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NMI IMAMMENTART pitoaEibilvvs. HIGH PRICE OP CORN. The laft Report of the Committee of the Honk of Commons on the High Price of Provifions con tains, in an appendix, the depofitions of many per.. Eons connefted with the Corn-market, refpeain the mode of conduaing buflnefs there. Much in terefting information is difclofed. The objea of the Committee ferns to be, to prevent faaors from being dealers alto, as in that doable capacity they , have it in their power to influence the market.— The following is the Slit dotion : Essamisatala ti t ttatsrot ep na fi l SaTii.o, En. A MEMIlta. Q In what manner, and by what perfons, is the Corn Trade at the Exchange carried on ? A. The fupply in general is from farmers and corn mer chants, maltfters, and millewe there articles come configned to different faitbrs, and therefore are in general fold in the firft inftance by cornmifEon ; the wheat is chiefly fold to the millers, and at times, of exportation to {hipping fa tors ; the barley tel t maltfters and diftillers ; the malt to brewers and 1 diftillers ; the oatsare chiefly fold to what are call-1 ed jobbers or dealers; to them alto is fold a ma•l tens! part of the beans ; the tick beans, a material part of them, are fold to the (hipping factors for the Weft India Plantatiorfs ; the white peafe atefold' I for the nfe of the navy, and to perfons who make a trade of fplitting them, and furnifh the corn i chandlers with them far general confumption. Q.., What number of factors are there ?—A. In' my time there were thirty-three hooks, compof about fifty-three individuals. Ninety-nine parts of the corn out of oar hundred are fold in the firft in fiance by fationor hoymen ; the hundredth may' conftft of occafional parcels brought by perfons from different places in the neighbourhood. of London, and fold by them, they not being faaers r and have no &ands ; there parcels may fometimes -.. confift of two or three hundred quarters each, and are moftly brought when there are orders in the market for exportation ; at prefent, I conceive, there are hardly any fuch. A confiderable quan tity of corn comes from the coati of Kent weekly, chiefly fent by the farmers, and fold by Kentilh hoymen ; from the nearer parts of Eget, and fosse' , • part of Suffolk, the corn is chiefly fent by grow ers, and fold by faiftors in runs ; from the• morel !- • diftant parts of Elks, and all the other counties, fuch as Norfolk, the other part of Suffolk and Ef ' - fez, Lincolnfhire, Yorkfhire, Suffer, &c. it comes . from corn merchants, who have bought of the far men in thefe counties. In the article of wheat, the larger proportion is fent by the growers , of barley, malt, and oats , the grea ter p ro p ortion I comes from the merchants. i Q_. Do the perfons who at as fedora to fell corn, ad alto to buy ?—A. Yes. --• Q._ Do the millers fell by (*am, or by them- 1 Calves ?—A. A miller living far from London, and wanting wheat, would probably buy by a fa:lor ; ; ob. millers near town buy themfelees. Q. Do the suille.• in the neighbourhood of Lon- , I don buy wheat chiefly in London, or,:n d......,,,,,... try round them ?--A. They always attend the London market as well as the country markets in their own vicinity; in a year, with reafonable good crops, thofe who don't live very near London buy the greater part in the country. Q. Do the millers who boy wheat ever fell it again as wheat ?—A. I think they buy only for the fupply of their own mills ;Oft Co the maltiers with refpe& to barley. Q._Do you conceive that any perfons who h ave boneat wheat and barley in the London market, eve fell the fame corn again in Mark-lane ?A. I have known it frequently done in times of plenty, and it then might be emfidered to have bad a good *Sea; and I believe that praftics has obtained a good deal of late years when there has been a fear. city, at which times I believe it to be very preju dicial s in times of plenty, fpecnlators tend to keep the market more on a level; whereas, in dints of felinit, they have it in their power to influence the market too much, to the dtfadeantage of the public. 