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APPENDIX TO CHAP. III. OF BOOK VI. 
T HE following authentic statement of the exports and 
imports between the West India islands and Great 
Britain in the year 1795, was read in the house of com¬ 
mons by the right honourable Mr. Secretary Dundas, in his 
speech on the slave trade (April 1796). It displays such 
astonishing increase as might appear utterly incredible, were 
it not recollected, that in 1795 many of the French sugar 
islands were in our possession: 
1795 
Exports of British manufactures 
of Foreign manufactures . 
Value m pounds 
sterling. 
3,212,431 
531,000 
Total of Exports from Great Britain for') 
1795 .. j 3 - 7t3 ' 431 
Imports of West India produce into Great) 
Britain for 1795 .j 8 ’ 881 ’ 673 
Value of West India produce re-export-') 
ed in 1795 to foreign markets J /78 > 000 
Mr. Dundas, in the very eloquent speech which he de¬ 
livered on this occasion, after introducing the preceding 
statement, made the following important observations; 
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