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the pefo duro, exaétly par ;-——with Bilbao and Madrid, it is fomewhat againft us; being at 
35% for the fame pefo duro.It is at 60 pence for the ducat banco, with Venice. Thofe 
who have had money to receive from Ireland, have of late, found great difficulty in pro- 
curing remittances —-The exchange with Dublin is at 163. 
The port and road improvements of London, proceed with great rapidity. A dividend 
of 10 percent, is paid on the ftock of the Company by which the We India docks were 
lately completed, ‘The London docks are expetted to be ready in fummer, for the reception 
of imports, Government is to rent on thefe Docks, large warehoufes, for tobacco chiefly, 
The Eaft India Dock Company, with a ftock of £.200,000, is ere€ting a dock, for the un- 
lading of Eaft India fhips, which we underftand, will be complete in fpring 1805. The tolls 
of the commercial road which commences from the Weft India docks, and comes out at 
Whitechapel, yield already £.70 or £.80. a week: the profits to thofe at whofe expence it 
is conftru€ted, are limited by law to 1o per cent. The ftock of the Grand Jun@ion Canal 
Company, is £.1,350,000: the laft works remaining to be executed, in order to complete 
their undertaking, are the tunnel and aquedu& at Blifsworth ; it is nat doubted, but, when 
thefe fhail have been finifhed, the profits upon the whole, will foon, be very ample. : 
The Importation of Coals laft Year, into the Port of London, was as follows, in the 
Months of January, - - = = = = 67,4324 ste ‘ty 
February, - - = © - = 70,8023 
March, - - - - = = 88,4602 
April, - =< - = = = = €9,5084 
May, - -=-- - «@ - 76,376 
June, 2 2 +--+ 7504788 
Jily, Lieven ssi = Se aR ee 
Begutite eine == Cm aa Te 
September, ee a>, es eh 9423385 
CICLOMEY elm mee) ile eh i 7324964 
November, - = = = - - 71533% 
Decembety - = = = = = 79,407 
= 
940,4704 London Chaldron, 
Befides - - - + = «@ = 486% Tons of Scotch and Weft Cauntry. 
And - = = - = -© - = 4577 Chaldron of Coals, 
The Importation of Coals into the Port of London, is increafing, partly from its popye 
lation, fomething from its luxury, an increafe of its manufactures and the ufe of fteaas 
engines, and a {mall exportation. R 
The average of Seven Years, from 1793 to 17995 
Was =~ = = - = = = = © = 2 = 2 = © © 829,876% 
7 Yearsfrom - - 131794 - © to - + 1800 - + 859,149 
doo = = = - = 1795 = - ©. © += 1801 = = 869,291 
do. - =~ - = © 1796 = - - 2 - - 3802 © = $71,366 
do - = = - = 1797 = - = = = - 1803 - - 888,6652 
Laft Year an additionat Duty of 1s. 2d. per London Chaldron, was laid on Coals ; anda 
rife took place at Newcaftle, of 3s. per Newcaftle Chaldron, on above 1s. 6d. per London 
Chaldron, the beft forts, from the increafe of wages to the pitmen, 
The Winchefter meafure, for grain, has, for many ftrong reafons, of convenience, been 
lately, for the firft time, adopted in the Eaft Riding of Yorkshire. 
The Eaft India fale of white coaft goods in privilege, and of prohibited piece goods in privi- 
lege, and private trade, has been deferred from the 25th of January, to Tucfday the 7th of 
February. At the fales on the 16th of March next, will be’put up 15,170 bags, and 203 
vafkets of Sugar, the property of the company; 15,246 bags of fugar, under privilege 5 
and 222 bales and bags of coffee, alfo, under privilege. 
The loweft in price of the cottons, in the London market, is, that of Surat, at rod per 
libs. the highe& is that of Pernambucco, at 2s. 4d. 
The 3 per cent. confol. ftock was, on the 20th of January, at §65 bank ftock, 1535 ; 
India ftock, on the rgth at 1702 5 Omnium, onthe 20th, at a difcount of 3% per cent. 
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“MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 
HE unufually open ftate of the feafon, has pufhed vegetation forward in a very rapid man- 
ner ; the young wheat crops, on the more rich and fertile foils, are becoming rank from 
the want of the ufeful checks afforded by frofts. On the lefs rich lands, and tnofe of the 
thinner kinds, they look unufually well and healthy. But though the weather has been 
fufficiently open; the ploygh has ‘aot been able to make any. great progrefs, .as the aid 
rom 
