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quantity of cotton goods paid as duty to the 
King was from four to six thousand pieces year¬ 
ly, for the most part coarse, and not worth above 
live ticals each. The average, or five thousand 
pieces, would make the whole imports at this 
time 50,000, and their value would be 250,000 
ticals. The duty received in specie, at this time, 
was from 6000 to 12,000 ticals yearly ; or, on an 
average, 9000 : so that the whole imports, thus 
far, would amount only to 340,000 ticals, or 
reckoning each tical at two shillings and six¬ 
pence, to 42,000/. From the year 1811 to 1816 
inclusive, the cotton goods paid as duties yearly, 
amounted to from six to nine thousand pieces, 
and their quality was so improved that they 
were now reckoned worth eight ticals each. This 
would make the value of the duties, on an average 
of the quantity, 60,000, and the imports 600,000 
ticals. The duties paid in specie now ranged 
from 14,000 to 22,000 ticals, or on an average 
16,500. The whole imports would consequently 
be 76,500 ticals, or 93,625/. From the year 1817 
to 1822, the cotton goods paid in as duties ranged 
yearly from 9000 to 14,000 pieces, or were on an 
average 11,500. The greater portion was now of 
British manufacture, and each piece was reckoned 
at the average value of ten ticals. The duties 
paid in specie ranged from 32,000 to 44,000 ticals. 
The value of the whole imports, according to this 
statement, and omitting, as in the last cases, other 
