AN ACCOUNT of the Number of SHIPS, with their TONNAGE and MEN, which arrived in GREAT BRITAIN from DENMARK, NORWAY, SWEDEN, RUSSIA and PRUSSIA, respectively, in the last Twenty Years, distinguishing each Year, and BRITISH from FOREIGN Ships.

AN ACCOUNT of the Number of SHIPS, with their TONNAGE and MEN, which arrived in GREAT BRITAIN from DENMARK, NORWAY, SWEDEN, RUSSIA, and PRUSSIA, respectively, in the last Twenty Years, distinguishing each Year, and BRITISH from FOREIGN Ships.

Note-The Official Books having been destroyed by Fire in the Year 1814-this Account cannot be furnished for the whole period required. The Trade with Denmark and Norway was not separately distinguished until the Year 1817.

THE LEIPZIG MICHAELMAS

FAIR.

Leipzig, December 3. Our Michaelmas Fair has been one of the most distinguished that we have had for many years. We had reason to anticipate this, because we had news that the great Russian fair at Novogrod had been uncommonly brilliant, and the magazines there nearly cleared by large purchases for China and Japan: a great many Russians, Poles, and Greeks, had therefore come to Leipzig, to make new purchases. The Polish Jews were the most numerous. The goods most in request were manufactures of silk, leather, and iron; also woollen cloths and linens. Many great houses dealing in these articles sold their whole stock, and received large orders. One house from Glasgow sold to the amount of 200,000 dollars, and could have sold for 120,000 dollars more, if it would have given credit. A single manufacturer from Iserlohe sold 60 cwt. of needles, and might have sold as many more. The quantity of cotton yarn was immense, and large sums lost upon it, as it was not dearer than the raw cotton itself; viz. No. 4, which during the continental system, was five rix dollars per lb., was now 15 Groschen. (24 to a rix dollar.) Cotton itself was a mere drug, on ac count of the great sale advertised at the India House in London.

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There were French silk goods to the amount of 15,000,000

francs, and on the whole, goods to the value of 22,000,000 dollars (nearly 4,000,000l. sterling) at the fair, exclusive of jewellery and bijouterie. There were in fact few manufactures that did not find an extensive sale; especially woollen articles, as Merinos, bombazines, cachemires, &c. The printed calicoes were not quite so successful. In this article the English brought nothing new, and were therefore quite eclipsed by the French, Saxon, Berlin, and Swiss manufacturers. The English goods were, however, in immense quantities, which tended to depress the prices. The fine cloths of Aixla-Chapelle, Sedan, Verviers, &c. &c. were much in demand, chiefly for Russia. Ordinary German cloths also sold well. A Frenchman residing in England brought 70 or 80 bales of English cloths, kerseymeres and calmucks, and bartered the whole with Jews, for Bohemian and Saxon wool, about 2,000 cwt. The flannel and woollen manufacturers of Halle, Potsdam, &c. had a good fair, but silk goods a most brilliant one; especially those who brought articles calculated for the east. Many waggon loads of silk goods were sent for, by extra post, during the fair, all the warehouses being cleared. English laces had a prodigious sale, to the great injury of the Saxon lace manufacturers, who cannot sell so low as the English, who employ machinery. The Bohemian glass

manufacturers, who have of late years carried their manufactures to a high degree of perfection, were very successful. Leather was one of the articles most sought, especially sole leather from Aix-la-Chapelle, Malmedy, and Maestricht. The price of this article is very high, because Buenos Ayres hides are scarce in England, Holland, and the Hanseatic cities. The linen and damask manufacturers of Silesia, Lusatia, and Biclefeld, did a great deal of business, especially those of Biclefeld, whose goods were much in demand by the Russians. The Silesians have received large orders from Bremen and Hamburgh. The Greeks purchased large quantities of furs; the French hareskins and bristles. The Nuremberg toy and hardware manufacturers were satisfied. It is many years since so much wool has been sold and exchanged the fine wool was soon sold; middling was likewise much in demand, especially for the Netherlands. All the wool in Austria, Moravia, and the county of

Barby, has since been bought up: the price has every where risen considerably. There was but little demand for indigo, and cochineal woods. We have not had for many years so bad a fair for coffee and sugar.

Sweden.-In the most valuable work, "Essay on the Statistics of Sweden," by Mr. P. A. Granberg, we found the following data respecting the proportion between the quantity of fine manufactured goods, made in the country and that annually consumed. "In 1814 the fine and middling cloth manufactured in the kingdom was 183,000 ells, of coarse, 124,000. If we divide the first quantity among the 140,000 respectable families, there will be hardly a pair of breeches for each member of a family; for the wife and children nothing. In 1813, there were 664,588 women who took out licences to wear silks. Our own manufactories produced 82,000 ells, making about three inches for each of those women; but for the men nothing.