:84 



A. D. 1775. 



Beficks thefe exports to the mother country, a confiderable quantity 

 of their produce, including, perhaps, the whole of their melafles, was 

 carried openly, or clandeftinely, to the BritiOi colonics in North Ame- 

 rica, in return for which the French colonifts received provifions, lum- 

 ber, and money. This trade was wholely carried on in American 

 vefTels. 



There belonged this year to all the ports of 



England 7,549 veflels of the reputed burthen of 605,974 tuns, 

 and of Scotland 1,559 ----- 91,330 



Total - 9,108 697,304 



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

 and to foreign countries, including repeated voyages, 



Inward 

 Outward 



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, - /^2,48i,o3i : 5 : y 



The Scottifti revenue of the cuftoms was ftill fo much exhaufted in 

 paying fiftiery bounties, drawbacks, &c. as to leave no balance to be 

 remitted to the exchequer. 



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

 104,895 pounds of gold, value - - £/\.,goi,2iS : 17 : 6 



and no filver. 



