1808. ] nei Th eowh BEF 
| MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT. 
JN our last report we gave our readers the particulars of the East India Company’s sales, 
since which they have declared for sale, the following goods, viz.,Company’s saltpetre 
20,000 bags, more or less, on Wednesday, 23d of March, 1808; prompt 24th of June follow- 
ing. We fear the linen trade of Ireland is likely to suffer much by the suspension of the ac- 
customed supply of flax-seed. The importation of flax-seed into that country on an average of 
ten years, was avout 42,000 hogsheads annually. A hogshead sowed about one acre, three roods 
(Irish measure), and produced, on an average, eighty-four stone of rough flax, fit for the 
hatchet, which, at a moderate price, would sell for about forty guineas. A large portion of 
the imported seed, both flax and hemp, came from Holland and.the Baltic, the rest from 
America; and as these sources are for the present closed, it isto be hoped, that the legislature 
will adopt some means to encourage an extensive cultivation of these crops throughout the 
United Kingdom. In consequence of the French being possessed of Portugal, and the diffi- 
culty of procuring neutral ships at present, all kinds of wines of that country have risen in our 
market from 11. to 151. per pipe, and brandies have advanced in price nearly 5s. per gallon, 
under the idea, that an additional duty was to take place, which, however, is not the case, or 
is it likely to be. Rum has advanced about 1s. per gallon, in consequence of the great de- 
mand for that article (which demand took place on the rise on the prices of brandies, as above 
stated) ; however, there is very little doubt both those articles may be purchased at their usual 
rates in the course of a very few days. Coffee has advanced in price, in consequence of our 
late exports to the Continent, notwithstanding all the restrictions, &c. of Buonaparte. Sugats 
are the only dull articles of our West India produce in the market, but are of course the hea- 
vieet part of our importation ; and we trust that our West India merchants and planters will 
get that relief they -so much require, in the present session of parliament, their petition to 
that effect having been laid before the House of Commons last july. Cotton-weol has ad- 
vanced in price 14d. to 2d. per Ib. weight at Liverpool, owing to the large speculations made 
by the merchants and manufacturers at Manchester, Preston, Blackburn, é&c. this we attri- 
bute to the very large orders sent to Lancashire, for cotton goods of every description, for the 
Brazils, the bill for the regulating that trade having passed in the House of Commons. The 
woollen manufactures in the West of England are in the most flourishing way and those in 
the North are in full work; great qyantities are making up for the brazils, fromthe very 
finest to the coarsest kind of goods manufactured. We recommend our shippers to the Brazils 
tosend at least two-thirds of their cloths d/ack, that colour being always preferred by the Por- 
tuguese. Linens fit for shirtings (particularly Irish) will yield considerable profit, and méet a 
seady sale. : 
COURSE OF EXCHA NGE, 
Feb.9. (Feb. 12. Feb. 16.7 Prices of Hops. 
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Hamburgh..}34 4 -+-.|84 4..)34 4 --|Bags.—Kent, 51. to 6l. 6s. per cwt. 
Altona ....]34 5 ....ja4 5 ..154 5 ..|——-- Sussex, 41. 15s. to 51. 8s. per cwt. 
Amsterdam 135 7 of. 0135 °° 7 ook Essex, 41. 15s. to 51. 12s. per cwt, 
Patis....../23 10 ....|23 10 ..|23 10 .. |Pockets.—Kent, 51. to 71. 7s. per cwt. 
Léghorn....|492 ...... (49% .... Sussex, 41. 17s. to 51. 19s. per cwts 
DUE fs MS A PR i COPE ee seeee(—————=__ Farnham, 61. to 101. per ewts 
Genoa 1..0.J452 ..00.- 4452 o0 ee |: 
PAEDOM ae ro HOO ee cee OO caine 
MIporto ee HO. weer GO wens 
Dublin.... 120% sees (LOL oo, 
The following are the average Prices of Navigable Canal Dock Stock, Fire Office 
Shares, é&c. in February, 1808, at rhe Office of Mr. Scott, No 28, New Bridge Street, Black- 
friars, London :—Rose Copper Smelting Company, 1501. per share.—Grand Junction, 911. per 
share.—Grand Surrey, 411. to 451.—Ellesmere, 551.—-Tavistock Mineral Canal, 1191. for 
1051, paid.—Kennet and Avon, 20]. subscription 10s. premium each.—Huddersfieid, 171. per 
share.—East London Water Works; original shares 72 Guineas premium each, New ditto, from 
67). 48. to 551. each.—-West Middlesex ditto 17 Guineas premium each.—\West India Dock, 
1451. to 1441. 10s.—-London Dock, 1091.—Globe Assurance 1101. 
The following are the average Prices of Canal Shares, &c. &c. at the®Office of Messrs. L. 
Wolfe and Co. Shorter’s Court.-London Dock Stock, 14101. per cent.—East India ditto 
1221. per cent.— West India ditto, 1451. per cent.—Commercial Dock Shares, 1261. per 
cent.<-Grand Junction Canal, 921. per share. —Grand Surrey Canal, 461. per share. —limperiak 
Fire Insurance, 111. per cent premium.—Globe Fire dnd Life Insurance 1101, per cént.—Al- 
bion Fire and Life Insurance, 53 per cent. premium.-—Hope Fire and Life Assurance, il. per. 
share premium.—Rock Life Assurance, 7]. per share premium.—-East London Water Works, 
70 Guineas per share, premium.—West Middlesex Water Works, 18 Guineas per share pre- 
minim -~South London Water Works, 601. per share premium.—London Institution, 851. per 
@huic.--Kent Fire Office Shares, 40), per share.== Commercial Road, 1481. per share. 
. i, es iMPORT 
..s»| The average price of Raw Sugar, ending 
-++-10th February, 1808, is Sis. 7id. percwt. 
«-.. (exclusive of duty. 
