| Description | (Dated at Spring Garden. In the hand of an amanuensis; signed by Grenfell.) [Both Mr. Weston and Mr. Woodward concur with me as to the propriety of an application on your part to the effect suggested by Mr. Rose. The price of copper in London is advanced 1½d. per lb.: manufactured copper now sells at 21d. per lb. or £196 per ton, equivalent to £182 for cake, and £14 per ton above the price of the calculation we made at Soho in November last. I should not be surprised if Government brought in a bill to prohibit the exportation of copper: such a measure would not be opposed now upon the same grounds stated in 1799.] |