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Scientific Intellig ence— Miscellaneous. 
late war, from 1793 to 1815, amounted to 208 millions Sterling 
at the official value. The raw material, at 4 millions per an- 
num, amounts to 88 millions Sterling. The net annual receipt 
from foreign countries for profits and wages, was therefore 120 
millions, or about 5| millions per annum. But the whole value 
of all the British manufactures exported during that period was 
548 millions, which, after deducting for the raw material 148 
millions, will leave 400 millions added to the taxable capital of 
the nation, at the rate of more than 18 millions per annum by 
amount received for the wages and profit of British productive 
labour. In the eight years since the return of peace, from 1815 
to 1822, the cotton manufactures exported are upwards of 1774 
millions at their official value ; and, deducting 5 millions per 
annum for the raw material, leaves 1374 millions, being about 
17J millions per annum, which being added to the export of 
the twenty-two years preceding, will make upwards of 257 \ mil- 
lions contributed since the commencement of the late war by 
cotton manufactures alone to the taxable capital of the nation. 
But in the last eight years, the whole amount of exported Bri- 
tish manufactures and produce is 332 millions ; and, deducting 
the raw materials at the increased rate of 7^ millions per an- 
num, will leave 272 millions, being about 34 millions per an- 
num ; which being added to the produce of profit and w r ages 
for the twenty-two years of the war, as before mentioned (400 
millions), will make 672 millions received in the last thirty 
years since 1793, being upwards of 22| millions per annum for 
wages and profits produced by British industry, and received 
from other nations. During the w r ar, the sum added to the na- 
tional debt by loans was 569 millions, which it thus appears 
was exceeded upwards of 100 millions by the amount received 
from foreign countries for the ingenuity of the English artisan, 
and the industry of the English labourer.’'- — Hey wood's Dis- 
courses. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
31. Value of Literary Property in Scotland forty years 
ago. — The late Charles Elliot, Esq. of Edinburgh, the most 
eminent publisher of his time, by the liberality of his transac- 
tions with authors gave a powerful stimulus to literary exertion. 
In proof of this, it may be mentioned, that, in April 1784, (as 
