By letters from the New York Packet, dated October 6, from Philadelphia, we learn that there has been a very fine harvest in the Southern States, and that the wheat has been wonderfully productive. A very large quantity had been bought up for the Spanish markets. The quality of European goods, imported the last season …
The Indian ships lately returned from Madras and Bengal, gives unfavourable accounts of all the branches of commerce, except that of matrimony, which has succeeded wonderfully in the last female exportations. Out of eleven ladies, who embarked on a marriage venture on board the Chesterfield, Captain Burgess, nine were connubially linked to weakly husbands within …
Advices from Baltimore, in Maryland, say that all the wheat and flour that could be purchased was actually contracted for throughout that fertile province, on the 10th of October last, for the French market, and it was thought the same man–uvre had taken place at New York, Philadelphia, and Rhode Island. Citation: Glasgow Advertiser (Glasgow, …
The Minister is now said to be employed in drawing up two plans, which will give rise to very warm debates in Parliament : one is for settling a commercial arrangement between Great Britain and Ireland ; the other for giving a constitution to Canada. In feeling the former, the Minister will have to contend …
By letters from America, dated the 5th ult. we learn, that wheat is so great a crop all over the Provinces, that it has fallen at Virginia to [?] a bushel. At Philadelphia it is 7s. 6d. paper currency, about 3s. 8d. Sterling per bushel;–which has reduced the price in France in from 48s. to …
The Americans have refused every kind of supply of grain to the French, without the ready money. M. de Mirabeau’s scheme of receiving the debt of the United States due to France, proves an abortion. Citation: Glasgow Advertiser (Glasgow, United Kingdom), 25 December 1789, available at the Scissors and Paste Database, http://www.scissorsandpaste.net/52.
In consequence of the order of the Privy council, the merchants of Bristol, have sent large orders to America for wheat, where the crop has been the greatest ever known. Citation: Glasgow Advertiser (Glasgow, United Kingdom), 07 December 1789, available at the Scissors and Paste Database, http://www.scissorsandpaste.net/55.
Orders are sent to Plymouth for the Echo sloop of war, Capt. Drew, lately arrived from Newfoundland, and now lying in the Sound, to get ready for sea, and proceed with all possible dispatch to New York–to acquaint the American Merchants, that the British ports are open for the importation of American wheat :–It is …
The West India merchants, who were in the utmost anxiety for the arrival of the packet from the West Indies, have been most agreebly relieed from their apprehensions. The account of the insurrections in Martinique, which we received through France, and which has been since confirmed in the National Assembly, naturally alarmed them for the …
Boston, July 31. The building of an Indiaman goes on with rapidity, and, it is said, will be launched about the 20th of October, and is pronounced by judges to be an excellent piece of workshmanship. Citation: Glasgow Advertiser (Glasgow, United Kingdom), 09 October 1789, available at the Scissors and Paste Database, http://www.scissorsandpaste.net/21.