0 O Are there any perfons who, in faa, make it their chief bufinefs to buy corn for the purpofe of felling it again in the fame market on the fame market day ?A. I ca n not Rate that any parkins make it their chief buftnefs. Q z _ Do you believe the praaice prevails to any extent ? A. I think not to any material extent. Q. As far as it goes, has it a tendency to mile the market price ?—A. It has. Q What is the chief bufinefs of thole perfons avhodo enter into this praaice?—A. I conceive they are perfons connefted in one way or another with the corn trade ; and hafing property and credo. and conceiving the prices will go higher may make purchafes with a view to fell again ; fnch they confider as a fair epecalation. Q.__Do you conceive a larger quantity of the weekly (apply is bought on (peculation now, than ufually is when the prices are moderate ?—Aa I believe not; and I rather think not fo much. Do you conceive the buying on (peculation .? in times like the prefent , can ha ve a material of fal in railing or keeping up the price?—Vary ma terially fo. Do you mean that the price is more raifed on a given day by any quantity bought onlpecn-1 Cation, than if the fame quantity was bought for immediate nee ?—A. It being' bought on (pecula tion, and not for confnmption, undoubtedly tends to enhance the prices. Q. In what manner?—A. Becaufe the confnmer mut be fapplisd at whatever price be is obliged to give ; and if that which he might have bought at a fair market price has previonfiy got into the hands of a emulator, the former mug go without OT give the latter his price; another reafon is the haying on fpecubitioa creates an opinion in th; market. O r _ pt l e r s a o ?o ll Loaners cwt one of fifteen a and;are lebo;glit on irtars are Cold in a fabfequent market, and by the fame perinea, in addition to *jlipply of 12,000 nnariers, would not its {ale is the Letter market r^.-• the price, as it has had in the former in raifing.er keeping it up ?—A. I believe not; the buying is generally a matter of notoriety, the advance it ec cafioned fpreads itfelf through the king dom, and 1 when the prices are once got up, farmers can, and do, in their prevent flo t ation, fupply the markets, in filch manner, as to prevent almoft any decline in the prices. Q., Can that be done by the farmers other than by withholding, in a certain degree, their fupply ? —A. I do not conceive that it can. 1 Q : Can this happ en generally in the country, and for any length o time, vvithoutleaving alarger flock than tifual in hand at the time of next bar. vett ?—A. I conceive it may. Q :. Will not the prices fall in proportion its a quantity of the flock in hand is in the hands of =Turners, and not of perfons who mean to fell again ?—A. It being in the hands of the confumer, rather than the (peculator, will tend more than any thing elle in lowering the prices. a. Do you apprehend the corn i s held hack at _e nt by the growers or the jobbers ?—A. By 1 Q. Do you think that a given quantity of corn brought for fele into a fcanty market, would lower the price in the fame proportion in which the price would be railed if the fame quantity was bought out of a fcanty market ?—A.I think it would not; 1 I am Rretty certain of it. ODo you think that a given quantity of corn brought for Pale into a plentiful market, would lower the price in the fame proportion in which the price would be railed if the fame quantity was bought out of a fcanty market 2—A. Certainly not. LONDON. t THURSDAY, JULY 1. PRICE OP STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK: Coat for opening 631 , 4--Redseed 4 Per Cent. So—New 5 pa t Coat. 96F-Omnium 91 to preen. ?RIC/ OP STOCKS YESTIIIDAY 3 per fit. Red- 64 43 Long Ann. al 7 , 46 3 pa C. COMIC Slut Imp. 3 pa C. 50 I Pee Can- 79 ft i Irlfh spe r Cent. tt 5 per C. Nary Phut ODRA= stit 10 5 pa C. Loy. 9 6 1 Conf. for Ace. 653 PARIS, IRKS Catfolide 47. We have the pleafure of announcing. that the' Nautilus arrived at Briflol from Tobago, parted from the Leeward Ifland fleet on the qtly ult. in lat. 42. long. 46. Their arrival therefore may be daily expeeted.