The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-03-25 00:00:00

SOUTH AMERICAN PRODUCE.

The demand for COTTON in this market continues very
limityd, and priers remain steady at the List quotations ;Komi
Bahia, are still wanted fur export, but there are only a few
ut inferior qnal.ty left in this port. The business dune in
these, Bengal% and Surats, is chiefly for exportation. The
sales of the week are (duty paid), 20n Pernambilecol good
2a. 11d. fine '211.11.1 ; 90 Bahia,. fair 24. 01.1. ; 40 Demerara
sail Kerhice ordinary 21.1.; in bond, 50 Sands middling to
fair 141 d. a 141.1.; 350 Bengal, ordinary to middling 102.1.
a 11d., fair 111.1—total 710 bags 'old. Imported this wok
1.N73 haze, viz. 205 Demerarat, 320 Smyrnas, 695 Surat',
653 Bengal,.
BALTIC PRODUCE.

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TaLtow is in brisk demand, 78s. 6d. was paid yesterday
for several parcels of Y. C and afterwards offered and re-
fused for any quantity, the dealers gave 795. for the late
import of 1,190 scrims Brasil, 70s. are offered and refused
fur delivery all the year.
Have is in good demand for arrival, at an advance on oar
last qnotation of about 10s. per ton.
The following were the quotation.' at St. Petershoirgh Roth
February, 1818: Y. C. Milloir 181 ibis, Hemp 80 uu spot,
and 88 uu Contract. Exchange 111 d.
BRITISH STAPLE ARTICLES.
c►ltt[p SW:ans.—There has been a brisk demand for
brown and middling Lamps at la. advance, taillight chiefly
fur crushing. It being now generally understood there will
be no alternti iiii in the Russian Tariff, Crushed Sugars are
in request Grim 6.15. to 70s. Fine (A• ds remain nearly the
11:1111e. Double LOUTS are rather oeglected.—Mulioses dull
at 355.

Otts —Linseed not. has been in great dcmaaiLanil there are
no sellers under 501. Rape Oil is very dull at Sol ha pale.
Fish Oils are daily Calling in price. Sperm Oil is maul'
hovered by the arrival of about 220 tuns.

LIVERPOOL REPORT, Bissell 21.
COTTON bas been steady : Bowed, fully support the quo-
billions, and Brazils are in more request. At public sale un
Thursday, 1,500 Bengal. of middlits: to fair quality sold at
121. • 130. being a decline of id. per lb. ; 163 Bout/o•s,
middling to good at 1 31,1. • Is. 11.1.; 410 Demerara.,
middling to fine at 22;.1 • 2.1. 2d. ; and 127 Orleans, ordi-
nary to middling fair 1111.1. • 211.1. The transactions by
private treaty consist of 1,300 Buie& at 194. a 201,d. for
old, 21d. a 211.1. for new ; 320 Orleans at 2 I a 24.; 250
Sea Islands at 2.. 74. a 3.. 8.1.; 100 stained at 2.. 01.1.
a 25.64 ; 900 Pernsms at 2. Id. • 24. ; 400 Bahia. at
23!1. a 2s 0 ld. ;3011 Nlaranhams at 231,1: • 2s. ;30 Parm at
23!d.; 100 Minas at 2211 ; 50 Deinera,a. at 2.
2.. 441. ; 00 earthagenas at 20J.; CO Surat, at 1534. ; and
140 Bengal. at 123.1. • 134. per lb. amouuting altogether to
0,100 bat;•.
The few 11. P. Sugars brought forward this week have
sold at full ptices, and in some instance. !nowt' to middlieg
strong qualities bare brought an advance of Is ; the quan-
tity sold is 500 casks,and the stuck in first hands is estimated
■t 500 carks. In foreign description. nothing has been done,
there being few of good quality ufferiug in the market. The
business in Coffee Ibis week has Neu confined principally to
the public sales of Dutch, consisting of 370 cask. and 600
bags, the whole of which soul with spirit at an advance of Is.;
triage brought 955. a 10Is. 6d. dark ordinary Ms. • 1025.0.1.
middling 1110.. and g I 'middling 109 s. • 110 s.; fine ordi-
nary Jamaica has sold at 104 s. and 200 bags of ordinary
Brazil at Otis. a 1004. At peblic sale 400 IVIZs of good Brazil
Cocoa brought 3.1.; and 120 bags middling Pimento
were taken in at 101. at which price a small parcel has since
been sold : for this mildly we have a good demand at 01.1. at
which there are 1111 sellers. Fur thiserr we have • very limited
demand, and 1,000 pockets and 500 bags of East India were
withdrawn from public sale at 41s. 3d. a few lots only finding
buyers at that price. Carolina Rice has sold steadily this
week it 43..6,1. a 444. fur fair to good quality, and 9,000
bags of fine Patna brought at politic sale 324 a 345. Rama
are steady without any alteration in priers.
Logwooil has been in good demand again on speculation ;
Jamaica has sold at 91 ss. a 91. 10.. Domingo at 01. 15s.
and Campeachy at 101 10.. Angola Barwood has sold also
at 101 10s. Finnic and other sotto of Dyewoods are without
alteration. Cool Montreal Put Ashes have sold at 375. lid. ;
in other sorts little is doing. Tar and Turpentine are steady,
2,000 B. A. wet salted Hides bare beets sold at 411. per lb.
with all faults. Tallow is dull at our last quotations.
There has been but little business dime ibis week in To.
harem; the demand having been confined to the manufae.
lowers, who bought but sparingly ; prices, however, remain.
ed unaltered. Wheat of all desceiptions 11411 been in more
request this week ; and the prices may Le considered 3.1. to
• per bushel higher, particularly in the low qualities. In
American Flour few sales have beets made, but the holders
are firm ; sour flour has, however, been more inquired for,
•ud sums considerable sales have been usade at 4,5. tid. per
barrel for good quality, sod more business would have been
done, had the holders been inclined to sell at 455. per barrel.
A parcel of 200 bag. Sicilian Flesseed, which was offered
by auction on Monday, brought Ils. 0.1. per bushel fur the
Irish market.
B:city Shumac has been in more request from the specu-
lators, about 1,400 bags haring changed hands, at 21s. per
cwt. fur good, to 225. per cwt. fur fine, besides which 800
bags of inferior quality (imported from Malta) were dis-
posed of at lA*. 64. to 10s. and small parcels at 20.. per
cwt. There has also been • lively demand fur Y•lonis,
and from 200 to 300 tons have been purchased at friiin
171. 10s. in 191. per tun, and amall lots lirtesi nee been scllitig
at I/. to 21. per ton advance. Of the late arrivals of Letnow
Juice only one parcel of 2$ pipes has yrt been disposed of,
fur which 2s. 5.1. per galluu was obtain. d.

