A. D. 1794. 



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The following is an Account of the veflels belonging to the Britifh 

 dominions, with their regiflered tunnage and ufual number of men, on 

 the 30'" of September 1794. 



England 



Scotland 



Ireland 



Colonies 



Guernsey, Jersey, &c. 



Mann , 



Total 



There were built and registered in the several ports of the British dominionB, 

 in the course of this year, 



714 vessels measuring 66,021 tuns. 



The net revenue of tlie customs, paid into the exchequer in the course of this 

 year, was 



from the custom-house in London 

 from the custom-house in Edinburgh 

 the West-India duty of four and a half per cent 



Total net revenue of the customs of Great Britain 



^3,491,835 O 



29,400 O 



43,882 7 



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

 54,765 pounds of gold, value 

 and no silver. 



^3,565,117 7 7 

 sg2,558,894 12 6 



« The Ruffians think, we mud have their pro- 

 ' du£ts, and cannot exill without them. That we 



• want their goods, is true ; but they want much 

 ' more to fell them, as their piefent poverty clearly 

 ' proves. We can afford to buy elftwhere, and 

 ' can get their produ£ls raifed at home or in other 

 'countries by paying half, or as much more, as 



• we now pay them. Enmity or fpite may muice 

 ' people fubmit even to this. But RufTia has no 

 ' alternative : for if Britain will not buy her pro- 

 ' duAs, no other nation in the univei fe can. 



' Were all the foreign merchants in Ruffia infcrib- 

 ' ed as burghers, the gain would be but ideal to the 

 ' government. They might flatter ihemfclvcs by 

 ' feeing a great trade carried on by nominal Ruf- 



• fians ; and we might lament the lofs of our fac- 

 ' tory. But to the confumer abroad it would be 

 ' the fame thing : provided he gets his goods, it 

 ' little concerns him who fent them. 



' Till the native Ruffian merchants become 

 ' richer and honefter, the trade mult be carried on 

 ' by foreign capitals. Now money is advanced to 



• them fix to cvvelve months before-hand to bring 

 ' in their goods : and thofe very goods are fold in 

 ' England, &c. on ten to twelve months credit. 



' The Ruffians buy all the goods imported on 

 ' fix to twelve months credit. 



' When the fullnefs of time (liall enable them to 

 ' trade without thefe credits, then the foreigners 

 ' will go away of their own accord. In the mean- 



• time I would advife them and all governments 

 ' whatever to leave trade entirely to itfelf. It will 

 ' never fail to find out its own true intereft in a 

 ' (liort time.' 



. The commercial fa£ls and commercial wifdom, 

 contained in thefe lines, render any apology for 

 the infertion of them at full length unneceflary. 



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