1807.) ( 303- ) 
MONTHLY COMMERCIAL RBPORT. 
pe Oporto fleet, lately arrived, has brought a more confiderable quantity of port wine 
into our market, than has been for fome years paft arrived in any one fleet ; the article, 
however, keeps up its price, and the wines juft now arrived may be called in general of good 
quality, but they are {till deficient in brandy, owing to the fcarcity and prefent high price 
of that article in Portugal. Cottons by this fleet, from Lifbon, &e. have come to rather 
a dull market; nor is there a fpeedy appearance of its being better, owing to the prefent 
ftate of the manufactories in Lancafhire, which are rather at a ftand for want of good 
foreign orders, the trade im general having fuffered fo feverely by their late Hamburgh con- 
mexions. 
It is fatisfactory to find, by the late order of council, that the {fpeculators to Buenos 
Ayres have got permiffion to difpofe of their out-ward bound cargoes (through the medium 
of neutral veffels, &¢.} as well as to bring home the returns in like manner 3 by which meons 
the ferious lofsthat would eventually fall on them is prevented, and, inall probability, their 
adventures will turn out to good account, as the principal part of their cargoes are at this 
time wanted in the Weft Indies, and produce there may be had on reafonable terms, parti- 
cularly rum, the importation and confumption of which is encouraged by the new addi- 
tional duty of Qs. 6d. gallon being laid upon foreign brandies and hollands. At prefent 
there is a large quantity of the former article, fay brandies, ufed in the king’s lock for fe- 
curing of the duties, and the article has lowered in price confiderably. 
The very large orders for Irith linens, now fhipping at Dublin and Belfaft for the Spanifa 
market (via Lifbon), has given new life to the manufactures of that valuable article; in 
confequence of which fine linens have rather advanced in price; and as thefe orders are 
always confirmed by a London credit feldom exceeding twenty one days fight, they will 
bring an immenfe quantity of money into circulation among the induttrious poor of the 
nerth of Ireland. The expurts from the fouth of that kingdom, confifling of beef, pork, 
and hutter for the We Indies, have been very confiderable, but the prices uncommonly high 
this year. . ese nty 
Although the fugar-market continues flat, and the fale of that commodity very dull, ow- 
ing to the deficiency of export tothe northern parts of Europe, {till the articles of coffee and 
cocoa have advanced in price, andrums are likely to, at lealt, retain their prefent prices. 
The average prige of brown or Mufcovado fugar, computed from the returns made from the 
week ending March 4, 1807, is 54s. 7id. per cwt. exclufive of duties of cuftoms paid or 
payable thereon, on the importation thereof into Great Britain. _ 
The thip-owners and builders fill continue to complain of a want of regulation in enforcing 
the fpirit of the Navigation Laws inthcir favour: in fo much are they at prefent opprefied, 
that the freights fcarcely ferve to defray port charges and feamen’s wages, and if fome remedy 
be not fpeedily adopted by ovr government for their relief, the building of Britith merchanc 
fhips mut ina great degree ceafe. 
The woollen manufa@tures in the north, particularly at Leeds, Halifax, &c. 8c. for coarfe 
goods, has been very brif of late; and thofe in Gloucefter, Wilts, &c. &c. for fine articles, 
have kept pace with them; of which latter an immenfe quantity has been exported to Ire- 
land, but very few of the coarfer forts are wanted there, as the manufacture of that 
aicicription of goods is carried on ina very extenfive way in the capital of the fifter kingdom. 
The exchange with Ireland is fallen from 12+0 11 per cent. ftill remaining 91. 3s. 4d. 
percent. againft that country, a ferious confideration to the purchafers of Eaft India and 
other articles exported hence. This neceflity uf a variation in the exchange between the 
two countries, certainly fhould be at once done away, by the leziflature making the monies 
ef the united kingdoms of equal currency and value. 
At pwblic fale on the 10th inftant, 1080 hogtheads of fugar were fold by Meffrs. Coles and 
Son, trem Jis, to 74s. per cwt.3 and on the fame day, 920 hogtheads, tierces, and barrels 
of clayed fugar, by Mefirs. Blache and Kemble, from 53s. up to 97s. Gd. per cwt.3 and on 
the 1ith inftant, there were two public fales of plantation-cotfee, by Meilis. Kymer and 
Co. and the Widow Purdy and Sons, coniiting of 172 hogiheads, 27 cafks, and 2948 bags, 
fold from 95s. to 130s. 6d. per cwt.3; on the 12th inftant, a large fale of beaver fkins, by 
-Mefirs. Row and Co. which fold from 10s. 7d, to 24s, Od. per 1b., a parcel of Vigo wool, 
at 4s. to 4s, 1d. per lb., Vigo fheeps-fkins, 5s. 7d. per fkin.. On the 13th inftant, there 
were two fales of cotton wool, by Mefirs. Blache and Co. and l. Kebble, confifting of up- 
wards of 1000 bags, Demerara, Barbadoes, Surinam, &c. &c. which fold trom js. 6d. to 
is. 11d. per Ib. as in quality. 
By the accounts laid on the table of the Houfe of Commons, it appears that, from 1774 
to 1788, the annual average contumption of tea in this country is 19,931,61¢lbs. A 
Gmilar, but not an equal, rife has taken place in brandy, the annual average of caon- ° 
fumption in the former period was 611,963 gallons, and im the latcer 1,580,711 gallons. 
The Court of Dire€tor$ of the united company of merchants of ingiand trading to the 
Eat Indies, declare they will put up at the prefent March fale, viz. 
465,000 1b. cinnamon, on Thurtday, 2d April—Prompt Sd July following, 
4005 bags 
