f aa ) 
It appears alfo, from a moderate calculation, that twenty- 
one millions of pounds of Tea‘ are annually imported into Eng- 
land. In the beginning of the prefent century the annual , 
public. fales by the Eaft-India Company’ did not much exceed 
50,000 pounds weight, independently of what little might be 
clandeftinely imported. The Company’s annual fales about this 
time, 1797, approach to twenty millions of pounds; being an 
increafe of four hundred fold in lefs than too years, and an-— 
f{wers to the rate of more than a pound weight each in the 
courfe of the year, for the individuals of all ranks, fexes, and 
ages, throughout the Britifh dominions in Europe and America *. 
Since the year 1797, it is probable, that the import of Tea 
has increafed in a much greater ratio; for the Eaft-India Com- 
- pany, at their fale in September 1798, put up 1,300,000 
pounds of bohea; 3,500,000 pounds of congou and campoi; 
_ 400,000 pounds of fouchong and pekoe ; 600,000 pounds of 
finglo and twankay ; 400,000 of hyfon; hyfon fkin 100,000; 
making, in ibe whole, 6,300,000 pounds, the quantity fold in - 
the autur arterly fale: and it may be prefumed, from the 
table annexed, “(p. r. Sefton IV.) and other documents, that at 
leaft_ 30,000,000 of pounds are ey icc into gees 
and Americal , 
1 If we include the quantity fmuggled into ghia Lingsiom, the eantuonen might 
be calculated at half a million more. 
* Compare Sir George Staunton’s Embaffy, vol. I. p. 22. 
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