9s Monthly Commercial Report. [Feb 1, 
SCOTLAND. . M. Barton, efg. of Derryhallagh, county 
Married. At Ecinburgh, Lord John Camp- of Monaghan, to Mifs M. Brabazon, of 
bell, fecond fon of the Duke of Argyle, to Dublia. 
Mifs Campbell, of Fairfield. _ Died.| Lately, Garret Tyrrell, efq. trea- 
Died.] At Edinburgh, in George’s-fquare, furer of the county of Weftmeath. 
Colonel James Abercromby. At Loughrea, aged 85, Redm. Burke, efq: 
IRELAND, : of Derryhoyle, county of Galway. 
Married.]- Matthew OrConnor, efq. of © In Belfait, aged 83, Capt. J. Mackraken. 
Ballynegara, county of Rofcommon, to Mifs — J. Bodkin, efq. of Caftletown, county of 
Prifcilla Forbes, of Camden-fireet, Dublin Galway. 
MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT. 
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‘THE ftate of trade in London, and throughout thefe United Kingdoms, has not become 
worfe, in the firft month of 1804. The number of the bankruptcies, and the value and 
extent of them, appear to be fomewhat diminifhed. The evils of that {carcity of filver 
coin which was occafioned by the fcantinefs of the iffue at the bank, and by feveral other 
caufes, begin to be removed by the emiflion of thofe dollars which have been ftamped, 
and though intrinfically worth but 4 fhillings and g pence, are fold at the bank for 5 fhil- 
lings, and will be taken back at the fame price, upon a commendable precaution to hinder 
them from being withdrawn out of currency, to be exported or melted down. 
Very few of our great foreign markets are fhut againft Britifh merchants, by the war in 
its prefent ftate. The Baltic trade is not in winter, in its proper activity. But there is, 
€ven now, no inconfiderable exportation of goods to Tonningen and Embden. Stettin, in 
Pomerania, has lately become a great market for Britifh goods which pafs thence into the 
Pruffian and Saxon dominions, and through all Germany and Poland, without danger of 
feizure by the French. The ports of Spain and Portugal are {till open to the trade with this 
country. Cork, figs, ox-hides, lemons, oranges, raifins, liquorice-juice, wines, and 
wool continue to be imported in large quantity, from both Spain and Portugal 5 and the 
fuitable exports of Britith goods, ave inceffantly returned thither. Malta is likely to be 
much enriched by its advantages as an emporium of Britith trade for a part of the Italian 
feas. Egypt, under the dominion of the Beys, appears likely to become {till more and 
more, even amidft the prefent war, an emporium for Britifh merchandize. By pufhing trade 
in that quarter, we may cpen a confiderably proftable traffic with Abyfiinia, may fhare to 
a greater degree than at prefent, in the commercial advantages of the fair of the pilgrims at 
Mecca, and may fecure effegtually all the benefits to be derived frore increafing our inter- 
courfe with India by the way of the Mediterranean, Egypr, and the Red Sea. It is to be 
hoped, alfo, that the trade opened to the countries on the Black Sea, will be profecuted 
with new-diligence; for it will greatly improve our intercourfe over land, with India, 
will open a vaft field for the fale of our manufattures, and will fupply us with different raw 
materials; which wecan work up with the greateft advantage. : 
The fate of trade at Liverpool, has been greatly enlivened by the arrivals from the Weft 
Indies, fince the late capture of the Dutch fettlements. Very large quantities of Spanith 
dollars have been, fince, received at Liverpool. And, as the exchange between this coun- 
try and America, is, now, againit the Americans, a good deal of gold and filver, has been 
received, at the fame pott, from the merchants of the United States. 7 
Thirteen fhips, each 550 tons burthen, failed for India, laft year, with goods, on ac- 
count of the Company. Such advantage begins to be found in the ufe of thefe lighter fhips, 
in the India trade, that a greater number of them are about to be fent out, in the courfe, 
of the prefent year. N 
The trade, in goods of a!l forts, to America and the Weft Indies, is now greater than it 
$s remembered to have been, at almoft any former period. The Unitgd States cannot, for a 
Tong time yet to come, aflume the charaéter of a great manufaGturing country 3 becaufe na- 
vigation, fifhing, and above all, agriculture, and the commerce neceflarily conneéted with 
thefe, mutt, for a long time, be more profitable to the inhabitants, and more congenial to 
their nature, local conveniencies, and habits, than almott any fpecies of manufacturing In- 
duftry. The colonization of Louifiana, is likely to increafe, to a confiderable amount, the 
gvantity of the exports from this country to America. 
The advantages of the prefent cheapnefs of provifions, when wheat is at 42s, per quarter, 
and all or almoft all other things, proportionately low in price, ate, juft now, fenfibly felt 
to.the quickening of induftry, in the great manufacturing diftrits. 
The rate of the Exchange of money, was, on the 20th of January, for the pound iter- 
lingy—with Amfterdam,. 37 §.G. 1. at 2 mo.—with Hamburgh, 34 S. 8. at2i mo.—with | 
Paris and Bourdeaux, 25 livres, 8.9, at 2mo.—-with Cadiz, the exchange is at 35 pence ni 
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