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be stated of manufactures and provisions from Ire¬ 
land, and of wines from Madeira and the Azores; 
the same having hitherto been purchased by Bri¬ 
tish capitals, and conveyed to the West Indies in 
vessels trading circuitously from British ports, and 
the returns likewise made, for the most part, to 
Great Britain. For the same reason, the cost and 
freight of lumber, fish, and other productions of 
America, both from the American States and the 
British provinces, transported from thence to the 
British sugar islands, in British vessels, must like¬ 
wise be added to the estimate. 
Concerning Ireland I have no account for 1787, 
but the reader will find, in an appendix to this vo-s. 
lume, official accounts for the years 1790, 1791, and 
1792, as well of the exports from that kingdom to 
the British West Indies, as of the imports received 
from thence in return; both in a direct trade. Of 
the former the average value is J;.294,353 Irish, 
being equal to <£,277,218 sterling: the amount of 
the imports will be ^iven hereafter. 
Of wines from Madeira and the Azores, the. 
yearly consumption in these islands may be estima¬ 
ted, on an average, at <£.30,000. 
small part of this i but I make no deduction on that account, because 
the freight of, and merchants commissions on, such part as are appli¬ 
ed to the purchase of slaves, and the profits on the sale of those slaves 
in the West Indies, not being charged in the inspector general’s.books, 
I set one against the other. 
