1803.] | 
. hint, that bulls of this defcription would 
make an excellent crofs for fuch of the 
Welth cattle as are too thin, and long- 
legged. \ one A. 
The perfeverance of Lord Somerville has 
at length overcome every obftacle to the 
improvement of our fine wools. The fam- 
ples produced by the Spanifh crofs are now 
perfectly. fatisfaStory to the beft judges. 
amongtt the manufacturers ; and the noble 
Lord has fully made good his original pofi+ 
tion, that Britain may, at will, flake off 
her old and precarious dependence on Spain 
for fine wool, and concenter within herfelf 
all the needful funds of that important 
,manufacture. A relick of ancient preju- 
dice ftill exifts:—It is objected, that the 
Spanifi crofs, although it double the 
uantity, and vaflly enhance the quality, of » 
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the wool, yet diminifhes the weight of the 
carcafe; but the objectors take not into 
-the account, that, by diminithing the fize, 
good form remaining equal, a greater pro- 
portional number of fheep per acre may 
be fed, and thus weight of carcafe is equal- 
lized. The public is now convinced, that 
over-fattening of cattle is by no means the 
object of this exhibition. 
An AMATEUR. 
— 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
Some PARTICULARS relative to the FAIRS 
held at BRUNSWICK, iz GERMANY; 
and the TRADES of that CiTY. 
’ | ‘WO ereat' fairs are annually held at 
Brun{wick, one in fummer, and ano- . 
ther in winter, and each of them latts 
eighteen days. The fummer-fair, agree- 
ably toanediét of the Duke in 1768, be- 
‘gins on Monday after St. Lawrence’s Day, 
and the winter-fair on the Monday after 
Candlemas. TheThurfday before thecom- 
mencement of the fair is the day fixed for 
unpacking : the merchants, however, who 
deal in Iferioh, Englifh, or Nurnberg 
goods, have been indulged with leave to 
unpack on the preceding Monday. In the 
three firt days of the fair, only wholefale 
dealings.are allowed but, on the Thurf- 
day, begins the, retail-trade, and even 
hawking from door to doors All goods 
deftined for the fair (except fuch as arrive 
by the poft )mu ft be addreffed to aBrunfwick 
merchant, or other inhabitant, and taken 
tothe cuitem-houfe.. The Brun{wick agent 
then gives in an account, ftating the name 
of the proprietor, the nature of the goods, 
and their value or number ;. when this 
ftatement has been examined, and found to 
be Correct, the goods are permitted to be 
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s 
Particulars of the Brunfwick-fairs. 
in the territory of Lunenburg. 
Or 
taken to the’ place of deftination.. The 
duty, which is very trifling, is paid only , 
for the quantity aétually fold ; except lea- 
ther, anda few otherarticles, on which duty 
muft be paid for the whole quantity taken 
into the city, whether afterwards fold or 
not.. ‘The goods: that are not fold are 
weighed by proper officers, and the amount 
deducted from the quantity carried into 
the city before the fair, Drugs, {pices, 
and grocery-wares are charged with don- 
ble duty.. Many of the Hamburg: mer- 
chants, who frequent the fair, contrive to 
elude the effect of this regulation, by 
caufing their Bruniwick agents to declare 
the goods to be their own property. 
The number of Englifhmen who attend 
the Brunfwick fairs decreafes every year. 
Only a few from Sheffield, Leeds, and 
Glalgow make their appearance. At the 
lait fummer-tair in particular, it was re- - 
marked, that very few Britith dealers at. 
tended. The trade, in Englifh goods, is 
moftky in the hands ofa Mr.Macnab frona 
Glaigow, or is carried on by Gerinan 
merchants. 
In the year 1798 and.1799, when the 
ports of France, Holland, and part of Italy 
were fhut againit Englifh merchandize, 
fuch quantities were poured into Bruof- . 
wick, that many merchants who at 
other times never dealt in fuch goods 
opened commiffion-warehoufes, and the 
prices were more than one-half lower than 
at prefent. ‘The Englifh hard-ware from 
Birmingham, Shetheld, é&c. feems to be 
at prefent moft in demand, as five com- 
mercial houfes in Brunfwick deal in no- 
thing elfe. 
The principal trade of _Brunfwick is 
not, however, confined to the two fairs, 
being founded on the more fubfiantial ba- 
fis of the manufaétures and productions of 
the city and the adjacent country. The 
trade with flax, for inflance, is as brifk, 
and frequently briiker, during the inter- 
vals between the fairs. Very little flax is 
bought for the Englifh market, except 
when there happens to be a bad crop in 
Ireland. A confiderable quantity is tent 
to Saxony and the provirices bordering on 
the Rhine. But the greateit part is manu- 
factured in the country round Brurfwick, 
Although the flax grown in the Brunfwick 
and Hildefheim territory is of an excelient 
quality, yet it is inferior in goodnels to 
that produced near Uelzer, a country-town 
But a 
much more coniiderable trade is caried on 
with yarn—-there are a number of ccmmer- 
cial houfes in Brunfwick,which deal in no- 
thing 
