METEOROLOGICAL TABLE, extracted from the Register kept on the Banks of the Tay, four miles east from Perth, Latitude 56° 25′, Elevation 185 feet. Fair days, 12; rainy days, 16. Wind west of meridian, 20; east of meridian, 8. METEOROLOGICAL TABLE, extracted from the Register kept at Edinburgh, in the Observatory, Calton-hill. N.B.-The Observations are made twice every day, at nine o'clock, forenoon, and four o'clock, afternoon. The second Observation in the afternoon, in the first column, is taken by the Register Thermometer. 1819. Register-Commercial Report. COMMERCIAL REPORT.-11th March 1819. Sugar. THE Sugar market has been heavy, and the prices rather on the decline. Some large holders, however, seem not inclined to sell at the present prices, and an advance is Considering the quantity on hand, it is difficult to say what therefore looked forward to. is the cause of the unusual dulness in the market for this article; but the most probable is, the great pressure in mercantile concerns in general, which has thrown a gloom over commercial affairs, and therefore keeps buyers out of the market for any thing except for imIn the Refined market there has been a considerable request for good mediate want. brown lumps. The inquiry for Foreign Sugars continue, but few actual sales have been effected. Molasses may be purchased cheaper.Cotton. The market for this article may still be stated as exceedingly dull, and prices considerably on the decline. The want of money has occasioned some sales to have been made at low rates; but from the quantity on hand, the quantity coming to market, and the prices in America, it is probable price, though not in such proportion as it has for some time that Cotton will yet decline done. The quantity imported, during the two first months of the present year, is 73,919 bales and packages-being 7,386 bales and packages more than during the corresponding period of last year. Unless some check is put to the importation of this article, prices must decline, so long as the supply continues so greatly to exceed the demand. This demand is no doubt increasing, and all the branches of Cotton manufactures are in full activity.Coffee. There are several inquiries for Coffee by private contract, and in this article there is every appearance of an improving market. St Domingo, Brazil, and Jamaica, have chiefly been inquired after. East India has also been in request.Tobacco. The late fall in this article has brought a considerable number of foreign orders. In consequence of this, Kentucky's have risen about 4d. per lib. However, we cannot well expect any material improvement in the market, from Continental orders, as it is reported that very considerable stocks of Porto Rico are on hand.Corn. The Grain market may be stated as dull, and the prices on the decline. The Provision market is very dull, and Pork may be purchased cheaper. Mediterranean produce continues very dull. Brandy has declined greatly in price, and may now be supposed as having seen the lowest. Geneva is without any material alteration. Although there has been no large sales of Rum, yet the inquiries have materially increased, and the market appears improving.-Wine is rather on the advance, particularly Port and Madeira. In none of the other articles of merchandise, usually enumerated, are there any alteration or movement worth noticing. The pressure upon some branches of our Since our last Report, and as we therein anticipated, a general gloom and want of confidence has overspread the commercial world. We are mistaken if it lasts long, and trade has been very great, proceeding from the causes we there detailed. That pressure continues, and will yet continue for a short time. are also convinced that the greatest danger is over, as there is every prospect of permanent tranquillity among the nations of Europe. In an extended trade like ours, difficulties must at times arise; but these are but of short duration, and though injurious