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Sheathd Ships are ensurd [insured] 5 per Cent Cheaper
than those not Sheathd
[in margin] Project for importation of Copper
Mr. Smith if Copper Could be imported on a
Scale of duties diminishing as in the Case
of Coins as the Price increases it would prove
a great advantage to the manufacturers of
this Country & much foreign Copper would
be imported
[in margin] Anglesey
Mr. Lloyd told me that the anglesee ore is general produce
about 2½/ 20 of Copper more or Less but none of it has Ever
reachd 3/20 yet it is said that Copper was once when the
mine was worked in the cheapest mode made at the
Expence of £32 a Ton only
[in margin] Decr. 19
Produce of mines
Mines Royal English Copper Company Mr. Cotton
Tons Tons
Anglesey Cornwall
in 1794 Cornwall producd in Copper --------- 4780
Anglesea do do 2568 2568 1795 Cornwall ------------------------------------- 5000
Anglesea -------------------- 2568
1796 Cornwall ------------------------------------- 5000
Anglesea ------------------------- 2000
1797 Cornwall --------------------------------------- 5800
Anglesea ------------------------- 1879
1798 Cornwall --------------------------------------- 5600
Anglesea ----------------------------- 1700
Cornwall Sent last year to the Ticketings in one 35.756
Cornish Copper ore produced on an average one in 8
of metal The Returning charges about £2..10 a Ton
[in margin] Price of Copper 1798
January £96-100 a Ton
February 98-102
March 98-105
April 100-108 in 1792 ores rose from 82 to 100
May 102-110
June 105-111
July do- do
Augst. do- do
Septr 107-111
October 107-112
November 108-112
Decr. 109-120
on the Last Ticketing day for the largest part of the Copper ore 1600 Tons was bought by the Cheadle & Paris mountain Companies both supposd to belong chiefly to Mr. [bilbeins?] The advance paid was so great as to require an additional Price of a penny a pound to be demanded from the Consumers the English Copper Co refusd at their last meeting