wonderfully extended, but the quality of the sugar has experienced progressive improvement. Besides hides, tobacco, and woods for dyeing, the Brazils are known to produce most excellent coffee, sarsaparilla, vanilla, cotton, and cocoa; likewise two species of: aromatic trees (the cucheris and the pecuri) whose fruits possess the properties of the clove and the nutineg. We sincerely hope, that the terms on which we at present are with the government of the Brazils, will enable our enterprising countrymen to raise some of the abovementioned articles to the rank of considerable exports STATE OF TRADE. Lloyd's Coffee House, Nov. 20, 1808. The threats of the French emperor against Spain, and the confidence with which he has promised to plant his eagles on the forts of Portugal," have not, in the smallest degree, lessened the commercial ardour, evinced by our countrymen on the late renewal of intercourse with those nations, the amount of whose purchases of our various commodities, heretofore made so conspicuous a figure in the balance-sheet of British commerce. Orders, to a very considerable extent, have been transmitted to Birmingham, by several of the London and Liverpool shippers, for goods destined for the Spanish and Portuguese markets; as we learn by private communication from an eminent manufacturer of that town. Manchester, Halifax, and other seats of various fabrics, have recived similar encouragement from the merchants of our ports. In fact, private information from those parts assures us, that there is not in all Yorkshire a man stand-troduction of which cannot be supported by ing idle, and where, a few months ago, there was no work to be had, at this moment, there is no possibility of procuring additional hands, or of extending the manufactures to meet the suddenness of the demand While some of our traders are thus employed in strengthening the bond of amity between England and her brave allies in the south of Europe (for, as an able commercia! writer has justly observed, trade, by intermingling the interests of one nation with those of another, forms the strongest link in their chain of mutual intercourse), others of them are not inattentive to the advantages likely to result from a cultivation of our newly acquired connection with the southern part of America, through the medium of the Brazils. The articles that we draw from that rich territory, although not very numerous, are certainly of first rate qualities; and various samples which we have seen in the London market, have not tended to alter our opinion on this head. It is wonderful, that East-India sugar, an inferior commodity, should have gained any footing in our markets, as a substitute, for the produce of the West-India colonies; and now, when the Brazilian sugar has found its way into this country, combining, as it does, the fair appearance of the East-Indian article with those essential qualities which have hitherto rendered West-India sugar so valuable: we are warranted in supposing that it will supersede a production from which the East-India Company derives very trifling profits, and by which the public is rather injured than benefited. The Portuguese were the first who planted the sugar-cane in South America; and since 1650, when Portugal drew no less than 120,000 hogsheads from the Brazils, not only the cultivation of the cane has been A new and severe egulation against the clandestine introduction of foreign merchandize is ordered to take place in Holland on the 30th instant. It is something in the nature of an excise. Officers are to be appointed in every port to take an account of the various articles in the several shops and warehouses, and also of all those delivered and sold. Should it appear that there has at any time been an increase of the stock, the in legal and sufficient vouchers, such surplus ís to be subjected to confiscation. Two remarks offer themselves on this sub ject: the first is, that in spite of all the endeavours of Buonaparté hitherto, he has not been able to bend the Dutch to his views, so far as to exclude English commerce: for in that case, these edicts upon edicts, would be totally unnecessary. The edict anounces the fact it opposes. The second is, that when the absolute privation of commerce shall have produced its intended effect in the Batavian nation-the opinions and the feelings of those who anticipated immense advantages from French fraternity, will be truly interes ing, and instructive. Tallow, it will be perceived by our prices current, has risen in price. Flour, and indeed, grain of every description, seem to have rather experienced an increase than a decrease of value, in consequence of our abundant harvest. Such is the flourishing state of the cotton business in Belfast, that a single manufactur ing house, employing a great number of workmen, it is said, has pasted on the office door -one thousand Gingham weavers wanted. Poor America!-She escaped our attention while we were engaged on the former part of our Report, but we are determined to give her a corner. The injury which the United States sustain by the embargo may be estimated by the tonnage of their shipping employed in foreign commerce. According to the last returns, it amounted to 1,500 000 tons. The annual value of the employment of each ton is calculated at £4. Thus by this truly political measure America is minus £6,000,000 of profit, derived from commerce. * With high wind at night. With high wind and rain at night. The Average Prices of Navigable Canal Shares, Trent and Mersey, or Grand Trunk Canal, £980 per share, dividing £40 per share per annum nett. Ditto Mortgages at £5 per cent discount -Grand Junction Canal, £127 to £128 per share the last half yearly dividend was £2 nett. -Ditto Loan Note, £6 per cent discount.