$94 Devon JoireeDeaths Abroad—Commercial Report. [May 1, 
with uncommon regularity and attention. He — years miftrefsof a refpeétable boarding-fchool. 
acted asatruftee for feveral families with —Mr. S. Cogan, land-furveyor. 
icrupulous integrity. On_ political fubjedts, DEATHS ABROAD. 
he {poke his mind, with the genuine firmnefs © M.G.F. Kordenbufh, aftronomer, of Nu- 
of an Englifhman. remburg, died April 3,1802, aged 7% years. 
DEVONSHIRE. In the month of September, Baron deVega = 
Married.] J. Debrify, efq. of Bath, to he‘was found drowned in tle Danube, and, it 
Milfs Davie, of Oarleigh, in this county. - is generally believed, that his death was of 
At Exeter, C, Hamilton, efg. to Mifs his own feeking. To him we are indebted 
Stoodley. for the large folio edition of Viacq’s Loga- 
Died,] AtExeter, Mrs. Adams, wife of Mr. rithms, which was becume very fcarce, and 
Adams, druggift.-—-Mif$ S. Webber, formany in which he has corrected many errors. 
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MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT. 
HE queftion of Peace or War between France and England remains undetermined. Hence, 
in London, at Amfterdam, at Paris, the prices of ftock in the public funds have, in the 
courfe ef April, continued low, but, at every rumour, fubjec to fluctuations, which have given 
inceflant play tothe activity, the hopes, the fears, the fpeculatiofs, of all the real dealers, and 
all the gamblers, in this fpeciesof commodity. In London, where a public debt of between five 
and fix hundred millions is continually circulating, from hand to hand, through the channels of 
the Stock-exchange, itis impoffible but whatevef quickens and difturbs the ordinary courfe of 
that circulation, flould produce an agitation fuch as muft be fenfibly felt throughout the whole 
kingdom, ‘The gambling upon fictitious ftock more than triples the bufinefs done in the tranf- 
ference of real itock. Under thefe confiderations, it cannot be furprifing, that many bankrupt- 
cies fhould have lately taken place among our dealers in ftock, and that they fhould be, of all 
elaffes in the community, the moft anxious to know the refult of the prefent difcuffions between 
Britain and France. Their complaints are not fo-much that there fhould arife caufes to produce 
a rapid fall, ora fudden rife, in the prices of ftocks, as that fuch caufes fhould arife, and yet not 
one of them be fo much in the fecret, as to be able to avail himfelf of it in dealing with his ignos 
rant fellows. Qn the 28th of April, our three per cents were at fixty-five and three-eights ; 
the French five per cents were, on the 21{t, at fifty-four and a half. Amfterdam is a great 
snaiket for the ftocks of all nations ; and, it was lately contrived, by ftock jobbing artifice, to — 
fend the difpatches to Mr. Lifton to Cuxhaven, to tranfmit to Mr. Lifton certain other difpatches, 
which fhould have gone to Cuxhaven, and then to fend to Amfterdam, by exprefs meflengers, 
an account that every thing was fully fettled between England and France. The trick was fuc- 
cefsful. All ftocks inftantly rofe confiderably on the Exchange, at Amfterdam, 
Our other trade has been lefs fenfibly affected by the uncertainty in which we are between 
peace and war. Our merchants are little fearful in regard to the fate of any adventures, which 
they may make at fea; becaufe, if war fhould even break out, the ftrength and the difpofition 
of the royal navy will render Britifh merchants’ fhips much more fecure at fea, than thofe of any 
other power that may be-involved in the quarrel. Our manufaCturers experience no alarming 
uncertainty in regard to orders. Our mine-mafters appear to rife continually more towards a 
fuperiority in the competition with thofe of Germany and Sweden. - Tke improvements relative 
to agriculture and local economy are not, in any confiderable number, fufpended, 5 
The fhip owners, though they have demonftrated that the value of thipping has, fince the end — 
of the war, fallen thirty three per cent; and that, in every other point of view in which it was 
poffible to confider.the merchant fhipping of this country, that fhipping was fubjeét to burthens, 
and expofed with a rivalry the moft alarming and dangerous, have not hitherto jucceeded in their 
laudable endeavours to procure a repeal of the tonnage duty. They, however, continue their ex- 
ertions, as a fociety, for their common interefts. The whole country takes a concern in their - 
fuccefs, becaufe the profperity of our fhipping intereft is indifpenfibly neceffary alike to our ie- 
curity againft hoftile attacks, and to the genera] welfare of our commerce, manuiactures, and huf- 
bandry. : : 
There is now a great demand for Danifh fhips for freight to the Mediterranean, on account of 
the darger to which the merchant fhipping of fome other nations would be there expofed, if ab- 
folute hoftilities fhould break fuddenly out between Britain and France. 
All the trading fpeculations inwhich theDutchwere again eagerly engaging, have been interrupted _ 
by the new introduCtion of French troops into their ftrong towns, the new and oppreflive exac- 
‘tions to which they are fubjeCted by the imperious authority of France, and the appearance of © 
danger, that their country may be made again the theatre of war. 
The total amount of the money received at Cadiz, from South America, is 48,988,622 piaf- 
tres, each worth about 4s. 2d. fterling, or about 9,800,cecl. fterling. 
In the three months, ending April 5, 1093 veffels in the coafting trade, and 160 fhips in the 
foreign trade, cleared out from the port of Newcaftle. The exports in them were, befide 
coals and cinders, fugar, oil, earthen ware, glafs, lead, lead fhot, lead ore, colours, copperasy 
ijtharge, &c. j 
- 265,660 Pieces, containing 8,686,046 yards ef broad cloths; and 137,016 pieces, containing 
50235754 yerds of narrow cloths, were la{t year milled in the Weft Riding of Yorkthire. There 
is, by this account, anincreafe in the narrow cloths of 190,220 yards aboye the manufacture of 
fhe year 1801. In the bread cloths there is a decreafe of 13,196 yards, anes 
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