£08.) 
@teadfully cut and fhot in various-parts, that his 
recovery was for fome time extremely doubt- 
ful. For this achievement he was promoted 
to the rank of Commander, and to the cam- 
mard of the veffel he had fo gallantly cap- 
tured. He remained in the Weft Indies, 
capturing the enemy’s cruizers, until the ar- 
rival of Lord Nelfon in queft of the Toulon 
fleet. He was the officer who, when cem- 
mander of the Curieux brig; brought the 
difpatches from Lord Nelfon, when in purfuit 
of the combined fleet in the Weft Indies, in 
SSS STRESS CS RS LPS ee 
M ON THLY 
they left Tortola the 3d of May. 
Monthly Commercial Report. 
S7t 
1805; on which occafion he was promoted to 
the rank of Poft Captain. Capt. Bettefworth, 
who was a native of Southampton, was lately 
married to Lady Hannah Grey, fitter to Earl 
Grey, and shad jut fitted out the frigate in 
which he fo prematurely loft his valuable 
life ar the age of 28. He was univerfally 
Beloved in the navy, of which be was-.one 
of the Se ornaments. 
At Grofs Gerau, in Germany, Frederic 
George Auguftus, .coufin of the reigning 
landgrave Hesse Darmstadt. 
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CO: MMERCIA L REPORT 
Ww E have the pleasure to announce the arrival of a valuable fleet from the Leeward 
By this fleet,’ wifh that hourly expected from Ja- 
1 Tslandsz 
maica, may be expected a very large quantity of produce, perticularly the article of sugar, 
now seetairted to be distilled, wh rereby our. West India merchants and planters will rec a 
that assistarice toc 
very necessary at ; 
us, whence we acer formerly such large supplies of that necessary arti icle. 
curry On their commerce as usual, 
time when the Saltic and the diffesent ports of America are shut ae 
and the corm appropriated to bréad, 
Wre flatter 
ourselves that our interference in favour of unfortunate Spain will ultirately be productive of 
the greatest benefit to our manufacturing towns of Birminghami, Manchester, Nottingham, 
&c. as, in case we succeed, there 7$ no doubt the Spanish settlements of America wil! open an 
exclusive. trade with usj as the réturns for our goods exported thither, will be even more 
“beneficial than gold. 
They principally consist of gold, silver, diamonds, and all kinds of 
precious stones 3 cocoa, sugar, cotton, tobacco (the finest in the world), cochineal, valuable 
drugs of different sorts, &c. and, in fact, the loss of the Spanish trade, or that of gortveals 
will not. be felt by the mercantile world, when conapared with that of the expected traffic 
to all parts of South America, as by this commerce London will be the grand market for all 
their exports, instead of Lisbon and Cadiz, whence we formerly imported all their goods load- 
ed with profit to the Pertuguese wand Spaniards, duties of export, shipping charges, and a va= 
riety of other taxgs laid on in these countries. 
Our exports to South America are nearly the 
Same as to our West India colonies, -with the exception of a,finer description of goods in ge» 
neral ; 
is a erases of no Haadeleiacii: 
for in the large cities, where every kind of luxury is at its height, the price with them 
Thus Buonaparte’s 
maneuvres will be frustrated, as by tak- 
ing from us all commerce with the native countries, he gives us a better exchange of coms 
merce, and thereby throws open to Great Britain a trade which she never expected to have 
had babies. 
has, for the present, thrown a damp on the article of cotton-wool ;*but 
The late stagnation of trade at Manchester, and in other parts of Lancashire, 
the very large orders 
from the BrazijJs, lately arrived here and at Manchester, we expect will alter the situation 
of affairs very shortly in that part of the country. 
It will likewise give spirit to our other 
great manufacturing towns of Birmingham, Sheffield, Nottingham, éc. as very considerable 
quantities of their goods are enumerated i the orders lately received from Brazil ; 
but should 
we fortunately get a trade open to the Spanish settlements of South America, all ‘those towns 
aforementioned will resume their usual consequence, in perhaps a higher degree than even 
they have hitherto done. 
The article of hemp usually imported by us from Russia has got to the unprecedented 
price of 100 guineas per ton! and still likely to be higher: there therefore need be said little 
to stimulate our landholders to cultivate, as soon as possible, large quantities of it, as well ag 
flax, throughout the united kingdom ; we at present not being able to import hemp from Pe- 
tershurgh, or flax-seed from the united states of America. 
At this moment there is scarce ab 
Spitalfields weavers out of bread for 
of silk on sale in our market, and thousands of poor 
nt of work. Parliament, however, have now a bill 
pending, to grant leave for the importation of silk from Italy ; and we sincerely hope they 
will not only grant it, bat likewise encourage it, by either giving a bounty to importers, or at 
least take off the duty on importation, which is now, and has been, next toa prohibition, as 
every pound weight of thrown silk paysduty 1%s. 92d. and raw silk, 5s. 5gd. 
The quantity 
(from official documents in our possession) of silk annually consumed in. this country. ig 
11,460 bales, andall the silk in the London market, including that of the East India Com~ 
pany’ sale in September next, is only 4,793 bales, leaving a deficiency of 6,667 bales! and 
not a bale of Italian silk of any description ‘for sale. 
Thus it is not to be womndered at, that 
ee many industrious poor men should be dut of bread at the present time, and at atime when 
ebery necessary of life is so exorbitantly high, 
Undex all these circumstances, we trust and 
hope: 
