A. D. 1788. 



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The veflels employed in thefe two branches of the whale fifhery, and 

 the official value of their acquifitions, after this year will be found in 

 the annual general accounts of fliipping and imports. 



The following is an account of the vefTels belonging to the Britifli 

 dominions *, with their reg'iflered tunnage, and ufual number of men, 

 on the 30'" of September 1788. 



England 



Scotland 



Ireland 



Colonies 



Guernsey, Jersey, &c. 



Mann 



employed by go\'ernment, 

 were the real quantity of 



Of these there were 



so that 



shipping employed in the commerce of the British empire. 



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

 ^-md to foreign countries, including repeated voyages, 



British 



Inward 

 Outward 



Vessels. 

 11,121 

 12,936 



Tuns. 

 1,328,041 

 1,411,689 



Foreign 

 Vessels. 



1,830 

 969 



Tuns. 

 230,131 

 128,997 



Total 



Tuns. 



1,558,17'i 

 1,540,6S6 



The net revenue of the customs, including the West-India four-and-a-half-per- 

 cent duty, paid into the exchequer in the course of diis year, was 

 from the custom-house in London - - ^3,720,770 5 



and from the custom-house in Edinburgh - - 6o,000 O O 



Total net revenue of the customs of Great Britain 



There were coined at the mint, in the course of the year, 

 78,420 pounds of gold, value 

 and no silver. 



=^3.780,770 5 3 



^3,664,174 10 O 



longing to Britifh fubjetls in ' ain, and the (hips built there are equally entitled 



.^.d in this account, and they ' to all the privileges of Britilh-built ihipping with 



nlefs under particular circum- ' thofe built in the Weft-Indies or Canada, or any 



ftances and with exprefs licences, to come on this ' other foreign dependencies of the empire.' \_Mr. 



fide of the Cape of Good Hope ; though, in the Dundas's Letter to a committtc of the Jhlpluilden, 



words of a great ftatefman, ' the Britifh territories jj' July 1797-] 



' in India are under the fovtreigntv of Great Brit- 



* The veffels b 

 India are not inclu 

 are not permitted, unlefs und 



