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London, England, 1801-12-23 00:00:00

through the willingness of the inhabitants cf Cape
Town, during the late alarming prospeCts of an
impending famine. To illustrate which, we con-
trast a statement of the consumption of bread, in.
the month of January•last, with those of February
and March :—ln January, the weekly consumption
was 166,0901b5. ' On the 2d of February, it was
reduced to 528,2361b5. On the 28th ditto, to
t18,6121b5. And on the t3th of March, 16,3011)s.
was ordered to be baked ; but through the volun-
tary choice of the inhabitants, only t4.,2801b53 was•
demanded from the Fakers.

The present "prices of our markets arc, wheat,
6o rix-dollars• petpload ; barley, 35 ditto ; •pease,
to rix-dolla,rsitto; beans, So ditto ; flour,
first sort, per,:toolb. 7 to 9 rix-dollars potatoes,
from 9 to it dollars per sack.

CONTINENTAL FORESTALLING.—It will be seen
from the conclusion of the. following article from
a Foreign Journal, -that the clamour against Fore-
stalling has extended itself to Leipsk, and that we
there labour under' the same imputation :
g•' Ile last Leipsic Fair was interesting, not only
to the Bookselling Business, but to other branches
ol Commerce also. The English had made prepa-
rations for sending thither an inundation of goods,
and for regaining what they had lost' by the Fair of
Frankfort. • Leipsic is, and always will be, the
central point of the commerce of the North: both
on account of its position, and the encouragement
given by it to commerce, though the duties are very
heavy : for a bale,' which at Frankfort would pay
Eighty Cents, must at Leipsic pay Forty-EiOt
Francs. -.At the last Fair there were Forty-six
Ailerchants from London. Scarcely, any of the:Ger_
man. Manufaaurers could find a sale, as the English
sold their goOds at so IoW a price.: They got pas;
session also of the sale of the 'middle cloths ;:fir they
bought up, notwithstanding the opposition of the
Saxon Manufacturers, all the Wool thiy-iOad:find."

Any new invention or improvement has nuraiq-
less obstacles to surmount, ere it overcomes popular
prejudice, and unless the experiments made are clear
as the Sun, and absolutely. demonstrative .to the
meanest capacity, they are disregarded. During
the reign of King James, Dr. Harvey, a physician,
in London, after a'struggle the•most arduous, esta-
blished in iqtg, 'beyond -a doubt, arOconfirrned
experiments,.' the Circulation' of the blood.- The
laurels he acqdred will be handed down to. latest
posterity—so alsii will that invention in chemistry
and philosophy discovered under the name of ANTI -
•IMPETIGINES by Dr. Solomon, of Liverpool, by
which the use of mercury in general, -eFophulous
and scorbutic complaints, is wholly superseded, and
has already performed such cures as are. unprece
dented in the annals of medicine. As a worthy,
charitable, and humane member of society-, Dr.
Solomon stands unequalled; and why should he nor
feel for the distresses of his fellow _creatures ?—it is
his duty, and, as his fortune sufficiently enables him
to exercise ads of benevolence, his humanity doubt-
less points out the proper application of it. It is,
we understand, now universally known, that the
long promised enlarged edition of his " Guide to
Health" has at length made its appearance, for the
rapid sale of which there cannot be the smallest
doubt entertained_

SILIP NEWS.

POOLZ,

Arrived —the Brothers, Whittle, Mary, King, and Ranger,
Morris, from Cherbourg; Attive,, Williams, from Ports-
.
mouth.

Sailed—the Argo,
.Framptolt, for Lisbon; Blandford, Jai-
ford, for London ; William and Sarah, Evans for Chichester;
John and Sophia, West, and George, Stielaand, for Ports-
Imuth.

CRAVESEWD, big. ZI.

Past bv—the. Favourite, Darting,. ,from Zante ; Margretta.,
Tobin, from Lisbon ; Prince of Wales, Gillingham, from
St. Vatter), Moiiquez, —, Friends, Max Well, and
Resistance; Brown, from •Petersburgh ; Nell, Pringle, from
Riga; Susannah, ---, from Dublin; Robert, Andrews,
from Minorca i; Curlew, Caithness,. from Bal rimote ; ,Prin-
cess Royal,
Oitania,
Sailed—the Walrner Castle, Bond, and Z hames, Williams,
for India ; Rebeireß 'Sowden, .CaerWent; Robinson, and
Grace, Cook, foc,j4utaica; John Edwards, —, and Dove,
Allen, for Cork. '