36 



A. D. 1787. 



All thefe veflels were meafured and regiftered agreeable to the act 26 

 Geo. Ill, c. 60. The returns from the other parts of the Britifli do- 

 minions were not received in time to be included in this year's account 

 of Britifh {hipping. 



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

 and to foreign countries, including repeated voyages, 



BntJfh. 



Inward 



Outward 



Vessels. 



9.969 

 11,762 



Tuns. 

 1,058,368 

 1,211,199 



Foreign. 



Vessels. 

 2,181 

 1,462 



Tuns. 



258,133 

 138,220 



Total. 



Vessels. 



12,150 



13,224 



Tuns. 

 1,316,501 

 1,349,419 



The net amount of the cufloms, including the Wefl-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 



and from the cuftom-houfe in Edinburgh 



£3,60^,807 4 II 

 70,000 o o 



Total net revenue of the cuftoms of Great Britain jC3,673,8o7 411 



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

 60,975 pounds of gold, value - - ^^2, 849,056 17 6 



and 17,890 pounds of filver *, - - 55A59 ° ° 



£2,go4,sis 17 6 



• Though the coinage of filver this year was are prcferved asfcarce colnt, and feme as counters 

 pretty confiderable (being, indeed, the largeft in for playing at cards : but the greateft part mud 

 any one year fince the early part of the eighteenth have been exported, or melted down, as it is other- 

 century) not a fingle (hilling or fixpencc of it is ways impoflible to account for fuch a fum of 

 now to be found in circulation, nor, indeed, money totally difappearing. 

 of any filver coined in the prefent reign. Some 



