428 A. D. 1765. 



In the year i76f, 1762, '7^3, and 1764, 



1372, 803, 847, and 881 vcllels, 



which were all Britilli property, except 46, which were Dutch. The 

 corn trade from Great Britain to Hollami, formerly confiderable. was 

 now confined to fome malt imported from Yarmouth, Wells, and Eiirn- 

 ham ; the corn from the Eafl: country, and particularly Poland, being 

 much cheaper : fome years ago from 800 to i ,000 veflels in a year ar- 

 rived from England loaded with corn ; in 1764 there were only 200 at 

 Roterdam, and 30 at Schiedam. 



About 1,000 packs of woollen manufacflurcs from Norfolk and ^'ork- 

 fhire, are annually imported at Roterdam, befides a very confiderable 

 quantity from London. Tlie value of the whole of tlie Englifli woollen 

 goods imported to Holland was eftimated at ^^350,000 a-year, of which 

 one third was fuppoftd to be fent to Germany. 



Woollen ftockings to the amount of from ^^50,000 to £'jo,oco, are 

 annually imported from Aberdeen ; and coarfe woollen ferges, made irt 

 the Ihire of Ayr*, to the value ot £10,000. 



In the year 1764 Dort, Roterdam, and Schiedam, received about 

 16,800 chaldrons of coals from Newcallle, and 310 from Sunderland, all 

 carried in Englifli fhips, and all paid for with ready money : there were 

 alfo tour or five cargoes of coals every year brought from Milford, and 

 large coals from the Firth of Forth, to the amount of about ;^5,gco 

 a-year. Owing to the decreafe of turf (or peat) in Holland, this trade 

 was increafing. 



Holland received annually from 8,000 to 10,000 hogdieads of tobacco 

 from Glaigow, about as many from Whitehaven, Liverpool, and Brif- 

 tol, and it was iuppofed, about 5,000 from London. Four fifths of the 

 whole tobacco went to Roterdam, and the reft to Amfterdam. 



From Cowes there came annually from 12,000 to 15,000 barrels of 

 rice. 



From 1,500 to 2,000 tuns of lead arrived annually from the Firth of 

 Forth at Campvere, the duties on Scott iih trade being lighter there than 

 at Roterdam, to which the lead was conveyed in bilanders by inland na- 

 vigation. About 1 ,000 tuns of lead were brought from Newcaftle, Stock- 

 ton, Hull, and Chefter, as alfo a fmall quantity of litharge, and, in time 

 of war, fome red lead. Lead was worth ^^14 or £1 5 a tun. 



From 2,000 to 3,000 barrels of pickled lalmon came from Scotland, 

 value /^5,ooo or ^6,oco : this trade ufed to be very confiderable *. From 

 12,000 to 14,000 barrels of red herrings and fprats ufed to be import- 

 ed here in a winter ; but of late years not above 3,000 or 4,000 have 



* Qtierc, if not rather Aberdcen-diiie ? 



\ The decreafe of it may be afcribed to the increafed confuoiption of falmon in London. 



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