increase their burdens-by extending to them the Stamp act-which they effectually resisted under the title of " The folly of England and the ruin of America." In a letter from one of the New England colonists to the Board of Trade and Plantations, printed in the year 1715, concerning the trade, it is asserted, “That one fleet only from New England brought home 6000 barrels of pitch, tar, and turpentine to London. Ships of late we build very well, both for beauty and strength. Even so early as this time, we find our sugar colonies complaining of New England's great trade to the Dutch colony of Surinam, which they now supply with vast numbers of small horses, and with provisions, fish, &c., and in return took their molasses, which they made into rum."

In the year 1740, it appears from the information given to the Board of Trade by persons concerned in the two British colonies of Virginia and Maryland, that about 200 British ships were annually and constantly employed in that trade, viz., "about eighty or ninety sail to Virginia, and about 110 to 120 to Maryland; that the ships trading thither from the outports of Great Britain were generally of a lesser burden than were those from the port of London: and that of about 30,000 hogsheads of tobacco, annually imported from those two colonies into Great Britain, 18,000 were brought home in the London ships. Also that this computation was exclusive of the vessels employed by those two colonies in their trade with the other British continental and island colonies of America."

From the Year 1744 to 1748, inclusive, From the Year 1754 to 1758, inclusive, Exported

Exported

In 1761, 1762, exclusive of pitch, pine, staves, shingles, and various kinds of wood, there were many other articles exported from South Carolina: among which 249,000 lbs. of indigo; 62,288 barrels of rice; 23,194 bushels of corn; 3980 bushels of peas; 3881 bushels of oats; 2275 barrels of pork; 1648 lbs. of bacon; five barrels of ham; eighty kegs of butter; thirty-two casks of tallow; 343 hogsheads, 215 bales of deer-skins, and 1043 deer-skins loose; 1199 barrels of tar; 751 barrels of turpentine; nineteen barrels of rosin; sixteen casks of bees'-wax; 2693 tanned hides; fourteen boxes of myrtle-wax candles; besides hoops, handspikes, furs, pink root, reeds, &c.

DECLARED Value of British and Irish Produce and Manufactures Exported from the United Kingdom to the United States of America, in each Year, from 1805 to 1811, and from 1814 to 1836.

YEARS. Amount. YEARS. Amount. YEARS. Amount. YEARS. Amount. YEARS. Amount. YEARS. Amount.

£

TRADE between Great Britain and the Old American Colonies, from 1697 to 1783, inclusive, showing the official Value of Exports and Imports.

1713...

178

1714.

2,663

1715..

5,461

1716..

5,193

1717.

1718.

1719...

1720... 1721.. 1722... 1723..

1724...

69,585 168,507

1725.. 1726.... 1727... 1728....

