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The aggregte amount of the ſales of goods from India and China, in the year 1799-1800, was 10,160,510l. which is leſs than the ſales of the laſt year, in the ſum of 154,646). The goods ſold on account of the Company wereto a leſs amount by 269,3391.; thoſe on account of private traders ex- ceeded the laſt year in 70y,0211.; and thoſe termed neutral property, by 107,6721,; being together an exceſs of$14,6931.; making a net diminution in the amount ct ſales, as above ſtated, 153,646l.—a diminution ſcarcely re- quiring notice, when the ſurprifing rapid increaſe in the laſt year is taken into conhideration.

By the neareſt calculation made from the accounts laid before the Com- mittee, the advances in India for the inveſtments for Europe, and the charges on the commerce, in the courſe of the laſt year, are eſtimated to amount to about 2,700,000ol. including the ſupplies to Canton. y

Rice has riſen in price nearly 4s. pér ewt. within a few days—the beſt new Carolina ſells at zos. A few weeks will bring many thouſand cwt. to the market, and there‘is, in fa, more im the country at preſent than at any former period, ſo that the dealers, who now ſint the ſupply,‘in order to en- hance its price, will probably ſuffer by the ſpeculation.

At the Coal Exchange, on Friday.the’ 17th ult. the belt coals( Wall’s Eñd) ſold at 41s, per chaldron.

Refined ſugars felt a general depreſſion during the laſt week, but raw arti- cles held their prices, though of heavy ſale. Teas, with the exception ef belt Souchong, are cheaper.

The quantity of wine brought by the fleet, which on Thurſday and Friday arrived in the ſeveral ports of the Channel, has, from the unfortunate ſituation of Portugal, greatly exceeded the importation of any former year.

The price of flour in America has, in conſequence of the great demand, riſen to 13 dollars per barrel;¡—ſo abundant was the laſt harveft, that the farmers did not calculate to receive more than five dollars per barrel.

The ſales of ſalt in Bengal have for many years uniformly exceeded the eſtimate, The defalcation the Company have experienced in that article of late was in part produced by impediments to the manufa@ure in Bengal, and in part by the non-fulfil.nent of the contras for coalt ſale.

Expence of colleéling the Public Revenue.

Cuſtoms Lili6 i175 Per Cte Exciſe—————— YA 2 T°) Stamps—— QU ¿0:57

Land and Aſſeſſed Taxes 3 a2 8

Poſt Office—————— 40 x7: 6 Shilling in the Pound on Penſons_ A O Sixpence in the Pound ditto— 1/430/ 4 Hackney Coaches— o 8-2 Hawkers and Pedlars— 42 16 10

Total permanent Revenue— 6

A The new canal fiom Uxbridge to Paddington was opened on the, 10th of taſt month, and boats with goods now go conſtantly thereon. There is alſo a very commodious paſſage boat, in imitation of that on the Dúke of Bridge- water’s canal, which will go daily to Uxbridge and back again,

Agriculture.

AGRICULTURAL REPORT, fr JULY, 1801. ba of the wheats are a little injured by the ſmut, and others, where the land is vecy rich, rather affeé&ed with mill-dew; but where the crops were-rather light, the late rains have increaſed the growth, and filled the ear