55<^ 



A. D. 1 80 1. 



Of these nt least one fourtli may be estimated as stock in handinl ^ , 750 OOO 



British ports, and insurable from fire 3 '' ' 



Total insurable property m Great Britain 537,250,000 



Pkoperty of every kind insurable in Ireland, estimated at 53,725,000 



Total property in the United kingdom insurable from loss by fire , ^590,975,000 



Besides the above, there are stocks of coal, alum, and otlier minerals, boats and other 

 fresh-water craft, arsenals, offices and other public buildings, of the value of which no 

 estimate can be made. 



Great as the produce of Britifli induftry thus appears to be, there flill 

 remain many miUions of unprodudive acres in theBritifh iflands, which 

 may be rendered capable of producing food for additional millions of 

 agricultors, manuflid:urers, and other ufeful members of fociety. And 

 there are many millions of miles of uncultivated land in the vaft extent 

 of the Ruflian empire, the territories of the American ftates, and the 

 interior country of Africa, which, when filled with induftrious cul- 

 tivators, will, ly our manufaciurers can preferve the advatitage of furnijhing 

 their goods better and sheaper than thofe of other nations, fupply a pro- 

 digious flock of raw materials, and afford confumption for all the goods 

 which can be manufadured by the increafing numbers and increaling 

 ingenuity of our people. 



On the twenty-fecond day of January the firfl feffion of the parlia- 

 nient of the United kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was opened. 

 May the infinite wifdom and goodnefs of the Supreme Ruler of the uni- 

 verle fo dired: all their counfels, as to render them productive of in- 

 creafing profperity to every part of the wide-extended Britifh empire. 



END OF THE ANNALS OF COMMERCE^ &C. 



