d. 5 peas, 48s. 3d. 
The ftate of vegetation has continued fuch as was f{carcely ever remembered at this period 
of the autumn, and both the natural and artificial graffes are unufuaily abundant 3 but the ~ 
prices of fat itock fill keep high. Lean ftock is, however, everywhere lawer; in fome of 
the northegn parts of the kingdom fo much fo, we are informed, as fiiteen or twenty per 
cent. , 
In Smithfield Market, Odtober 26th, beef fetched from 4s, 4d. to ¢s.3 mutton, 55. to 63.5 
‘ a veal, 
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