1804. ] Monthly Agricuitural Report. | 661 
Amount of Bank of England Notes of £.2 and £ f1 each. 
Onithe tsty ot dane. sone « 1308 ee See ee "23 3,253,600. 
DSt ye GF Be eae. 1803 ;6 . Lye neat PMR iN EG SS 
Ist. of O&tober 2. 2: TSOG) eS Pee ne, Tae OO Ee hae 
95th. of November. ::.17803,. 002.02 rere vara? 4,429,240. 
From this account, the circulation of Bank of England Notes appears to have increafed 
in the month of November. This may have been occafioned by the concealment of gold 
and filver, by a temporary diminution of the public confidence im the notes of certain 
Country Banks, by an augmentation of the payments in trade, or by the flownefs of returns” 
from the fales in our foreign trade. 
Works of inland improvement proceeding, in many inftances, without interruption from 
the war, are giving, every day, new facilities to internal trade. £.500,000 were granted, 
in the laft feffion of Parliament, to the Direétors of Inland Navigation mm Ireland. Of this 
fum £.22,669 5s. 63d. have been iffued to the Royal Canal Company » for the completion 
of a canal from Dublin to Coolnahay in W eftmeath, for the execution of certain works at | 
Dublin, and adjoiing to the Liffey, and for the reduction‘of the tolls on that whole naviga- 
tion. £.22,890 12s. 12d. have been iffued, upon contract for improvements and the reduc- 
tion of tolls, to the Barrow Navigation Company. Other fmaller fums have been expended 
upon furveys: and, in general, the progrefs of canal-improvement is, by the effect of the 
grant, now exceedingly “active in Ircland. a 
The Haft India Company have obtained an Aét to enable them to borrow money upon 
bond, on terms as favourable to the lender, as in the cafe of Exchequer bills. Both Exche- 
quer bills and [ndia bounds are favourable to trade, mafmuch as'they a@, in great tranfac- 
tions, as a fpecies of paper-money, while they yield, in the intereft upon them, a profit in- 
dependent of any that may be gained by their circulation in the payments of trade. 
The Dutch have lately made fome regulations to encourage the accefs of the Swedes, and 
vther neutral nations, to their ports. But they complain, that in regard to many of the com- 
modities which they chiefly want, the effect of their regulations is anticipated and difap- 
pointed by the contequences of the late convention between England and Sweden. The 
expenditure of the Dutch Government for the current year ameunts to fixty-four millions ef 
florins. Its receipts do not exceed thirty-three millions, 
The damage by the late ftorm, at Teneriffe, is much leis than it was reprefented in the ac- 
counts trantmitted amidft the firft terror and diftrefs that it occafioned. The Rutlian fri- 
gates of difcovery arrived fafe at that place onthe 22d of October laft. 
The Anglo- American traders carry on, juit now, a very br wk and flourifhing trade to the 
Eat Indies. The fips in the trade are from 200 to 500 tons burthen, each. They fail 
with ballaft only, and c1th to the amount of fromm 150,000 to°300,000 dollars. "The cargoes 
ot India goods brought in.return, are fold to great advantage. The expenditure of the 
American “Gover “iment was, in 1802, 9,806,000 dollars—its income from the ordinary re- 
fources 10,400,000 dollars. The imports of the United States to Louvifiana are eftimated at 
2,500,000 dollars a- year. *"adie purchafe-money of that territory confifts of 3,750,000 dol- 
Jars, payable in 1803, and 11,256,000 dollars, not payable till 1818, but bearing intereft at 
6 per cent. s 
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MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 
HE fnow and froft in the beginning of the prefent month, was of confiderable utility m 
checking the too forward and luxuriant growth of the more early fown Wheat crops, 
which in many caies were becoming too rank, on account of the uncommon mildnefs and 
warmth of the feafon before they took place. The great quantity of rain that has fallen 
fince the thaw, has, however, again proved unfavourable im the above view, as well as for 
the operations of the piough in breaking up and preparing land for different. forts of ipring 
crops. ‘The average prices of grain are—W heat, 53s. 8d. Barley, 25s. 4d. Oats, 29s. 11d. 
From the frequent rains during the latter part of this month, it 1s probable that much of 
the driflings for grafs lands, elpecially thole of the more wet kinds, muft remain to be put 
on in the carly {pring months, except troit fhould foon fet in. 
Winter Turnips will alfo, in fome cafes, probably fulter from the great degree of wet, 
fince the difappearance of the treft and tnow. 
The opennels of the feafon, as well as other caul€s, nave tended, in fome meafure, to 
lower the prices of Hay, which in St. James’s Market averages five guineas. 
Fat and lean ftock are likewife both foimewhat on the decline. in Smithfield Market, 
Beef fetches trom 4s. to 5s. 4d. and Mutton, from 4s, to 4s. 6d. 
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