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MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT. 
[% confequence of the detention of the Britih thipping in Ruffia, and the little probability of 
their releafe, as commiflioners have been appointed for felling the thips and cargoes, an order 
was iffued on the 14th of January, for an embargo on all Ruffian, Swedith, and Danith veflelsia 
the ports of Great Britain and Ireland, in purfuance of which near too veffels have been detain- 
ed, belonging wholly to the two latter powers, for we believe there is not one Ruffian veffel at — 
prefent in any of our ports. -The very {mall pert of the commerce of that country, which is 
carried on in veffels belonging thereto, will appear from the following account of the numbag of 
thips that pafled the Sound laft year: viz. 
1487 Danifh 60 Lubeck 
1941 Swedifh ~ 31 Hamburgh 
13 Ruffian : 39 Oldenburg 
3139 Englith sg American 
1763 Pruffian 6 Portuguefe 
152 Peppenburg . 
278 Roftock 9048 . 
80 Bremen 
We take from Ruffia 30 or 40,000 tons of Hemp per annum, and about 17,000 tons. of flax,. 
fometimes much more. The price of thefe articles has rifen greatly, Riga Rhine hemp is at 
prefent 861. per-ton, Peterfburg clean 851., ditto outfhot 751.5; tallow and foap have likewife 
greatly advanced. 
In former Reports we have noticed the fuccefsful culture of hemp in the Eaft Indies, - 
from whence it is highly probable a fupply may be derived nearly adequate to the ufual con- 
fumption, and perhaps at lefs expence than at prefent. Several experiments have been made 
by order of the Supreme Government with hemp, the growth and manufacture of Chittagong, 
on board fome fmall veffels trading to the iflands in thofe feas, and otherwife, andthe refult 
has been fuch as to confirm the company inthe project of greatly extending the culture of 
this article. 
A confiderable quantity of jute, a fpecies of yarn, the production of Bengal, is to be brought 
home by way of dunnage, by the fhips which have been permitted to proceed thither this 
feafon for rice, in order to afcertain the quality of the article in manufaturing of Waper, on 
which great expeCtations have been formed. 
The India~Company. have received the moft favourable accounts of their Zosacca farms in 
the northern circars; the produce is of the beft quality, and the plantations are competent 
to the growth of any required quantity ; it is however doubtful whether it will ever be worth 
svhile to import this commodity from fo great a diftance. 
In confequence of the exorbitant price of Spani/b wool, fuperfine broad cloths are advanced 
one fhilling per yard, and ladies cloths and caffimeres in proportion, which with the advance of 
prt journeymen have lately obtained, will caufe a confiderable increafe in the price of | 
cloathing. Pi 
The frequent fires which happen in cotton and flax mills, being chiefly owing to the prefent 
mode of warming thefe buildings, we, with pleafure, notice a very important and ufeful im- 
provement made in heating cotton mills, by the fteam of boiling water, by Mr. Nrew 
SnopGRAS, manager and partner of the cotton-works of Spinningdale in Sutherland. 
Though the heat cannot be raifed to burn cotton, flax, or wool, yet, by the ingenious mannerin 
which he ere¢ts his pipes and conveys the fteam, the boiler and fire being on the outfide, he can 
give the neceflary warmth to mills of fix ftories high, and will fave three-fourths of the coal at 
prefent ufed. This is the fecond winter in which Mr. SnoncrRas has prattifed this 
important invention, and it has fully anfwered his moft fanguine expeftations. This invention 
will alfo be highly beneficial for the printfield-works, churches, &c. as the heat of the fteam 
cannot be raifed above, and feldom to 212 degrees ; of courte it will not burn any thing, not 
even powder, and can raife a temperature in any building from 60 to 70 degrees; befides, the 
conftruction of the apparatus is fimple and cheap. z : “ 
By the moft recent accounts from Dundee it appears, that the Herring Fi/hery in the Tay ex« 
ceeds in the quality, as well as the quantity of the herrings, every thing known upon our coatts; 
and that the extraordinary fuccefs of two boats employed in cod-fifhing, had induced numerous 
perfons in the neighbouring country to fet about equipping buffes. The acquirement 
of cheap, nutritive, and abundant food, is amongft the infinite advantages. derivable. from our 
fifheries. Until the prefent winter, is was not known that there ever had been a herring in the 
Tay ; where fo many have been already caught, as not only to fupply the neighbouring country 
but to admit 20009 crans to be cured for the ufe of other places. The dearth of corn ma Te 
feverely felt by the weavers and other manufacturers in thofe parts, who, from the confequent 
{carcity of money, had little to do; but they are ail becoming fifhermen. 
Government have thought proper to limit the number of veffels that are to take paffengers 
from hence to Ho//and and France, and haye appointed four folely for thas purpofe, which now 
fail for Rotterdam and Calais every week: | 
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