Apropos of nothing, but saw this in an old Blackwood's Magazine online:
COMMERCIAL REPORT.- November 12, 1821
Coffee.- The market for Coffee, after a considerable decline, has become more steady, and a small advance has been maintained in late sales. Havannah coffee is in request- St Domingo less so. The public sales in general go off briskly. In Liverpool, however, the coffee market is less brisk than in London.
Farther down-
Rum.- The market is in a ruinous and depressed state. The stock in London is upwards of 35,000 casks, .....