A. D. 1792. 



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It may be here obferved that the year ending with Odober 1788 ex- 

 ceeded the above, and aUb all preceding years, in the number and tui;nage 

 of {hipping, and in the quantity of tifli exported. 



The following Account ofthejlate of the French fidi cry at t^evofoundland, 

 during feveral years, is alfo taken from the returns of the Britifli ad- 

 mirals, who commanded on that ftation. 



In die year i;86 

 1/8/ 



]-88 



1/89 



1791 



» 1792 



Tuns 

 of oil. 



1,059 

 323 

 603 



121 



174 



The following is an authentic Jlatment of the commerce of Peterfburg 

 during this year. 



By merchants of Russia 



Great Britain . . 



Denmark 



Germany 



Sweden 



Holland 



Lubeck 



France 



Italy 



Hamburgh . . . 



Switzerland. . . 



Portugal 



Spain 



^Mecklenburg . 



sundry nations , 

 By captains of vessels 



Vjlue of exports 

 RublcF. 



13,579,337 



7,378,319 



201,726 



27,336 



134,330 

 8,547 



417,809 

 3,510 



170,293 

 179,458 



23,001 



100,656 



57 

 16 

 5S 

 91 



26 







11 



01 



63 

 50 



58 

 28 



Value of imports, 

 Rubles. 



18,228,855 

 1,930457 

 435,399 

 133,489 

 3,700 

 227,473 

 8,135 

 414,983 

 4,399 

 6,631 

 6,728 

 125,444 

 248,689 

 34,124 

 123,421 

 1 82,092 



22,224,331 58 



32 

 60 





 50 

 50 

 50 



O 



92 







50 



50 



45 







50 



60 



22 114,025 58 



Duties levied at 

 Peterfburg and 

 Cronftadt, 

 Rubles, 



4,100,074 



Totals 



A great proportion of thofe, who were claffed in this account as Ruf- 

 fian merchants, were in fad Britidi fubjeds, who made themlelves cit- 

 izens of Peterfburg, or fome other Ruffian town, in orde'r to obtain the 

 abatement of duties allowed to the fubjects of Ruffia ; and hence we fee 

 the amount of the nominal Ruffian exports and imports this year exceed 

 that of the Britlih. 



* Mr. Waldron, a merchant engaged in the 

 trade to Newfoundland, and who had for ten years 

 adted as naval officer for the dillrift of Fortune 

 bay in Newfoundland, which is near to the French 

 illands and fifhing grounds, informed a committee 

 of the houfe of commons in the year 1793, that 

 he fent an officer every year to S'. Pierre, general. 

 ly at the requeft of the furrogates, to examine the 

 iiate of the French fi(hery ; that in Auguft 1792 



there were 40 brigs and fliFps, averaging about 150 

 tuns burthen, the crews of which, together with 

 ih; inhabitants of the ifland, employed 64c flats 

 carrymg two men each; they had froin no to 

 ] 20 fifhing flialops carrying three men each, and 

 100 bankers carrying, on an average, eight men 

 ecc'i. [_Second report of the committee on the trade 

 of Ne-jaf midland, April 1793, />. 2.] 



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