L 



A. D. 1800. 



537 



Having laid before the reader the official value of the cargoes im- 

 ported from, and exported to, every country fince the commencement 

 of his Majefty's reign, I now propofe to exhibit a fpeciiication of the 

 chief articles of the merchandize, which adually compofed the trade 

 with each country in the year 1800, which I have extraded with con- 

 ^derable labour from the proper books in the cullom-houfe *. 



N. B. Under the name of each coiintiy, the first column contains the articles 

 imported from it, and the second those exported to it, the British merchandize be- 

 ing printed in Roman letters, and the foreign in Italic. 



Oak bark; cordage; corn (an 

 unusual article) ; indigo, 10,000 

 lbs ; cotton, 34,666 lbs ; hides 

 of horses and oxen ; bar iron ; 

 kelp ; rock moss ; some salted 

 beef, pork, and butter ; furs 

 and peltP' ; tar ; timber and 

 boards of great variety of kinds. 



DENMARK. 



Alum ; wrought brass, copper, and iron ; lead ; 

 tin ; tinned plates ; coals ; grindstones ; painters' 

 colours; earthenware; glass; salt; cotton goods; 

 woolen goods of all kinds ; hats ; Scottish linens 

 above bounty, 1,250 yards; tanned leather ; refin- 

 ed sugar ; melasses ; train oil. 



Drugs, indigo,logwood,andother dye-stuffs ; coffee; 

 cinnamon, and uliier spices ; sugar ; tobacco ; cotton. 



tearl-ashes, pot-ashes, and weed- 

 ashes; bristles; cordage; some corn; 

 isinglass, rhubarb, and some other 

 drugs ; flax, and hemp ; bar iron ; 

 cast iron; wrought iron, 24 tuns; lin- 

 ens, diaper, drilling, and sheeting ; 

 pitch, and tar; bacon; beef; tongues; 

 bread ; rags, only 28 tuns ; lintseed ; 

 some skins of hares, seals, and calves ; 

 bees wax; tallow, 410,26o tuns; 

 timber, boards, staves. 



RUSSIA. 



Alum; coals; slates; salt; sal ammoniac; spelter; 

 lead ; tin ; earthenware; glass ; wrought iron ; 

 wrought silver; woolen, cotton, and silk, goods 

 of all kinds ; stationary ; painters* colours; cot- 

 ton yarn ; watches ; refined sugar ; musical in- 

 struments ; wearing apparel ; horses ; herrings. 

 Drugs ; cochineal^ indigo, fustic, logwood, 

 and other dye-stiffs ; pepper and other spices ; 

 coffee ; sugar ; a few Irish linens ; India cal- 

 icoes, 7nusUns, &c. raw silk ; beaver and other 

 skins ; some prize French wine. 



Some corn and bread ; flax ; 

 herrings, 313 barrels; bar 

 and cast iron ; drawn and 

 wrought iron, 1^ tun ; rock 

 moss ; pitch, and tar ; tim- 

 ber, boards, staves, &c. 



SWEDEN. 



Coals ; lead ; tin ; painters' colours ; cotton, and 

 woolen, goods ; refined sugar. 



Drugs ; cochineal, indigo, and other dye-stiffs ; 

 some coffee ; some pepper and other spices ; sugar ; 

 rum, and other spirits ; tobacco ; some cotton ; some 

 East-India calicoes, &c. 



Pearl-ashes, weed-ashes, spruce 

 beer, 1,003 barrels; wheat, rye, 

 barley, peas ; some linen ; timber, 

 boards, staves, &c. 



POLAND. 



Iron ; wrought brass ; cotton goods ; refined 

 sugar. 



Drugs ; indigo and other dye-stuffs ; pepper 

 and other spices ; coffee ; rum ; a little sugar. 



* This account will be found very different from 

 thofc which may be met with in fome books, 

 copied from other books, without due attention 

 to the changes which time is continually producing 



Vol. IV. 



in commerce. A very good brief account for the 

 year l 797 is given by Mr. Colquhoun in his Treatife 

 on the commerce of the Thames, pp. 22, 1 15. 



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