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to be equal in money to 16 roubles. The gold or filver employed in plate and works of art of all ſorts, is to be of the ſame intrinſic valué with thac of the coinage.

On Tuelday laſt, a deciſion was given in the Court of Common Pleas, and in the café of Harris agaidſt Leuthwaite; which eſtabliſhes, that, upon 2 commercial contra& ftipulating for a performance contrary to law, no damages can be recovered, in the event of non-fulfilment-on either fide.

The ſhipping at Liverpool, and on that coaſt, has ſuffered exceedingly by a ſtorm which took place on the morning of Thurſday Jan. 23d.

The confſtru&ion of new wet docks at Leith, and the enlargement of that harbour, with the new ireedom and aivity of the Baltic‘trade, promiſe a very rapid increaſe of commercial proſpericy to the capital ot North- Britain.

A late valuation has aſcertained the whole: commercial, manufacuring», and money capital of the ſubjects of the King of Sweden to amount to about 196,124,897 rix-dollars."

Portugal coin in gold was, on the 22d’ of January, at the price of al. 3s. 6d. an ounce, in London: foreign gold(ſo called by-the merchants) at 32. 19s. an ounce: new dollars at 5s. 1c# each.

The French Tiers Conſolide, being 6 per cent. intereſt, is now at 574. ‘The Britiſlf z per cents: were on the 22d of January, at 67Z«

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Agriculture.

AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOR JANUARY. ITHBERTO, the winter months have been ſuch as to encourage the moſt fattering hopes of fertility in the enſuing ſeaſcn. They have paſſed in ſhort alternations of froſt and ſnow; neither of theſe, being either extremely intenſe, or of very long continuance.

Chatteris, Fan. 23, 1802.

«« THE almoſt conſtant froſty weather has been extremely favourable for cláyey lands, eſpecially ſuch as were plowed over early after harveſt. The ſnows have greatly preſerved the young wheat plants from being injured by the froíts and winds; and the wheat plants in general are at preſent very healthful, and promiſe fair for a good crop. The growth of the graſs lands as well as thé turnips and cole-ſeed is rather checked; but as ſtore iléck of all kinds are ſcarce, we truſt there will be found a ſufficiency, par- ticularly if the ſpring proves early.

à The froſty weather has alſo enabled the farmers to carry much muck and maänure on the low, and all kinds of lands. Bit ſhould the froſty wea- ther continue, or return frequently, it’ will make the farmers an éxtremely buſy ſpring, or throw their buſinefßs late in the ſeaſon. On all clays they had better ſow the lands that aré ſown broad caſt with a plowing leſs than uſual, eſpecially if there happen a few frofts to make them hatrow well. The corn markets, both’in the metropolis and the country, though theÿ rather flu&tuate, have advanced but little on an average above laſt montl\?s prices. The meat markets, with leſs variation, are in general rather rifing, and we fear will be higher fill before the- ſpring graſs meat is ready for markêët.‘We fear that the frofts have ratl-cr injured ſome pótatoes; end the exaggerated accounts of their being 10 extremely plentiful, have cauſed them to be eaten by hogs and other ſtock more than they ought to have been. ¿JOHN SCOTT?”

‘The well-known profeſſor DANZEL has opened in a convenient ſituation at two miles diſtance from Hamburgh, an in{titution for the education eXs clußiyely of young men intended fox agricultural and commercial employ=-