Tuesday last a very tatrrordniary ontraze was
perpetrated its the church-yam' of Oitertoo, Devon.
The wave of the late IttV. SAIL I.KAT, a venerable
disseoting Minister of Boldlylol, who alas interred
al t ten months t.itice, was opened. Loth coffins
pulled abroad, the corpse wangled, the *proud torn
to pieces, :AA the cloth ohich coveted
the uutrt
cafitl v:414101 drily.

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NORTIILIIN PASSAGE INTO TUE PACIFIC:

!From " The Quarterly Reriewl

•
(Continued from our Paper of Saturday font.)

The invention of the thermometer and the real--
Iry of the trinperature sea of too recent a date to
enable us to compare the state of the atmosphere,
before and alter the accumulation of ice on the
coast of Greenland, but there are reasons for be.
tiering that, pn:viously to the Grieco!, century,
England enjoyed a wanner summer climate than
*ince that period. It is sufficiently arpurent that,
at °ire time, vineyards were very cots non Irl Eng-
land; and that wine, in very considerable quanti-
ty, was made from them. Tracit us states, that
vineyards were planted by the Romans in ftritatil ;
and Hobashed quotes the permit-ion given by
Probus to the natives to cultivate the vilie, and
make wine from it. The testimony of Bede—the
elil lattices of tithe on wine, which wt It contralto' in
Kent, Surrey, and other southern c4.liiitira—lite
records of suits in the Ecclesiastical Courts—tire
enclosed patches of ground att.:chid to notorious
abbqs, which still beer the name of vistryards—
the plot of ground celled East Smithfield, which
was converted into u 'vineyard, anal held by four
successive constables of the Tower, in the reigns of
Rufus, Hetisy, HMI Sttlillell, " to their great emo-
lument and profit," seem to remove all doubt on
this question. The Isle of Ely was named, iu tl:e
early times of the Normans, Ile de l'ignes, the
Bishop of which received three or four tuns of
wine, ve .rly, for his tenth. So late us the reign
of Kithaul IL the little park at Windsor was tip-
propriated as a vineyard, for the use of the castle:
and William of Nlalturbary asserts, that the Vale
of Gloucester produced. in the twelth century. as
good wile as many of the promo:es of France,—
" There is no province in England bath so musty,
or such good vineyards. us this county, either fur
fertility or sweetness of the grape ; the wine ohs roof
carrieth ito unpleasaut tartness, twang not much in-
ferior to French in sweetness." It is remarkable
enough that in LI park near Berkeley, its this.
county, teudrils of vines are found spritigiog up
yearly among the grass, from one of which a cut-
ting is now flourishing in the garden of Sir Joseph
Batiks. But wine is known to have been made in
England at a much more recent period. Among
the NIS. notes of the late Peter Collinson (to
whom the European world is indebted for the
introduction of some of its choicest plant-),
is the following memorandum :—" October 1811 e
1765. I went to see Mr. Roger's vineyard, at
Parson's Green, all of burgundy Grapes, and
seemingly all perfectly ripe. I did not see a green
hall.ripe grape its all this great qoatitity. He does
tint expect to make less than fourteen hogsheads of
wine. The breeches and fruit are remarkably large,
and the vines very strong." These facts completely
set uside the idea that the vineyards of England
were apple orchards, and that the wise was cider.
Nor is Etighted the only country that has lost its
wines by deterioration of climate ; as the following
fact, on which we can depend, testifies : " Between
Namur and Liege, the Meuse flows through a nar-
row valley, which, fur picturesque scenery, and high
cultivation, is, perhaps, unequalled by Hoy country
in the world. The richest corn fields and planta-
tions of tobacco, sisal other luxuriant vegetables,
occupy the space on both sides close to the river;
while hop plantations and a series of vineyards are
mat creeping towards the very summit of the rocks
on the left bank. The vineyards appeared to be in
a most luxuriant state when 1 saw them (in Septem.
