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APPENDIX. No. VI. 
Page xcviii. 
Th e following particulars, tending to shew the increase which has taken 
place in the commerce between Great Britain and Africa since the Abolition 
of the Slave Trade, have been comraunicaled to the editor by an intelligent 
friend, who has great knowledge and experience in the African trade, and 
upon whose accuracy and means of information he has the most perfect 
reliance. 
It appeared from Custom«house returns, officially laid before Parliament, 
that the average annual value of all imports from Africa into Great Britain 
for twenty years prior to 1787, fell short of ;^72,000; and even this small sum 
included the imports, not on]y from the whole Western coast of Africa 
between Cape Negro in latitude l6^ South and the straits of Gibraltar, but 
also from some parts bordering on the Mediterranean. The average annual 
value of these imports, during the last five years of that period, viz. 1783, 4 
5, 6 and 7, appears, from the same official returns, to have been about 
^90,500. If from this amount be deducted the value of the articles appear- 
ing to have been imported from Morocco and other adjoining countries, there 
will be left somewhat less than £ 70, 000. for the value of all our imports 
from the Western Coast of Africa; that is, from the country lying between 
Cape Blanco, latitude 21« north, and Cape Negro, latitude 16'' south, being 
an extent of 4500 miles of coast. The average annual exports from Great 
Britain to the Western coast of Africa during the same period (exclusive of 
the exports connected with the Slave Trade) may be estimated at a sum not 
materially exceeding ^50,000. 
The compiler of the present statement possesses no documents or means 
of information, which enable him to shew what was the extent of the com- 
merce of Great Britain with Africa (unconnected with the Slave Trade) during 
the period from 1788 to 1807, the year in which the Slave Trade was abo- 
lished ; but there is good reason to believe that it had not materially increased 
within that time. 
