The Sun.
London, England, 1808-08-01 00:00:00

L.EMES WOOL F 4 IR.

The Wool Fair at Lewes never was more nume-
rously attended, both by sellers ar.d buyers, than it
was lest week. At dinner, every room in the house
vas full of company ; aid not long alter they had
dined, they collated in the principal room, when
it,Lord Sheffield rose, and stated, that pri paratory to
meeting he had not negletted to make every in-
qulrY respeCting the trade in wool and woollens,and the
tet2olt confirmed the opinion which he bad formed,' hat
I!! manufacture of fine wool has suffered,- citmpara-
fo"lY, but little in consequence of toe machinations
lreign Powers. The home market, including the .
ole of the British Empire and its dependencies,
ttaKes nearly all the superfine manutacture., and by
ar
t
aPcl the
he greatest proportion of everymanufacture;
hest" customers are the people of England,
\eh() consume much more foupertine cloth than they
tised to do: the middling classes have found that
411er cloths are the cheapest; and the opulent now
kite nothing but the finest, even for their.great coats.
,here
rate may be a decrease in the export of second-
Woollens; but the countries to which we
sUeiply those articles cannot long do without them ;
they will procure them circuitously,
thi t neither an and we know
embargo nor a nowimportation agree-
zliie''' ,w 4 Prevent our woollens from-going to the
;in iirican States, through different channels, as they
diee. curing the American War • and even at present,
It isiloi the • J
. , want of
_orders, not the embargO, but
rhe d Intrust which has prudently taken place io this
country, in respell to t '
toe American States, ' that
Pin& pally checks the export to that Ai t c,ntry.
Hi .1 Lordship :then stilted; that he was in corres-
roOdt nee with many of
.t he principal' person's' in
every On of England where there are Wool. lairs,
and wob tlit.ee parts where the principal tnanufato-
of v.stiol are situate
sold d The fine woots that :{ere
withiii a few ..
months past readily found a market
i.t I%st yeiAr's prices; but there was very little de.; s
!nand for tlw coarser wools. The general opinion is
(particularly in tliN West of En4laild), that the price
of title wool Will exceed that at last year ; and that
thQ coarse will riot ottair= last year's prices. His Lordship next detailed ht: prices of weui at different
Wes in England and IrecAncl, and stated his reasons
'for believing that no considerable importation of
'woo) wa3 to be expected in .'he course'ot the year.
This statement was acknowledged to be fair and-
-7371,1itt ; but, netwithstanding there appeared to be
:::ss dttlerence of opinion bet weer, buyers and sellers
than usual, they Oki not agree. No business was
dune at the Fair, nor in the evening. The Wool-
It Towers tlemanded from 2s. to 6s. per tod less than
They demanded at the Fair last year, and from Is. to
2s. More than they bad since received. Lord Shel-
eld exhibited specimens of fine Wool grown in Eng-
2and, by M. Tollett, of Swinnerton-hall ; Mr. • :Portman, of *Dorsetshire ; and 111.1 r. Hall, of Leigh-
court, sQlne pure Spanish, others of mixed breed;
+11(1 alno made several 'communications in ta-
,'''ar of the Spanish breed ; that the name of the
icritio sheep is rapidly improving;. that a 3-year
0:,1 Merino Ryland wether, ilred by Mr. Tollett,
'i..ei:Llietl 33ins. per quarter, and his fleece bibs of
tu,/erfine wool.
The health of the founder of the fair was drank ;
4'41 "t the Duke of Bedford, Mr. Coke, the Duke
t)F Richmond, the Earls of k.;gremont and Chiches-
ter, Sir Juscpli Barikes, &c.

Jo our
,Ai Bow.street article, on Saturday) the name
iia4 should have been Weary.