72,021 201,768

49,904 120,778 14,428 46,470
51,541 121,288 29,810 44,643
23,712
66,555 164,650 21,316 54,629
17,182 174,756 199,274 29,158 16,631
69,595 121,156 21,971 52,173
21,842 281,343 179,599 46,287 27.272
58,898 132,001 24,534 44,140 4,499 22,505 296,884 215,962
61,591 131,885 27,331 62,966 5,588 22,716 316,576 191,925
54,452 125,317 19,596 56,355 6,564 27,068 332,069 164,630
49,206 128,769 16,836 37,397 7,928 24,531 331,482 110,717
50,483 114,524 15,681 50,754 8,037 21,548 357,812 127,376
47,955 133,722 20,118 57,478 6,882 20,397 283,091 172,754
59,339 176,486 27,992 53,013 8,332 15,992 287,997: 123,833
21,191 63,020 4,057 30,324 277,344 161,894
24,976 70,650 11,981 42,209 214,730 195,884
63,816 200,882 38,307 84,866 5,960 57,634 324,767 185,981 93,453 43.934
75,052 187,277 31,617 67,452 12,823 31,979 421,588 192,965 96,055 23,254
64,689 194,590 21,141 81,634 15,230 37.478 413,089 171,092 91,175 33,067
52,512 161,102 15.833 64,760 7,434 29,799 386,174 | 108,931 113,329 58,366
54,701 208,196 8,740 64,356 10,582 48,592 346,823 150,931 151,739 64,785
49,048 183.467 20,756 66,116 12,786 44,260 408,502 171,278 159,771 71,145
64,095 216,600 9,411 65,540 8,524 41,698 310,799 148,289 126,207 58,298
61.983 184,570 11,626 65,417 14,776 40,565 403,198 186,177 177,845 70,466
82,252 146,460 15,307 81,758 20,217 54,392 373,090 172,086 120,466 99,658
72,899 189,125 14,155 80,405 21,919 48,804 394,995 220,381 145,348 117,837
66,788 222,158 17,944 86,000 20,786 61,513 380,163 204,794 214,083 101,147
63,347 223,923 16,833 125,833 15,198 56,690 492,246 211,301 187,758 58.986
59,116 203,233 16,228 133,438 11,918 61,450 391,814 258,860 141,119 87,793
46,604 220,378 18,459 106,070 8,134 54,452 444,654 217,200| 236,192 94,445
15,048 56,751 341,997 281,428 265,560 181,821
140,430 17,158 91,010 577,109 248,582 236,830 224,270
53,166 148,899 13,536 167,591 8,527 75,295 427,769 264,186 154,607 127,063
63,185 172,461 15,067 134,487 9,596 79,340 557,821 328,195 235,136 111,499
50,248 143,982 14,527 119,920 7,446 62,214 402,709 234,855 192,594 79,141
38,948 140,463 14,083 54,957 10,130 54,280 399,423 197,799 91,847 86,815
38,612 209,177 8,841 86,712 15,779 73,699 419,371 282,545 76,897 102,809
14,992
137,984 3,832 82,404 492,619 200,084 107,500 95,529
12,358 143,311 12,363 75,330 494,852 252,624 167,305 160,172
23,413 265,773 14,944 238,637 434,618 323,600 120,499 164,085
35,632 267,136 28,191 217,713 508,939 349,419 191,607 234,037
42,363 248,941 23,870 190,917 460,085 347,027 245,491 138,244
355
40,648 194,030 29.978 201,666 569,435 325,151 288,264 150,777 1,526
40,553 277,864 38,527 245,644 632,575 356,776 164,634 213,909 3,057 14,128

17,037 206,263 76,304
14,927 280,470 128,873

TOTAL Official Value of Exports to, and Imports from, Great Britain to the American Colonies during the following Years:

TOTAL Number of British Ships and Seamen employed in the Trade between Great Britain and her Colonies on the Continent of America, in the Year 1771.

OFFICIAL Value of the Trade between Great Britain and the United States of America, in each Year from the Acknowledgment of their Independence to 1845, inclusive.*

STATEMENT exhibiting the Amount of all British, Foreign, and American Tonnage which entered the Ports of the United States, from 1789 to 1844.

The official values at average prices computed at average prices in the year 1694 are absurdly erroneous and have been merely returned by the customs, under the supposition that they form the best index as to the relative quantities exported from the United Kingdom. We have arranged the above table as an approximate view of the relative quantities exported to the United States of America.

STATEMENT made to Congress, by the American Government, of the Trade between the United States of America and the United Kingdom.

1822........

1823..

1,499,705
613,561

18,686,138 4,771,998 23,458,136 901,236
14,303,766 6,536,951 20,840,717 582,221
14,849,622 5,478,970 20,328,592 647,376
28,693,172 6,330,294 35,023,466 559,897
15,971,023 4,441,193 20,413,216 965,098
18,838,065 6,649,645 25,487,710 313,860
12,829,817 7,261,854 20,091,671 2,370,533
16,147,937 6,356,440 22,504,377 967,922
19,602,659 5,897,259 25,499,918 273,743
22,666,742 7,949,771 30,616,513 1,798,328
18,188,869 9,725,710 27,914,579 1,902,385 997,731 2,900,116 20,091,254 10,723,441 30,814,695

1,291,587 15,496,998
2,059,602 29,253,069

dollars. dollars. dollars. dollars. dollars. 85,230 2,143,346 17,117,108 3,660,372 20,777,480 138,975 1,040,211 19,587,374 4,910,973 24,498,347 444,001 1,026,222 14,885,987 6,980,952 21,866,939 644,211

6,123,181 21,620,179

7,829,999 37,083,068

1,578,659 16,936,121

5,055,754 21,991,875

590,736

904,596

598,465

2,968,998

819,394

1,787,316

555,691

574,678

829,434 2,373,006

A STATEMENT of the Quantities and declared Value of the principal Articles of British and Irish Produce and Manufactures Exported to the United States of America, in each of the Ten Years from 1827 to 1832.