650 



A. D. 1779. 



There belonged this year to all the ports 

 of England 6,955 veflels of the reputed burthen of 574,620 tuns ; 



and of Scotland 1,521 _ _ _ 88,321 



Total 8,476 662,941 



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

 and to foreign countries, and including repeated voyages. 



Inward 

 Outward - 



The net amount of the cufloms, 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 ^^2,502, 273 19 8 



and from the cuftom-houfe in Edinburgh there was nothing remitted 

 this year, the whole cuftoms of Scotland being paid away in fiftiery 

 bounties, drawbacks, &c. 



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

 36,300 pounds of gold, value ^1^1,696,117 10 o 



and ^2 pounds of filver, 254 4 o 



^^1,696,371 14 o 



* The infpeclor general has claffed St Croix, St Euftathius, and St Thomas, along with the BritiHi 

 Weft-India iflands in this account. 



