320 CULTUEE, MANUFACTURE, ETC., OF TOBACCO. 



New England tobaccos by Charles II. ; they were 

 restricted in 1766 to two shillings per hogshead. Just 

 before the American War, Virginia exported about 

 55,000 hogsheads of tobacco, each hogshead weighing 

 1000 lbs. In 1758, the number increased to 70,000 

 hogsheads, which was the greatest quantity of tobacco 

 ever produced in that country in one year. Some 

 accounts of the exports of Virginia and Maryland at 

 this period give 80,000 hogsheads as their usual yearly 

 gathering, the freight of this, at thirty shillings per 

 hogshead, amounting to £120,000. From 58,000 to 

 60,000 hogsheads was the usual quantity of tobacco 

 obtained from this source alone till 1790. 



The consumption in England during the foregoing 

 periods, is said to have advanced to 41,170 hogsheads. 

 According to the account and balance of imports and 

 exports, between Great Britain and the American 

 colonies, laid before Parliament, for eleven years pre- 

 ceding 1774, the advantage annually advanced to about 

 £1,500,000 sterling. The yearly amount of the pay- 

 ment into the Exchequer, according to the account of 

 the duties upon tobacco from 1770 to 1774, was 

 £219,117 sterling. One half of this tobacco was im- 

 ported to Scotland, and four-fifths of that half was 

 exported to France, Holland, Germany, and other 

 countries. 



In 1775 the duties on tobacco arose to £298,002 

 sterling. The duties were at this time so excessively 

 high, that in the same year 131 hogsheads of tobacco, 

 exported on account of a merchant in Charleston, 



