Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-01-14

CtNEcus WIN Hdu Nv tndt tune SdtueTtu
there, but not without being mo h dis
mantled, &c. The engines Of the ed
and Sd wards were there, and we'll serv-
ed but il was impossible MOL to see how
deficient We yet are in the art and means
Of exinguhhing 6res. The houses de.
stroyed were large three story building ;
the furniture in the occupied houses as
nearly all saved.
Communicated for the Balt. Fed. Gazette.
Extract Of a letter from Messrs. William
4 James Brown, dated
Lrsrpooi, Niop. 10.
A very unexpected change has taken
place in our 6our markets, as you will
see from the annexed quotations; it is
now found that the new wheats are very
inferior in yield and short in quantity to
what was expected, aud we have no stock
Of good old grain lett, although chances
are that our ports will now shut, we are
strongly under the persuasion they will
reopen in February. The last six weeks
has been a very uninferesting period in
the cotton market; although the arrivals
have not been heav, and the consumption
extensive. still the absence of the spin
ners and dealers has produced a reduc.
ton Of Id per Id. aud now difficult to IF.
feet sales on those terms. Tobacco goes
oft very slowly to the trade; our STOCK is
encrea~ing.
Prices Current at liverpool, Niov. Is.
Cotton, upl. 10 a 22d (; Orleans Gid g.
sea island 22d Is lOd; tobacco. We.
leaf, AID sgd; stemmed u a Cd; Ma
ryland none; Kentucky Sd Cd; flour,
Jbl. sweet, 81 6ss; sour AZ a 49s -
wheat, per 20 lbs. lis Cd 4 les; rice,
Carolina, 4l as; turpentine IS los
Sd; tar Is IFS; ashes, pot, so a Sis;
pearl 60 a 6ls; Quercit' or bark 49, 81;
slaves, W o. Dbl. 9 a l5i; hid. 10 sa;
gold, per ounce. Al; American 6 per cent.
stock los; American bank stock, none
on sale.
Liverpool, I1fh mo. II.
There continues to be such q du!!ness
in the cotton market as has nearly put it
out of our power for some time TO make
any sales OF cotton. Thou wilt have seen
that we have for some time expected that
our supplies OF cotton would exceed the
rate sl consumption, but if this had been
to no great extent, and the tlade had
continued brisk, it would not have been
nuch felt From the cotton imported in
the last three weeks, it is evident our sup
plies will exceed our previous calcul.-
tlOn, and so far as we can learn al pre-
sent, our importatIons for 1918 are likely
still further to add to our stocks beyond
the consumption. On these grounds, we
have felt very anxious TO induce semebo.
dy buy, by a tempting price, and have
now the pleasure to a. wise, that we have
sold the remainder Of thy cotton at l9d
per ID. aad would be very glad to sell all
the cotton we hold on the same terms.
We are sorry to see the prospects OF
the prices of cotton commencing So high;
tor, according to our present prospects.
we see no chance of any thing near our
present prices being obtained, il it comes
as freely forward from America as there
is at present the prospect Of its doing.
The result, of our psrts, with respect to
wheat and -four, remains yet uncertain.
Wheat seems to be rapidly advancing
particularly in Ireland, and the decided
opinion we SO long ago gave Of the def.
cheney of our crops (tbe result Of actual
and very extensive survey seems now to
be becoming general.
American wheat would now sell for
Is to les per 20 lbs. aud -four 6ss per
barrel. Flour is selling at s0s per Dbl.
in Dublin, bot importations of flour there
are no longer allowed.
Liverpool, .Nor Is.
The Meschant, OJione, from Stock.
holm for Newly ork, at this port, with
loss of mainmast. The Nancy. Burger,
from do. for York, is GA shore at
Knotts' Hole, and received damage
The Christopher, Hayes, from Charles
ton, is on shore near Ince, and expected
to be cot OF without damage, but must be
discharged. The Thoua,, 0bery, frum
Orleans for this port, which was a.
shore IN DunsarvOn Bay, was got oil on
the 18th instant.
November 10.
Arrived Alexander, Martin, from N.
Orleans.
November 25.
We had short supply Of wheat and
barley, of oats, it vas tair---sood wheat
was IS Sd, and oats IS IL per buslel
dearer; the latter we're in &c iuest, ~ al