1784 to 1788, inclusive,

£.17,317,703 0 0

For five years war, from 1796

to 1800, inclusive,

34,145,076 0 0

Annual average excess of exports during five years of war, £.16,827,373 0 0

And notwithstanding Buonaparte's blockading de crees, and their various reinforcements by himself and by his obsequious vassal-states, in the years 1806, 1807, 1808, 1809, 1810, the commerce of Britain is not yet ruined. During the latter part of 1808 and the beginning of 1809 the freight of British shipping averaged from £8 to £10 a ton on the voyage, and half that sum on the passage; so inadequate was the whole tonnage of Britain to carry on her extensive trade. For some years previous to these blockading decrees and edicts the ordinary price of freight in Britain amounted to from £3 to £4 a ton on the voyage, and from thirty to forty shillings on the passage.

The progressive prosperity of Britain will appear by stating the extent of her trade and navigation during the lapse of the last twenty or more years, and noting their gradual increase. Mr. Rose in his Brief Examination," &c. before alluded to, thus rates the British shipping, imports, and exports, for the years 1784 and 1805; showing the great increase in this department of national wealth during the course of twenty years, more than ten of which were employed in sustaining the burdens of the most expensive and trying war ever recorded in the annals of human history.

The above are the official or custom-house val uations, according to rules established in 1696. But the real value of the exports of British manufactures, in the two periods were, for 1784, £18,603,000; for 1805, £41,068,000.

Mr. M'Arthur, p. 8 of his work before cited, explains the difference between the official and the real value of British imports and exports to be full seventy per cent. in favor of the real value; thus in the year ending 5th January, 1801, the exports of British manufactures amounted to, of foreign merchandise, to

Total,

To which add the real value of imports into Britain during that year,

Official.

む

Real value.

£

24,411,067 41,498,813 17,466,145 29,172,449

41,877,213 70,671,262

45,000,000

Total British exports and im

ports for one year,

£115,671,262

N. B. In some instances the real is more than a hundred per cent above the official value.

Sir Frederick Morton Eden, Bart. in his "Address on the Maritime Rights of Great Britain," published in London in 1808, advises the following additions per cent. to be made to the official values of the following articles, in order to bring them up to their real value according to their average money-prices in the European market.

Northern European produce imported, rate per cent. to be added: flax, rough. 75; hemp, rough, 190; hides, 100; linseed, 140; skins, calf, 100; geneva, 200; tallow, 140; tar, 25; sheep's wool, 190; linen yarn, 100.

Southern European produce imported, rate per cent. to be added: currants, 90; raisins, 140; silk, 40; brandy, 110; Portugal wine, 140; other wines, 200; Spanish wool, 200.

American and colonial produce imported, rate per cent. to be added: wheat flour, 150; cotton wool, 150; hides, 80; skins and furs, 100.

Perhaps a little more detail in a matter of such importance as the trade and navigation of Britain are to herself and to the world, may be pardoned; the following facts are taken from "Accounts presented to the House of Commons respecting the Trade and Navigation of Great Britain," for the years ended on the 5th of January, 1806, 1807, 1808, and 1809, and ordered to be printed on the 20th 24th March, 1806; 23d 25th March, 1807; 10th 24th March, 1808; 22d 24th March, 1809; and also from "Accounts presented to the House of Commons respecting the Trade and Navigation of Ireland," for four years ended 5th January, 1808, and 1809; ordered to be printed 14th March, 1808, and 6th March 1809.

An account of the value of all imports into and all exports from Great Britain for twenty-one years, ending 5th January, 1809.

Years ending 5th Jan.

1789,

Official value of imports.| Official value of exports.

From East-Indies

and China.

From all other parts.

British produce and Foreign merchan manufactures.

dise.

3,453,897|14,573,272|12,724,719| 4,747,518

1790, 3,362,545 | 14,458,557 13,779,506 5,561,042 1791, 3,149,870 15,981,015 14,921,084 5,199,037 1792, 3,698,713 15,971,069 16,810,018 5,921,976 1793, 2,701,547 16,957,810 18,336,851 6,568,348 1794, 3,499,023 15,757,693 13,892,268 6,497,911 1795, 4,458,475 17,830,418 16,724,402 10,022,680 1796, 5,760,810 16,976,079 16,338,213 10,785,125 1797, 3,372,689 19,814,630 19,102,220 11,416,693 1798, 3,942,384|17,071,572|16,903,103|12,013,907 1799, 7,626,930 | 20,230,959 19,672,503 13,199,274 1800, 4,284,805 22,552,626 24,084,213 11,907,116 1801,4,942,275 25,628,329 24,304,283 18,847,735 1802, 5,424,441 27,371,115 25,699,809 | 16,601,892 1803, 5,794,906 25,647,412 26,993,129|19,127,833 1804, 6,348,887 21,643,577 22,252,027|11,540,359 1805, 5,214,621 23,986,869 23,935,793 13,532,306 1806, 6,072,160 24,273,451 25,003,308 12,227,237 1807, 3,746,771 25,094,089|27,403,653|13,451,632 1808, 3,401,509 25,406,330 25,190,762 13,521,743 1809, 3,724,893 23,784,516 26,692,288 11,684,207

Account of the value of all imports into, and all exports from Ireland for four years, ending 5th January, 1809.

s. d. £ s. d.]

s. d.

1306 5,756,214 10 4 [5,059,867 13 10 142,481 4 6 18075,605,964 1615,030,722 15 10|157,443 2 2 1808 6,637,907 1675,307,806 16 4 150,370 38 1809 7,129,507 11 15,696,897 5 5 235,694 6 11

The real value of Irish produce
and manufactures exported in
the year ending 5th January,
1808, computed at the average
prices current, was,
5th January, 1809,

10,110,385 3 6 12,577,517 10 11

In the House of Commons on the 23d of January, 1810, the chancellor of the exchequer, Mr. Percival, said, "The effects of the Orders in Council, which the two noble lords (Lord Grenville and Lord Gray) had represented as most impolitic, and as big with ruin to the commerce of Britain, had now been determined by the evidence of facts. They had been pro