—See our Brillol letter. This morning we received French Journals up to the 29th inclufive. They were brought to Dover by a returned flag of truce, which failed again yefterday morning at four o'clock, in con fequence of the arrival of a courier from London with difpatches. Their contents, which contain my little of importance; will be found in the fub fequent columns. This morning Alb difpatches were received at the Secretary of State's Office from Lord MINTO, at Vienna, brought over in the packet by Mr, McLane, a King's Mellinger. Thefe difpatches contain tome further account of the operations of the Britifh army in Egypt : Among the prifoners taken at Rhamanie was a French officer, on whom were found feveral important papers Iphich the Meflinger brought along with the fdpatches. - This day s Lifbon Mail was received in town. The packet which brought it teft Lifbon on the 14th, at which time peace was Paid to have been concluded between France, Spain and Portugal.— If this intelligence be correit, it is rather ftrange that no account of fo important an event lhould have reached Paris in the courfe of a fortnight. The French Journals which arrived this morning, of the 29th, snake no mention,of fuch an event. For the molt important articles brought by the Iliad we refer to our extra As. PARIS JOURNALS - Pr z alto, Jos Ellen cruizrrs cos tints; to infeft our coafts, and intercept a part of she veal' laden with corn which we espea in Apulia. Great fcarcity prevails here, but fortu nately the new harveft promifes to be abundant. V,lsxA, Just t3.—His Royal Highnefs the Archduke CHARLES, who on the tit of June was appointed Knight of the Teutonic Order, with a difpenfation from the ufual vows, was inftalled yd. terday with the greateft folemnity into the dig nity of Co-adjutot, to which he was unanitnemily elated on the 3d. The Etstraos and Eurasia, the Qusaw of N 4101.13, with the Ascanoass and Aactiouctiessas, Alined at the ceremony. His Highnefs the Eleaor of Comtism', Grand Mailer of the Order, gave is grand dinner and gala on she occafion. The Marquis de GALL• arrived here from Paris on the totlhand immediately waited on the (Ipso' of Nartas, after which he had an audience of his MAJIIITYtiO whom he delivered letters from Count de Cows-zit. The. Marquis de GALLO will re main here as Ambaffador from his Sicitias Ma- ,IFSTY• • , FRANCErOILT. jowl 19.-.. According to letters emu Petcribu:sh, M. de )(miaow was taken ill jutt when about to fet out for Paris. The two brothers, Prince and Count So sow, have received orders to travel in foreign countries, which has produced at Peter(burgh a. great fenfation. The removal of the fetiuearation on the polref- 4.04 41. 44: fions of -the States of the Empire, i .fiittated 'on the left bank of the Rhine, has met with new obft.icles, at leak it has been for the prefent deferred. The French government, it is Paid, will not confent to this meaftrie till the exe cution of the d*Tpofiticns agreed to by the Treaty of Luneville than have been terminated. STUTTGARD, jll/11E 18.—In confequence of a propofal made by the Archduke CH*Rs.el, the Tyrol, it is Paid, will he htereafter confidered as the principal bulwark of the Aultrian Monarchy.— The whole ,divifion of Engineers, under Colonel Luz, as well as feveral companies of miners, have received orders to repair to the frontiers of that province, to fortify the pates of Nauders, Finfter-' munz, Glurentz, Renti, &c. A great many troops are silo about to mafth to the Tyrol• HAMSURCH, JUT4II merchants of this city have received orders from their Englifh cor refpondenu tofell at any price the goodsdepofited in their hands, and particularly fugar. A report is fpread, that an in vafion of Lower Saxony by the French is apprehended at London, but this is groundlefs. It is more probable, that the expeti ed arrival of the Welt India fleet, which will bring home an immenfe quantity of fugar, was the caufe of the above orders given by the Englifh mer chants, who forefee a decreafe in the price of that article. Haocia, Jews a r.—The Executive Direltory has prefented two meffages to the Legiflati ve Body, in which it propofes to limit the liberty of the profs, which tome individuals have employed for the purpofe of exciting alarm among the inhabi tants of the Republic, in regard to certain mea fares of the Government : thole melfages have been referred to a commiffion. .Jowl 22.