45^ 



A. D. 1798. 



with the growth of the commerce it preyed upon, and acquired new 

 improvements and new votaries every year. 



In the years 1765 and 1767, and again in the year 1790, the Weft- 

 India merchants, who were by far the moft deeply injured by the river 

 plunder *, concurred in drawing up a fet of regulations to be obferved 

 by the commanders, officers, and feamen, of their velTels, efpecially 

 with refped to landing the cargo, and alfo for the management of it 

 when landed. But the regulations, though very judicious and proper, 

 were never obferved : and depredation ftill continued with a fvvelling 

 tide to overflow and undermine every branch of trade on the river, as 

 will appear by the following 



Accou7it of the vejfds employed in the trade of the River T'hames, and of 

 the value of the trade, •with an ejlimate f of the number of packages and 

 amount of the plunder in each branch of trade, in the year ending 5'* January 



•1798, 



Specification of die tradej. 



"^ast Indies 



West Indies 



British American colonies 



Africa, and Cape of Good Hope 



Whale fisheries, nortliern and southern . 



United states of America 



JMediteranean and Turkey 



Spain and the Canaries 



France and Austrian Netherlands 



Portugal ajid Madeira 



Holland 



Germany : 



Prussia '...., 



Poland 



Sweden 



Denmark 



Russia 



Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, and Manu 



Ireland 



Coasting trade 



Coal trade 



Annual loss in tackle, apparel, and stores of 13,444 vessels 



Value of im- 

 ports and ex- 

 ports. 



.^10,502,000 



11,013,000 



1,033,000 



53 i,oai 



314,000 



5,4lO,00( 



509,000 



047,000 



],015,00t) 



853,000 



2,211,000 



10,072,000 



432,000 



242,000 



322.000 



800,000 



2,017,000 



302 000 



2,539,000 



6,000,000 



1,710,000 



00,59 1 ,00013,030,000 



Estimate of the 



number of 



packagCii 



out and 



home. 



300,000 

 400,000 

 05,000 

 20,000 

 20,000 

 200,000 

 70,000 

 00,00<> 



2o,a;t) 



50,000 



Oo,ojo 



240,000 



60,000 



70,000 



50,000 



6o,oo( 



150,00( 



15,000 



l60,00< 



900,000 



Total depredations, estimated at . 



amount of 

 the plunder. 



i£25,O0O 



a32,(X)0 



10,000 



2,500 



2,000 



30,000 



7,000 



10,000 



10,000 



&,ooo 



10,(X)0 

 25,000 

 10,000 



5,000 



3,000 



5,000 



20,000 



2,000 



5,000 



20,000 



20,000 



401,500 

 45,000 



500,500 



To this amount there may be added a large fum for the depredations 

 on ftores belonging to fhips of war. * 



* See the fiihfcqiient account. 



f Mr. Colqiihouri in his TreatiTe explains the 

 data, upon which his efumatt is founded. The 

 other pans of this -account ret. upon ofiicia! 



authority, the value being taken agreeable to the 

 the convoy duties. 6ee the Tnatijf, pp. 21, 23, 

 154. 



