'53° 



A. D. 1800. 



Such are the bleflings of ihefe truely valuable eflablifhments, which 

 unite individual intereft and national advantage with the trueft and beft 

 of charities; that of rendering the poor ufeful to the community and to 

 themlelves, and placing them above the acceptance of gratuitous i'up- 

 port, the premium of indolence, and poifon of induftry, which debales 

 the fpirits of thofe whom it cannot permanently feed. 



The cotton manufadure has increafed very much in Scotland fince 

 the year 1796, as appears by the above-mentioned quantity of cotrou 

 imported in 1800, though the printing bulinefs feems to have declined 

 a little, as may be inferred from the following 



Account r,f the Calicoes, muslins, linens, and stuffs, printed in Scotland in the years 

 I'igd and \SO0. 



Foreign calicoes and muslins 

 British calicoes and muslins 

 Linens and stuffs 



Rate 



of 



Duty 



7d 

 31 



3\ 



1796 



Yard'i. I Amount of Duty. 



14 1,403 4^" 4.124 5 1 

 4,258,5571 0'2,103 It) i\ 

 1,185,500, , 17,288 10 10 



1800 



Yards. 

 78,808 

 4,170,939 

 1/220,714 



Amount of Duty. 

 £ 2,300 6 4 



do,gi3 13 \o\ 



17,802 1 7 



and the manufadure flill continues to increafe in both kingdom.'. 



The probable amount of the other principal branches of Britifli man- 

 ufacture will be found in the eftimate of the infuruble property in the 

 kingdom, to be given under the year iSor. 



The following view of the exports of iilh and oil from Newfoundland, 

 and of the velfels cleared out from the ports of Great Britain for the 

 Newfoundland fifhery, in two periods of three years each, is taken from 

 accounts made up by order of parliament *. 



Exported from 

 'Newfoundland to 



South of Europe . 



Ireland 



Guernsey and Jersevi 

 Amer. United st:it 

 IJrit. Amcr. colouic.^, 

 %Vest-]ndies . . 

 Great Britain . ^ 



Totals .... 



Cleared out from 

 Great Britain. 



17()S. 



Dry fish, 

 quir.r. 



209,90.-; 

 3,000 

 5,6SS 



1 1,1 2 



75,415 



45,137 



Wet fish 

 barrel,":, 



743 



4,681 



602 



6,026 



'1 UIIS. 



15,S3!r 



Oil, 



Funs. h. 



4 O 



21 1 



8 O 



21 2 30 

 2,122 24 



:.17 7 O 3() 313,756 



1799- 



Dry fish, IWct fish 



quint. 

 238,953 

 1,531 



4.2s 1 



1,375 



53,882 



13,734 



barrels. 



Oil, 

 Tuns. h. 



704 



400 



1,416 



32 



3,54S 



1 1 55 

 1,779 2 10 



1,851 2 60 



Men. 

 1,145 



ISOO. 



i Dry fish 

 quint. 



306,379 

 1,537 

 1,170 

 1 ,600 



6,011 



97.295 



7,526 



481,524 



Wet fish 

 barrels. 



Oil, 



Tuns. h. f. 



2 4 



62 1 35 



24 3 6 



QiJ 



1 57 



962,367 2 39 



Vessels. 

 143 



'I'uns. 

 17,360 



Men. 

 l.TSO 



i>nu 



f 111 all the aufiracis of imports and exports given in this work, prior to tlie year 1 800, Newfound- 

 id is ir.c'i'.dcd under the title of Britifl; America''! continental colom'es. 



