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In the year 1800, were fold in Cornwall, Copper-ores to the quantity of 
55,972 Tons, 32 Cwt. and 2 Qrs. for £.557,463 85. 3d. 
P8614 SOS Dons, Lo. Foe for 478 7a) 8h 6 
TOOR——ga EA Tons Giese ES! kee OM bor WAT, 843 Tt 70 
po (sik ned Sg +c cola ea a ga ca for §3,0607 10') © Hl 
The DireGtors of the Eaft India Company have hired eight extra-fhips, bearing, in all, 
4633 tons, for the outward voyage of the prefent feafon 
The dollars now in currency weigh 402 grains, The proper weight of the crown-piece, 
is 464 grains? i Hs 
The land-holders in Effex and the counties adjacent have had meetings to confider of 
petitioning Parliament againft the Corn-laws, as, in a feafon like the prefent, they are 
oppreflive to Agriculture. . 
Kt has been eftimated, that the diminution in the price of bread, for the prefent year, 
i comparifon with what it coft in the late years of fcarcity, is equal to an abatement of 
taxes and public expences in general, to the amount of thirty mislions annually 
Trith mefs-beef, Dutch and Irith butter, wheat, and feveral other forts of itore-provifions, 
have fallen in price in the London markets, in..the courfe of lat moath. The prices of 
beans, peas, oats, and barley, have lately rifen. Irifh falt pork is now ten fhillings an cwt. 
lower than it was on the 2rft of February. 
Red and yellow bark, by a rife in price of from 1s 6¢. to 2s. a pound, are now, the 
former at 11s. 6d. the latter at r4s 6d. per lib. Cotton of Berbice,, which was on the 2arft 
of February, at 3s. 1 rad. perdbi. is at 4s. a lib, Jamaica chipped log wood has rifen from 
2ql, to 251. per ton.—Sugars have had, in general, a rife, in fome inftances, to the amount 
of one-eighth of the whole price —-The rife in the price of coffeé has been alfo confider- 
able: the beft Weft India coffee is at the high rate of 71. tos. acwt. Welt India goods 
in general may prebably continue to rife, while the {pring cargoes are made up for the 
North of Europe, and till there fitall be new arrivals from Jamaica, and the other ifles, in 
this country, 
The Ranke of Ireland iffwed notes in 1802, to the amount of 2,600,co0l. Its iffue of 
notes in 38-3, was the value of z,911,Cool. fterling. 
The foreign goods imported into Ireland, and then re-exported, are of the total value of 
390,000]. One-half of this re-exportation, or to the value of 150,000l. fterling, is te 
Great Britain, 2 
American goods have not, in general, varied materially in price, fince February. 
Teas are, in general, higher than they were in the end of laft month. India fugars, 
faltpetre, and various other Eaft India goods, have alfo rifen in price. 
Seeds for fowing naturally rife in price, as the time for ufing them advances. 
From fome* merchants and manufaéturera from, the country, we hear warm and tefty 
complaints; while others fpeak of Jarge orders, and plentiful remittances, In general, 
however, the condition of our trade and manufaétures may be confidered as flourifhing. 
Guods from the Baltic may be expe€ted to fall in price, as the feafon shall advance, and the 
fleets arrive from that quarter. 
Lhe late communications in Parliament; relative to the fate of the exchange between 
Great Britain and'Ireland, feem to have had a beneficial effet. The exchange between the 
fwo countries has fince fallen to 16% per cent. by which, allowance being made for the. 
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difference of the monies, Ereland fufters only about 8 per cent. lofs. 
Our 3 per cents. coniols are at 5/4; bank ftock at.1563 Navy 5 per cents. at 892. | 
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MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 
THE greateft part of the prefent-month has been favourable for the different operations 
of lufbandry, and of courfe much field~work has been performed in the more fouthernm. - 
parts of the Ifland; but in the northern diftri@s, the weather has-been more fevere, and .. 
con{squently a much lefS progrefs made in the bufinefs of ploughing. The wheats in general 
look well and he Ithy. Thof- of the later fowings have come forward in a very favourable 
manner during this month, The price of grain is much the fame as in our aft: —The average 
price of Wheat throughout’ .Fngland and Wales is 50s. Rye, 32s. rod. Bayley, 23s. Oats, 
20s 2d. Beans, 338 6d. Peas, 378, 4d, - is 
‘Pota‘oes are unufually dear tez the ftate of the feafon, 
Though the feafon has been fo very open, the prices of both lean and fat ftock keep “ra 
In Smithfield market, Beef yields trom 4s. 8d. to 5s. 8d. Mutton, gs. to 5s. Bd. Veal; 
§s. to gs. Gd. Pork, gs. 8d. to 4s. 84. in Newgate and Leadenhall markets, Beef yields 
from 3s. 8d. to 4s, 8d. Mutron, as. to 4s. 3d. Veal, 4s. 6d, to 6s. Pork, 3s. 8d. to 4s. 8d. 
Hay and Straw. In St. James’s market, the average price is from 4). to 51,328. Straw, 
21. 13s. to rl. ags. At Whitechapel, Hay yields from 4l. to 5]. 10s. Clover, 51. to 61, 8s. 
Straw, il, 325, to 2h. 28s, 
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