A. D. 1783. 25 



A Statement of the amount realized in England of the territories and revenue 

 obtained in India. 



From September 1 764 

 to September 1778- 



Cost in England of goods, stores, and 

 bullion, sent to India and China, 

 witli the expense of raising and 

 transporting troops tor the defence 

 of the territories, together with 

 other charges not relating to com- 

 merce, paid here from the season 

 1 764 to the season ] 777) both in- 

 cluded - - ^9.990,439 



Bills of exchange drawn from India 

 and Ciiina on the directors from the 

 season 1765 to tlie season 177S, 

 both included - - 6,gf)6,0I5 



Profits made in 14 years fi'om sales of 

 European goods and stores abroad 

 (the last )ear by estimate), and ap- 

 ])lied to the purchase of investments 

 lor Europe - - 1,140,424 



Balaxce, being what the abore ar- 

 ticles are short of the investments, 

 and is therefor the sum realized in 

 England from the revenues - 3,622,969 



^21,749,847 



From March 1 7^ 

 to March 178O. 



By amount of investments to Eng- 

 land from India and China in the 

 space of 14 years, reckoning from 

 the arrivals in 1766 to the arrivals 

 in 1 779, both included, according 

 to their invoice cost - .^21,721,654 



Received in 1 775 of government on 



account of Manila - - 28,193 



The imports of the above 14 years 

 were brought to market, and 

 sold in 14 years and a half, or tc 

 their full amount. 



^21,749,847 



N. B. The sum of ,^3,622,969, realized from tlie revenues in 141 years, is nearly equal to 7-J per 

 cent per annum on the capital. 



The refloratlon of Dominica to the dominion of Great Britain was a 

 happy event for the inhabitants of that ifland. The French nobleman, 

 whom the marquis de Bouille appointed to the government of it in the 

 year 1778, was of a charader widely different from his own, and aded 

 diametrically oppofite to the liberal and generous intentions of his wor- 

 thy commander. His cowardly jealoufy and defpotifra cruftied and op- 

 preffed the Britifh colonifts, who, according to the Uberal terms of the 

 capitulation, ought to have felt no other difference in their fituation, 

 than having to pay freight and commiffion to foreigners inftead of their 

 own Britilh correfpondents. But they had not the fatisfadion of hav- 

 ing a regular intercourfe with France, or even with any country: for 

 during all the time of the French dominion in Dominica no vefTels 

 went between it and France ; and the planters were obliged to confign 

 their produce in neutral bottoms, at firft to the Dutch merchants of S'. 

 Euftathius, through whofe agency it was refhipped for Britain, or elfe 

 in Dutch veffels chartered by their correfpondents at home, which car- 

 ried it to Roterdam. When the war with Holland broke our, they 

 were expofed to ftill greater hardibips in procuring freight for their 

 produce, which they were obliged to fend under Imperial colours to 

 Oflend, where their fugars were fold fo low as from £6 to ;^8 a hogf- 



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