A. D. 1799. 



489 



The dividends of the year 1795 and 1796 were not paid till 1799, 

 and only to thofe perfons who produced ccrtiricates of their having taken 

 fhares in a loan raifed by the company in the year 1790. After that 

 time no dividends have been paid. [LHter from Amjlcrdam in May 1802] 



During above a century bypaft the flock-holders have been taxed 

 four and a half per cent, whereby their lateft dividends have been re- 

 duced to eight per cent of real income ; a poor return for thofe who 

 have bought at five or fix hundred. 



Sir John Sinclair's great and important national work, the Stat'ijlical 

 accoHJit of Scotland, drawn up from the commumcatlons of the miniflers of the 

 different pari/Ijes,htgx:in in the year 1791, was finiflaed this year in twenty- 

 one volumes o(!itavo. It contains a more copious and complete account 

 of that kingdom than Domefday book does of England : and it muft 

 give pleafure to every friend to the general profperity of the Britifh 

 empire to fee, by the comparifons of the paft and prelent ftate of the 

 pariflies, how much the country has improved, and is flill improving, 

 in agriculture, manufacture, and commerce, and confequently in popul- 

 ation, during the laft half of the eighteenth century *. 



By order of parliament, Mr. Irving, the infpedor-general of the im- 

 ports and exports, made up the following 



Account of the total value, agreeable to (he estimates of the iyupector-generaVs boohs, of the woolen 

 manufactures exportedfrom Great Britain in the last ten years. 



Denrnark & Nonvay 



Russia 



Sweden 



Poland 



Pnissia 



Germany 



Holland 



Flanders 



France 



Portugal & Madeira 

 Spain &; Canaries . . 

 Straits & Gibraltar . 

 Italy & Venice .... 



Turkey 



Ireland 



Manti 



Guernsey, &c 



i ^ f Br. colonies . . 

 .!•- i^ United states. . 

 West-Indies, Br. ic- 



East-Indies 



Africa 



Totals t . . 



1790 

 sS 

 13,63; 



7^,74-4 

 2,03/ 



911 



9.519 



223,226 



300,414 



117,779 



95,82; 



382,038 



407,404 



llfi,4y4 



440,350 



15,070 



394,720 



3,3 H'J 



8,372 



150',ig2 



1,481,378 



22£i,C)2 1 



530,01 -J 



I0'7,52S 



1791 



£ 



60,829 



134,224 



3,433 



3,695 



13,857 

 255,303 

 313,845 

 124,239 



96,840 

 434,375 

 340,36; 

 130,336 

 517.17s 



41,09. 

 499,793 



3,753 



4,784 



132,997 

 1,621,79c 



288,722 



377,f'i5 



17-92 



41,659 

 182,353 



17,713 

 3,511 



1 8,040 

 271,63s 

 367,583 

 117=151 

 1.55,134 

 405,37 

 472,221 



80,774 

 366,631 



34,33-1 

 490,271 



4,737 



9,058 

 183,681 

 1,361,753 

 319,329 

 302,509 

 165,20- 



179 

 22,970 



82,401 

 2,011 



1,881 



217,193 



205,565 

 72,70J 

 42,85.- 



376,171 



259,S4( 



20,607 



165,040 



9,07h 



178,071 



3,141 



2,545 



147,631 



1,032,954 



311,540 



530,30; 



44,237 



190,637 5,505.034 5.510,6683:806,5364,390,9205,172,884 



1/04 



29,249 



71,630 



8,071 



1,091 



19,268 



330,024 



217,381 



5l,5S5 



335,811 



265,036 

 23,586 



181,285 

 6,395 



308,75C 

 4,163 

 1,6 IQ 



186,787 



1,391,877 

 36'^26l 



491,152 



97,871 



1795 



27,927 

 129,135 



2,820 



1,228 



27,479 



503,706 



36S,66o 



191,203 



16,696 



274,095 



12,228 



458,938 



1,535 



2,967 



196,870 



1,982,318 



350,595 



587,054 



67,403 



1796 



£ 



38,198 



153,985 



2,812 



1,094 



133,903 



594,89s 



126 



1797 



43,377 

 120,138 



15,807 



567 



150,999 



641,098 



7,712 



425,038 



262,102 



24,144 



295,374 



28,580 



555,gGo 



3,004 



1,706 



224,64() 



2,294,942 



382,260 



543,387 



44,842 



631 



401,920 



26 



6,910 



2,651 



3,056 



360,600 



3,963 



2,156 



232,320 



1,901,986 



465,990 



446,629 



118,600 



1798 



21,983 



136,667 



218 



1,246 



34,846 



403,019 



94 



4-88,469 



1799 



29,059 



149,789 



000 



1,218 



39,296 



427,053 



175 



.';68,788 



34,800 

 26,739 



13,927 



583,964 



6,328 



J, 939 



232,869 



2,399,935 



1,482,457 



351,475 



218,095 



31,774 



47,410 



47,398 



916,190 



4,737 



3,744 



324,739 



2,803,490 



552,726 



668,161 



259,683 



6,01 1,133 4,936,3556,409,33916,876.939 



• It was apparently in confc^qucnce of tlie multiplied 

 reprelentations, tn this great coUctJlion of the hardfhips of 

 the partial tax upon \v.iter-bome coals nith its concomit- 

 ant infuper^ble cuftom-houfe difficulties, and the fervitude 

 of thirlage (adftriition to the over-lord's mill), that thefe 

 oppreffions have been abolilhed by parliament. It may be 

 hoped that the removal of other grievances, and particul- 

 arly the hardfhips of the fait laws, and the difficulty of 



Vol. IV. 



obtaining wholefome malt liquor, with the too gi'eat facil- 

 ity of obtaining pernicious fpiritous liquor, will not long 

 be overlooked by an enlightened legiQature. 



t In copying this account the (hillings and pence arc 

 omitted ; and thence there is fome difference between the 

 particular fumsand the totaU, wherein the amount of them 

 is included. 



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