A. D. lyyi. 



5^ 



An attentive perufal of the foregoing details may afford ample mat- 

 ter for refledion ; and it may perhaps appear doubtful, if all the home- 

 made linens of the three kingdoms much exceeded the quantity of 

 foreign linens, imported under the difadvantage of fuch heavy duties *. 



Mr. Swallow, the Britilli conful at Peterfburg, in his periodical re- 

 port, ftated, that ;^6^ Britilh veflels, and 255 of all other nations, had 

 iailed from that port in the courfe of this year. Their cargoes confift- 

 cd of iron, hemp, flax, hides, briftlcs, ilinglafs, tallow, foap, hemp- 

 feed, and lintfeed oils, wax, wax and tallow candles, caviary, cordage, 

 tobacco, leather, feathers, wheat, flour, tar, great variety of linensj; 

 ducks, drills, and failcloths, deals, and the fkins of hares, bears, fquirrels, 

 martins, fables, and foxes. 



The Dutch were very fuccefsful in their Greenland fifliery this year. 

 They had 1 20 fliips employed, which brought home 500 wliales, and 

 14,320 barrels of oil. Three fliips were loft, after having caught 15 

 whales. 



By an account laid before the houfc of commons it appeared, that 

 from the year 1750 to the year 1771, both years inclufive, there were 

 29,131 horfes exported from England, of which 7,783 during the war, 

 and 21,348 before and after it in years of peace. 



The quantity of tobacco imported in Glafgow this year was above 

 46 millions of pounds, and the quantity exported nearly 44 millions, 

 belides i'everal cargoes belonging to the Glafgow merchants, ordered to 

 proceed diredl from Virginia and Maryland to London "f". 



There belonged this year to all the ports 

 of England 7,645 veflels of the reputed burthen of 577,176 tuns, 

 andof Scotland 1,503 _ ^ _ 88,452 



Total 



9,148 - - r 665,628 



There were entered this year in all the ports of GreiU Britain, from 

 and to foreign countries, including repeated voyages, 



Britilh, 



Inward 

 Outward 



Vessels. 

 7.380 

 9042 



Tuns. 



732,309 

 875,892 



Foreign. 



Vessels. 



1,171 



563 



[39,164 



Total. 



Vcsscb. 



8,551 

 10,104 



1 un?. 



871.473 

 942,448 



• 1 fhoulil certainly run a great rifk, if I were 

 to prcfume to fay, that it is not altogether un- 

 worthy of confidfratior.— What would be tiie con- 

 fcquencc to our home manufadures in general, and 

 to our export trade, if the importation of foreign 

 linens were entirely, or nearly, free of duty ? The 

 reader will fee fome opinions, though perhaps not 

 quite difiirterefted, on that fubjcCt in the year 

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f The tobacco trade of Glafgow for this year 

 is given, not as being remaikably griat or fniaU, 

 but as being the principal article of the imports 

 and exports of that city, whereof Gibfon in his 

 //i/lory of Glafgow \_pp- 213-135] has given a mi- 

 nute detail for this year. I find, hovrcver, that the 

 importation of this year -ii^i the largeft that was 

 ever made iti the Clyde, etecpt that of the vea-.- 

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