1510.} Monthly Commercial Report. ; 405 | 
brazilletto, 271. to 301, per ton. Cochineal (garbled), 21. to 21. 4s. Guatimala indigo, of 
different colours, from 6s. 3d, to 12s. 3d. ; Caraccas ditto, from 6s. to 12s.; and Brazil ditto, 
from 2s. 6d. to 5s. per Ib. 
£RANCE.—The importation of corn from France into London, during six months, has 
been such as to produce the vast sum of 1,382,350!. sterling. Such a traffic as this must 
induditably drain the country of its specie, and pour wealth into the lap of the common 
enemy; but we must be content to continue it as long as we can, and to exchange gold against 
that which cannot be dispensed with, the first necessary of life. The following article exe 
plains the footing upon which the commerce with France stands, according to the latest de- 
termination of Buonaparte. 
Extract of a Letter from the Minister of the Interior, to the Prefect of the Seine. 
Paris, March 12, 1810. 
_ 1. The licences will contain, as before, an obligation to export three-fourths of the tonnage 
in agricultural produce, of the growth of France; half che cargo to consist of wine or brandy ¢ 
the other fourth to be coniposed at pleasure of whatsoever articles are permitted to be exported 
by our custom-laws. 
2. Licensed vessels may import all such articles of produce and merchandise as are permitted - 
by our laws; in which are not included tobacco, cotton-wool, and yarn, cotton cloths, co-~ 
Jonial and East and West India produce 3 excepting, nevertheless, dye-woods, guiacum, drugs 
used for the purpose of dying, shumac, Peruvian bark, and medical drugs. A list of the 
articles coming under the denomination of drugs for dying, will be contained in a special in- 
struction to be given by the counsellor of state, the director-general of the customs. : 
3. The licenses shall. be paid for at the rate of 20 francs* per ton, and in proportion to the 
burthen of the vessel; but thé maximum for any license is fixed at 600 francs;t that is to Says 
there will be no additional charge for any burthen above 300 tons. 
4. The outfitter on being informed that the license is in the hands of the prefect, will 
repair to the office of the receiver-general of the department, or that of the receiver for the 
district, where he will deposit the fee, payable at the rate of 20 francs per ton. The license 
will be delivered to hin on producing the receipt. 
HoLLAND.=—=A treaty has been concluded between this country and France, one article of 
which is interesting to commercial men. It runs thus: ‘* Until Great Britain shall rescind 
those orders in council of the year 1807, all commerce shall be prohibited between England 
and Holland.”’—-Ail merchandise of English manufacture is prohibited in Holland. It is 
also decreed, that all merchandise imported by American vessels, that have arrived in the 
perts of Holland since the ist of February, 1809, shall be put under sequestration. 
Battic.—The holders of Baltic produce have become less anxious to sell, in consequence. 
of the last accounts received from Gottenburgh, which give reason to apprehend, that our 
intercourse with the ports of the Baltic, during the ensuing season, will be more obstructed 
than formerly.. Added to this, the government. contract for hemp has had. the effect of 
raising the prices both at London and Hull; and the holders of course are daily in hopes of 
gotaining better prices. —By a late royal ordinance it appears that colonial produce is to be 
excluded from all the Prussian harbours, except those of Stettin and Konigsberg.—-The king 
of Sweden has, with the rest of the continental sycophants, who wear crowns, acceded to the 
non-importation system of the French emperor, and has consented to shut his ports against 
English goodsand manufactures of whatever description, witn the exception of salt, sufficient 
for the consumption of his kingdom. Swedish iron, in bais, fetches fram 211. to 231. 10s. 
per ton; ditto pitch, from @1s. to 23s. per cwt. and ditto tar, from 47s. to 48s. per barrel. 
Steckholm deals, 671. to 701.; Memel ditto, 351. to 361. and Dantuzic, 21. ids. to 21. 16s. 
per last. 2 
InrLanpD.—It is with pain we are obliged to state under this head, that the permission to. 
distil spirits from grain, which was lately extended to freland, has proved lamentably detri= 
mental to the interests of the principal West India houses at Dublin and Cork, several of 
whom, having speculated too deeply in sugars, have been necessitated to call meetings of 
their creditors.—-The provision-trade is flourishing, and the manufactures of the north are 
in a Most prosperous state. - o abil 
Prices of Canal, Dock, Fire-office, and Water Works, Shares, é&c. 91st April, 1810. —Grand 
Junction Canal, 2501. per share. Wilts and Berks ditto, 591. ditto.—Kennet and Avon ditto, 
461, ditto Huddersfield ditto, 401. ditto.—Lancaster ditto, 251. 10s. ditto»—-Grand Surry 
ditto, 801. ditto.—-Croydon ditto, 501. ditto.—-Globe Fire and Lite Insurance, 1281. per share. 
Albion ditto, 60]. ditto.—Imperial Fire ditto, 751. ditto.—Rock Life Assurance, Gs. per sharey 
premium.—London Dock Stock, 1501. per cent. ‘West India ditto, 1751. dittv.-East India 
ditto, 1341. ditto.—Commercial ditto, 921. per share premium.—-Hast London Water Works, 
* 165. 8d. sterling. + 251. 
Montury Mac. No. 198, 2¥E 2321, 
