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don and other parts of England, was greatly increafed ; and that, be- 

 lides fupplyingthe fhopkeepersof London and other places*, great quan- 

 tities of them are fliipped by the merchants, and fome of them to the 

 fame countries, to which the merchants of Glafgovv ufed to fend goods 

 of the fame fpecies, manufadured in England or in India: fuch are the 

 revolutions of trade * And hence the export trade of the weft part of 

 Scotland bears now a fmaller proportion to the whole of the exports of 

 Great Britain, than it formerly did, though the real amount of the capit- 

 al employed in trade, and of the produdive induftry, in that part of the 

 country has in fad been greatly increafed. 



It may be proper here alfo to obferve another diminution of the ex- 

 port trade of .Scotland, occafioned by the great demand for falmon and 

 other filh in London, which has almoft annihilated the exportatiori of 

 falmon from Scotland to foreign countries. 



The increafe of manufadures in Glafgow and the adjacent country 

 gave rife to the Chamber of commerce and manufadures of Glafgow, 

 which was eftablifhed this year. The objed of the fubfcribers, who 

 were merchants and manufadurers in Glafgow, Pafley, Greenock, &c. 

 was to eftablifla a fund, which fliould be employed, under the manage- 

 ment of the dircdors, in promoting, proteding, and encouraging; trade 

 and manufadures : and their exertions have in many inftances been of 

 eflential fervice f . 



To the revolutions in the trade and manufadures of Scotland, already 

 mentioned, I mufl here add another, which will, perhaps, be thought 

 more extraordinary. Paris was formerly the place, where all thofe, 

 who were ambitious of outftiining their equals, ufed to purchafe their 

 coaches, till the more fubftantial work, and at leaft equal ingenuity, of 

 the London coach-makers convinced the great and the opulent, that 

 they might be better ferved by keeping their money at home. For 

 many years paft Edinburgh has alfo been celebrated for the manufac- 

 ture of coaches, which have become an eftabliflied article of exportation 

 to the principal towns on the Baltic, and efpecially to Peteriburg. But 

 the exportation of Edinburgh-made coaches to France was an unexped- 

 ed novelty referved for this year, when a coach-maker in Edinburgh re- 

 ceived an order from Paris itfelf for one thou/and crane-necked carriages, 



* So flrong is the prejudice in favour of t-jiun- mark their fnuff-boxes and other trinkets as made 

 made good-;, that die Glafgow cah'co-printcrs are at Paris, adding a private mark, whereby they 

 obliged, in comphance with the dcfire of their could reclaim the credit of their own work, 

 cuftomers, to ufe the harmlefs deception of mark- f The firll chairman of this Chamber of com- 

 ing their goods, as if printed in London ; the merce was Mr. Colquhoun, who has fince render- 

 fight of the ftamp fatisfying the ladies, that the ed fuch important fervice to the great metropohs 

 patterns are much more elegant, and the colours of the Britilh empire by his excellent fyllem of 

 more durable, than can be produced by any coun- police for preventing the enormous plunder, which 

 try manufaclurer. Juft fo, when it was fuppofed, ufed to be regularly carried on upon the Rivew 

 that no elegant toys could be made but in Paris, Thames and the wharfs, 

 the manufaflurers at Birmingham were obliged to 



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