672 



A. D. 1780. 



the coaft-oflice in London. The Dutch rival them in the fupply of 

 the London market with 40 or 50 veflels from 30 to 70 tuns, and by 

 long experience they have attained the art of feeding the market with 

 fuch nice and fparing exadnefs, as enables them to keep up a continual 

 exorbitant price. 



There belonged this year to all the ports 

 of England - 6,689 veflels of the reputed burthen of 534,512 tuns, 

 and of Scotland 1,493 - _ * 84,341 



Total 



8,182 



618,853 



Tliere 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-houle in London - ;^2,7 12,920 8 o 



and from the cuftom-houle in Edinburgh - 1 1,000 o o 



Total net revenue of the cuftoms of Great Britain X^2,723,920 8 o 



There was no money coined this year. 