-Ashton and Oldham, £100 per share.-Kennet and Avon, £23.10s. for £20 paid.-London Dock Stock £120 to £121 per cent.-West-India Dock £162 to £165.-Commercial Dock, £127.East India Dock, £124. 10s.-Globe Insurance £114 to £116.- Provident Institution, par.— Monmouthshire, £100.-Huddersfield, £19.East London Water Works £45 premium. Glasgow. Dublin, Cork, Waterford, Newry, Bel- fast, and Londonderry... 2gs. 1. Cape G. H. or St. Helena (Comp. ships).... 4gs. terford, or Cork.. Gibraltar.... Madeira.... Jamaica or Leeward islands 2gs. Un. States of America (Brit. To any one part in the U. Kingdom Gottenburg, Christiana, &c.... Barilla 0 American pot-ash per cwt.£3 16 0 to 4 0 Ditto pearl.. 3 16 0 4 0 0 2 7 0 Mahogany 3 0 0 Oak plank, Dantz.-last £10 20 none Oil, Lucca,-25 gal. jar 25 076 Ditto spermaceti- ton 98 05 3 5 17 0 03 6 003000726 Galls, Turkey cwt. 6 15 0 7 4 0 55.0 5 14, 0 1 3 6 Ditto English 015 3 114 114 0 Tallow, English -cwi. 5 16 6 Tar, Stockholm -bar. 2 Ditto Virginia Whale-finston 38 0 26 5 0 0 0 2 0 690400∞∞ 0 0 4 10 0 none 056 the highest only. N.B. In the 3 per et, consols the highest and lowest price of each day is given; in the other stocks Bank Daily Prices of STOCKS, from 20th OCTOBE, to 20th NOVEMBER, 1808. Oct. 21 27 235 66 661 1814 99 18 1 8299184 4 4 4d d8126688 # and dvd 1,816638 182199183 par p 651) 66 67 661 8299718 15238 66 67 66 82 99 18 d 65 -- 65종 7급 1794 45p 7 67p 7181 7181 67P 181 67P 7181 67p 67p 4d 651 67P 16238 66 664 81 99 181040 65 82 997 18 718216 5 6p 18 66 661 81799 18 64% 7 56p 19 $99 99 811 99318 бр VAN SOMMER and SONS, Stock and Discount Brokers, No. 36, Clements Lane, Lombard Street. Of the line. 50 to 44. Frigates. Sloops. Gun-bgs. Total. In Commission Building In Ordinary. ... 161 50 10 59 47 26 THE LITERARY PANORAMA. FOR JANUARY, 1809. NAVIGATION, TRADE, IMPORTS, AND EXPORTS. CONSIDERATIONS ON THE TRADE AND COMMERCE OF GREAT BRITAIN, THE EFFECT OF THE WAREHOUSING SYSTEM, &C. ALSO, TABLES OF THE NAVIGATION, SHIPPING, &c. OF GREAT BRITAIN, FOR SIX YEARS, ENDING JANUARY, 1808. [Ordered to be printed, June 29, 1808.] Parliament, during its last session, ordered to be printed several accounts relative to the Trade and Navigation of Great Britain, the contents of which are extremely important. They have been delivered from the press, since our last number; and, we presume, they will be subjects of discussion in the course of the approaching Session. We find it impossible, from the nature of their contents, which consist wholly of figures and tables, to give a satisfactory analysis of them, and therefore must content ourselves with a few general observations. We have, nevertheless, selected one of them, as being highly proper to convey to our readers some ideas on the extent and consequence, with the present state of our shipping and mercantile concerns. This we have given entire and trust that it will prove satisfactory. The commerce of Great Britain and Ireland, is not a thing, the mere growth of yesterday; it is no sudden or instantaneous shoot, of mere mushroom celerity. It is the result of plans, laid ages ago, and pursued by generation after ge. neration, with that steadiness which characterises our countrymen. We believe, that the value of the trade maintained by these islands in early ages was more, when the circumstances of the times are taken into consideration, than is generally supposed. The spirited attempts of the virtuous, humane, pious, and enterVOL. V. [Lit. Pan. Jan. 1809. prising ALFRED, can never be too much admired: and though they were rendered of no avail by adverse events, after his decease, yet the meed of applause due to him is not diminished. We see him on one hand, holding intercourse with the Indies, and procuring the rich products of the East, by means of the Mediterranean; and on the other, causing the North Sea to be explored, and patronising attempts to break up that barrier of ice, which had effectually precluded the visits of merchants from ports and places, where now the adventurous prow of navigation finds no difficulty. He was a great prince: he knew well that the interior arrangement and prosperity of his kingdom was true glory; but he did not consider that as incompatible with the pursuit of commerce in foreign states. There could hardly fail to be some desire of obtaining foreign commodities, operative among a people, whose very religion led them to visit a distant country, the seat of learning, refinement, and whatever was deemed polite or instructive. Could those who travelled to Rome, on ecclesiastical purposes and pursuits, do otherwise than bring back with them some Specimens of that ingenuity which they beheld there, and of those arts, the productions of which had delighted them in that city? They had experienced gratifications, which they would desire to renew, as far as possible, after their arrival, at home and which they would earnestly wish to communicate to their friends, and in so doing, to increase and diffuse their own personal enjoyments. This must have led to commerce of some kind for if, as is usually understood, the English paid considerable sums in coin, yearly, to Rome,-they must have obtained this coin, by purchasing it with a value, paid not in bullion, but in commodities. |