A. D. 1781. 



705 



The following enumeration of the Bririfh and Dutch fliips, which pafl- 

 cd the Sound to, and from, the Baltic lea in the years 1780 and 1781, 

 fliows very ftrongly the efiecl of the war upon the commerce of the 

 Dutch, and efpecially their carrying trade, the favourite branch of it ; 

 and it alio accounts for the anxiety e.xprefl'ed by the northern nations 

 for an unlimited freedom of commerce. 



Britilli (hips. Dutch (hips. 



1780 _ _ _ 1,701 - - 2,058 



1781 - _ - 2,001 - - 9 



And not one French veflel entered the Baltic in thefe two years. But 

 the French trade was carried on in neutral bottoms. And many of the 

 Dutch merchant fliips continued in the trade under Imperial, Swedifh, 

 Prulhan, and Danirti, colours. Some Britifh veflels alfo, in order to 

 leflen the expenfe of their infurancc, procured neutral papers during the 

 war. 



There belonged this year to all the ports 

 of England 6,567 veflels of the reputed burthen of 540,909 tuns, 

 and of Scotland 1,489 - - - 85,537 



Total 



8,056 



626,446 



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 - >C->73'.428 7 10 



and from the cuftom-houfe in Edinburgh - 60,000 o o 



Total net revenue of the cuftoms of Great Britain /^2,79i,42S 7 10 



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

 18,765 pounds of gold, value - - /"«7<5,794i2 6 

 and 20 pounds of lilvcr, - - - 



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