154 A. D. 1788. 



Before the year 1771 the India goods were included in ihe foreign 

 merchandize. 



' It appears from the account furniflied by the proper officers, that 

 * there is no trade carried on from North Britain or Ireland* to Africa'. 



The flave veflels are very feldom employed in bringing home the 

 produce of the Wefh-Indies to Great Britain. 



The principal articles of the exports to Africa in the year 1787, which 

 may ferve as a fufficient fpecimen for all the others, were the following. 



Wrought brass, value ^17,986 10 O 



Wrouglit copper 12,269 10 O 



Iron ware, including gunsf, cutlasses, &c 43,515 O 



Bar iron (foreign) 10,947 3 2 



Cotton goods, plain, checked, and printed ^ 51,636 6 9 



Linens, British and Irish, plain, checked, and sail-cloth 18,200 12 2 



Linens, foreign, including part of the Irish 13,043 I9 11 



-Gun-po\vder 37,923 10 10 



Lead shot 1,408 5 6 



British spirits, 290,542 gallons 20,417 2 6 



Rum 64,584 gallons 19,406 8 O 



Woollen goods of various kinds ] 36,330 11 1 



Bugles 12,916 1 1 6 



Beno-al o-oods 1 86,865 5 6 



Some vefTels return home diredlfrom Africawithout having any con- 

 cern in the flave trade. Of thefe the greatefi: number in any one year 

 fmce 1760 was 71 veflels rneafuring 8,037 '^'^'^^ ^^^ ^^^ y^'^^ ^775» ^^'^ 

 the fmalleft number was 8 meafuring 1,180 tuns in 1782. The great- 

 eft and leaft values of the homeward cargoes in the fame period w'ere 

 ;i(Jii9,i52 in 1784, and /^I2,20i in 1761. In 1787 there were 



46 vessels, 6,630 tuns, with cai-goes amounting to ^1 17,817 16 10, 



of which the chief articles were 



Gum Arabic, value. ... <3g6,388 O 2 Elephantsteeth,orivory^l5,335 17 9 



Gum Senegal 5,184 12 9 Ostrich feathers 401 14 O 



Cam-wood 1,988 9 3 Bees' wax 3,810 I9 5 



Ebony 1,462 O 5 Cotton (apparently with the 1 1 q 4 



Red-wood 62,480 1 9 seeds in it) 40 pounds . . . j" 



The lafl; article, now fo infignificant, might probably with due en- 



* A refolution of the cliamber of commerce- of ham guns for ttie AfrlcaTi market gives employ- 

 Dublin, declaringtheirahhorrenccofthe flave trade, ment to between four and five thoufand perfons. 

 aid exprefling their fatisfaftion at finding, that the J The Mnnchetler manufacturers reprefented to 

 traffic in the human fpeeies had never been canic-d the committee, that the goods fupplied from Man- 

 on from Ireland, was tranfmitted to Granville chefter and its neighbourhood tor the African 

 S'larpe Efquire, chairman of the fociety in Lon- trade amounted annually to about ;^2CO,coo, and 

 don for the abolition of the flave trade. gave employment to about iS.oco men, women, 



A fimilar refolution was alfo tranfmitted to the and children If fa, the labour of each individ- 



fame focitty by the gild of meichants in Dublin, ual produced goods only to the amount of about 



\_Rep:r!, pari i, fjTeet X, p. v] f^ll on the average. 



f It wasfaid, that the manufafturt of Birming- 



