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By merchants of 



Russia 



(5 reat Britain - 



Holland 



I ji ibeck 



Hamburgh 



Denmark 



Spain 



I'ortugal 



France 

 Italy 



Trussia 



Switzerland - 



German enipne 



Saxony 



Sweden 



JDantzick 



Rostock 



Sundries 



Shipmasters - 



Bremen 



North A.morica 



Totals 



It is to be obferved, that a great part of the merchandize exported 

 from Riga confifts of the produce of the adjacent parts of Poland, which 

 did not then as now, belong to the Ruffian empire. 



It is alfo neceffary to obferve here once for all, that in the Ruffian 

 cuflora-houfes the accounts of the exports and imports are not clafTed 

 according to the countries to or from which the goods are carried, but ac- 

 cording to thofe to which the exporting or importing merchants belong; 

 and that the trade, nominally carried on by Ruffian merchants, belongs 

 in fadt almoft entirely to thofe of other nations, who, in order to evade 

 th« payment of alien duties, make their entries under the name of 

 Ruffian partners affiimed for that purpofe only, or who have made 

 themfelves Ruffian fubjefts. But there are fcarcely any natural-born 

 Ruffian fubjeds who are really engaged in foreign commerce on their 

 own account. 



A new tariff, which was publifhed by the court of S'. Peterfburg, and 

 began to be in force on the i" of January 1783, was exceedingly 

 unfavourable, or rather hoftile, to the manufadures and navigation of 

 Great Britain. The duties upon moft articles of Britiffi manufacture 

 w<;re now increafed in the proportion of from 50 to 300 per cent above 

 the former ones eflabliffied by the tariff of the year 1767. Twenty 

 rubles per hogfhead, afterwards raifed to forty rubles, were impofed on 

 beer and ale, while the duties on wines were only from 4- to 15 rubles 

 per hogfhead, if imported diredly from the place of their growth, in 

 veflels belonging to Ruffian fubjeds, whereof at leaft half the feamen 



