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The following pricesof colonial produce, taken fromthe London prices current, will shove - 
the loss which must eventually fall oa the proprietor, either as the West-India merchant, or 
Planter in the Island, viz. Raw Sugar 68s, to 825, per cwt. Rum gs. gd. to gs. per gallons 
Cotton 14d. to zod. per Ib. Coffee gomral. ; hye 
Portrucai.—Large quantities of Port wine, Listen, and Buéellas, have arrived in the last 
ficet, with an immense quantity of fruit, &a, The wines are prizicipally of last year’s vintage; 
and without brandies in the Country to make them up, must undergo the operation at . 
home; ere they are fit for use, consequently c/d wines are valuable, and bring ftom £100 to 
115 the pipe in our market. The exchange from Landon in Lisbon is 64d. per milreay 
and 65d. in Oporto, being gid. per miilrea under par, and in favour of Great Britain. 
Franee.—According to the recent decrees of Buonaparte, the burning of all British Maitize 
actured gocds continues to be carried on with the greatest activity possible, contrary to the 
Jaws. of all civilized nations; yet still we continue to import their brandies, wines, fruit, 
cambrics, &c. every article of which is paid for in specie in this country! i ane 
Two of the most established bankers at Paris have lately failed for upwards of half a mil- 
Jion ‘sterling. 
Swenex.—Atlength this country has formally declared war agdinst Great Britain, and it 
¥s decreed that all British: property “or manufactures of Great Britain be confiscated. — As 
yet this country has not issued orders for detaining the Swedish ships in our ports, but it 
gay be hourly expected in the London Gazette, ' ue 
WesreInvizes.—Produce of every sort remarkably dull, and few public sales of sugars 
have been made. Cofice in no demand, except small quantities for home-consumption. 
O)d rum rather scarce, and consequently dear. New Jamaica and Leeward Island rum sells 
from 2s. od. to 5s. per gallon, exclusive of’duty and excise. 
SoutH AMERICA.—We are happy to find that the London and Liverpool! mrerchant& 
have received considerable remittances in dollars, principally by the late arrivals from Brazil, 
sud we hope soon to find: that a flourishing trade may be carried on with good effect to this 
country. The markets were full of all kind of European manufactured goods, and the sales 
yather slow; by our last advices thence. ahd. PUL a 
Nortu AMERICA.—The large import of Flax-seed from this part:of the world inte, 
Jreland, has already had its effect on the linen market, the prices of which have fallen full 
' go per cent, and the purchasers of linen cloth for the American market have availed them-~ 
selves of it, by making large shipments for New York, Philadelphia, Boston, &c. &c. 
Current Prices of Shaves in Navigable'Canals, Docks, Bridges, Reads, Water Works, and 
Fire and Life Insurance Companies, at the Office of Messrs. Wolfe and Co. No. 9, *Change 
Alley, Cornhill, ‘2ist December, 1810.—Grand Junction Canal, 2601. per share.— Grand 
Union ditto, par.—Leicestershire and Northamptonshire Union ditto, ditto.——-Kennet and 
Avon ditto, 421, per share.—Wilts and Berks ditto, 441. ditto.—Basingstoke ditto, 401]. ~ 
~ gitto.—Grand Western ditto, par.—Grand Surry ditto, 751. per share.—-Thames and Med-vay 
ditto, 501. per share premium.—Rochdale ditto, 551. per share.—Lancaster ditto, 261. ditto. 
—tLondon Dock Stock, 1211. per cent for the opening. West India ditto, 1621. dittu.—East 
India ditto, 1301. per cent.—Strand Bridge, 101. per share discount, pays 51. per cent. half 
yearly.—-Vauxhall ditto, 101. per share discount.—Commercial Road, 1361. per cent.—= 
East London Water Works, 185]. per share-—West Middlesex ditto, 1211. ditto.—South 
London ditto, 1961. ditto—York Buildings ditto, 301. per share premium.—Kent: dittos 
321. ditto. Portsmouth and Farlington ditto, 151. ditto.-—Globe Insurance Office, 1191. per ’ 
share for the opening.—Imperial ditto, 751. ditto.—Albion ditto, 601. ditto. = ~~ Pas 
MONTHLY BOTANICAL REPORF. 
HAVING for some months past made no mention of English Botany, we shall ROW 
resume our usual accoust of sveh phenogamic plants as occur from the 1st of Jaly 
to the end of the year ; of the cryptogamic plants, except those of the order of filices, we. 
ghall not take any notice. #5 
Galiim Gerrutosum, the Valentia Aparine of Linnazzus. “Dr. Smith has very .preperly. 
swerved from his great master in this instance; indeed, the small importance of some of, 
the flowers, being cefective in part of the sexual organs, is now much better understood. 
than formerly, The true Valantias ate distinguished by much more imporfant characters 
in the seed. The figure of this plant,as given by Mr. Sowerby, is strikingly different 
from that of Vaillant, in the greater length and straitness of the peduncles; found by. 
Mr. G. Don, in corn-felds'in the carse af Gowrte. Juncus gracilis, supposed to be a nors — 
deseript species, also found by Mr. Don among the mountains’of Angus-shire, but very 
sarely, It approach¢s to }. Bufexixs Caltha radicans ; first described by Ty F. Foster, 
Esq. tu the 8th volume of-the TTansactions of the Linfiéan Society. Pinguicula grandiflora z 
of Decandolle and Lamarck, seni from ireland by the Rev, ‘Mr, Hincks, secretary to the’ 
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