262 A. D. 1748. 



This year the populace in Holland compelled their rulers to abolifli 

 the old excife-duty, amounting to ten millions of gilders for that fii.gle 

 prjvince ; whereby we have learned, in fome degree at leaft, the pro- 

 porti >n of the wealth which the ievc nil other places of that mod popu- 

 lous province bear to its miglity metropolis, viz. 



Gilders. 

 Amflerdam paid annually - - 3,802,720 



Roterdam (about one fourth part of Amfterftam) 997>950 

 Harlem (above one tilth) - - 801,200 



Leyden (above one fifth) - - 783,130 



Dort (almofl one feventh) - - 511,960 



Gou la (almoft one eighth) - - 459,500 



Alkmacr _ - » 267,100 



Br'el - - - 232,290 



Delft, Schiedam, and the Hague, - 1,492,860 



Hoorn _ _ - 153,240 



Gornichem _ - - 141,760 



Enchuyfen . _ - 105,060 



Monickendam. _ _ - 68.420 



Purnierend . _ _ 61.260 



Medenblick » . - 45,460 



The iflands on the coaft of Holland - 42,740 



Edam - _ - - 33.35° 



Total, 10,000,000 



While the new fubfidy of five per cent on imported commodities was 

 in debate, the fugar-planters and Weft-India merchants, greatly alarm- 

 ed thereat, publifhed fundry eflays, tending to fhew the ruin, or at leaft 

 the great detriment, which that duty (which however took place) would 

 bring on the fugar colonies. From thofe eflays, as well as from the 

 cuftom-houfe accounts, then laid before the parliament, we may gather 

 the true ftate of the Eritifti fu. ar trade compared with that of PVance, 

 taking the year 1742 for the rule ; probably, becaufe we were in that 

 year at peace with France, though at war with Spain, viz. 



Sugars produced in the French Weft-India iflands in 1742, viz. 



Cwt. 

 In Martinico, Guadaloupe, and the other lefl'er iflands 622.500 

 In Hil'panioLi (or St. Domingo) - - 848,000 



Total, 1,470500 



Being about the quantity of 122,500 hogflieads of 12 hundredweight 

 each. 