to individuals, yet seldom fail to open up new and safer channels for national industry. The public funds, which have considerably declined in consequence of the alarim, are beginning to recover, and there can be little doubt but they will steadily advance to a high price. From all we can perceive, the sum for the service of the year is provided for without loans, or touching the sinking fund. Last year, leaving untouched that fund, the deficiency of the revenue to the expenditure was £12,000,000. The surplus revenue, and improvement in it, was nearly equal to four millions. The expenditure, we learn, was lessened two millions. These, taken together, make six millions. The Chancellor of the Exchequer states his intention to be, to take six millions from the seven millions of unclaimed dividends remaining in the Bank. This will give him, when joined to the saving and additional revenue, £12,000,000-a sum equal to last year's deficiency, even should this sum not be increased by a farther improvement in the revenue, and a still farther diminution of the national expenditure; which, however, to a certain degree, may be confidently anticipated. Much unnecessary alarm and trouble is occasioned by the subject of the resumption of If it is supposed that the immense trade of this country must and can cash payments. only be carried on by a circulating medium of gold and silver, the mistake will soon be discovered, and the delusion vanish. No circulating medium we could procure of this kind would enable us to carry on one half the trade we now do. The fact is, gold and silver are in themselves purely mercantile commodities. They have their value like every other article of trade, and will continue to have it in every commercial country, in proportion to other articles of trade and industry. The circulating medium best adapted for any that which can be conveyed or transmitted from place to place at commercial country, the least possible expense, and with the greatest safety and facility. Our present circulat ing medium is that currency. It is the property, skill, honour, and industry of a great people, all called forth and put in activity, and which has more value and more stability than either gold or silver, and which will always command and control these precious metals. As the trade and navigation of this country are intimately connected, so any improvement in the latter is of the utmost importance to the former. On this account, we announce, with satisfaction and confidence, an invention which we believe will prove one of the most important ever brought to light for navigation. This is a new mode of impelling vessels by steam, and which is equally applicable to vessels of every size and every description. A patent has, we understand, been obtained for it, and the discovery will soon be submitted to the world. We have seen the principle; and its extreme simplicity, we are satisfied, must ensure success. It will embrace the three great objects-despatch, certainty, and security; and last, and not least, greatly lessening all expenses connected with navigation. Impelled by it, vessels of any description may with perfect safety and security visit any country, every port, and traverse every sea. Storms cannot retard, nor contrary winds detain them; nor can the machinery sustain any injury but what may be easily repaired, and in a short period, unless the ship is dashed to pieces. As the vessel is increased in tonage, so will the proportionate impelling power act with greater effect. It will carry vessels along a canal without the slightest injury to its banks. It will not only impel a ship with any necessary speed, but will also, at the same time, pump her to an extent scarcely credible, should extended power be necessary :-it will also ventilate her, clear her of bad air, and supply her with good; but, with a trifling expense, afford the crew fresh water and dry their clothes. A machinery of a curious construction