1803.] Monthly Agricultural Report. 395 
The quantity of butter brought annually to London from the butter counties is 240,000 cafks. 
On this, it has been found, that in every year, there has been a fraud of 710,000 libs, againft the 
London purchafers. ,. 
Lord Auckland lately ftated, upon fatisfattory documents, in the Heufe of Peers, that our 
exports for lat year amounted to 48,500,6831. fterling in value ; the number of our fhips to 
20,060 ; the tonnage to 4,060,000 5 the total number of our failors to 152,000, 
183 Cafks of foreign corn were latelyimported from Calais into England. 
Internal commotions in China have rendered the fale of European goods in that country much 
lefs favourable on the laft, than it wason feveral preceding years. 
The value of the goods, which the Anglo Americans have of late fent annually down the 
Miflifiippi, was 4,000,000 of dollars. he exportation was performed in 250 veflels, each 250 
tons, 
A billis now in progrefs through the Houfe of Commons, to relieve the woollen manufattus 
rers from the penalties of certain old a¢ts, of which the original ufes have long ceafed. 
It is probable that a canal will foon begin to be cut acrofs that I{thmus of Scotland, which ter- 
minates on the eaft fide, at the Moray Frith, It will prodigioufly increafe the fecurity of the 
<sade from Liverpool, Glafgow, &c. to the Baltic and the North Seas, ‘' , ar 
The exports from Glafgow to Trinidad have been lately very large. 
The following is the Account laid before the Houfe of Commons, of the annual Value of 
all Imports into Great Britat for eighteen Years, ending Fanuary 5, 18033 exclufive 
of Corn and other Grain, and exclufve of Importations from the Eajt Indies. 
4 3 : i 
BRITISH PRODUCE 
AND 
IMPORTS. MANUFACTURES 
EXPORTED. 
Real or Declared 
Official Value. - Official Value. Value. 
‘Be Studad « fi si, a fee Sah de 
1785 | 12,939,536 16 10 11,081,810 16 ‘5 
1786 12,058,839 13 5 11,830,372 18 11 
1787 13,761,945 I0 5 ¥25053,900 3° 5 
1788 13,897,708 3 9 $2,724,719 17. 9 
1789 13,879,465. 9 11 13,779,500. 2 6 
1799 14,924,222 15 8 14,921,084 9 7 
| 1791 14,103,725 18 If 16,810,018 16 4 
1792 16,005,657 18 7 18,336,851 6 11 
1793 14,165,443 I 4 13,892,268 17 7 
1794. |' 16,482,673 10 11° 16,725,402 16 2 
1795 16,010;233 8 o 165338) 25Re2 092 
1796 17,441,030 Ig 10 19,102,220 3 11 
1797 15,803,883 7 8 16,903,103. 6 1 ; 
1798 18,362,183 13 7 19,672,503 Oo ¢ 33,148,682 oO oO 
1799 21,386,250 17 10 24,084,213 0 10 38,942,498 oO Oo 
1800 | 22,720,664 11 8 24,304,280 13 6 39,471,203 © © 
1801 24,145,500 12 O 25,699,809 6 I 41,770,254 0 0 
1802 14 11 27,012,108 3 10 43,500,683 9 o 
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MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 
HE continuance of favourable weather has been fuch as to enable the farmer to put in his 
oat and barley crops in the moft complete and perfect manner. In moft of the more fouthern 
diftriéts,the fowing even of the Jatter is nearly finifhed ; and ig the northern parts of the kingdom, 
itis in an unufual ftate of forwardnefs. In the midland counties, the fowing being quite ftuifhed, 
the farmer has had a fine Sere of getting up his turnip land this dry weather, and rolling 
the wheat and early {pring corn. The ravages of the grzd upon the wheat, which, in the 
early part of the feafon, feemed to be confined to a few pieces of ray grafs ley, are now much 
more extenfive, and threaten a very material injury to the crop: harrowing, and rolling with a 
very heavy ioller, have been the means eniployed to check this alarming evil; and, if it be at 
any 
