1803] -( 295 ) 
MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT. 
HE Cuoftoms have been highly produétive in the laft quarter of the account for the public 
revenue. Theexcefs of the Confolidated Fund for this quarter, will, it istaid, be more 
than 3,000,000]. This faé&t remarkably evinces, that the trave of England can poe fuf- 
fered comparatively little by the endeavours of France to exclude it from the Continent. 
Our Public Funds have not lately known any of thofe fluétuations which give fuch fcope 
to the play of ftock jobbing. Their maiket value continues to be fomewhat between chat 
of an annuity not readily faleable, and that of money out ai intereft, and of which repay- 
ment may be without difficulty procureo, Within thefe few laft days, indeed, they have 
declined a little in price. Omnium ha: fallen the moft 
Weft India goods have not become lower, in general, during the laft month. The im- 
portation of the produce of the Britifh Weft Indies to the Continent, goes on, notwithftand- 
ing the hoftile endeaviurs of France to fhut us out from all her ports. The hoftilities exer 
cifed between France and Rritain in the Wett Indies, the prevalence of the Negroes and Peo- 
ple of Colour in St, Dominge, the danger of iniurre@ion among the Negroes in the neigh= 
bouring Ifles, and the continual increafe in the Weft India goods inthis and other European 
countries, are neccflarily the caufes by which the ftate of the prices is, in this inftance, 
chiefly affedted. 
The exportation of Britifh manufa€tures to the Eaft and Weft Indies, andto North Ame- 
rica, is {till fo aftoni fhingly great, that our manufacturers do not, in general, as yet fuffer - 
much as may have been imagined by the war. 
‘Large purchafes of wool are faid to have been lately made in Germany for manufafture in 
this country. 
The difficulties are not inconfiderable which,embarrafs the introdu@tion of British goods 
into Germany by the way of Tonningen, Hufuny, and Lubec 5 yet fuch is the activity of 
traffic, that thefe are boldly furmounted. 
Our trade with Ruffia is itill very great, and-even increafing. 
advantages of a partof the Ruffia carrying-trade. 
In confequence of the abundance of the harveft, almoft all our capital articles of home- 
produce are now exceedingly cheap; hops, efpecially, are in comparifon at very low prices. 
The country has of late experienced a remarkable want of filver coin for circulation, as 
wellas.of gold, Meetings of the inhabitants of Briftol and Worcefter have been held to 
confider of a remedy ; andan Spears to Governmagnt has been determined on. wh 
We enjoy, however, the 
The remarkable drought of Summer and Warveft has been of confiderable difadva ntaee: 
the canals, to paper- -makers, and to other modes of induftry in which water is much em- 
ployed. 
Gomparative Statement of the Number of Britifo and Fareign Ships arrived at 
Peterfourgh for Twenty Years, and the Quantity of Hemp exported by each. 
Britifh | Hemp. Foreign Hemp. Total Total 
¥ear, Ships. Tons. Ships. Tons. Ships. Hemp. 
1781 464 |} 25,142 339 90252 803 345394 
1732 220 19,161 414 173423 634 | - 36,589 
1733 270 9,912 344 10,275 614 20,133 
17384. 366 20,945 452 14,643 318 355583 
1785 348 | 175374 332 | 13,336 679 | 3°,7%° 
1736 379 12,195 352 8,809 431 21,004 
1737 394 16,258 358 6,506 752 22,764 
1738 542 25,053 402 16,189 944. 41,242 i 
1789 460 25952 377 705734 337 32,686 
1790 517 25,286 415 14,147 932 39433 
179% 525 | 14.444 513 14,541 1038 | 28,085 
1792 606 265534 355 12,034 961 38,573 
1793 542 | 21,789 335 8,218 877. | 39,097 
1794 533 25,012 417 3,582 950 335594 
1795 §29 18,128 3388 8,357 AG Ty 26,485 
1796 634 25,012 4.69 3,532 dye eink 335594 
1797 440 19,679 434 11,096 374 393775 
1798 619 27,018 434 105949 1053 37,967 
1799 456 28,486 Sox $,424 G71 36,910 
1800 ° 353 17,009 341 3,032 694 20,041 
Total 93247 416,389 79785 215,130 17,032 
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631,519 
MONTHLY 
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