1804. | ("188% ) 
| MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT. 
XIE prices of ttock have fuffered no confiderable fluétuation fince the end of July. Ome 
nium ftill remains at a preniam of between 44 and,7,per,Cent., . The 3 per Cents. only 
vary backwards and forwards between 56 and 58. Even the French funds have had but one 
confiderable fluctuation, which was when the news of a probability of war with Jonflia firt 
obtained credit at Paris. The French 5 per Cents. are, however, juft now at fomewhat 
more than 57. " 
The arrivals of the China, the Weft India, the Newfoundland, and the Baltic fleets, al- 
mott all at once, and in perfect fafety, have given a very lively and favourable impulfe to 
trade throughout all Britain and Ireland. The value of the China fleet alone was more 
than feven millions fterling. The Weft India merchants complain, that tre blockade on the 
ports of France is effentially injurious to their mterefts, and will tend greatly to impede 
their fales. But the Hamburgh market is, by the late change in the rettraints on the navi- 
gation of the Elbe, fiiewhat: more open to them. ‘There is, however, no fall in the retail 
prices of either Eaft India or Weft India goods, in conlequence of thefe events, except in 
fugars, now from 4s. to’6s. per ewt. cheaper. ‘The manufacturers ere now bufy in com- 
pleting large orders for the feveral marts of our trade, for which the next merchant fleets 
are to fail. 
There was a great rife in the prices of teas at Amfterdam, when the falfe news, that Li- 
nois had taken fhe Englith China fleet, was firft propagated there. 
Cotton goods and muilins of all forts are, by arecent-order of the Government, prohi- 
bited from importation into Spain. 
The Auftrian trade and navigation for tue port of Triefte becomes continually more con- 
fiderable. 
The price of bread has rifen, fince the lete act paffed to alter the regulations for the im- 
portation and exportation of grain, to an amount that, tor a whole year, would make a 
difference of expenfe of nearly feven millions fterling to the people of all Eacland. . _ 
The national debt of the Dutch republic, once fo great an engine in their commerce, ap- 
pears, from a late authentic ftatement, to have been, at the Peace of Amiens, 1,000 imil- 
Jions of guilders, upon which was payable an interett of nearly 295 millions of guilders. 
{ Erica wulgaria. ) 
Common heath has been found, in Scotland, to afford, by boiling, a good liquor for 
tinning leather; by the ufe of which, this manufacture is conliderably cheapened and im- 
proved. 
The number of the Cows and Oxen weekly expofed to fale in Smithfield-market, is about 
2,000 at an average, or at leaft 100,000 annually. The average number of the Sheep may 
be 10,000 weekty, or 500,000 in the whole year. ‘The average number of the Swine is 
about 300 weckly, or 15,000 in the whole year. 
‘The We& India Docks are now nearly complete for all the purpofes of their confruétion. 
The bafons are fuilictently capacicus to admit 300 flips, 12 fhips can enter conveniently by 
the locks, at one tide. The buildings confift of fix ranges of warehoufes, each of fix fto- 
ties, with cellars to the fouth, and double cranes at the top of each warehoufe. 
There is now in the colonial territory at Botany Bay, a flock of 16,000 iheep, the pro- 
geny of a breed in which there was a mixture of the Spanith. The fleeces have been found 
by our weit country manyfacturers to be of the finet quality ; and it is believed that the 
wool will become an impgrtant article for exportation from that fettlement. 
Conliderable purchatés have lately been made at Odelfa, on the Black Sea, of grain and 
other produce of the adjacent countries, chiefly for confumption at Malta, In general, 
the Britith trade to the Black Sea appears to increafe, and to become profitable. 
The fair of Senegaflia, in Italy, has proved this year more brifk in trade than for thefe 
feveral years paftt. A prodigious quantity of goods from the Levant was on fale at if. 
Russian Commentce.—Prices at St. Peterfbur gh, June 24 to the 6th of July, 1804. 
Clean Hemp Wee ei emma ted R.44, 442, 442 
Mutthorde.os obs i2 374, 37 » 
2 Crean an) oS Se 1 td DES et 
‘allow, Yellow Candle. - 591, 59 on the tpot. 
Do. Saapsgo-' o£, 55 
Exchange on Panay neh 311, 2 for S months per Reub. 
Hamburgh. 271, 4 for 65 days do. 
Amtterdam 303, — 65 days do. 
TE Ce 65, 66 fols for 70 days do. 
Vienna-..- 105 kreutzers for 65 days do. 
Trade very dull: many fhips arrived, and waiting for cargoes. Freights 20 to 25 per 
cent. lower than thofe paid in London. 
His Majefty having, by the attention of more than fifteen years, formed a flock of Spanith 
fheep 
