804 
ENGL 
manufactures of glafs and fine (teel, clocks, watches, &c. 
are defervedly eminent and extenlive. As the nation is 
indebted to Wedgcwood for converting clay into gold, fo 
to the engraving artifls we owe another elegant branch 
of modern exportation, that of beautiful prints. 
The Engli(l) manufactures, in their prefent (late, are 
eflimated at the annual value of 63,600,0001. and are fup- 
pofed to employ 1,585,000 perfons. Of thefe the wool¬ 
len manufacture is fuppofed to yield in round films, 
15,000,0001. the leather 10,000,cool, the iron, tin, and 
lead io,ooo,oool. the cotton 9,000,0001. The other chief 
manufactures, which yield from 1 to 4,ooo,oool. may be 
thus arranged, according to their confequence, fteel, 
plating, &x. copper and brafs, filk, potteries, linen and 
flax, hemp, glafs, paper. 
The commerce of England, in the prefent period, may 
be faid to extend to every region of the globe. It was 
conceived that the defection of the American colonies, 
would have proved detrimental in this view ; but the 
commercial conl'equences have been more beneficial ; 
which ftrongly proves the afl'ertion.of Dr. Adam Smith, 
“ that a free trade is ever molt productive.” The trade 
with the Welt Indies furnilhes another grand refource ; 
while that with the ealtern world would have altoniflied 
the molt celebrated trading cities of antiquity. The fol¬ 
lowing Table will prefent a more complete epitome of the 
fubject, than could otherwife be conveyed. !t Ihews, at 
one view, the progrellive increafe of the Exports and Im. 
ports of Great Britain for the whole of the la It century. 
YEARS. 
a IMPORTS. 
£. s. 
d. 
EXPORTS. 
£. s. 
if. 
I7OO 
5)97°; 1 75 i 1 
[O 
7,302,716 
8 
7 
I 7OI 
5,869,606 9 ; 
[0 
7,621,053 
6 
5 
I 702 
4,i59>3°4 16 
0 
5,235, 8 74 
0 
5 
1703 
4>5 2(5 >59 6 1 1 
1 
6,644,103 
6 
0 
1704 
5,383,200 16 
5 
6,552,019 
18 
2 
1 7°5 
4,031,649 14 : 
[O 
5,501,677 
11 
2 
1706 
4.H3.933 3 
3 
6,512,086 
17 
1 
1707 
4.274,055 10 
4 
6,767,178 
8 
6 
1708 
4,698,663 11 
8 
6,969,089 
19 
1 
1709 
4,510,593 
8 
6,6 27,045 
i,7 
6 
1710 
4,011,341 7 
4 
6,690,828 
15 
2 
1711 
4,685,785 17 
7 
6,447,170 
16 
3 
1712 
4,454,682 11 
6 
7,468,857 
5 
1 
I 7 I 3 
5,811,077 16 
6 
7,352,655 
12 
2 
1714 
5,929,227 0 
8 
8,361,638 
3 
3 
1715 
5,640,943 16 
5 
7,379>409 
0 
8 
1716 
5,800,258 7 
8 
7,614,085 
6 
11 
1717 
6,346,768 1 
6 
9,147,700 
2 
4 
1718 
6,669,390 1 
1 
8,255,302 
14 
5 
I 7 1 9 
5,367,499 8 
3 
7,709,528 
1 
7 
1720 
6,090,083 15 
1 
7,936,728 
16 
6 
1721 
5,768,510 16 
7 
8,681,200 
i7 
4 
1722 
6,378,098 19 
1 
9,650,789 17 
10 
1723 
6,505,676 6 
8 
9,489,811 
16 
7 
1724 
7,394,405 2 
5 
9,i43>356 
12 
7 
1725 
7,094,708 8 
6 
11,352,480 
11 
4 
1726 
6,677,865 13 
' 4 
9,406,731 
10 
10 
1727 
6,798,908 4 
2 
9,553,043 
18 
3 
1728 
7,569, 2 99 1 
9 
11,631,383 
1 
11 
1729 
7,540,620 10 
5 
n,475,77i 
16 
8 
1730 
7,780,019 9 
2 
n,974,i35 
14 
11 
I73i 
6,991,500 3 
11 
11,167,380 
11,786,658 
10 
6 
1732 
7,087,914 5 
0 
13 
0 
1733 
8,016,814 2 
2 
u, 777,3 o 6 
6 
7 
1734 
7,095,861 8 
4 
11,000,645 
2 
2 
1735 
8,160,184 0 
11 
13,544,144 
7 
0 
1736 
7,307,966 12 
10 
11,616,356 
10 
2 
1737 
7,°73, 6 3 8 3 
6 
11,842,320 
17 
0 
X73 8 
7,438,960 4 
7 
12,289,495 
7 
1 
1739 
7, 82 9,373 8 
11 
9,495,3 6 6 
14 
3 
1740 
6,703,77 8 10 
6 
8,869,939 
15 
5 
1741 
7,936,0S4 18 
7 
11,469,872 
8 
2 
1742 
6,866,864 13 
0 
11,584,427 
2 
4 
1743 
7,802,353 6 
6 
14,623,653 
9 
6 
1744 
6,3 62,971 6 
6 
11,429,628 
10 
.3 
A N 
D. 