—1 n the Sitting of the firft Chamber of the Legiflative Body, the report of the com miffion appointed to examine the meffages from the Executive Power, requefting that a law might be enafted to retrain the abufes of the liberty of the profs, was heard.—The comraiffion was of opinion, that the Executive Power should be in vited to give a farther explanation of its requeft on account of the difficulties ariling from the too vague manner in which the meffages were couched; and the Legiflative Body palled a decree agreeably to the opinion of its commillion. Just 23.—The Dire Cory have granted per million to the famous VANDEIL NOOTp one ache principal authors of the Revolution in Brabant, to remain in the interior of the Republic, under the particular infpeEtion of the Municipality in which he has chofen his refidence. General Aaasalau fet out this morning for Paris. HAMBURGH MAIL. VIENNA, Juss r2.—The following is a more circumftantial account of the taking of Rhamanie, as received in a letter from Conftantinople : “ According to accounts from Egypt, of the date of the rzth May, the CAPTAIN PASHA had .taken with his corps an advantageous pounce:MlT 4SE fortrefs of Rhamanie, and on the 9th fum mooed the garrifon, which confifled of above 2,006 men, to furrender; but this the Comman dant refaced. The CAPTAIN PASHA therefore re folved, without lofing time by a formal liege, to , attempt to carry the place by form, for whichthe neceffary requifites were prepared with incredible difpatch. The affault was made on the loth ; the enemy made an obftinate defence, and the lots was very confiderable on both fides; but as Coon as the Frexich perceived that they were engaged with a fbree much fuperior in numbers, and that the CAPTAIN PASHA was in polieffion of an impor- ' ,tart pats which led to the fortrcfs, they hoifted the white flag and furrendered at difcretion. While the PASHA, however, was drawing off his troops from further hoftilities, and making preparations', to take poiTeCGon of the place, the greater part of the garrifon found means to make their efeapest tad retired to Cairo : fo that befides killed anal ,ycitmded, not more than zoo were made prifonels 4 11111 . Turks, however, took a great quantity at attitlery, ammunition, and provifions. •s, The CAPTAIN Pas iht, on learning the retreat'• of the French to Cairo, immediately advanced againit that city, where the Gaaaa Vizisa, as it fortnnateljlihappened, had arrived at the fame time on the oppofite ilde.—lt is noiv expeCted that Cairo will fall before Alexandria; though the garrifon of the latter place, when the courier fet off, had offered to capitulate, but on conditions which were refuted by General HuTCUINSON." The Note has been publiihed here which 14 KALITSCHur gave in to the French Government relative to the KINGS of Nasi-as and SARDINIA, to procure for thofe Monarchs the repoffelLon and fecurity of their dominions; but to which, on the part of France, no anfwcr was returned. The note of M. KALITSCHISF is dated the 26th of April, and it is obferved in it, that the re-ella bliihment of a good underftanding between Ruffle and Franca mutt depend as a principal condi tion, on the leaning of the integrity of the poi*. fellions of the Kiwo of garish and the reftora tion of the Kumis of Sawmill& t ghat aaingare the treaty of Foligna, end,every coneeffion ex tattled from the Krim of Mertes by force of sirmi, could not be acknowledged. It was hoped, that according to the affurances of the Fiasr Cos. nut, the time was now arrived when we might calmly confider future confequences, and when the (yam of dettriglion of the late Direaory thould &ale. The Minifter Ta LL E r RAND was requefted to make known the fentiments of the FIRST Cow. SUL on there ohjeSs. As no anfwer, however, was returned, a fecond note was given in by M. KALITSCHEFF, in which the fame fubjeslt was re fumed. . . Fa aw c [FORT, JUICE VS.—The Rupublican troops 'sad thole of the Eleflor of Mentz, at COO, ob terve the DriEteft difcipline : they have free guar. tars, but pay every thing elfe in ready money.