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one-half what ounht to have been charged, to the average prices annexed, whith 

 and by two-thirds what might have been prices are returned by tlie Clerk of the 

 rendered a profitable carrying. The con- Grocer's Company to the Gazette weekly, 

 dition of tlie West India -iuteres-t to bear and, as such, lead to a very correct conclu- 

 tlie competition of any extended importa- sion as to the total values here given; 

 tion of sugar, either ftoni the East Indies which values, it must be understood, are 

 or any other quarter, may be judged of exclusiveof duty, which, since 5th of Sep- 

 froni the following statement ; it will also teniber, 1819, has been stationary at 27s. 

 serve as a further elucidation of that very per cwt. or about 90 per cent, on the value 

 flourishing and prosperous state of com- of the year 1822. From which value is to 

 nierce which the Ex- Vice-President of the 

 Hoard of Trade, the Right Hon. Thomas 

 Wallace, proclaims to the British Parlia- 

 ment. In this Statement we have added 

 an additional feature to what the return 

 made to Parliament contains, viz. the total 

 value of each year's importation, according 



be deducted freight, insurance, dock- 

 charges, commissions, and brokerage, be- 

 fore the expense of cultivation and ship- 

 ping from the plantations comes in ques- 

 tion. We leave the planters and the Ex- 

 Vice-President of the Board of Trade to 

 divide the profits. 



Stafrment of the Quantity of Sugar Imported from Biitish Plantations in the IV est Indies 

 into Great Britain, in the Years 1814 to 1822, both inclusive. — (Vide PaTliamentary 

 Paper, No. 84- of the present Session.) 



Comparative Statement of the Quantity and Value of Merchandize Exported from Great 

 Britain and Ireland to the East Indies and China, and the IVest Indies, during the last 

 Nine Yiais, — (I'lrfe Parliamentary Paper, No. 130.^ 



No. I. 



To the East Indies and China. 



