A. D. 1786. 



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India company turned out fo beneficial to them, that they were enabled 

 to difcharge a great part of their debts, and to reduce the intereft on 

 the bonds, held by fuch as declined receiving payment, from Jive to four 

 per cent. 



The tranquillity of the ifland of Dominica was diflurbed during the 

 years 1785 and 1786 by a harafling petty warfare againft the negroes, 

 who had efcaped from the plantations on which they had been flaves. 

 and maintained themfelves in independence among the woods in the 

 interior part of the ifland, partly by the eafy cultivation of the foil in a 

 tropical climate, and partly by depredations upon the property of their 

 former mafters. The peace and fafety of the colony were at length re- 

 ftored by the fuppreflion of thofe dangerous domeftic enemies, at an ex- 

 penfe of near /^20,ooo. 



There belonged this year to all the ports 

 of England 8,465 veffels of the reputed burthen of 804,105 tuns, 



and of Scotland 1,917 - - 127,913 



Total 



10,382 



932,018 



There were entered this year in all the ports of Great Britain, from 

 and to foreign countries, including repeated voyages. 



Inward 

 Outward 



British. 



Vessels. 



10,118 



11,293 



Tuns. 

 1,077,681 

 1,115,022 



Foreign. 



Vessels 



1,686 



1,022 



I'uns. 

 186,675 

 121,197 



Total. 



Vessels 

 11,804 



12,315 



Tuns. 

 1,264,356 

 1,236,219 



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 from the cuftom-houfe in London £j^,oo6,c)i i 10 7 



and from the cuftom-houfe in Edinburgh 



70,000 o o 



Total net revenue of the cuftpms of Great Britain ^^4, 076, 911 10 7 



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

 23,700 pounds of gold, value - - ;^i, 107,382 10 o 



and no filver. 



