10m); * * ‘Monthly Agricultural Report. 279 
ordyed filks 133d. per yard Salt ros. per bufhel. Soap, hard, cake, or ball foap 22d. per 
lb.5 foftfoap 4d. per 1b.’ Britith Spirits 5s. 12d. per gallon. Starch or hair-powder 32. 
per Ib. Sweers or made wines 42s, per barrel of 314 gallons. Tobacco and Snuff, at various 
rates, from 1s. td. to 1s. rch per lb. Verjuice 7s. 8d. per hogthead. Vinegar 128. 03d. per 
barrel. Gilt Wire 9% per ounce, troy; filver wire 7d. per ounce; gold thread, gold lace, or 
gold fringe, made of plate wire fpun upon fille 7s. $d. per 1b.5 filver ditt® 5s. gd. per Ib. 
For fome time paft, Mr. Beresford and other gentlemen, with a fele&t number of the ofi- 
cers in the revenue department of Ireland, particularly the Secretary to the Commiffioners, 
have been inceflantly employed in fettling the commercial regulations which are finally to 
take place between Great Britain and Ireland, in confequence of the Union. 
A very confiderable number of forged notes of the Bank of Ireland, and of the feveral bank- 
ers, having been paffed of late, by firangers who frequent the different fairs and markets, as 
cattle-jobbers, for the exprefs purpofe of putting off fuch notes, a circulas letter and notice 
has been promulgated throughout Ireland, by direétion of the Lord Lieutenant, recommend- 
ing toall perfons not to deal with or deliver their cattle or other property to any perfon who 
is an utter ftranger, unlefs fuch ftranger fhall be recommended by fome known perfon ox fhall 
‘pay for the fame in fpecie. . Some caution of this kind is requifite in England, particularly 
withrefpe& to the one and two pound Bank notes, of which defcription a confiderable num~ 
ber of forged ones have lately been detected. 
The Exchange between Dublin and London at prefent amounts to 14 per cent. making a 
lofs of £.5 13s. 4d. onevery £.100 fterling remitted from Ireland to this country, a difad- 
vantage which materially affects perfons pofieffing property in Ireland, who from parliamen- 
tary duty or any other caufe are under the neceflity of refiding in this country. 
The trade of Greenock has, during feveral years been rapidly encreafing, and has now attain 
ed an extent and value highly refpe€table. To meet the rifing commerce of a place already of 
fo much confequence, a bill, not only to extend and improve the harbours, but to better regue 
late the general police, is to be immediately brought into parliament, 
The produce of the revenue of the Pofl-offce has generally teen confidered as affording a 
tolerable criterion of the ftate of commercial activity; in this view the following account 
deferves attention ; it muft however be admitted that it appears to require fome little expla- 
nation. 
Account of the nett revenue of the General Poft-office paid into the Exchequer, exclufive 
of Parliamentary penfions and grants, from the year 1760 to the year 1800, both inclufive, 
diftinguifhing each year. 
The Years ending the Fifth of April. 
1761£. 36,400 1771 £.100,100 1781 £. 142,400 1791 £345,000 
1762 36,400 1772 | 118,400 1782 123,100 179% 340,484 
1763 36,400 “| 1773  149)400 1783, 148,400 1793 * 384,000 
1764 46,400 1774 147,400 1784 177,400 1794 | 392,000 
1765. 88,100 1775» 1539400 1785  22§,f00 1795 421,000 
1766 101,400 1776 165,500 1786. 264,000 1790 442,000 
1767 105,400 1777: 141,400 1787 254,000 1797 500,000 
1763 109,400 1778 -118,400 1788 274,000 1798 632,000 
1769 110,400. 1779 $21,400 1789 300,000 1799 683,000 
1779 105,400 1780 121,400 1790 361,000 18co 699,000 
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And taking a whole year to the fifth of January, 1801 716,000 
Account of the value of all Exports from Great Britain, for three years, diftinguifhing the 
value of Britith produce and manufactures from the value of foreign articles exported, 
Years ending the 5th of 
¥ piabar Britifo manufactures, Foreign articles. _ Total, 
1799 £.191672,503 £-1359195275 £ 3395915778 
1800 24,084,213 11,907,116 \ 35.991,329 
1801 24,411,068 17,106,145 41,577,213 
MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 
INCE our laft, the weather has been conftantly favourable for every purpofe of agriculture $ 
much barley has of courfe been put into the ground, which was probably feldom or ever better 
prepared for its reception. The wheats we are informed ‘ throughout the kingdom never could 
appear finer than they do at this time; and the fpring feed corn never went better into the 
ground than it has done this feafon.’? The average price of wheat throughout England and Wales, 
is 1508. 6d. per quarter; of rye, 110s. 7d. of barley, 87s, gd. of oats, 44s. 11d. beans, 74s- 11d. 
The fpring fowing in Scotland is nearly finifhed. The teed wds never committed to the foil 
with a fairer profpeét of producing an abundant return, the agriculturift having had every oppor— 
tunity of performing the neceflary operations in the moft perfect manner poffible. The weather 
- in that diftri@, has been latterly uncommonly dry, and at times, as uncommonly cold, particu- 
Jarly on the 12th inftant. Every fpecies of vegetation was much affected; the profpect of ae 
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