A. D. 1787. 



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Exports from France. 



Livres 4,000,000 



2,300,000 



250,000 



250,000 



6,000,000 



5,000,000 



3,000,000 



1,500,000 



150,000 



1,500,000 



Imports to France. 

 1,000,000 

 3,500,000 

 1,000,000 

 1,000,000 

 8,000,000 



6,000,000 



3,500,000 

 2,000,000 



Places. 

 Constantinople 

 Salonica 

 Morea 

 Candia 

 Snivrna 

 Syria 

 Egypt 

 Barbary 



Add for caravans 

 and smuggled goods 



* 24,000,000l 26,000,000 



The trade carried on by France with Ruffia, in virtue of the com- 

 mercial treaty concluded in the preceding year, was not very extenfive, 

 the exports from RulTia being this year only to the amount of ^^50,000. 

 The French, however, imported into Ruffia merchandize far exceeding 

 that amount, which were partly carried diredl from France by fea. But 

 rich fluffs, jewels, and other articles of luxury, ufed to be conveyed either 

 wholely by land carriage, or by the medium of the German ports on 

 the Baltic fea, whence they found their way into Ruffia, a coniiderable 

 part of them being generally fmuggled. 



The whole value of the merchandize imported into Peterfburg this 

 year was 15,564,533 rubles. The principal articles were woollen, cot- 

 ton, and filk, goods; wines of France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Hun- 

 gary, Italy, and Greece; beer and ale (4,791 hogfheads) ;• herrings 

 (19,979 barrels of Swedifh and northern, and only 741 of Britifn and 

 Dutch) ; fugar ; coffee ; and tea. There were alfo imported gold in 

 ingots to the value of 9,830 rubles, and lilver in bars to the value of 

 17,266 f. 



A botanic garden was eflablifhed in Bengal under the diredions of 

 Colonel Kydd. The Eaft-India company, expeding great benefit from 

 it, efpecially by the propagation of cinnamon and fago trees, fent out 

 orders to withhold no proper expenfes for the advancement of fo ufefub 

 an inflitution. 



There belonged this year to all the ports 

 of England 8,71 1 veffels of the afcertai/ied hurxhen of 954,829 tuns., 

 and of Scotland 1,700 - _ _ _ 133,045 



Total 10,411 



* About one million fterlinff money, 

 f In the account of the French and Ruffian 

 trade I have followed Mr. Econ. [_Siir-vey of lie 

 Tariijh empire, f>. 417.3 The account of the 



1,087,874 



imports of Peterfburg is from the private collec- 

 tions kindly communicated to me by the fame 

 gentleman. 



