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6. For all machinery which fhall be erected, whether entirely new or added’ to old mills, 
for {pinning hemp or flax for fail-cloth, before the 1f of Auguft, 1802, to’ be worked by 
water or fteam, a fum after the rate of ros. for every {pindle it fhall contain, on fufficient fe- 
curity being given, that the number of fpindles for which fuech premium fhall be received, 
fhall be regularly kept at work in {pinning hemp or flax for three years. 
For this premium the fum of 30001. will be appropriated——and if more than 6000 fpindles 
fhall be claimed for, the truftees will referve to themfelves the power of dividing the fum of 
30001. rateably among the claimants. 
7- To the perfon who fhall {pin fuch yarn, by fuch machinery, before the 1ft of Auguft, 
1804, a fail-cloth loom, made of the beft materials, and on the moft approved plan, will be 
ordered by the truftees for every two tons of good, even, merchantable yarn, fo fpun, every 
fuch loom to continue the property of the Board, into whofoever hands fuch fpinner may 
give if. 
All perfons who can produce fufficient proof of being perfeétly fkilled in the management 
of hemp throughout all its different proceffes, from the time it is pulled until it is completely 
drefled for fpinning, and wifh to engage with the truftees, are defired to apply to their fecre- 
tary, at the Linen Office, Dublin, or their agent, Edward Stewart, Efq. Aldermanbury, Lon- 
don, and the firft twelve, who fhall be approved of, will be appointed Itinerant Hemp- 
dreflers, at gol.-a-year each, and will have liberty to receive from the perfons whom 
they thall be ordered to attend, fuch reafonable allowance as the truftees fhall previoufly 
fanction. 
The trade of Birmingham is in avery diftreffed fituation, a large proportion of the workmen 
are entirely outof employ, and thefe who ftill have work have the utmoft difficulty to gain 
a fubfiftence, from the exorbitant price of all kinds of provifions. The ribbon trade of Co- 
wentry is in a moft deplorable ftate ; and the woollen trade of York/bire, if poffible, ftill worfe. 
Met thofe who calculate the profperity of the country from the official returns of the amount 
of exports, explain how it happens that the manufactures fhould be fo depreffed at the very 
moment when the amount of exports appears greater than ever. 
The importation of Weft India produce has not borne proportion to our increafe of territory. 
The following is an abftraét from the lift of imports of fugar and rum, into London, between 
the years 1750 and 1800: 
1750— 630,840 cwt. of Sugar. 607,074 Gallons of Rum, 
1760—-1,047,796 ——— 669,358 
1770—15377;109 ————- =. 997,136 
1780—1,176,374 —— 1,236,579. ——— 
379QO—15236,647 ——— 1,521,051 _——— 
¥792—1345,559 ——— 1,634,020  ——=— 
1793--15469,469 -——— 2,209,722 ——— 
1794—1,809,908 MM 1,911,646 ed 
¥795—15409,584. ————— 1,087,685 -__- 
1796—1,581,565 ——— 15935,347 ——— 
1797—15393,952 9255457 
1798 —1,7 375939 25392015 
Sugar imported into all ports of England: 
From 1700 to 1715 average each year 34,832 Hhds. 
1715 to. 17300 —————— 3S 0,450 —— 
1731 to 1742 — 62,128 —— 
1743 to 1757 —_——— 76,336 —— 
1764 to 1790 145,669 ——= 
1790 to 1799 LQ2 34:29) 
The Bank of England have agreed to divide 582,000l. of the five per cent. ftock, held by 
the company, among the proprietors. The divifion will amount to 51. of five per cents. for 
every 100], bank ftock. 
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MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 
N the more fouthern diftri€ts of the kingdom, the weather, in the early part of the month, 
was rather unfavourable for the bufinefs of hufhandry, from the frequent falls of rain 
and gufts ef wind; butin the latter part it has been more fine and fuitable for the various ope- 
rations of the farmer. In the northern parts of the ifland, we a!fo find, it has been boifterous 
and ftermy, but without much wetnefs. Much of the bufinefs of ploughing, fowing, and 
harrowing in the crops, have however, in both been performed 3 and the progrefs of farm. 
ing-work was, onthe whole, probably never greater than inthe prefent feafon. 
__ The wheats every where have the moft prornifing appearances ; the more early and luxu- 
_ Fiant crops having been feafonably checked in many places, by the fharp flight frofts in the 
beginning 
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