43® A. D. 1765. 



terdiun, and about 200,000 ftones from Dort ; medium value ijd per 

 ftone. 



Flax-feed at leaft 17,000 hogflieads ; value about 50/" each, 

 Grave-ftones from Namur, to the value of about - /^ 1,500 



Mill-ftones from Cologne, _ _ _ 1,200 



Tarras, received rough from Germany, and prepared in Hol- 

 land, - - - - _ - 2,000 

 Clinkers, made in Holland, _ - _ 2,000 

 Rulhes for matting chairs, - - - 1,600 

 Spice, — they quantity very great, but not afcertained. 

 A fmall quantity of fine thread from Juliers, and alfo of Dutch tapes, 

 fail-cloth, and linens. The Britifli demand for thefe articles, formerly 

 very confiderable, is dayly decreafing. 



Gold and filver for the fervice of the Eafl-Indla company, and alfo 

 for other purpofes of remittance, when the fluduating courfe of ex- 

 change happens to require it. 



Brandy and gin were formerly the chief objeds of the fmuggling 

 trade, which was now almoft at an end. A great quantity of gin was 

 ll;ill carried to England and Ireland to be regularly entered. 



To all thefe may be added the tranfportation of German emigrants 

 for peopling the Britifh provinces in America *. 



The Britifli fadory at Hamburgh, the members of the mofl antient 

 commercial fociety belonging to Great Britain, obferved in their re- 

 port, that, fmce the trade was laid open in the firfl year of William 

 and Mary, it has been on the decline and getting into the hands of fo- 

 reigners. 



In time of war, Hamburgh being a confiderable magazine for the in- 

 land confumption of Germany, and a neutral place, many prize goods 

 are fent to it fot fale, both by the Enghfh and the Fi-ench. During the 

 war the Englifli flidory flourifhed by the confignments from England, 

 and flill more by thole from America and the Weil-Indies, infomuch, 

 that France ufed then to be fupplied with fugar from Hamburgh : but 

 now from 50,000 to 60,000 hogflieads of French fugars were carried 

 annually to Hamburgh, and they had already driven the Englifh fugars 

 out of the trade. 



Such is the account given by the members of the fadory : but that 

 tlie general Britifh trade with Hamburgh was not on the decline, may 

 be prefumed from the following enumeration of fliips arrived at Ham- 

 burgh, tranfmitted by the conful. 



* This account, though lon^, will not be which it is the material. T'ormerly we ate all our 

 thought tcdiom by thcl'e who with to mark the meat ofF plates made at Delf in Holland: novr 

 changes brought about in trade by time. Inllcad the Dutch generally ufc our SlaiTord-lliirc plates, 

 of carrying our cotton to Holland, we now col- And it is plealnij to obfevvc, that ahnoft all the 

 Ifcl cotton from every part of the world, to fup- other alterations arc favourable to the Britifh ma- 

 ply the vail variety of ettenfive manufactures, of nufadlures. 



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