Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1815-09-02

more animated demasa, particularly 70
l6ne wheat; now is the most criticals sea
lson for the coming crops, and a littl
vet weather will certainly cause som,
speculation. Sweet new American iou
Ireadily finds purchasers at our quotation.
| Cor expectation to the British West-Tndis
Islands, and Antwerp for the armies
If our harvest should prove unfavorablt
|prices will no doubt rise to admit of I'm.
ports fer home use but so far. the ap.
|pearances are against this.
American Stocks are by no means
brisk; our quotations are with difficulty
obtained, ewing to the state Of Exchange
I'm the United States pressing a large a.
mount ofthem into market here, and the
lowness of the British funds holding out
Sufficient indHceinent to monied men to
invest in them in preference to ether Sc
|carities the state of the exchange in
Holland is as very much against the
Dutch coming into the market as pur-
|chasers. Specie appears to be falling in
part from an expectation that government
will not be long in the market as buy
|ers.
We expect that ere this reaches you
Messrs. Gailatin and Clay will have ar
rived ont with the Commercial Treaty,
and from the equitable basis which it is
understood to: have assumed, we have E.
|gery hope that it will tend to consolidate
tie good understanding which happily
|exists between our respective countries.
Your most obedient servants,
WIN. 81 JAMES BROWN.
Course Of Exchange In London, 18th
July.
Amsterdam, So B. GO days.
Hamburg, 81 6 80 days.
Paris, 81 frs.6O cts. / days date.
do. q frs.80 cts. 60 days.
Bordeaux, 81 SO
Cadiz, 40 Effective.
Prices Current.
Cotton, Sea Island, 2s Cd 3s; -four.
American Sweet 40s 42s /; rice, new
46s a SIS tobacco, good and fine, Cd a
Used fine yellow, Sd Is; iron Swe-
dish, Isl los.
A letter from Bordeaux, Of the 2sth
July, (says the n. Y. Gazette, contains
the following
:. The allied powers must and will be
paid for the trouble and expense incurred.
&c, 600 men, it is said will remain inI
France some time, until new army can
be rs-organized on different principles y
Charleston .apg. %.
By the British brig Neptune, arrived
Yesterday from Antigua, we received The
.4atigua Journal to the 9Th inst.--The
News from Europe is no later'than has
been received here.
We End in one of these papars, a Pro-
clamation by the Hon. HESny RAwLINsl
Esq. commander III chiefot the Leeward|
Carribee Islands. authorizing the impnr-
tation into the Island of Antigua, for
three months, from the 1st inst. in British
ships and vessels, of Tobacco, Masts.
Bowsprits, Slaves, Heading, Boards, Finn
her, Shingles. and Lumber OF any sort ::
ssreaa, Biscuit. Flour, Peas, Beans, Pota-
toes, Wheat, Rice. Oats. Barley or Grain;
of any sort Of whatsoever country such
articles may be the produce, from any
island or territory in the West-sudies or
South America, belonging to an Europeany
Sovereign or State in amity with His
Britannia Majesty.
In the same paper we observed spirit
ed Memorial, drawn up by a joint com
mittee ofboth houses of the Legislature OF
that Colony, addressed TO the British
Government, in which they deprecate N
strong terms the policy now pursued to-
wards Americar vessels, IN their not De
ing admitted to an entry into any OF the
British West-Indies. They represent
tie impessibiity of their colonies in A
merica furnishing the West-indies with
adequate supplies ;and assert that the
supplies which reach them through the
,!epot ofSt. Bartholomews.c come charged
at treble the amount at which they could
be landed there direct from America
While on the other hand that island is so
elutted with the articles allowed to be
exported from British islands. as to pro
|duce serious deprecationin their value,
|&c.-The Memorial closes with a prayer
that His Majesty's Government, VIII De