may be attached to any vessel, so as to deepen either rivers or canals with an extraordinary facility and effect. No part of the power employed for propelling the vessel will be lost. Every particle tells, and with the greatest effect. In estimating the power, we confine ourselves within moderate bounds when we state, that a loaded merchantman of the first class, may, in fifteen days from the Clyde, reach any of the Leeward Islands, and at an expense not exceeding £20 for fuel, if so much. The principle is so safe and so powerful, that unless a ship is run ashore designedly, or from accidents such as no human foresight could avert or provide against, such fatal and destructive, and so frequent events, can no longer take place. She can be borne off in the face of any current, swell, or tempest; and, by a simple and ingenious contrivance, the vessel may be turned in a moment in any direction, at whatever speed she may be going. We have never seen an invention so simple, and which may, at the same time, be rendered of such extensive utility. And unless fluids become solids, steam ice-unless "The scales are false and algebra lie," the principle must succeed, and to an extent, we believe, beyond the most sanguine hopes of the discoverer of it. The machinery may also be worked by wind or animal strength. Course of Exchange, March 5. -Amsterdam, 11: 6:2 U. Antwerp, 11: 8. Ex. Hamburgh, 34: 24 U. Frankfort, 1404 Ex. Paris, 24: z. drid, 30% effect. Cadiz, 304 effect. Gibraltar, 34. Leghorn, 51. 50. Naples, 414. Palermo, 123 per oz. Oporto, 58. Rio Janeiro, 64. Dublin, 103. Cork, 10. Agio of the Bank of Holland, 2. Prices of Gold and Silver, per oz.-Portugal gold, in coin, £0: 0:0. în bars, 4:1:6. New doubloons, £4:2:0. New dollars, 5s. 6d. Foreign gold, Silver, in bars, 5s. 6d. 1819.] Register-Commercial Report. PRICES CURRENT.-Jan 30.-London, March 5, 1819. DUTIES. LEITH. Fine and very fine, 92 96 91 Refined, Doub. Loaves, 150 160 Powder ditto, 119 126 Single ditto, 117 122 116 Small Lumps 111 116 110 Large ditto, 107 111 105 Crushed Lumps, 62 66 CO MOLASSES, British, cwt. 36 Ord good, and fine ord. Dutch, Triage and very ord. Mid. good, and fine mid. PIMENTO (in Bond) gall. 3s 10d 4s Od 3s 8d 3s 10d 120 132 118 133 147 131 116 122 120 136 144 134 140 TALLOW, Rus. Yel. Cand. 70 Home Melted, HEMP, Riga Rhine, Petersburgh Clean, Riga Thies. & Druj. Rak. MATS, Archangel, BRISTLES, Petersburgh Firsts, ASHES, Peters. Pearl, Montreal ditto, ton. 52 100. 90 Pot, 49 45 tun. 35 36 32 46 48 38 39 Middling, TOBACCO, Virgin. fine, lb. 11 Inferior, COTON'S, Bowed Georg. Sea Island, fine, 12 11 110 10 103 94 10 0 9 10 8 Good, Middling, Demerara and Berbice, West India, Pernambuco, Maranham, 1 4 911 2 8 12221 1 5 4 1 1 8 1 8 19 1 797 GLASGOW. (LIVERPOOL LONDON. 63 to 87 76 75 to 73 75 82 £1 10 0 94 93 96 86 88 130 151 104 117 120 120 122 106 116 112 (120 124 103 105 108 108 114 100 102 68 70 73 36 35 32 6 076 140 145 1145 150 100 136 130 136 142 114 150 per lb. 192 126 91 5s Od 4 6 5 6(B.S. 0 0 73 0094 08 14 0 17 04 3 6 F.S. 0 17 113 15 6 50 58 30 65 25 58 0 7 15 8 10 8 8 0 0 85 0910 9 10 11 11 12 0 12 014 14 10 9s Od 11 £35 65 0F.S.) 148 4 6 B.S. 95 11 38 DF.S. 98 16 65 0B.S. 96 13 900000 6 0914 6 032 00 111000 0 39 4 11 3 0 311 4 06 63 0 10 10 per 100 lbs. 17 72 ALPHABETICAL LIST OF ENGLISH BANKRUPTCIES, announced between the 20th of Atkinson, J. W. Mitcham, farmer Adams', S. and J. J. Wattleworth, Walsall, Staf fordshire, saddlers Blyth, Hull, corn-merchant Buroughes, J. Great Hermitage-street, spirit-mer- Brown, W. St John's-street, cheesemonger Burn, W. Exeter, draper Birch, W. Great Queen-street Batt, E. J. Backshell, and A. W. Batt, Whitney Boniface, Charles, jun. Chichester, mealman Barfoot, J Arundel-street Strand, fancy-stationer Cullimore, T. Wickwar, Gloucestershire, maltster Cregston, William, Kingston-upon-Hull, merchant Cushon, Thomas, minories, London, hat-manufacturer Churcher, J. Pristol, hair-preparer