¥95 Monthly Commercial Report, = [ March h 4 
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CORNWALL: ; baited to Bodmin Goal, to take her trial at 
A fingular and moft affe@ting murder was the next aflizes. This unfortunate girl ac- 
recently perpetrated in the neighbourhood of companied her brother the preceding day 
Helfton, ona poor lad, of ro years old, into the country a begging, but in returning 
which appeared to have been committed by home they quarrelled about the divifion of 
his own fitter, aged 15; from her own ac- what they had colleéted, and in the heat of 
count, in her examination before the coro anger the girl tied a fmall piece of. firing 
nex’s inqueft, frong circumiftances of fufpi- round ‘the boy’s neck, and ftrangled him on 
cion appeared, ‘and fhe was accordingly com- the fpot. 
#,* The Marriages, Deaths, &c. in Wales, Sondaaée and vi i are deferred till our next “fr 
qwant of room. ‘ 
. MONTHLY COMMERCIAL RHPORT. 
POHE Szwedes have retaliated on this country by an embargo on all our fhips in their ports, but: 
4 we donot hear that this meafure has yet been adopted by Denmark. The treaty of armed 
neutrality between Rufiia and Sweden has for its bafis the agreement entered into during the 
Mevediad war, and the moft important article relates to the right of fearching fhips under con- 
voy, with refpect to which it is itipulated, that the declaration of the commander of a fhip of 
war which fails as cOnvov to aay merchantmen, that they have no contraband goods on-board, 
fhail be fufficient without any fearch, The contraCting powers engage at-the fame. time to iffue 
ahe ftriGteit orders to all their captains and commanders'to fuffer no-contraband gecds to be 
brought on-board fuch fhips, or concealed in’ any manner, under the {everett penalties. 7 
The fafpenfion of commercial intercourfe with the Baltic, although it muft produce 1 inconve- 
mience in tome of its partial operations, yet on the whole is likely to be more diftreffing to the - 
Northern States than tous, as the balance of trade has always been materially again{t us, 
The returns for the laft year are not yet completed at the Cuftorn Hovis, but although—the 
trade has increafed, the proportions between our imports laft year, and in 1797 and 1798 are, 
with trivial variation, the iame. We fhall thereiore {late them as they food on the sth ef 
April, 1798. 
Ruffia— Linens, hemp,. tallow, iron, dete Cs 
imposted a £,-15565, 198 
« Exports in Britifh manutadtures i . 173,303 ; 
Colonial produce A , ° : 273,804 
. | a 20175225. 0. 
Sweden—Timber,: iron, &c. imported < £,°I52,707 ae 
Briufh manuteCtures exported ‘ P 73,766 ] 
Colonial and foreign articles . : ‘ 95,528 ‘ » cake 
rf tae L,-322;00%, 
Denmark and Norway—imports. - «  +« Zr 945821 sepa slehce tite 
Britifh manuta€iures'exported’, ae 218,895 iy 
Colonial or foreign 1 fe : P 49219L-_., 
mae 805,903 
Our trade with Pruffia and Poland mut neceflarily be eed at leait by Britifh veffels, j in 
ghe event of hoftilities in the Baltic. The value of this branch of our commerce is however 
trivial in itfelf, and we fhall continue to enjoy it in a certain degree, becatife the produce of eer 
colonies muit itil be received by their own fhips, or the agency of America, 
Pruffia—The impoits are chiefly timber, from 
Memel, andfomecorn. ~. : : £220,827 we. 
Britifh manufactures exported : Ns 58,336 
Eaft India and Colonial goods ° ¢ ' 163,326 
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Poland—Corn and linen imported ae fo 2075477 
Goods exported . re : : 35468 8°> 
Oe a 945 
With refped to our commerce with Germany, through Hamburgh, Bremen, ada ‘Embed, the 
Salance is materially in our favour. 
Goodsimportedtothe amountof  < -s £-2,658,ort 
Briufh manufa@tures exported oPrrn te 1,621,5g2 
Eat India and Colonial pagtnre pacino . 6,303,118 
—— = £.10,672,271 
The following ftatement will thew that we are by no means -withont refources for obtaining 
all the articles for which we trade with Rufia, and it the new channels into which the trade may 
be thus forced fhould & e found advantageous, it will probably mever be wholly recovered by that 
country, 
Of Tron, we take from Ruffia and Sweden about 50,000 tons annually ; one-third is bin the 
bh cointry. Our own forges “produce about 50,009 tons more ; a {top being put to the impor 
tation, will be an encouragement to our forges, or founderies, which it is known only 
w.nted fuch a circumitance to’ furnith double the quantity they now do. it is the cheapnets of © 
Ruiian iren that cauled it to be imporg2d 5 a few years ago, when the late emprefs ‘prohibited a 
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