A, D, 1768. 



485 



The Imports at Hamburgh from Great Britain, Ireland, and the Brit- 

 ifh Wtrft-lndles, this year amounted to ^1,169,170 fterling ; 



and thole from France to - 993-31 8 



There arrived at that port this year from the Britifli dominions 254 vef- 

 fels, whereof 20 were Britifli; from France 160 veflels, whereof 9 were 

 Tritirti, 79 Dutch, and only 2 French ; from Spain 43 veflels, whereof 

 21 were Britifli ; from Portugal and Italy 57 veflels, whereof 22 were 

 Britifli; and from the northern kingdoms 176 vefl^els, whereof 8 were 

 Britifli. 



The number of veflels cleared out at Newcaflle this year exceeded that 

 of the year 1767 by 453, the number laft year beini; 3,720,' and this 

 year, 4.173, whereof 3,728 were coartcrs, and 445 for foreign countries. 



Of 124 fliips fent out by the Dutch to the Greenland whale fifliery, 5 

 wert loft in the ice ; and the remaining 119 caught 390 whales. 



This year the white inhabitants of Jamaica were eftimated to be 

 17,000; there were 166,914 negroes on the tax-roll, and 135,773 head 

 •f cattle. The exports of the ifland were as toUows. 



To 



Great Britain ? 

 and Ireland. 5 



North ; 



America. 5 

 Totals 



befides mifcellaneous articles, which cannot be reckoned. 



The whole value of the exports of this year could not be lefs than 

 /^i, 400,000 fterling. 



There belonged this year to all the ports 

 of England 7>5ii veflels of the reputed burthen of 549,191 tuns, 



and of Scotland 1,498 _ _ _ 85,898 



Total - 9,009 - - 635,089 



The net amount of the cuftoms, including the Wefl-India four-and- 

 a-half-per-cent duty, paid into the exchctjucr in the courle of this year. 

 Was, from the cuftom-houfe in Loudon - X^2,43i,9i6 2 6 



and from the cuftom-houfe in Edinburgh - 13,100 o o 



Total net revenue of the cuftoms in Great Britain /^ 2, 445 ,01 6 2 6 



There were C"ined at the mint in the courfe of the year 

 18,075 pounds or gold, value - r vC844j554 7 '^ 



and no iilvcr. 



