WEST INDIES. 
237 
£hap. in-] 
I shall now bring into one point of view the se¬ 
veral great items that have been enumerated; add¬ 
ing to the British and Irish supply 20 per cent, for 
the cost of freight and insurance outwards, the 
charges of shipping, commission to the merchant- 
exporter in some cases, and the profits in others of 
the merchant-importer in the West Indies; all 
which contribute to swell the debt of the planters 
to Great Britain: viz. 
Exports from Great Britain, £. 
direct. 1,638,703 13 10 
from Ireland . . 277,218 0 O 
1,915,921 13 10 
Add 20 per cent, for freight 
&c. &c. 333,184 6 2 £. 
- 2,299,106 
Exports to Africa for the purchase of negroes 668,255 
from Madeira and the Azores . . 30,000 
United States of America . 720,000 
British America ..... 100,506 
Total . . . <£.3,817,867 
Perhaps it were no excess to state the whole 
amount at this time at four millions of pounds ster¬ 
ling. Hence then appears the vast dependence of 
the British West Indian colonies on their parent 
dies, on an average of five years (1783 to 1787, both in&lusive) ha¬ 
ving been 80,645 quintals, worth at the ports of delivery about 178-. 
£d, the quintal. 
