1808. ] Monthly Commercial Report. 805 
Since letters af marque were iffud, and hoftilities begun, our 3 per cents have fallen to: 
574. Aninference, perhaps, too haftily drawn from certain Jate fuggeftions in the Houfe of 
Commons, refpeéting the mediation of the Court of Raffia, fo renewed the hopes of {peedy 
peace, on the Stock Exchange, that, on the morning of Saturday, May 28th, the 3 per ceuts 
fuddenly rofe from 57% to fomewhat above 60 per cent. 
_ The United Sgates gf America have recently obtained, with the ceffion of the province of 
Louifiana from France, the exclufive trade and navigation of the Miffiffippi. 
' The Emperor of Ruffia has opened IMs ports on the Black Sea, not only to the merchants 
fhipping of Great Britain, France, and Spain, but fo that, alfo, of the Turkith empire. 
The following account of the duties received on Britith cotton-cwift and yarn imported 
into Ireland, from 1790 to the sth of January 1803, has been lately laid before the Houfe of 
Commons, by Mr, MarsKact, Infpector-general of Exports and Imports for Jreland. 
a a Amount of Duty. 
hier tlie ae 
Seo 5 8S 
1798 + = 3,605 15 2 
1799 - = 9,500 18 6 
179° all ess 
(sro - > 95455 14 74 
eR ROSH ts ei RabG ig 
& YI793 +t 218ZD. 1 Th 
+794 «= +) (1,266 13 8K 
so < 1795 = = 25289 7 he 
 )799 2 2 45282 9 118 
S 4797 fn Ven $2148 BUN ye J 
a 
P T8090 = = 22,819 —= 3 
From 2sth March 1809 to sth January 180f = = 12,112 17 10 
Year ending §th January - - - - - 1802 = 9,732 2 10 
- -« Ditto -- Ditto - - = - - 1853 - 21,727 9 6 
Tt evinces, that the weaving of cotton ftuffs in Ireland, has, within thefe laft five years, 
beén Very confiderahly irc: afed hina Gureata th, . 
The decreate in the fureign fhipping entering Britith ports in the year 1802 reduced that 
fhipping to che numbe: of 3274 veflels, of the burthen of 344,000 tons lefs than it was in 
130r. The decrcate in foreign thipping failing and clearing out from Britifh ports in 1802, 
was 1704 veflcls, of 299,9'4 tons burthen. In the fame year, the increafe of Britith thips 
entering inwa)us into our own ports, amounted to 2730 fhips, of 269,245 tons: and the in-: 
creafe of Britifi thips clearing outwards from the fame ports, was of 5276 fhips of 414,755 
tons burthen. ' mato 3 ; 
Sincé the peace of Amiens, not fewer than 290 fhips have failed from the port of Bour-~ 
deaux for the French Weft India colonies => 
By an advertifement from the magiftrates of Newcaftle, to all families in that town, to 
preferve old rags, to be fold for the ufe of the Paper Manufactures, we learn, chat Foreign 
rags, to the valde of not lefs tlian 60,00cl. a year; are now imported into that harbour, 
The Swedifl, as well as the Scottith herring fifhery, was not fo fuccefsful laft year, as 
it had been on fome years preceding. In 1801 the produce of the herring fithery exported 
from the ports of Sweden, confifted of 352,160 tons of herrings in brine, 5392 tons of her- 
rings fmoke-dried, and 24,413 cafks of oil. In 1802, only 312,795 tons of herrings in 
brine, and g104 cafks of oil were exported. | 
Within thefe laft'ten years the prices ‘of timber for fhip-building have rifen 50 per cent. 
Information from Canton of the 25th of November 1802, ftates, that there arrived lat 
year, in the ports of China, which are open to European navigation, 15 Englifh fhips, of 
1800 tons each; 2 Swedifh; 2 Pruffian; 2Danifh; 1 belonging to Hamburgh; § Por- 
tuguefe 3 22 of the United States of America; befide 12 Englifh veflels which came, not 
immediately from Malabar, Coromandel, and Bengal. Chinefe goods were then dear in 
the market, becaufée the competition of purchafers was fo great. 
The merchants and, the cotton mangfacturers of Glafgow complain that they are particu- 
Barly aggrieved by the modification of the duties on the importation of cotton-wool, in the 
Jatt fchedule. Cotton-wool from the Britith plantatiuns is there charged at eight fhillings and 
four pence duty, om every 100 lib. of cotton from the American ftates, at twelve fh llings and 
fix pence per 100 lib, But it is American cotton-wool chiefly which is ufed in che manu- 
fa@tures of Glafgow and its environs. . 
The total public debt of Great Britain, the fubjec of fo much ftack-jobbinz and {pecula- 
tion, was 480,572.4761. 3s. 343 funded; and 21,§'5,4291. 38. and 34. outfiardinggand un- 
funded, ; E 
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