A. D. 1784. 



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abolition of all future trade with the Europeans *, to give up the un- 

 fortunate gunner (for the commanding officer could not be found) upon 

 fome indiredl affurance of fafety. But the innocent man was inftantly 

 put to death. So very precarious is the tenure of fo great an objed; as 

 the trade with China, the ruling people of which, regardlefs of the vafh 

 quantity of bullion poured into their country by it, defpife all traders, 

 and hold the only foreigners known to them in a double degree of con- 

 tempt, as traders, and as beings of an inferior nature to the Chinefe. 



There belonged this year to all the ports 

 of England - 7,462 veflels of the reputed burthen of 700,798 tuns, 

 and of Scotland 1,649 -• - - - 



Total 



9,1 n 



92,349 



793,147 



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 cufloms, including the Weft-India four-and-a- 

 half-per-cent duty, paid into the exchequer in the courfe of this year, was 

 trom the cuftom-houfe in London - - ;C3,266,639 4 o 



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



Total net revenue of the cuftoms of Great Britain ;^3,326,639 



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

 »7'595 poiii^dsof gold, value - ;^822,i26 



and 65 pounds 4 ounces of filver, - - 202 



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lO 



6 

 1 1 



/;822,328 18 5 



* It could proceed from no diffidence of fucccfn before, Commodore Anfon, with a fingle weatlier- 



in a 11 jilile conflict, that the Europeans fuccumbed beaten (hip had fet the whole Chiiiele power i.i- 



to tl.e Chinefe viceroy. Neither they nor the Ca.Tton at defiance. 

 Chinefe could forget, thut, about forty years 



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