1808.] 3 Monthly Commercial Report. $79 
Bohea Tea, 550,000Ibs.; Congou and Campoi, 4,500,000lbs 3 Souchong and Pekoe, 
200,0001bs.; Single and Twankay, 850,000\bs.; Hyson Skin, 100,000lbs.5 Hyson, 
300,000ibs, ; being a total, including private trade, and prize of 6,500,0001bs. ’ 
The interruption of commercial intercourse with the Continents of Europe and America, 
has greatly affected the silk manufactory of this country, both by preventing the usual supply 
of the raw material from Italy, and by suspending the orders fur the American marke‘, for 
which silk goods, to the amount of upwards of 400,0001 per annum, were usually exported 
from this country. There is probably not at present a single bale of silk in London, in the 
hands of the merchants by whom it is usually imported ; and what has been lately sold, has 
been at very advanced prices. The scarcity of Italian s:'lk has directed the attention of the 
manufacturers more generally to the substitution of Bengal sik, whi h, with some further 
improvement in the culture, and an increase of the quantity imported, might soon render the 
trade independent of any other supply, except for a very few arti les. This more general con- 
sumption of Bengal silk would be greatiy promoted by the Company selling the whole in the 
state in whichit arrives, leaving it io the manufacturers to organize such part as they found 
it to their advantage to convert into that state, by which means it would be applied to use 
much earlier. At the Company’s Jae Sale, on the 5th of April, most of the skein silk: sold 
at an advance from 70 to 100 percent beyond the price of the October Sile 3; on the novi'sy 
the advance was from 80 to 120 per cent. ; the organzine sold fiom 5%s 7d. to 77s. 10d per 
ib. ‘The total quantity sold was 1003 bales or Bengal raw; 392 bales of privilege ditto 3 
192 of Bengal organzine; 14 of waste; and 487 of China; inthe whose, 2088 bales. This 
supply affords great relief to the manufacturers, who, by the advanced price of their.goods, 
are enabled to clear their warehouses of a!1 che stock on hand, which in some instances was 
considerable; and when the present price of raw and thrown silk in this country comeste be 
generally known in Italy, there can be little doubt that some Italian silks will find their 
way to England from Sicily or Malta, even before the next sale a: the India house. Jn the 
mean time, the profit on the late Sale will encourage the East India Company to pay every 
atiention both tothe quality and quantity of their Bengal silk ; by which means, if this conn- 
try retains its possessions in India, we might soon have little occasion for Italian silks The 
mischief, therefore, which the anti-commercial decrees of Bonaparte are intendes to,do to 
this country, will in this instance be permanently telt only by his dependant kingdom of 
Italy. 
According to the report of the Committee of the House of Commons, on the West India 
trade, it appears th.t, onthe 15th of July, 1807, the quantity or sugar in the warehous:s at 
the West India dock, and that lying on boaid afloat, was 425,148 cwt. Lie market for 
this article continues dull, and rum is rather flat in the market: that of Jamaica sells at 
4s. 9d to 6s. per gallon, and Leeward :slano Rum at 3s.to 4s. Sd. per gallon. Cottce is lower 
than it has been for a long time ; ordinary sells from 54s. to 70s. per cwt and the finest sort 
from 51. 15. to6l. 8s. The rigorous edicts of Bonaparte prevents the exportation of thisarticle, 
which would nearly bring 100 per cent. profit in the French and Dutch markets at present, 
were it possible to export it thither ‘The public sales of West India produce have been very 
trifling this month. By Messrs. Kymer, M‘Taggart, and Co 295 Casks and Bags of Coffee, 
sold from 54s. to 110s percwt. By Messrs, Coles and Sons, 512 Casks and Bags of ditto, 
sold from SOs. to 115s. per cwt. f 
The market for wines continues very high, notwithstanding the arrival of six vessels from 
Oporto direct, andseven vessels more are hous ly expected to arrive; 1n all, about 8000 pipes 
of port wine. When those come into the market, it may make some !ittle aiceia ion in the 
prices ; but the quality of those wines will be very interior to our last importatiens, as they 
principally consist of last year’s vintage. There is no kind of doubt, but that the consump- 
tion of port wine has decreased in these kingdoms; and thac, mm consequence or the excessive 
heavy cuties laid on by the late Mr. Pitt, by which the revenue must have been injured, as 
fuily appears from the quantity of wine shipped from Uporio to Great Britain and Ireiand, 
taken trom the Oporto Shipping List, published tnere every year, which List we have been 
favoured with ; and by it it appears, that in 1800 the shipping off was 53.511 pipes of wine 
to Great Britain and Ireland aione; and in 1806, only 37,902 pipes; leaving a deficiency of 
15,509 pipes, Vhusthe people are burrhened with a tax on that necessary article without 
Benefiting the state. To some ou’ our reader, connected with Parliamentary aftairs, we would 
recommend the lowering of duties on ali kinds of wine, except French ‘The entire export of 
wines from Oporto te ail countries, except these, did noi exceed 300 pipes annually. The ar- 
ticle ot hemp, usually imported from Riga and Petersourgh, nas risen, within a iew mouths, 
from 631. up to 92l..per ton! being the present price 5 and this article is hikely still to get 
higher, untess the cultivation of it is encouraged oy our Government ail over the united king 
‘dom. In Isetana, flax seed, usually imporsed trom New. York, Philaselphia, Boston, cc. 
dias got to an enormous price, and if the embargo continues in America, the linen trade of 
that country must be yery much injured. However, we have pleasure in-stating, that it is 
‘the intention of Parliament.to grant a bounty to the growers of Aax-seed; and this, we trust, 
will remedy the evil. 
Bua COURSE 
