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‘yet carried on by any Company, French, Dutch, or Britifh. And an Eaft India Come 
pany to trade on this plan, is, as it fhould feem, about to commence its enterprizes with @ 
fair profpect of fuccels. The filk-manufactures of Lyons formerly employed, in one way and 
another, fcarce fewer than 60,000 hands. Even in 1788, they had begun to decline ; and, 
every means for their revival was fruitrated by the progrefs of the Revolution. They are 
now in a very low ftate, and the tafte in drefs has changed to fuch a degree, that it is not 
expected that the manufactures, efpecially of velvets, fhould ever more rife to its former, 
profperity. Butno means are neglected which prefent any hope of giving new activity to the 
induftry of the Lyonefe. The Levant-trade has been always a grand fource of weaith to 
France. For its proiecution the French enjoy great natural and local ddvantages. They 
turn themfelves moft ftreauoully to its prefent improvement, with the hope of gaiming in its: 
markets the afcendancy over the Britih, the Germans, and the Italians, who have been 
hitherto thet principal rivals in it. ‘ihe fifheries, and in particular the cod-fifhery, is an-,_ 
other branch of trade on which attention is now ftrongly bent in France. Imregard to the 
colonial-trade, France cannot, for the prefent year, do much, but fome regulations have 
very lately been adopted in regard to the prohibition of the import of colonial produce inte 
France by foreigners, of which the intention mutt be, to keep the sBarket free and uniupplied 
till the traders of France fhali themfelves be able to fill it. By thefe regulations, brown 
fugar, frein other colonies than thofe of France, is to pay for every 105lb. a duty of 2% 
livres 50 cents before it can-be expofed to fale in France ; clayed fugar pays for the Jame: 
weight, a duty of 37 liv. 50.c.; cotiee, 37 live 50c.; cocoa, 37 liv. 50c.; refined fugar, 
50 liv. ; indigo, 7 liv. 50c.; cotton, iliv. 50c.; cally 4 lv. 50c.; ginger, 4liv. 50c.5 
tortoife-thell, 22liv. 50c.; dey hides, 7liv. 50c. per fkin; liquors, 1 liv. 50c. for the dire, ; 
which is almoft of the fame capacity as the Scottith choppin-bottle, or 2% pints of Englih 
wine-meatfure. \: ; 
It is, confequently, believed, that the prices of fugar cannot fpeedily rife in the Englifh 
markets to any couliderable height above their prefent rate. 
\ Cottons {till continue low. The home-confumption and our exportation to. our colonies, 
and to thofe emporea on the Continent which are open. to us, furnilh orders which enable 
the manufa¢turers to keep their workmen. But they cannot enlarge in numbers. Ner are 
new erections of any magnitude, now confidently attempted. 
Rum, partly by the importation of brandy from the Continent, and partly in confequence 
of new arrivals from the Weft Indies, is now much cheaper than it was two months fince. 
Welt India produce in general is low in price: but though it may not greatly rife, neither 
ean it fall much lower, ‘as. the feafon advances; fince the produce of Surinam and the 
Dutch pofletfions has not been plentiful during the laft year, and the French Welt India: 
eclonies have been ruined for the feafon by the war. . 
Lead adyauces in price. Iron does not fall. Copper, too, is jaft as dear now as it was 
two months fince. ‘The fame is the cafe with tin. That very large portion of Britifh capital, 
therefore, which is embarked in the working of our copper, tin, iron, and-lead-mines, con- 
tinues to be as profitably employed during the peace as it was.in thé time of war. The: 
fame is neceflarily the caie of ali our arts employed in the manutacture of thofe metals. 
Our manufacturers of uteniils and ornaments of {tect and copper fad coufiderably injured. 
the reputation of their country tor thefe commodities, by varivus impoling tricks, which have 
been , detected, are for.the greater part difcontinued, and are now more than’ ever to be 
guarded againft, if we defire to triumph over that rivalry which France, with fo much am- 
bition, excites againft us. bs: a 
Our glafs-works and potteries are now in full aftivity, and the demands for their pro- 
dactions are, from alinoft all parts of the world, very large. 
The tygde to the coaft of Airica is enlivened. An increafed importation of African Ia- 
bourers % the Weft Indies becomes obvionfly neceffary, in, confequence of the troubles 
which have lately diiminithed the number of the working Negroes of thote ifles. Liverpool 
Juieas sa dome of the “-? diftrigts, a beating down apd lodging them, From 
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will, of courfe, be a gainer. Befides, throughout all Airica, the fteel and tin, the copper 
wares, the coarfe linens and cottons, and even the woollens of Britam, have come fo much 
into ufe, that the confumption of them cannot but continually increafe. t: 
The Eatt India Company will put on fale, on Wednefday, Aug. 11, 500,000 1b. of cin- 
namon, 50,000ib. of nutmegs, 181 ]b. of oi! ef nutmegs, 2391b. of diftilled oil of nutmegs, 
3lb. 50z. ditto of mace, 3 chetts of cloves, 2 chelts of nutmegs, and 375 chetfts of indigo. _ 
The prices of ftocks have, from various temporary caules of no ill omen,. lately fallen 
Jomewhiwt in price. The 3 per cent. Confols. were on Monday, July 26, at 713. 
MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 
THE conftant heavy rains daring the latter part of the prefent month, though they have 
greatly contributed to the filling of the grain-crops, have, at the fame time, been in- 
the 
