TRAVELS IN 
remittances. The following rough ftatement will ferve to ex» 
plain this matter : 
The army, independent of the clothing and 
ftores, &c. fent from home and money re- 
mitted by the officers, could not expend 
lefs, in European and Indian goods, and 
in colonial produce, than 180,000/. per 
annum, which in four years is 720,000 o 6 
The navy expenditure might, perhaps, 
amount to half that fum -— - 360,000 o o 
The re-exportation of India prize goods, and 
of European goods to the Weft India 
iflands, the coaft of Brazil, and Mozam- 
bique, in four years, about — 170,000 o o 
Surplus colonial produce exported as above 60,185 ^ o 
Making in the whole 1,310, 185 o o 
Value of the imports as above 1,195,507 3 6 
Balance in favour of the colony and the 
merchants refiding there — £, 114,677 16 6 
Befides this balance, which may be confidered as the joint 
profit of the colonifts and EngliQi merchants on that part of 
colonial produce and imported goods, which have been difpofed 
of, the (hops and warehoufes at the evacuation of the colony 
were fo full, that it was calculated there were then European 
and Indian articles fufficient for three years' confumption, and 
the 