— Kehl is again evacuated by the French troops, and occupied by a corps of infantry, from the troops Of the Margrave of Baden. Ve are no longer under any uneafinefs here, on account of the fteps lately taken by` the French on the right bank of the Rhine. The arprehentions that had lately been ' entertained, on the Lower Rhine, with refpea to fret fcenes of war, have likewife vanilhed. The Courts of Berlin and St. Peterfburgh have both 'adopted one fyftern concerning certain political ar- • rangements. Five thoufand men of the troops of the Landgrave of Heffe-D;u - mtladt, that have been reviewed near Darmfladt, Dill remain affembled in that neighbourhood. Tile Bilhop of Spiers re turned to Bruchfal, on the loth Wilma, after an abfence of two years and an half. HAINIRTROH, JUNE a3.—According to accounts from St. Peterlburgh, the negotiations between the Government of Ruffia and the Engin Pleni potentiary, Lord Sr. HELENS, Dill continue ex tremely attire; and it is hoped that all difputes, oceationed by the Convention of Neutrality, will speedily be adjufled. llxrwrar, Just B.—The flat-bottomed armed vetch at Boulogne andCalais,have received orders to hold themfelves in readincfs to proceed as Coon potEble to Dunkirk, to join the flotilla there, which is now completely ready to fail. There ref._ Eels will be accompanied by fame brigs and floops: The naval force, which is at Havre-de-Grace, will likewiitrepair to Dunkirk. The Englifh appear to be well informed of the views of the French, as. five frigates are crtfizing before Havre ; three !hips of war are Rationed betafeen Calais and Bonlogns and three frigates watch the harbour of Dunkirk.. Accounts from Italy Date, that the French have taken poffeffion of St. Leone and Monte Filtro, its the Duchy of Urbino. The expedition, fitted out by the French in the neighbourhood of Naples, was ready to fail whenehe WI accounts came away. The Pors is Dill obliged to pay ro.ooo fetid; per week, to the French troops yet remaining in the Ecclefiallical States. The Palatines of Hungary is on the point of making a journey to Italy. Mixes, Jew* e.—The corps of French troop* that lately marched from Tolentino, and which it was thought, would proceed to Rome, has direit. ed its route towards Naples. At Rome French officers and couriers arrive almoft conttantly. bt the night of the 23d ult. feveral Piedmontefe - were arretted, at the-requeft of the Krim of Seenuria. The Princes MOLITIRNO and Fa. PIONATZLit, who had ferved as Generals in the French Army, are not included is the amnetty granted by the Krim of Mint!. At Bologna and Novarra feri ous di llurbances had lately broken out. To peed& the latter city, General MONCSY has ordered a detachment of troops to march thither, which, betide double pay, is to demand a contribution of it 00,000 francs. Her Royal Highnefs the Purees' of Watts dined and fpent the evening yetterday, with Loh! Gwynn' and Lady Wri.t.ouomar, at their refi dence at White-hall. Yefterday morning the Cwascst.reet of the Et.. cm Ecty ea, the Duke of Poarzawn;ler. Center, and feveral other Privy Councillor's, (et off for Cuffnells, to be prefent at a Privy Council to be held there. Cu FF * t L'S will thus be ?Med on Parliamentary record as the feat of e Court. The conuniffioa will begin with "at OUr Court held at Cuffnells." Admiral Lord Nacsow will take his feat in the Houfe of Peers as Vifeount, before the riling of Parliament, and will be introduced by his Royal Highnefs the Duke of Czaatace and Earl sr. WIC IMT. The waft in the Baltic Fleet, on the day of Lord NE Lsow's departure was, " May he, who is no longer , our Commander, ever be our Example. ' At a meeting of the Clergy, at Horfebridge, in Suffer, on Wednefday latt, the health of Mr. Sit a annm was drank with enthautftn, for his late able exertions in their caure, in the Houfe of Commons. In the centre of the New Crefcent at Brighton, is to be a Statue of his Royal Highnefs the T'rince of %Vacs., i compofition, for which one hundred guineas hav e been given to Rossi. The Prince full military uniform, and the attitude and coun tenance extremely errreffive. The then is to be mounted on a recleanl twenty foe hiO. • We are authorized to fay, that Mr. Far alluded to in the trial, Low's v. Farr elt the e9tit ult. is neither of the Mefrs. Far's, Tea Dealers, St. Mildred•• Court. The dire* regiments of Guards had a general mutter yefterday in St. James's Park, sed were in fretted by - General Fosses and Col. CaPALAVT. G": a--:. ~ , .