SECOND AND FIFTH CLASS

Flax and Cotton.*-Cotton wool,* from any foreign port whatever; cotton thread No. 60, or above; ready-made clothing of all kinds and descriptions, and parts thereof; readymade quilts, curtains, table and other household linen, &c. ; shawls, or panos de Rebora, of cotton; tape,* white and coloured; mattresses and bedhangings, curtain cords, bed-linen, &c. ; linen bags.

THIRD CLASS.

Woollen and Hair.-Ready-made clothing of every description; table-covers (carpets); bear-skins (esalaeinas); common cloths, second and third qualities; cloaks, called sanaps fesadas.

FOURTH CLASS.

Manufactured Silk and other Articles.-Ready-made clothing of all kinds; embroidery, lace, open work, in metal or in mixtures thereof, &c. Common hides and skins in the hair, tanned or untanned and prepared ; fine skins of all kinds in the hair tanned or prepared, and manufactures thereof; leather straps (agujetas) of all kinds; upper and sole leather of all descriptions; buck skins, all colours and preparations; boots and shoes of all kinds, boot patterns; buckskin breeches &c.; upper shoes, clogs, &c.; saddles and bridles, and horse furniture; portmanteaus of all kinds; parchment; leather hats and caps.

Manufactures of Clay.—Glazed or unglazed erathen vessels; bricks and tiles of all descriptions; very common queen's ware, glazed or unglazed, with or without common prints; earthen jars new or old, of all kinds and sizes.

Metals. Copper in pigs or sheets; lead ditto, in shot; silver and gold plate; epaulettes of all kinds; embroidery of all kinds.

Woods.-Wood of all kinds.

* Articles prohibited by former decrees, and now repeated in the general list of prohibitions.

LIMA, 2nd of May.-The Spaniards in Lima had treated the commercial interest with some degree of forbearance, well aware that their coffers would have a better chance of being filled by duties than by seizure. On goods in store at Lima, a duty of 12 per cent. had been imposed; and by the new tariff, articles of importation in general were admitted at a duty of 35 per cent. Wine and brandy paid 48 per cent.; flour, eight dollars the barrel; and wheat three dollars the fanega. On goods entered for exportation, a transit duty of 10 per cent. was imposed; but, as if conscious how precarious their tenure was of the city, no goods were allowed to remain longer than two months in the custom-house, without payment of the full duty. The principle export duties were-silver, five per cent.; gold, 2 per cent. and the general produce of the country at 12 per cent. No movements are mentioned to have taken place on the part of the Colombian President, who remained in his head-quarters at Truxillo.

It has been ascertained by the last arrivals from Havannah, to the great surprise of our merchants who trade with Cuba, that some very important privileges have been conceded to the French shipping entering the ports of that island. The duties on such vessels have been recently the same as the English-that is, about 22 per cent. ; but have latterly been reduced to about 6 per cent., while ours remain unaltered. The question, which in itself seems to be entirely of a commercial nature, derives some additional interest from the suspicion excited, that this is one mode by which the French, having lost all hope of any other kind of payment, are seeking to indemnify themselves for the charge of the Spanish campaign. To the English traders the disadvantages are very great of this relaxation in favour of France, which may ultimately exclude them from a very beneficial market, unless by the interference of our government, similar privileges are obtained from them.

LIMA, 7th of April.-One of the articles that is likely to command a good sale here is glass, of which a pretty large assortment should be sent by every vessel coming from Germany. Glass of other countries cannot, from its high price, come into competition with German glass. Silk velvet is also likely to be an article of extensive sale. Other articles we expect a demand for are cotton hosiery, if lower charged than the English wax cloth, and German broad cloths are likewise in demand in the markets of Chili:

Although business is extremely dull here at present, and prices low, owing in a great degree to want of confidence and the fear of change, yet there are but few European goods in the market; and when the event takes place, which we look to as near at hand, business must immediately improve.

BUENOS AYRES.-The bank of Buenos Ayres goes on very prosperously: it paid 20 per cent. on the deposited capital in the first year; and the whole amount of capital fixed by the original charter, say one million of dollars, has now been subscribed, and a share could not be purchased under 10 to 15 per cent. advance at this moment. There are at present four English directors, and five Spaniards and Creoles, and the British must hold about one-half of the bank stock.

MOREAU'S CHART,

Shewing the State of Great Britain, with all Parts of the World, from 1697, until the present time, 1823.

To do much, with superior effect, and with great economy of time and money, is the grand problem of industry. Bacon, by applying his new method to the study of the sciences, nearly arrived at this solution, and laid the foundation of a new intellectual world; from that time, the most ordinary knowledge, as well as the most elevated metaphysical speculations, have been submitted to a method of instruction, more calculated to strike the judgment through the simple medium of the sight, than to fatigue the memory by the confused effects of abstract operations.

Still, the science of commerce, perhaps the most important of all, had remained destitute of the benefit derivable from this simplification. The author of the above-mentioned work, perceiving this immense chasm, has endeavoured to fill it up by a brilliant essay, which has been crowned by the most complete, the most universal, and the most merited success.

Mr. Moreau treats on that space of time, in which the British Commerce with the whole world has undergone the most frequent and the most important revolutions; he has drawn into a single focus, all the ope rations, all the details, and all the results which consti VOL. I. No. 1.

tute the vast complicated domain of the commercial fortune of England; and has formed of them a synoptical table, in which, each fact dividing, arranging, and, as it were, displaying itself to the eyes of the most apathetic and superficial observer, enables him to retain within a narrow and tangible sphere, an immensity of commercial, economical, and political knowledge, which he would search for with difficulty, and, perhaps, without success, in the works of Robertson, Anderson, Meadows, Sheffield, Hume, &c. &c. It is curious to observe, at each period, the influence which the political situation of England relatively to the other powers exerts on the prosperity of her commerce. Thus, the years of peace offer far different results from the years of war, and the commercial treaties produce a remarkable increase in the balance. Let us take for instance the relations of England with France: in 1698, a year of peace, the imports amounted to £48,806, and the exports to £61,441; in 1702, a year of war, the imports were still £76,171, while the amount of exports was only £12,838.

The grand totals offer the most interesting results; looking at the grand total of British commerce with all parts of the world, including Ireland, the fisheries, &c. &c. for the year 1823, we find that the imports amounted to the enormous sum of £40,415,248, and the exports to £56,234,663. A very remarkable observation, drawn from these results, is, that the exports are almost always greater than the imports, which clearly proves the commercial superiority of Great Britain. Indeed, Mr. Moreau has discovered the means of concentrating in a single sheet of paper all the diverse branches of the commer