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,1805.] © Monthly Agricultural Report, ur 423 
The total value of the commodities imported laft year into St. Peterfourgh, ha’ been found 
to amount to 217,286,000 roubles. Of this fum, 350,000 roubles were paid for, drugs; 
900,000 for wine ; 826,000 for coffee. 
The total fener of the merchant-ihips which failed lat year from Memel and Riga, was 
813; the total value of their cargoes, 12,166,91% roubles. The exports to England, were 
to the value of 5,320,522 roubles. —thofe to Holland, 1,559,470 roubles. oo France, 
414,875 roubles.—to Breinen, 61,160 roubles.—to Lubeck, 348,629 roubles. 
‘The merchants of Dublin are anxious for the inftitution of a Chamber of Commerce for 
that city. 
In the courfe of a fingle month, lately, 157 fhips, manned by 1010 failors, and carrying 
in all 16,777 tons burthen, entered the port of Bourdeaux: 175 fhips, navigated by 1034 
men, and carrying 16,219 tons burthen, failed within the fame time out of th at ‘port. 
Three Englith convoys, coulifting i in all of between 200 and 300 merchant-ihips, have 
already pafled through the Sound into the Baltic. 
The trade ef the Continent has been of late exceedfagly oppreffed and refricted, by the . 
regulations uecefiarily employed to prevent the f{preading of the terrible infectious fever of 
Spain. The merchants of Vienna, fome time fice, folicited:the Auttrian Government te 
relax thofe regulations withia its dominions. 
The merchants of Londoo and Liverpool have this year fitted out an extraordinary nuinber 
of thips for the Atfiican and Wet India trade. 
The Irth bleachers are {till fo imperfectly fkilled in the ufe ef the oxygenated muriatic 
acid, that the cloths upon which they employ it are generaily much damaged im the procels. 
The French 5 per Cents. were’ on the 19th of April at 562. 
In 1804, there eutered 101 thips mto the port of Archangel, 9 of which were Ruffian : 
115 veilels failed from this port. The value of the mercantile commodities imported was. 
388 352 roubles, The value of the exports was 2,228,884 roubles. : 
More than 200,000 lib. of cotton were entered lat week in the Port of London. The 
fmportation of fugar tor the 1dme time, was little lefs than 30,000 ewt. 
The rate of Infurance to Jamaica and the Leeward fflands, is new about 12 guineas 
per cent. Danse 
As the progrefs of the feafon now permits the renewal of the trade to the Baltic, the 
prices of hemp, and moit ot the otLer commodities which it fupplies, have been diminilhed. 
The prices of teas, which not long fince rofe confiderably, have not yet bi gun feutibly 
to decline. 
The Hudfon’s Bay Company inadé a large fale of 625 lib. coat beaver, 6430 fkins fine 
‘parchment beaver, 3771 ikins damaged aud ftaged, 2451 fins fine cub beaver, 1465 hb, 
bed feathers, and 30,990 goofe-quills. 
The Lords of the Tre salary have agreed to extend to Liverpool the ape advantages which 
London enjoys in regard to the depofition of goods which are to be re-exported, in wares 
houfes for a time, witlhout-payment of duties. It isnotirequired that new warehoufes thould 
be built for this ufe: 34 warehoufes have been offered and accepted for it. | 
In France, chocolate has been recently fubjected to a new duty of 71. 10s. per cwt. 
The Ottoman Porte has altered.the regulations and rates of its euftoms, and has commus 
nicated a fchedule of its new duties to all the foreign governinents with whieh it site 
amity. 
MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 
THE continuanee df favorable weather has enabled the farmer: to finith the fowing of Barley 
and QOats in the mott complete manner, the Land every where being ia an excellent ftate fo¥ 
feed ; and in the more fouthera dittriats the lowing is nearly finifhed; and io the northern parts / 
of the kingdom it is in an unufual flate of forwardnefs. ‘The farmers in the Fens have never 
enjoyed a better feafon for their bufinefs ; the Low. grounds promifiag great abundance. 
‘The drynefs of the weather has permitted the rolling of the Wheat and Spring Corn Crops ; 
and has afforded a fine opportunity for getting up the Turnip Fallows. the Wheat, Winter 
Tares, and the Pattures, improve daily, Much Stock has already been turned out. Fruit 
Trees every where are in full bloom, which it is morg than probable will {uffer from the regent 
cold winds. “The Wall and the fmaller Berry Fruit in the garden promife great abundanceé- 
As this is the fealon ‘or the cgmmencement of the bufinefS in the Dairy. Milch Cows, and 
thofe near calving, obiain great prices ; notwithftanding which large droves lately brought to 
“St. Ives’s Market trom out of the Fens, ina very low condition, were cageriy bought up. 
Small Pigs proper for the Dairy are dear; the larger fort much cheaper, anda great ftock 
on hand. 
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