Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-08-25

there isa prospect that the shipments of
wheat and flour, which may in the mean
time arrive from America, will meet with
tsir demand, unless our present situation
should be materially improved.
"olnce the restoration of a direct trade
with your country, timber has been in very
little request; for common pine not more
than 4s. is offered the value of pitch pine
is still very uncertain, but it cannot be esti-
mated at more than rs. 1od. SIS. per foot.
The bill which was introduced into Paria.
ment some time since, with view of i'm.
posing double the present duties upon TO-
reign timber, hereafter imported into this
country, has passed the house of commons :;
but, at what period its operation is intended
to commence, or whether any modification
may take place, in the rate of increase. ori.
ginally proposed, before it obtain the force
OF law, are circumstances respecting which
very little is yet positively known.
The import of slaves, particularly of
barrel, has already been heavy, and as a
regular succession of arrivals NAV now be
expected, the demand is, upon the whole,
limited, the dealers having no inducement
to purchase extensively, at the present rates.
Barrel may be quoted at III. los. 13l.
1os-hhd. 18l- 22l. and pipe Isl. sol.
per M.
:" Our stock of tobacco continues to &C.
cumuate and may now be computed at 5000
hhds. The greater part of this very heavy
supply is ordinary and middling, which is
almost unsaleable, being adapted for ex-
portation only, and from this source we
cannot, under existing circumstances, cal
cuIate upon much relief being obtained.
Our own manufacturers purchase very spar
ingly, and although the fine qualities from
York and James rivers are very scarce, yet
they will not bring more than Cd. I'd. even
in small quantities. Rappahannock rates
from I'd. 1-2d--Potomac I'd. a 4d.--
Maryland Cd. lid. and stemmed from Cd.
I'd. per Id.
e" Flaxseed, in consequence Of very large
imports from the United States, declined
to SIS SOS per hid. at which the crush
ers were r"duced to purchase very freely,
and this circumstance has had the effect of
advancing the prices. Several of the hold
ers now refuse to sell under 62s 63s per
hid. but the tendency to an improvement
has in the mean time been rather checked
by the arrival, at the ports of London and
Hull, Of several cargoes from the Baltic,
the amount of which may be about TO- 600
quarters.
L" Owing to the unfavourable appearance
of our own crops, there has been good
deal ofspeculation in American clover seed,
and the late arrivals have been sold, chiefly
at COS per cwt. One or two very superior
parcels realized 95s a zoos, but though the
demand still exists, it has become more Ii
mIted, and els OPS is the highest price
which would now be given for good clean
seed.
Quercitron bark has declined consider.
ably, which would be expected as the ne.
ctssary result of an abundant supply. Some
Of the finest qualities of the late imPortati-
ens from Philadelphia, have been sold at AS
: ass per cwt but at these prices it is diff
cui, TO effect sales in any large quantity
Good; ssamp,es may be quoted at SIS 4Os,
and the inferior and middling descriptions,
which are very unsaleabIe, at EOS 34s per
cwt."
NORFOLK, august 20.
Arrived, brig Louisa, Mcnamara, As