her, 1817), but there was not a single bunch of
grapes on any of them. 1 bad conversation with
many of time people, who all assured me that for-
merly they made most excellent wine, both red and
white ; but that fur the last seven years they had not
made a single bottle; yet they still went on from
year to year in the cultivation of the vine, in the
hope that favourable seasons might again return to
what they had known them ; or, which would be
still better, to what they are said to have been some
forty or fifty years ago." But to us, at least, a
prospect far more gloomy than the mere loss of
alma bad Iwgiiii to • presect itself by the increasing
chilliness of our sumuner mouths. It is too well '
known that there was not sufficient warmth in the
summer of 1816 to ripen the grain ; and it is ge-
nerally thought, that if the ten or twelve days of
lust weather at the end of June last bud not occur-
red, most of the corn must have perished. This
comes more home to the business and bosoms of the
present generation, than the loss of " those golden
days when Bacclats smiled ui our hills." It
was sufficiently alarming to he told that " Pomona
is about to desert our orchards; and that on ground
where the clustering vine once flourished, the apple
has, of lute years, scarcely ripened ;" and that " it
is now sixteen years since tier orchards have afford-
ed a plentiful crop ;" that " at no very remote pe-
riod, our posterity may. in all probability, be its
the saute sititatiou its regard to cider that we are
now placed in with tespect to wine ; when the ap-
ple-tree, like the vine, will only tumid a penurious
supply of sour fruit, and will he cultivated in fore-
intrs.houses to supply the tables of the rich'."
From these melancholy forebodings, however, we
feel ourselves considerably relive( al by the at movel
of the principal cause, in the destruction of the vast
Gelds of ice, of which we have been speaking ; mid
think it is not unreasonable to presume that our sum-
mer climate (and winter too, when the wind blows
from the western quarter) may henceforward
prove; fur though we are aware that the changes of
temperature depend on a variety of causes. yet the
single eth ct of an atmosphere chilled and condensed
over a surface of at least 50,000 square miles of ice,
rushing directly upon the British Islands front the
westward, may have been equal iu its di 11l i l tishing
ironer to all the rest. That cause being now re-
moved, so far from indulging in the gloomy pros-
pect held out by the writer in the Journal we have
just quoted, we are rather disposed to join in the
recommendation of the Latin poet,

" lustre uunc, Mclibase, pyros, pone ordine vatic"

2. A central ridge of lofty mountains, covered
with perpetual snow, and stretching from south to
north, divides Old Gmisk...l into two de.tinct
ruts, called, by the ancient Norwegian and Da-

• Juurnal of St ituer.

coloinsi,, the Kist r, WtA ;
hth, r n which all communication us total} cut oil
by 14toti, and by sea also since the fixing of the
try harrier. The colony on the west side increased
4:u floor part:their, containing one handled villages;
but In lug engaged in perpetual hostility w,th the
Esipiiinaus„ the whole were ultimately destroyed
by them. The ruins of some of the edifices were
still visible in 1711, when that pious and amiable
moo, flans Egede, went out with his whole family
to nettle there, on the re-establishment of a colony
on that coast by the Greenland Company of Bei-
gen, in Norway. It still and the popula-
tion, taken but imperfectly in 11402, was
amount to 5,6-21 souls; and we have since lea' lit
that, including the Moravian establishment? awl
the natives, who have mostly been converted to
Christi unity, the total population of the aesierit
coast of Greenland may now be estimated at no less
than .20,000. They have a few cattle, and a ems-.
'inferable number of sheep, fist uliose winter sub-
sistence they cot the grass iu the summer ruo•4,l*
and make it tutu hay ; butt they have hitherto in
vain endeavoured to breed lines, these animals be-
ing tunable to stand the severity of winter.