OF SCOTLAND. 95 



Guernfey, Jerfeyand Alderney 5,8,565 56,802 



North America . 4,586,886 1,468,941 



Weft Indies 1,151,360 2,716,569 



Spanifh Weft Indies 4,301 39,988 



. *7ji6i>i46 12,821,995 



Since the year 1748, the annual amount of Eng- 

 lifh imports hath gradually increafed from- 9 to 

 12,000,000!. while from 1771, that of exports hath 

 been gradually decreafing ; infomuch that the ba- 

 lance, which, upon an average of 50 years previ- 

 ous to 117 1> had been above 4,000,000!. in favour 

 of exports, did not, at the conclufion of the late 

 war, amount to i ,000,000!. after deducting the 

 value of (lores and other fnpplies for the army and 

 navy. Nor are there any good grounds to hope, 

 that the national exports to foreign parts will again 

 produce a balance of 4,000,000!. or even half of 

 that fum, for a permanency of years. 



The balance with RiuTia, Sweden, and other 

 countries upon the Baltic, hath always been againft 

 England, owing to the importance of the articles 

 which we receive from thence, to m an u failures, 

 and fhipping. Our exports to Ireland, Portugal, 

 Italy, Turkey, and the S freights, have lately de- 

 creafed to the amount of two millions annually, which 

 France hath partly gained ; and fimilar deficien- 

 cies, by means of that politic nation, may be ex- 

 pected with other European kingdoms, the trade of 

 RufTia excepted. 



In America, the profpect is ftill more gloomy. 

 As thofe ftates are feducing artifts and manufac- 

 turers from all the commercial nations of Europe, 

 and as their country abounds in raw materials, as 

 iron, copper, timber, furs, peltry, cotton, hemp, 

 flax, indigo, and filk ; it may be prefumed, that 

 they will reftrict their imports from this country to 

 fuch articles only as they cannot raife within rhem- 



iclves, 



