A. D. 1800. 



527 



by the convullions of the war, and partly to the augmentation of the 

 mihtary eflablifhments of every country in Europe. The deficiency of 

 wool is pretty certainly owing to the increafe of inclofures for the pur- 

 pofe of raifing corn for the fubfiftence of the increafed number of people 

 in the country and its foreign dependencies, and the unprecedented 

 number of confumers in the army and navy. 



In addition to all the wool produced in the country, the following 

 quantities of foreign wool were imported in the under-mentioned years. 



Years. 

 1/1)2. 



1793. 



1/94.. 

 1795. . 



Spjniih -Tfoi/, pounds. Olfj:r ivooU pounds. 



2,(j44,653 13 1,401 



4,350,819 1(53,157 



1,750,151 141,334 



4,423,Sy3 01,689 



4,7(54,264 138,23(5 



Years. Spanish woo/, pounds. Other luody pounds 



179(5 3,400/i5(3 53,975 



1797 4,602,805 50,891 



1798 2,362,469 35,657 



1/99 4,B91,305 44,534 



If from the great ftaple manufadure of England v/e turn to, what has 

 been called, the ftaple of Scotland, we fhall find, that, though the more 

 beneficial manufltcSare of cotton mull undoubtedly have drawn off 

 many hands from the linen manufadture, it has not declined, but rather 

 advanced, as appears from the following 



Account of the quantity and value of the linen cloth stamped for sale in Scotland 

 during the under-mentioned years *. 



Years. 

 1785 

 17SO" 

 1787 



-1788 



1789 



1790 

 1791 

 1793 



Yards. 

 17,275,075 

 17,505,375 

 19,425,031 

 20,506,310 



Value. 



a^835,081 14 



. 823,447 13 



. 843,920 13 



854,g00 16 



19>996,075 .... 779.008 8 



18,328,900 



18,739,725 



21,005,386 



729,772 5 

 755,546 7 

 842,543 14 



Years. 

 1793 

 1794 



179-5 



1796 

 1797 

 1798 

 1799 



1800 



Yards. 

 20,676,620 

 20,535,633 



; 21, 374, 196 



23,102,404 

 19,475,241 

 21,297,059 

 24,506,CX)7 

 24,235,633 , 



Value. 



^£'757,332 



. 797>-H6 19 



. 827,003 13 



. 906,202 8 



. 735,084 4 



. 850,403 9 



1,116)022 4 



O 

 4 



3 

 4 

 O 



9 



7 



1,047,598 10 10 



There is no account kept of the linen manufacture of England. As it is an object of subordinate 

 importance, the annual amount of it is probably rather under ^1,000,000 



Neither is any account kept in either part of the united kingdom of 

 the much more important manufadure of cotton, except the calicoes 

 and muilins which are printed, the quantity of which is known with 

 certainty by means of the duty paid upon them. The amount and pro- 

 grefs of the printing bufinefs appears in the following 



* I have already obferved, that the linens, 

 which moll of the familits in Scotland make for 

 thtir own ufe, are not flamped, and confequently 

 not included in the returns made by the llamp- 

 mallers to the truflees or the linen and hempen 

 manufaftures. They muft amount to fcveral mil- 

 lions of yards annually. 



The aft for the encouragement of the linen 

 manufafture in Scotland was pafltd in the year 

 1727. In 1728 there were liamped 2,183,978 

 yards, value ;^'l03i3i2 : 9 : 8 ; and in the year 

 1732 the manufacture increafed to 4,384,823 



in a tranfport of patriotic exultation, ' that the 

 ' linen trade is already increafed in its quantity, 

 ' and improven ! exceedingly improven I in its 

 ' quality, even beyond our utmolt hopes. We 

 ' now know, from certain experience, that this 

 ' trade (hall turn to account, and to a very great 

 ' account ; that it is the only branch of bufinefs 

 ' that can employ all our hands profitably, and a 

 ' bufinefs that can never be ovcrllocked.' — We 

 (hall immediately fee that, in the prtfent day,. 

 Scottifh calicoes and muflins have a much more 

 extenfive fale than Scottilh linens, with all thciV 



yards, value ^^168,322 : 14: 10. So flattering a great increafe fince Lindlay's time. — Fur the pro- 



profpe6t of the great national Jlaple made Mr. grefs of the Scottifh linen manufatture in preced •■ 



Lindfay, who wrote his treatife, called The inlerejl iiig years fee V. iii, //. 336, 454, 546, and } . ivi, 



of Scotland cofiftJereJ, in the year J 733, exclaim /, 63. 



