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hardware; cutlery and ironmongery of different forts; kettles of brafs and copper, and fheet- 
iron; filk and cotton handkerchiefs ; hats, fhoes, and hofe; calicces and printed cottons, é&c. 
The trade is in the hands of two Companies. The capital funded in it, may be about 1 50,0001. 
fterling. We tnderftand, that the management of the fur-trade is fubje& in the port of London 
to embarraffments and reftriGtions, which render the direct exportation of the furs to China frowi 
the ports of the United States, much more eligible than the fending of them to fale in England: 
Jt is, therefore, moft earneftly to be defired, that the Britifh Government fhould, in one way or 
another, ufe, without delay, the fit means.to hinder us from lofing, by Anglo-American Compe 
tition, a branch of our trade fo truly valuable. be 
The final ratification of the recent Treaty between France and America was lately ¢ommus 
nicated from the Executive Government to the Legiflative Bady. By that’communication we 
perceive, that the French and Americans mutually agree to treat one another’s trading flips, 
when either of them fhall be at war with a nation in peace with the other, agreeably to thofe 
claims of neutral rights upon which the late hoftilities of the Powers of the North were excited 
againft Great Britain. apie gee, 
Sugars of different forts have, in the courfe of the laft month, rifen in price.’ The importers 
of fugar were not, indeed, gratified by the renewed prohibition of the diftillery of {pirits from 
grain ; and, it would, no doubt, have been unreafonable to facrifice the interefts of our Britith 
cultivators to thofe of the planters in the Weft Indies. But fugar will ftill, in its coarfeft forms, 
be confumed, in. no fmall proportion, in the ufes of the difillery- The exportation to the 
other parts of Europe will not, for the prefent year, be much hurt. by French competition. And 
the immenfe confumption of this article among ourfelves at home, is now becoming every day 
more confiderabie; fo thatwe do not fuppofe that the prefent feafon can turn out very unfortue 
nate for the proprietors of Weft India produce. 
It is ftill exceedingly to be regretted, that the Brewers cannot be put in a fituation in which 
they might be enabled to fupply a dcer fo tout and wholefome to labouring men, as to fuperfede 
the ufe of gin. The beét even now in ufe, though better than that which was lately on fale,’ is. 
far from poffeffing thofe qualities. The ftrength of our manufacturers, and the whole morals and 
induftry of thofe on whofe toil our commercial profperity fundamentally depends, are fo deeply | 
interefted in this matter, that it ought, in preference to moft other objects of public economy, to 
fix the common national concern. s 
The late Chancellor of the Exchequer left paper, burthened with impofts fo enormous, that not ~ 
only the extinétion of Englife Literature, but the ruin of our export-trade in prints, books and 
frationary appeared even then to be effects which could not but directly enfue. The exportation 
of ftationary and Englifh beoks to America, begins already to-be transferred entirely from this 
country te Germany, Holland, and France. It begins to be more eligible to manufacture paper, 
and reprint Englith books even at Calcutta, than to take them by exportation from this Couns 
try. And itis now likely, that of all languages, the Englith will be in future the leaf known 
to foreign nations. And yet the book ‘and paper trade, might be a capital branch of our com- 
merce, and an ine@imably powerful engine by which to extend our political influence, 
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MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT, 
HE froft, during fome part of the prefent month, has been extremely intenfe; but we do 
not believe that much injury has been done to the young wheats, either by it, or the gentile 
thaw that has fucceeded. In general thefe crops look healthy and promifing. The bufinefs of 
ploughing is at prefent, in moft diftridts, as far advanced as is ufual at this feafon; and on. the 
wetter grafs-lands, the hardnefs of the froit has afferded a good opportunity for cafting out muck 
manure. Grain is now fomewhat on the advance, probably in a great meafure from the diftille- 
ries being allowed to work again, Average pricé cf corn in England and Wales to the week 
ending December 19. Wheat74s. rod. Rye47s. 10d. Barley 44s.1d. Oats 23s. 10d. Beans 
44s. 6d, Peafe ass, 7d, . 
Potatces, notwithfanding the very abundant crop of the laft feafon, are likewife rifing in prices. 
From the great fcarcity of lean ftock, although there has been, in moft places, a very great 
fupply of food*for this period, is unufually high; and fat ftock is of courfe dear; At Smith- 
field Market, Monday Dec. 28, beef fold from 4s, 4d. to 6s. mutton, 5s, to 6s.6d. veal; 
ss. to 6s. Gd. pork, 5s. 4d. to 7s, At Newgate and Leadenhall Markets, beef fold from 3s. 6d. 
to $s. mutton, 4s. 6d. to 5s. 8d. veal, 4s. to 6s. 3d. pork, 5s. Ad. to 7s. 
Store hogs have likewife been fold at very high prices, both in the London and fome of the 
Country markets; the price of pork is therefore high. . 
Turnips, in fome of the more wet fituations, have been greatly injured by the feverity of the 
late froft, and confequently a great Jofs of ufeful food tuftained- On the drier turnip foils, they. 
have, however, received little or no injury. ~“ 
Hops. This article has continued very dull, and now looks down in price. Notwithftanding 
the very deep {peculations that have been made by fome perfens, who are determined to run all 
ifks, although their loffes have been very great indeed by what they held of the Jaft and prece- 
ding years growth, we think it poffible they may ftill decline confiderably, for though the 
duty has been ftated by the Newfpapers to be 208,000l. we have no doubt it will amount to 
230,0001. Bags are now from 78s. to roos. per Cwt. Pockets, from 88s, to 108s. per Cwt. 
Good hay has lately been rather looking up in price. Ag St. James’s Market, Sat. Dec, 26, 
hey hecttrom 4l- to 51. 8s, At Whitechapel Market, hay 4l, to sl. 8s, clover, 51. 10s. to 6l. 14s. 
Straw 
