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the grain being fo late in ripening, it is, however, probable, that much lefs harm will be _ 
done in this way than may be apprehended. The crops are, in general, unufually full ; 
and if fine weather takes place, fo as to ripen them properly, there can be little doubt of. 
_ their proving abundant and productive. aur 
The prices of grain ftill keep rather high, and barley is on the advance. _ 
Average price of corn for England and Wales, tothe week ending July 17.—Wheat, 
67s. id.; rye, 41s. 5d.; barley, 30s. 4d.; oats, 19s, 10d.; beans, 34s. 4d.; peafe, 36s. 10d. 
The early crops of potatoes in general turn out well, and the late ones appear to be pro- ~ 
mifing. 
1 urnips and late beans have come forward rapidly fince the fetting in of the late rains, 
but the latter have fuffered much from the black fly in many fituations. 
‘The wetnefs of the feafon has prevented the hay from being gotin fo quickly asis generally 
the cafe; the greater part im many places being itill to be made. ‘This delay has, however, 
contributed to render the crops more abundant than we had reafon to expeét in our lait. 
In many cafes it has alfo been carried in, but in indifferent condition, and in fome, perhaps, 
nearly tpoiled. The price of old hay, as may be fuppoted, is confiderably on the advance. 
Prices of hay and ftraw July 24.—St. James’s, hay, 51. to 81.; ftraw, 2]. 14s. to 21. 18s. 
— Whitechapel, hay, 51. to 71. 7s.; clover, 71. to 81. 8s.; itraw, 11. 16s. to 21,.6s. 
In the more early hay diftriéts, the late falls of rain have brought forward the after-graffes 
in fo extraordinary a manner, that it is probable there may yet be good fecond crops. 
Effects of the tame kind have likewile been produced on the paiture-lands, by which the 
feed ot cattle is become more abundlt. The prices of both lean and fat {tock is, however, 
fuil unufually high. 
- Smithfield-market, July 26.—Beef, 4s. to 5s. 6d; mutton, 4s. 8. to 5s. 6d.5 veal, 4s. 9d. 
to 6s.; pork, 5s. to 6s.; lamb, 5s. 6d. to 6s. 6d.—Newgate and Leadenhall, beef, 4s. to ds. 5 
mutton, 4s. 4d. to 5s.; veal, 3s. 4d. to 5s. 4d.; pork, 5s. 6d. to 6s.; lamb, 5s. to 6s. © 
In the cyder-diftricis, it is but im very few mf{tances that there is the appearance of any . 
thing like a crop. 
Hops are m general a promifing crop. 
_ Straw is dear, as is uiually the cafe at this feafon. 
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METEOROLOGICAL REPORT. * isa 
Obfervations on the State of ihe Weather, from the 24th of Fume, to tha 
24th of Fuly, 1802, inclufive, two miles N. W.-of St. Pauls. 
Barometer. - Thermometer. ; 
Higheft 29.96. July 24, WindS. W, Higheft 74° June 26and27, Wind S,W,’ 
Loweft 29.20. July 1, W.S. W. Loweft 45° July 12, WindN.W. 
Inthe morning] | { At 6 o'clock in the 
of the 3dinit. the | Greateft | morning of the xith — 
Greateft } mercury was at | Variationin ¢ 30%. } inft. the thermometer 
variation in > 4tenths of < 29.30, and on the | 24 hours. , ftood ats5§.ortemperate, 
24 hours. | aninch. .}4th, at the fame at the fame houron the’? 
hour it had rifen next day it was no 
to2gyo. higher than 45°. 
The quantity of rain fallen this month is equal'to 5.382 inches indepth. 
There have been no great nor fudden changes in the ftate of the atmofphiere fince our laf 
report; it has in general been a cold, rainy, and, for the feafon, a comfortlefs Month, 
During the whole, the thermometer has been but fix days fo high as 70°53 and in feveral 
others it has never been higher than 60°, a circumftance faid to be almoit unexampled ia 
July. Severe white frofts in the nights have checked the progrefs of vegetation in the gar- 
dens, and in the days, frequent and heavy rains have kept back the hay-harveft. 
In the neighbourhood of the metropolis there have been no very remarkable ftorms, fuch 
as was witnefled on the 30th of June in the laft year, but in various parts, at the diftance 
of 30 or 40 miles from it, tremendous rains, accompanied with much and large hail-ftones 
have been experienced. fei: ‘a 
The wind during the month has been brifk, approaching, in general, to ftormy, and, ac-. 
cording to the account given by our aéronauts, when it has not appeared very brifk at the - 
furface of the earth, in the more elevated regions of the atmofphere, it has been fufficient 
to carry them and their apparatus at the rate of 80 reget Hour. It has blown chiefly 
fiom the S$. W. and W. a 
Nineteen days have been rainy, hefides others that are not noticed, in which very flight 
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and partial fhowers fell. The quantity of rain fallen is very nearly equal to all: that tell ee 
between Chrifimas-day laft and the 25tn of May. 
eta 4 Lf of the New Parliament will be & in our Next, Sa 
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