1803.] Monthly Agricultural Report. Gos 
Onthe morning of the 13th of June, Mefirs. Efdaile and Shewel! contra&ed to furnith 
a loan to Government te the amount of 12 millions fterling, by inftalments, for the fervice 
of the prefent year. By the conditions of the contraét, Government receives from the 
lenders precifely rood. fterling for rorl. 6s. 6d. ftock created in the 3 per Cents, and Long 
Annuities in favour of the lenders. The intereft upon the real capital fapplied amounts to 
but sl. 2s. 3d. So favourable, however, is this bargain to Government, that the Omnium is 
now at 34 per cent, difcount atthe Stock Exchange. The ftock added by this tranfaction to the 
former fumof the National Debt, is fixteen millions fterling. The total intereft andcharges 
of management amount to 676,583]. a-year. 
New taxes, to be paid only dering the prefent war, have been impofed upon the follow. 
ing articles : ; 
f. 
Sugar imported, 4s. percwt. 5 122 per cent. on all other imports....-. 1,300,000 
I per cent. ad valor. on exports to Europe 5 3 per cent. onexports to any 
gener parpar tie World 22072. 6s cs PRR, BI es © as 460,000 
ad. pen ib anicgtiom wap 1a) nF eS Sal cele rR Sed iat wine 250,000 
An additional tonnage-duty........-.-..--- Cre a, See ee 150,000 
45 per Cent. On teas. 2.6. 0 win en 2 ew Sn cele cme wees canis 1,300,000 
Bla ON NIEE | Sad < aiaiam a myerers  o aidpaialelb nana wey HO emmtS, < 500,000 
iru MPD UTILS oo ans imei a fee dg win, wm alin wit ero ee uy em mee 1,500,000 
Sama Us RL APO OTA TRAE wih as dole a Sram mw rsircrr betel Eh ah cartes ac hs tie 2,700,000 
Anincome tax, half that which was formerly paid........-.-..---- 4,590,000 
i [2d hapa es Ea Se 12,660,000 
‘The new permanent taxes amount at the fame time to 690,000!1. for the payment of the 
intereft and charges on the loan. Thefe are heavy burthens: yet it does not feem probable 
that they will much interrupt the accuftomed courfe of trade, manufactures, and confump- 
tion. Wherever fuch an effect appeared likely to be produced by any of the arrangements 
propofed for raifing this money, the Chancellor of the Exchequer has readily agreed to fuch 
modifications as could be fuggefted from the perfoms upon whom the burthens of the taxes 
were refpectively to fall. - 
A lottery, affording a clear profit to Government of nearly 352,3331. 8s. ; to confift of 
not more than 80,000 tickets ; to have 700,000]. appropriated in prizes ;, has been contraé- 
ed for by Mr. Bifh, ac the price of 131. 13s. Id. per ticket. 
Infurance, the prices of all articles of foreign produce, the price of the neceffaries of life, 
the prices of Baltic goods, freight, andthe prices of moft of our manufactures, are necef- 
farily augmented, but not immoderately, by the war. 
The number of bankruptcies does not appear from the Gazette to be much increafed. 
The 3 per Cents were, June 27th, at 56, 
MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 
INCE our laft Report the feafon, upon the whole, has been favourable for molt of the pur- 
“ potes of hufbandry. The rains have had the moft beneficial effects in filling and forward- 
iNg the grain crops; the wheats and barleys have been particularly improved by them in many 
diftriéts where they appeared thin and light on the ground before they fell, The bean and pea 
crops are alfo good in general, Return of Wheatin Mark. lane, from the 6th to the rth of 
June, agreeably to the new act, Total 6203 quarters—average 645, 10d. being 1s. 43d. higher 
than lait return. 
The hay and grafs lands have likewife experienced much advantage from the fame caufe, 
but in the more fouthern diftriéts they muft have the effect of rerdering the hay feafon later 
than ufual, and, from the gra(3 {pringing fo Jate, the quantity of hay will probably not be fo great 
as may be fuppofed. ‘The crops however on the more moift hay lands appear to be abundant- 
The value of oJd hay has not been much lowered. In St. James’s-market, Hay averages from 
gl. to 71. Straw, from 21. 2s. to 21. 8s. At Whitechapel-market, Hay, from ql. to fl, 18s. 
Clover, 61. 6s. to 7]. ros- Straw, i]. 16s- to 21. 2s- 
The great fluth of grafs that has been produced by the late falls of rain, muft have much ef. 
fe&t in bringing forward the fattening cattle. The prices of fat and lean ftock, notwithftanding, 
ftill continue high. At Smithfield-market, Beef-fold from gs. to 6s. Mutton, 5s. to 6s. Veal, 
s. gd. to 6s, and Pork, 4s. 9d. to sss At Newgate, and Leadenhall-markets, Beef, 4s. to §3, 
has as. 4d. togs. 4d. Veal, as. 6d. to 5s. and Pork, qs. to 5s. 
Horfes of both the faddle and cart kind feil high, which probably arifes in part from the great 
gcmand there is for them for military purpofess 
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