YEARS. 
IMPORTS, 
EXPORTS. 
£■ 5. . 
i. 
£• 
5. 
d. 
1745 
7,847,123 3 
3 
10,497,329 17 
0 
1746 
6,205,687 15 
8 
11,360,792 16 
2 
1747 
7,116,757 5 
6 
11,442,049 
I 
6 
1748 
8,136,408 19 
6 
12,351,433 : 
[ 2 1 
L I 
1749 
7,917,804 10 
4 
14,099,366 
I I 
O 
1750 
7,772,039 12 
5 
15,132,004 
3 
X 
1751 
7,943,436 4 
5 
13,967,811 
8 
7 
1752 
7,889,369 9 
3 
13,221,116 
3 3 
1 I 
1753 
8,625,029 4 
3 
14,264,614 
3 : 
I I 
1754 
8,093,472 15 
O 
I3,39 6 ,853 
9 
7 
1755 
8,772,865 2 
IO 
12,182,255 
17 
6 
1756 
7,961,603 8 
IO 
12,517,640 
8 
3 
1757 
9, 2 53> 3i7 14 
9 
13,438,285 
I 
0 
1758 
8,415,025 4 
IO 
i5,°34,994 
IO 
7 
1759 
8,922,976 1 
4 
14,696,892 
7 
I 
1760 
9,832,802 11 
I 
i5,579>°73 
O - 
5 
1761 
9,543,901 14 
4 
16,365,953 
O 
7 
I 762 
8,870,234 14 
3 
I4,i34, 0 93 
3 
6 
1763 
11,665,036 0 
9 
16,160,181 
l6 
3 
1764 
10,364,307 12 
3 
16,512,403 
l6 
3 
1765 
10,889,742 13 
10 
14,550,507 
I 
S 
I 766 
n,475,775 5 
8 
14,024,964 
2 
8 
1767 
12,073,9 56 0 
I I 
I3,844,5ii 
I * 
1 768 
11,878,661 2 
7 
i5,h7,9S2 
l6 
I 
1769 
11,908,560 16 
5 
13,438,236 
6 
I I 
1770 
12,216,937 14 
3 
14,266,653 
17 
5 
1771 
12,821,995 16 
9 
17,161,146 
14 
2 
1772 
14,508,715 16 
9 
18,732,379 
5 
8 
1773 
12,522,643 7 
O 
16,654,052 
5 
8 
1774 
14,548,902 16 
I 
17,607,447 
4 
O 
1775 
14,816,955 17 
2 
16,946,523 
18 
4 
1776 
12,449,189 17 
I I 
15,685,107 
l6 
7 
1777 
12,643,834 7 
8 
14,152,243 
6 
I 
1778 
10,975,533 r 
O 
12,375,712 
I 2 
I I 
1779 
11,435,263 13 
5 
13,597,771 
4 
2 
1780 
11,714,967 7 
I I 
13 689,073 
12 
6 
1781 
12,723,613 16 
I 
11,470,388 
14 
8 
1782 
10,341,628 15 
6 
13,224,637 
IO 
I I 
1783 
13,122,235 7 
'6 
i5>45 0 >778 
I 2 
9 
1784 
15,272,802 0 
3 
14,961,074 
I I 
9 
1785 
16,279,490 1 
6 
16,770,239 
7 
9 
1786 
15,786,072 7 
5 
16,300,730 
I 2 
5 
1787. 
17,804,024 16 
I 
18,296,166 
I 2 
I I 
1790 
19,130,886 0 
O 
20,120,121 
O 
O 
1791 
19,669,782 13 
7 
22,731,995 
7 
3 
1792 
i9>659,358 6 
7 
24,905,200 
3 
5 
1793 
I9> 2 5 6 ,7i7 9 
8 
20,390,180 
6 
IO 
1794 
22,288,894 0 
5 
26,748,083 
8 
IO 
1795 
27,270,553 
2 
5 
1796 
30,424,184 
O 
O 
1797 
21,013,000 0 
0 
28,91 7,000 
O 
O 
1799 
25,000,000 0 
0 
33,000,000 
O 
O 
1800 
29,925,000 0 
0. 
39,471,203 
O 
0 
1801 
30,000,000 0 
0 
44,770,354 
0 
O 
1802 
30,300,000 0 
0 
48,500,663 
O 
0 
The net produce of the Duties of Cultoms, for three 
years, ending the 5th of January, 1802, was as follows: 
1799 £8,556,598 8 3A 
1800 8,125,036 19 5 
1801 8,804,226 4 11 
The aggregate value of goods import¬ 
ed into London in one year . . . £29,706,476 17 4 
Bririlh manufactures exported .... 11,396,539 r 3 8 
Foreign merchandize do.14,208,925 14 6 
Value of goods imported in upwards 
of 9000 coafting vefiels, averaged at 
500I. each. 4,500,000 o o 
Value of goods exported coaltways in 
about 7000ve(Iels, at 1000I. each . 7,000,000 o o 
Total amount of property Ihipped and 
unihipped in the river Thames, 
in the courfe of a year, is thus elti- 
matedat . ........... . £ 66,811,942 5 6 
If 
