Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1816-05-25
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frfracf Of letter dated Bremen, 4brI 3D. 1916.
" In handing you our inclosed circular ~,
have to regret, that we cannot accomn,nv :,
with favorable account of our market. If nre
seh's, ike almost all the other markets in IN.
North ct Europe, nothing but discourapino fe,-
lures, without leaving any cheering prospects
I LOT an advantageous intercourse with America.
CURING ,ne summer The prices of almost eve.
~ article on your side of the Atlantic arr. in
deed. entirely out of proportion to ours.
" The demand for coffee has lately rev;red
out the stock on hand being vet very LARGE,
and every body eager to realize, we do NOT IooL
TOT any material improvement i'm the early nart
OF the year, although the last, as well a. the
present imPortations from the West Ipdes and
London, from which latter place we recs;w Se
our principal supplies of colonial producel leave
loss OF at least from Is to 90 per cent. If sold
at the present prices"
Sugars have been on the decline for tho loo.
three weeks, and English refined loaves are &C.
tuaiiy offered at IL I 2 to % Grots.-Our pre.
sent prices Tor unrefined Sugars are therefore to
be considered as nominal, and we are annreben,
sve that this article will soon experience fur
sner depression particularly as the last accounts
from the West Indies, represent the cron tn
have proved very abundant - w "
me last sales of Georgia Upland Cotton.
were made at from SO to 40 Grots. We have
none IN the market at the present moment. but
se g cars3es are expected, which will proba.
oy orhg down the prices to 81 or SO Grots
Sea Island Cotton will not do in our ma,ket
and answers better in England.'
hice has hitherto been sold at from 8 10
70 hx dollars, but is now offered at ID tn
. hlA Dolars, because we daily expect arrivals
rom charleston, with supplies of the new crop.
which rs always preferred to the old. Last
year, uls article Kept pretty steady between
1-2 to 10 Xix Dollars but we understand ,h.t
the present mPortations will be very large. IF
so'we presume the prices will not be above ~
Xix Dollars A0o's' 10
ooacco, we are sorry to observe. has all.
vanced IN the United States, to prices which will
niost hkely cause serious loss to the late sbip.
pers. A'S '"'P-
+" The principal consumers of this article IN
Germany as well as in Holland. are AMONG ,i.
lower and mddling classes of the people hut
they are so much impoverish ed by the late wars
mat they cannot afford so paw extrav,pant mi,
ce'. Ifpr;ces therefore exceed moderate Limits
inc greater part of them must deny themselves
''ie use OF II entirely in which case they take for
asuostitute, the common tobacco of our country
and of Hungary, mixed with American ,terns
ihey resort to it with so much more readiness.
as uney nave already become accustomed TO the
same, having of late years no ether tobacco. in
consequence OF the former continental avs
tenn
=" IL is the demand only which regulates the
MARKETS and not the invoices. Many persona
will therefore be deceived in their exoectat;on.
when they believe hat the prices NAV he cnEarce'
ed by giving positive orders to the consipnees
not TO sell unless it can be done at profit or AZ
least without loss - -
tits therefore our candid opinion. that l.
wan De dangerous TO ship Maryland Tobacco.
even ut IL and IA dollars and much more so az
rD.n n 20 o, "h'Gh we are informed, are tue
prices winch nave been asked in Baltimore.
Virginia Tobacco will 1Noef I;baI,v
Us price much better than Maryland not onlv
because 1t will remain proportionablv scarcer
since the consumption of it is more generally dr.
fused throughout Europe, but also on account os
us beinS used principally for making sn. #. for
winch purpose the tobacco of other countries
cannot answer q substitute
Buenos Ayres Hides are brisk in drm.,d
and will most likely maintain their prices h,'
Cause thus article is also getting scarcer in Sou,h
America, In making shipments, care sbouId n.
taken to select the heaviest, and such as are
sound and not injured by worms Cowbides are
TO be preferred TO bull hides which are easily
distinguished from the formei. by the tb;cLnsc.
Of the necks. Tie difference in price Is aha,,t
l ID grot." ""ous
we nave no American Ashes in our MARKET
ou' they would command ready sale at from
IA LIZ, to Is Xix Dollars This article is IN o-reat
demand for The Soap Sfanufactories.'
The prices of Black Teas which we have
J""'NN h Our ebCiOSeQ Prices Current are
those, at which the greatest part of cargo was
disposed OF, imported here last winter"
Since Holland is again in possession oF , IL.
rect trade to China, we cannot recommend N
ship whole cargoes Of Teas To this marketo
!" Our market is always we'll supplied VIII
all Kinds OF Linen 1t is the principal ernnor;
um of Osnaburghs, Ticklenburpbs. Hess;ons
and brown and white Rolls, on account of ito he
ing situated more contiguous to the co,,ntr'es
where they are manufactured, than HAMBURG :.
other sea-ports" -
ne prices are seldom subject 70 guetua.
tons, but we expect the best kinds of Osnab,,c,o,
and Iicklenburgs little lower in the COME
the summer, because they have obtained be;oG,
never known before, in consequence of the oysat
demand which we have had last year from Sns;n
and Portsgal. 'P"''
Tobacco, Maryland yellow, per lb. % OF
grots do bright colored I6 10 81; do, brou,,
ID IS 81 do. ordinary 10 10 "a: Virgin,
and Kentucky, fat and sweetened % n 20 lie
middlng qualities 18 90 80: do. dry and oC'
binary IL IL 81 Porto Rico in Rolls 90 o..
Lagura IA 100 oronoco SO 3s. Virs;n;s
stems per 100, 10 a ii t-2 rix dollars.
Teas-.Bohea, &c 40 grots Congo 80 . En-
do Souchong, 90 80 do Hyson SKIN "a "a
do' Hyson 1Os 126 do.