Statistics. 
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Coasting 
vessels in 
1785. 
In 1796. 
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According to the account drawn up by the Custom- 
house in the year 1785, already referred to, the number 
of ing vessels at that period was 3445; their 
256,648 ; and the number of men employed in navi- 
ing them 17,107: but this account seems to include 
of 
coasting : 358 ; Sunderland, 258; 
Beaumaris, 249 ; Cardi 190; St Ives, 173; Hull, 
165; Yarmouth, 104; Scarborough, 
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In the year 1796, a committee of the House of Com- 
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out the great increasein this branch of trade, so far as 
relates to the ; and we may safely infer a si- 
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rent incial ports. 1700, coasti 
which arrived in the 
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jae London, were only 5562; their tonnage, 218,100. 
the -year 1750, 6396, i 511,680: 
in 1790, the number of vessels 9278, and their ton- 
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of London, in 1799, it appears, in the year 1797, 
the number of vessels, (including their repeated voy- 
ages), which entered Thames from the provincial 
ports, was 10,781, and their tonnage 1,360,823 ; and 
in 1798, the number of vessels was 10,133, and their 
tonnage 1,250,449. Considering, with respect to their 
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gine its extent, w has-mot: considered the wonderfil 
and numerous facilities of conveyance, which, springi 
at first from the cominatdas cgldepine’ abd Seilahot 
the country, have in their turn served to increase and 
extend it. The state of the roads in almost every part 
ef England ; the almost infinite number of carriages, 
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entertain any thing like an uate idea on this sub- 
ect. Nor 2 onan dea mae tf mae 
if we do not recollect that all 
II. many streams had been rendered navigable: a sti 
greater number, however, have been rendered com< 
modious to internal commerce, during the present reign, 
besides the more valuable improvement of canals; nine- 
teen acts during the first fourteen sessions of this reign 
having been passed for ing artificial navigations ; 
and subsequent sessions have witnessed nearly an equal 
attention to this mode of facilitating internal com 
merce, 
It would carry us far beyond our limits, even to enu- 
merate all the canals which now exist in England. On 
this subject, we must refer our readers to the article 
Intanp ot — content ourselves with re« 
marking, that nearly all the great manufacturing towns 
are ya cme with one another by means of canals ; 
that by them they can receive most of the raw mate~ 
rials, which they respectively work up; and that by 
far the largest proportion of the man articles 
are dispersed over the kingdom, or sent to the 
ener Se ee ee 
inland navigation. 
gation. . 
The fore trade of this is con~ Value of t! 
ign ° country is generally n 0 
sidered of much more importance than its 
trade ; but this idea appears to us to be erroneous: the te. 
foreign trade is undou ly much more imposing in its 
aspect, and the extent of it is more easily ascertained ; 
but the real value of the domestic trade, if properly in- 
vestigated, will be found to: be much — Let us 
ovly reflect on the ulation of E and Wales, 
which is. upwards of ten millions ; and on the industry 
and wealth of that population: our foreign customers 
are undoubtedly more numerous, but they are far be- 
hind what may be called the domestic customers in in- 
dustry and wealth. Even on the very moderate com- 
oe that the av: annual expence of each in« 
vidual of the ten million inhabitants, amounts only 
to L.20, the annual domestic consumption will amount 
to the enormous sum of L. 200,000,000, 
We come now to the consideration of the foreign Commerc 
trade of England ; and in describing it, we shall enu« 
merate the most important and material articles which 
England imports from each particular foreign country, 
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