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the Pruffian town of Koenigfberg, on the Baltic, has been, laft year, M-a very thriving 
ftate. The trading intercourfes between the towns on the north-eaft coat of England, and 
the Continental emporia on the Elbe and the Baltic, is, for the prefent, interrupted by the 
frofts and ice. Some valuable fhips and cargoes have been loft amidf the ice, off the 
Ruffian port of Cronftadt. 
The Emperor of Rutlia has refolved to e@ablifh a number of free ports on the Black Sea. 
H{e has committed the commercial fuperintendence of them to the Duke of Richlieu, 
The Herring Fifhery has been, during the prefent year, confiderably fuccelsful in the 
Scottith Friths. That judgment by which Mr. Tennant, of Glafgow, lately loft the benefit 
of his patent for the preparation of dry muriate of lime, has “excited in his favour the 
moft friendly aétivity of many of the principal manufa¢turers in Scotland.” The Repeaf-of 
ne Tonnage Duty has, to our furprile, been oppoled by the ieee ge of Commerce at 
ull. 
Account of the Number of Veffels which have traded at Greenock and Pa Glafgow, pliant: their 
repeated Voyages, in the Year, ending Fan. 5, 1803. 
At Greenock—Inwards. Foreign Trade.——-478 fhips, 59,498 tons, 5710 men. 
Coaf and Fifhing Trade. —~997 fhips, 43, 835 tons—4000 men. Total, 1405 fhips=~ 
103,333 tons—7, 710 inen. a 
Outwards.—F oreign Trade—404 fhips—52,219 tons—3420 men. 
Coaft and Fifhing Trade. —-1155 thips—49,789 tons, 4365 men, 
102,008 tons—7785 men. 
At Port-Glafgow——Inwards.—Foreign Trade—121 fhips—-21,463 tons—1387 men. 
Coat and Fifhing Trade.—173 hips—6496 tons—401 men.——Total, 294 fhips— 
27,959 tons—1788 men. 
Outwards—-Foreign Trade.—215 fhips—-27,659 tons—1856 men. 
Coaft and Fithing Trade.—154 thips—8687 tons—543 men.—Total, 369 thips— 
36,346 tons-—2399 men. : wate 
The pri ices of Coals, in the river, have begun to rife, in confequence of the frofts, 
The prices of grain, and of moft articles of provifions, cqntinue reafonably low, though 
not without being fomewhat heightened by the feverity of the feafon. 
The Bank is expected fhortly to return to the prattice of making its payments in fpecie. 
The benefits of our Canal Naviga ition, and of the late great improvements on our high- 
ways, are continually more and more felt in their influence to make us capable to thip our 
manufactures at ealier prices from our great commercial ports. 
Thofe people, whofe engagements at the Steck-Exchange gave an interef to hinder the 
rife of the prices of ftock, “have e lately practifed a thoufand attifices to excite vain fears of 
the fpeedy renewal of W Var; and to reprefent the Gov ernment as being, {pite of all its 
pretences, in a miferable’ ftate of financial neceflity. Their endeavours have not been 
abfolutely without effect on Change, yet the ftocks have been itels ml 1n price. The 
3 per cents. now fluctuate betw een 71 & 72. 
—-Total, 1559 fhips— 
MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL tEPORT. : 
HE feverity of the weather in the préfent month has not been very favourable fer 
the operations of hufbandry, unlefs for thofe of getting out the manures upon the 
“meadows, clover r-leys, and land under preparation for ‘early pea and bean crops. 
The young wheat crops have in general a very promifing alpect, except the very late 
fown ones, which have fcarcely had time to fix themfelves fo in the foil, and become 
fuificiently vigorous, as to withftand the feverity of the frofts. he attacks of the 
grub-worm and other infects upon them have however been confiderably checked. 
Much of the old grain being 1 now threthed out, the niarkets become rather dull. | Average 
price of corn, &c. for England and Wales, Jan. 15th. Wheat 56s. Od.; rye Svs. 1id.; 
barley 25s. 3d. 5 ; Oats 19s. “6d. ; beans 34s. 2d. 3, peafe 38s. 10d. 
The turnip crops do not appear to be, in general, fo much injured as might have been 
fuppofed, from the fudden and unufual intenfity of the froke>s and the want of. fnow to 
cover and protect them. 
Rye, and winter tares, have a good appearance, and are promiling crops in awe 
-diftricts where they are cultivated. In many inftances they are this feafon fo forward as 
‘de in a {tate proper for cutting as green food for cattle or other animals.. 
Notwithftanding the warmth and unufaal opennets of the weather, until the prefent 
month ; the prices of all forts of fat flock continue high. Beef in Smithfield Market 
fetches from 46. to os. Od. ; mutton os, to 6s. ; ie Gs, to 7. Gd. ; and pork 4s. 8d. to 
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