MADEIRA. 21 
Portugal from Europe, Brazil, and the Azores ; and tlie wliole 
amount of produce taken by the mother-country from Ma- 
deira does not exceed 10,000/. The total revenues of the 
island, consisting of one-tenth of the produce and duties on 
import and export, are said to amount to about 100,000/., 
out of which, after paying the expences of the civil, military, 
and ecclesiastical establishments, the Crown is supposed t«> 
receive about 30,000/., although the old Governor assured 
Lord Macartney that the net sum received by the Crown 
of Portugal seldom exceeded eight or ten thousand pounds. 
It will appear extraordinar}^, and I should not have ven- 
tured to mention it had I not the authority for so doing of 
a gentleman who has been thirty years on the island, that so 
large a quantity of wine should annuallj^ be sent to India, 
and consumed there, (for of this not 300 pipes a year are re- 
turned to Europe,) and so little imported into England. The 
latter would appear to be of less difficult explanation than tlic 
former; for although it is supposed that the quantitj^ con- 
sumed in Great Britain, under the name of Madeii-a, is, on 
the least calculation, equal to the whole quanlity that is ex- 
ported from the island, or more than three times what is 
actually imported, yet it is well known that a variety of mix- 
tures pass for Madeira, some of which are compounded ot 
wines that never grew on the island, as those of TeneritTe, 
Lisbon, and Xeres. And with regard to Lidia it may be ob- 
served, that although the number of English there is very 
limited, and few of any other nation drink Madeira wine, 
yet this and claret are the* only wines in general consumption 
