A. D. 1770. 507 



By reports tranfmitted from Hamburgh by Mr. Woodford it appears, 

 that in the courfe of the year the goods imported into that city from 

 the Britifh dominions in 200 veflels, whereof 163 were Britifh, amount- 

 ed to ^^1,020,251 : 5 :4 fterUng; 

 and the imports from France in 177 veflels,") 

 whereof 19 were Britifh, and not one French, > 945,467 14:0 

 amounted to j 



Mr Woodford obferved, that though the number of veflels from Brit- 

 ifh ports was fewer by 16 than laft year, he beheved that deficiency was 

 fully balanced by the greater burthen of the fhips of this year ; and that, 

 fo far from there being any decreafe in the trade of thofe ports which 

 lent large fliips with valuable cargoes, there were five fhips more from 

 London, and 10 fhips more from Glafgow, than in the year 1769. 



He complained, that the merchants of Hamburgh, by means of the 

 great numbers of Hamburghers fettled as merchants in London, were 

 enabled to monopolize the carrying trade between the two ports, which 

 they confined to thirty large fhips of from 300 to 600 tuns, belonging 

 to Hamburgh, at fuch exorbitant freights as abfolutely prevented feveral 

 bulky articles from being fliipped ; while only one Englifliman, Mr. 

 Nevvby, ventured to employ any veffels in that trade ; and he had three 

 good fhips in it. 



There belonged this year to all the ports 

 of England 7,898 veffels, of the computed burthen of 593,962 tuns^ 

 and of Scotland 1,509 88,849 



Total 9.407 682,811 



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 - jC2>537>H3 ^8 8 



and from the cuftom-houfe in Edinburgh - 9,000 o o 



Total net revenue of the cuftoms of Great Britain ^^2,546, 143 18 8 

 There were coined at the mint in the courfe of the year 



13,350 pounds of gold, value - ^{'623, 778 15 o 



and 22 pounds of filver, - - 68 4 o 



^623,846 19 o 



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