Cousins, J. Chalton-street, Somers-town, cheesemonger Dodsworth, W. ship-carpenter Foulerton, J. Upper Bedford-place, merchant Fielding, James, Budge-row, London, auctioneer turer Fairclough, R. Tavington, Lancaster, tanner Greathead, T. and W. Outhwaite, Lamb-street, Gray, G. Hammersmith, carpenter Hattersley, M. Bilton with Harrogate, hotel-keeper man Hopper, C. Little Trinity-lane, lace-dealer Hatton, J. Warrington, Lancaster, butcher Jackson, C. Upper Thames-street, sugar-factor Johnson, J. Commercial-road, merchant Kidd, J. Castle-coomb, Wilts, butcher Levy, L. Great Prescot-street, merchant Lloyd, J. Tibberton, Hereford, farmer Lewis, W. Beak street, Golden-square, woollendraper Lloyd, W. Shrewsbury, tailor Longden, J. Peak-forest, Derbyshire, meal-seller Loft, G. Woodbridge, Suffolk, coal-merchant Mottram, C. Winchester-street, merchant Marchant, M. Poplar, cow-keeper Morgan, W. and W. Matthews, Newport, Monmouthshire, common brewers Matthews, E. College-hill, merchant Martin, W. Leadenhall-market, cheesemonger Mitchell, Thomas, late of Cowick, York, linendraper Naylor, M. and G. Darlington, leather-dressers Oliver, J. and N. Gibbs, Ingraham, jun. Broadstreet, and Plymouth, merchants Opton, G. Queen-street, oil and colour merchant O'Hara, M. Hertfordshire, innkeeper Pickman, J. Deptford, maltster Powell, G. Little Trinity-lane, Queenhithe, baker Pitcher, J. Upper Thames-street, carpenter vener Peake, S. jun., and J. Ruthwell, Lancaster, calicoprinters Paul, J. Circus-minories, merchant Rothwell, J. Mortfield, Lancashire, whister Randall, J. Pancras-street, Tottenham-court-road, auctioneer Ratheld, J. Edward-street, Cavendish-square, dealer Reed, T. and J. Middlemas, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, merchants Ross, J. Castle-inn, Woodford, Essex, victualler Smyth, E. St Martin's-court, St Martin's-lane, shoemaker Sayer, E. Bath, tailor Stansfield, J. Manchester, merchant Still, J. South Island-place, Brixton, merchart Simpson, R. Hull, Bank-buildings, merchant Towsey, J. jun. Blandford-forum, stone-mason Taylor, R. Witney, mealman Towsey, J. jun. and S. Lloyd, Blandford-forum Thompson, T. Kirkham, Lancashire, tanner Tricker, C. jun. Stoke Newington, merchant Thick, J. Islington, broker Wilbeam, J. H. Dockhead, distiller Wilks, R. Chancery-lane, printer Whates, R. Wapping-street, anchor-smith Wilkinson, H. Liverpool, merchant Watson, J. Gravesend, coachmaster Watkinson, W. Strand, boot and shoe-maker ALPHABETICAL LIST of SCOTCH BANKRUPTCIES, announced between 1st and 28th February 1819, extracted from the Edinburgh Gazette. Brown, William, sen, and William Brown, jun. joint tacksmen of Townend of Craigie, and dealers in saddlery, Kilmarnock Blair, James, some time of the Island of St Thomas, and partner of M'Gouns, Watson, and Co. merchants; lately carrying on business at Greenock under that firm, and at St Thomas' aforesaid, under the firm of James Blair and Co. Bald, William, merchant, Glasgow Hector, James, merchant, Aberdeen Haddow and Dale, merchants, Glasgow: and Robert Haddow, James Dale, Archibald Waddel, and John Wiseman, partners of said Company, as individuals Haddow, Scott, and Dale, merchants, Glasgow, and M'Lachlan, Donald and Lachlan, carrying on business at Leith, as merchants, under the firm of D. and L. M'Lachlan M'Farlane, Rennie, and Company, merchants, Glasgow; and David M'Farlane and H. S. Rennie, partners of that Company, as individuals M'Indoe, Robert, agent, Glasgow M'Grigor, Peter, and Company, calico-printers, Glasgow; and Peter M'Grigor, Alexander M'Gr gor, and Archibald M'Grigor, the individual partners of said Company Paton, Alexander, and Company, manufacturers, Glasgow, and Alexander Paton, manufacturer there, as the individual partner of that Company Petrie, James, jun. merchant, Aberdeen Scott. James, flour-miller and grain-dealer, Aberdeen Stein, Robert, and Company, brewers, Canongate, Edinburgh, and Robert Stein, the sole partner of that Company |