464 



A. D. 1798. 



, This flatement is according to the cuflom-houfe valuation, eftablifhed 

 above a century ago, which differs from, the value declared by the ex- 

 porters, in the feveral proportions exprefled in the following 



List of the principal articles of British manufactures exported, with the rate per 

 cent, which the value declared hij the exporters exceeds the estimates, ly which they 

 are valued in the books of the inspector-general of the customs *. 



Excess per cent. 



Hats of felt 116 



Horses 1O8 



Iron, wrought 103 



Lead 53 



Leather, tanned 283 



■■■ wrought 60 



Melasses 75 



Pictures or prints 6,053 



Pewter 58 



Provisions, cheese 108 



Silk, wrought 113 



•^— sewing 54 



Tin 10 



Woolen goods 38 



Excess per cent, 



Apotliecary's ware 333 



Beer lOS 



Books 447 



Brass, wrought 158 



Candles of tallow 58 



Chariots 131 



Coaches 158 



Copper, wrought 19 



■ unwrougfat 1,409 



Cordage 61 



Coarse glass and earthen ware 334 



Glass for windows 20/ 



white flint 426 



Gun-powder 100 



Haberdashery Ijl47 



The custom-house valuation of the following articles is above their declared va- 

 lue, viz. 



Hats of beaver 10 Linen, checked 6 



Linen, plain, for bounty 13 Sail-cloth 38 



The importation of sugar and rum in the course of this year was great beyond 

 all preceding ones, as appears by 



An account of the quantity of British-plantation sugar and rum imported and 

 exported between 5''' January 1798 and 5'^ January 1799? ^^''^'^ ^^'^ duties received, 

 and draiuhacks and bounties paid thereon. 



IMPORTED 



from 



Antigua . . . . 

 Barbados .... 

 Dominica. . . . 

 Grenada .... 

 Jamaica . . . . 

 Montserrat . . . 



Nevis 



S". Christophers 

 S'. Vincent . . . 



Tortola 



Martinique . . . 

 Demararay . . . 

 Trinidad . . . . 

 S'. Domingo . . 

 Tobago . . . . 



Total .... 



EXPORTED. 



Sugar 



Refined sugar . 



• Mr. Irving, the infpedor-gencral, annexed the follow- 

 ing explanatory note of the mode by which the above rates 

 are obtained. 



' The quantities exported to every part of the world, with 



' the declared values by the merchants exporters, are ei- 

 ' trafled from the bills of entry, aud upon the fame quant- 

 ' ities the values are caft agreeably to the ancient rates, 

 ' by which the manufactures of this kingdom exported 



have 



