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casks really contain, it is but a moderate calculation 
to say that every hogshead (taking good sugars and 
bad together) loses 56 lbs. which at 15 .?. per ewt. 
the import duty, makes Is. 6d. per hogshead loss 
to the planter, and a clear and certain gain to the 
revenue, let the sugar be disposed of as it may. 
Thus therefore is government reimbursed for a con¬ 
siderable part of what it appears to lose by the 
bounty, and the interest which it gains by a deposite 
of the whole duties on importation, makes up the 
remainder. The average annual import of raw su¬ 
gar is about 160,000 hogsheads of 12 cwt. nett: 
now supposing every ounce of this was to be ex¬ 
ported, and receive the drawback of 1 os. per cwt. 
yet from the difference of weight alone in the same 
sugar, occasioned by an unavoidable waste, govern¬ 
ment would have received in duties, from this single 
article, between 50 and £. 60,000 per annum more 
than it refunds in drawbacks and bounties on the 
same commodity. 
The above is a plain statement of facts concerning 
the drawbacks and bounties allowed by government 
on the export of sugar from Great Britain.—Of the 
system at large, or general practice of allowing the 
duties on the home consumption, to be drawn back 
on the export of goods to foreign markets, enough 
has been said by other writers.—If it be true, as it 
is generally allowed to be, that Great Britain by this 
means establishes between her plantations and fo¬ 
reign countries, an advantageous carrying trade, the 
profits of which centre in herself, she has no just 
