454 ^' ^' ly^^* 



The price of corn being flill very high, the ads prohibiting the ex- 

 portation, and thofe allowing the free importation, of it for a hmited 

 time were prolonged, as well as the, lately annual, a<5l for the importa- 

 tion of faked provifions from Ireland. [7 Geo. Ill, cc. i, 3, 4, 5, 8, 

 II, 22.] 



According to the Abbe Raynal, the quantity of tea imported from 

 China in the courfe of this year, was as follows : 



By the Englifh, - - 6,000,000 pounds, 



the Dutch, - - 4,500,000 



the Swedes, - - 2,400,000 



the Danes, - • - 2,400,000 



the French, - - 2,100,000 



17,400,000 

 and he efliraates, from obfervations and calculations made with all pof- 

 fible cxaftnefs during feveral years, and from the preference given by 

 moft nations to chocolate, coffee, &c. that the confumption of tea in 

 the continent of Europe was not more than 5,400,000 pounds, and that 

 6,000,000 pounds muft have found their way into Great Britain, and 

 been confumed there in addition to the 6,000,000 imported by the Eaft- 

 India company. \HiJl. phil. et polit. V. ii, p. 138, ed. 1782.] 



There were ftamped for fale in Scotland this year 12,746,659 yards 

 of linen, the value of which was ^^597, 227 : 1 1 : o. 



There arrived this year at Peterfburg 413 vefiels, whereof 167 were 

 Britifli, 68 Dutch, i French, and the reft Ruffian, Swedifh, Danifh, 

 and German. The value of their cargoes, as rated in the cuftom-houfe 

 books, was 5,288,471 rubles. And there failed 159 Britilh vefTels from 

 Peterfiaurg, of which there were 71 for London, 52 for the other ports 

 of England, 18 for Scotland, 6 for Ireland, 2 for Guernfey and Jerfey, 

 I for Bofton in New-England, and the other 9 for ports on the con- 

 tinent of Europe. Their cargoes were valued at 3,270,000 rubles. Of 

 other nations there failed 265 vefTels for foreign ports, carrying cargoes 

 valued at 2,510,000 rubles. Thus greatly above a half in value, and 

 probably aUb in bulk, of the commerce of Peterfburg was in the hands 

 of Britifh merchants, and carried by Britifh veilels. 



The fame obfervation holds good with reipect to the hemp fhipped 

 this year at Narva, of which -], ^ were brought to Britain. 



The Swedidi Eaft-Inuia company, originally eflablifhed in the year 

 1731, and whole privileges were renewed in 1746, were now again 

 chartered for twenty years more. Their fhips are moflly fent to China, 

 where their purchaies are made almoft entirely with filver, which they 

 procure at Cadiz. Four fifths of the value of their imports have been 

 tea, whereof but a fmall proportion has been confumed in their own 

 country, and the greatelt part, there is reafon to believe, was clan- 



