494 



A. D. 1769. 



/^ -5, 924,606: but, if we are to judge from the cuftom-houfe accounts, 

 there fcems reafon to believe that the amount is exaggerated *. 



In the courfe of this vear the emprefs of Germany declared Oftend a 

 free port ; and the king of Denmark declared his port of Glukftadt at 

 the mouth of the Elbe alfo free, and abolifhcd the duties on veflds and 

 goods. 



There belonged this year to all the ports 

 of England 7,939 vcilels of the reputed burthen of 573.987 tuns, 

 and of Scotland 1,508 _ - - 80,928 



Total 9,447 - - - 654,915 



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



a-half-per-cent duty, paid into the exchequer in the courfe of this year, 



was from the cuftom-houfe in London - ;^2,629,o86 4 6 



And from the cuftom-houfe in Edinburgh - 10,000 o o 



Total net revenue of the cuftoms of Great Britain ;^2 ,639,086 4 

 There were coined in the courfe of the year 



13.410 pounds of gold, value 



;^626,582 5 o 



and no filver. 



The official value of the imports and exports of Great Britain, from 

 Chriftmas 1768 to Chriftmas 1769, was as follows. 



Countries, &c. 



Atrica 



Ganarios 



Denmark and Norway 



East Country 



E.ist-Inclia 



Flanders 



France 



Germ,iny 



Greenland 



Holland 



Ireland 



Mann 



Italy 



Minorca 



Mad<rira 



Poland 



Portiigal 



Pmssia 



Russia . - , 



Spain 



Gibraltar 



IiniJortt'd into 



SCOTLAND. 

 ^462 1 



38,235 



1,179 



2,233 



18,433 



3,921 



110,755 



144,501 



788 



3,495 



470 



9,543 



14,.';47 



14,028 



127,975 



/,942 



30 



9 



13 



14 







10 



14 



1 



3 



17 

 19 

 7 

 6 

 8 

 3 

 6 



1 

 5 



& 



3 



10 



2 



7 



5 



Exported from 



KNGLAND. 

 i£605,lSO 5 



36,036 



1 6i), 1 55 



74,422 



1,205,388 



623,579 



113,310 



1,338,866 



2 



1,658,551 

 1,964,742 



6 

 6 

 3 

 18 

 2 



9 

 9 

 o 



13 

 1 



746,220 6 2 



27,459 2 3 



545,367 2 2 



158,777 n 5 



830,893 19 6 



SCOTLAND. 



^£"212 10 



17,838 



62,6/6 17 



299,498 19 



50,130 15 



J7 

 10 



I 

 19 



12 

 1 



IS 

 16 

 10 

 8 

 

 13 



1 



306,085 



419,271 



150 



6,420 



2,936 



1,667 

 763 

 S95 



3,158 

 10,407 



1 ,507 





 10 

 1 

 6 

 8 



9 



10 



O 



3 



• The fiiil article, the exports from Great Brit- times nothing. In this y^nr it was £^,(^55 ' ^^^ ^ 



ain to Huufon's bay, is dated at jf lo.coo ; but the do not find any year in a hich it ha5 reached jCi;,oco 



offiaal value of the exports to that fcttlement in fe- in the cuftom-houfe accounts, 

 vci'al of the early years is under j^i,cco, and fome- ■♦ 



