1808.] eR ari , a 
MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT. 
N our last Report, we announced the arrival of a fleet of Indiamen, viz.—The Admiral 
Gardner, Baring, Devaynes, ‘Tottenham, Union, and General Stuart, from Bengal; Lord 
Melville, and Dover Castle, from Bengal and Fort St. George. Their cargoes are as fol 
Jow :—Bengal Muslins, 40,7-41 pieces ; Bengal Calicoes, 136,347 pieces ; Prohibited Bengal 
Caticoes; 52,778 pieces; Madras Moslins, 1679 pieces; Madras Calicoes, 222,108 pieces; 
and 51,050 pieces prohibited Madras piece goods. Company’s Goods, viz.—18,191 bags 
Sugar; 1270 bales Silk; S4 bales Sann’(Hemp) ; 25,550 bags Saltpetre ; 24 chests Cochi- 
neal; 36 Keemoo Shells. Privilege Goods, viz. +842 chests Indigo 3 209 bags Gall-nuts ; 
179 Walet raw Silk; 49 Chests Guth Arabic ; 16 chests Shellac; 82° bags Hides; 144 chests 
Safflower ;/ 2051 bales Cotton; 16 chests Senna; 73 tanned Hides ; 56 bales Piece Goods 5 
6 chests Mace; 47 chests Turmerick 5 besides davis, other parcels "of goods, the particulars 
of which are not yet known. 
*In our former Reports we predicted that wines Frost Oporto would teadily find their way 
into our markets, of which there is now no kind‘of doubt, as 41] neutrals are permitted by 
General Junot to depart thence, on paying a trifling duty of 56s. British, per pipesand within 
a few days past, several vessels have arrived at London, Liverpool, Bristol, Dublin, &c. fully 
loaded with that article,whereby the pricealready begins to lower, and we hope an end will be 
put to the monopoly of the few importers of.wines, so that the public may be enabled to pur 
chase at little more than the usual price. Tf brandy can be imported from Charante, Cogs 
Hiac, &c. direct, why not sherry, port, &c. although these countries are in possession of the 
French? In our lest Report we have shewn the absurdity of continuing the heavy duty on 
portewine, the decrease of the importation within six years having. fallen short no Jess than 
15,509 pipes! whereby the revenue, instead of being benefited, was, on the contrary, de- 
creased ; so that we hope our last statement may meet the eye of some of our Parliamentary 
readers, who will no doubt remedy the evil, by.a fair representation of our said statement, 
We hope the arrival of a large fleet just now from the Mediterranean, will bring a large sup- 
ply of Italian silks, so much wanted (via Malta), in addition to the trifling quantity imported 
as above, by the East India Company. Our manufacturers are in the greatest possible dis- 
tress for the article, and every thing of silk, and manufactured from it, has risen toa price 
beyond belief. 
The Prince of Brazil having reached Bahia on the 19th of January Jast, where he was re- 
ceived with the loudest acclamations, and every possible demonstration ef joy, published’ the 
following order, for the regulations of the Brazil trade,’ viz.— 
1. *# vat: at “the @actou houses in the Brazils, all kinds of goods, merchandiz zes, and 
commodities, brought either on board of foreign ships, belonging to subjects of such powers 
as are considered to be upon terms of amity and peace, é&c. shall be admitted, upon payment 
of twenty-four per cent. Import duty, consisting of twenty per cent. consolidated customs, 
and four per cent. additional duty aiready established ; the collection of the said customs to- 
be effected in the same manner as has hitherto been done at the said Custom-house. Winey 
brandy, and sweet oil, shall pay double the duty that has hitherto been levied on the same ' 
articles. . 
2. <* That it shall be lawful not only for my subjects, but also for those of the powers 
above-mentioned, to export to such ports as. they shall deem expedient, every species of colo- 
nial commodities and produce, with the exception of Brazil wood, and other articles, the ex- 
portation of which is already prohibited, on payment of the same export duty as has hitherto 
been established in the respective provinces ; all Jaws, royal edicts, and other ordinances, 
which hitherto prohibited in the Brazils a mutual intercourse and maritime trading between 
My subjects and foreign nations, remaining, until further orders, suspended, and without force. 
‘* Babia, January 28, 1808. Tar Prince.? 
By the above royal edict, we may expect an increase of our mantfactures at Birmingham, 
Sheffield, Manchester, &c.-and we have the pleasure to state that at this time considerable 
orders have been received at these towns for large quantities of goods for the Brazil market. 
It therefore turns out most fortunately for this country, that, at a time the Baltic and all the 
northern ports are shut against us (Sweden excepted), an extensive market for every 
kind of European manufacture is opened in the Brazils and South America. The goods 
sold in that country are always paid for in cash or produce (frequently more advantae 
geous to the seller), as cotton-wool, indigo, cochineal, sugar, dye-woods, and various 
other valuable articles, which hitherto we imported from Lisbon and Oporio, with additional 
charges of nearly 30 percent. To give our readers an idea of the value of some of the Brazil 
goods, considering their small bulk, apd great value, we shall mention only a few articles, 
of which the present are the current prices, viz.—-Cochineal sells in London from 20s. to- 
30s. per lb. ; Indigo, 10s to 114s. 6d. per Ib.; Maranham and Pernambucce Cotton, 2s. to 
és..d. per lb. ; Jesuit’s Bark, 4s. to igs. per ey ; Brazil Wood, 851. to 861. per ton, &c. 
All kinds of W est India produce, as Sugar, Cotton, Coffee, Rum, tsi cemain dull in sale, 
and 
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