582 



A. D. 



I775- 



more generally known. Both thefe difcoveries may be of great fervice 

 in naval affairs. 



The Britifh minifler at Hamburgh tranfmitted the following llate- 

 ment of the value of the Britifli and French imports at that city and 

 Bremen. 



Hamburgh. Brfmen. 



From Great Britain, Ireland, and 7 r c r ^ r. 



-the Britifh Weft-Indies |>Ci.030,3i6 : 7:0^:224,645: 8:0 



From France - _ _ 1,270,627:14:0 237,524:10:0 



Of 768 trading veflels, which arrived at Hamburgh this year, 262 

 were Britifh ; and of the whole there were 242 from Britifli ports. It 

 is worthy of remark, that of 32 veflels, which arrived from Shetland 

 with herrings, there were 28 Danifh, 2 Prufhan, only 2 Dutch, and 

 none Britifh. 



The following account of the quantity of Britifli-plantation fugar im- 

 ported into Great Britain, and of raw and refined fugar exported, dur- 

 ing the under-mentioned years, is taken from an account made up by 

 the infpedor -general of the cuftoms. 



Tobacco being an article of very confiderable importance to the com- 

 merce, and alfo to the revenue, of Great Britain, and the principal 

 article of the imports from America to this country, I have compiled, 

 from feveral official returns of the cuftom-houfes of England and Scot- 

 land, the following retrofpect of the imports and exports of Britifh-plan- 

 tation tobacco, and alfo of the grofs and net duties upon it received by 

 government, from the beginning of the year 1761 to the interruption 

 of the trade by the war. 



