chap, in.] WEST INDIES. 241 
The amount is <£.6,488,319 11s. 4d. and this 
sum is altogether exclusive of bullion, of which 
the annual import from these islands into Great 
Britain is very considerable: it is presumed that, 
<£.320,000 is a moderate average, which being add¬ 
ed to the foregoing, gives a total of <£.6,808,319 
11s. 4d. I will call it six millions eight hundred 
thousand pounds only; and the calculation is con¬ 
firmed by the testimony of a merchant of the first 
eharacter and ability; who, in his evidence before 
a committee in the house of commons, has fixed 
on this sum as the amount of the imports into 
Great Britain from the British West Indies for the 
same year.* 
Of the imports into Ireland and America, &c. 
direetly from these islands, in 1788, no account, 
that I have seen, has been given to the public. I 
shall therefore adopt, from the authority of the 
inspector general, those of the year preceding, 
which stand thus; 
To Irelandf .... £.127,585 4 5 
American States . . 196,460 8 O 
British American colonies 100,506 17 10 
Foreign West Indies . 18,245 12 6 
Africa ...... 868 15 0 
Total . . £7443,666 17 9 
* See the evidence of George Hibbert, Esquire, merchant in Lon¬ 
don, before a select committee of the house of commons, appointed 
to take examinations on the slave trade, 20th March, 1790. 
4 In official accounts before referred to of the Irish exports and im~ 
ports, and subjoined at length in an appendix to this volume, it ap- 
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