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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

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