AN ACCOUNT of the Number of British Ships, and their Tonnage, entered from the United States in the Ports of the United Kingdom, in each Year during the Fourteen Years, ending the 5th day of January, 1845; also, a similar Return of the Number cleared Outwards for the United States.

NUMBER and Tonnage of Vessels employed in the Foreign Trade of the United Kingdom, during the Year ending 5th of January, 1843, exclusively of Vessels in ballast.

AVERAGE Annual Number of Ships, and their Tonnage, which entered and cleared the Ports of the United Kingdom, from and to the East India Company's Territories and Ceylon, British West Indies, and British North America, in the six Years from 1831 to 1836, inclusive, and from 1837 to 1842, inclusive.

THE following Table of the Annual Exports from Great Britain, exhibits the Proportion sent in each Year, at different Periods, to the United States.

Total exported to all countries..

53,293,979 42,070,744 53,233,580 51,406,430 51,634,623 47,381,023 52,778,449 58,581,292

Total to United States..... 12,425,605 4,695,225 8,839.204 5,283,020 7,098,642 3,528,807 5,013,504 7,938,079

The following table exhibits a comparative view of the quantity of cottons, linens, woollens, worsteds, and blankets, exported from Liverpool to New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Baltimore, in the first nine (or principal exporting) months of the last eight years; that is, from 1836 to 1843 inclusive.

EXPORTS from Liverpool to the United States-January 1, to September 30.

Value of foreign imports into the port of New York during the year 1844, viz. free merchandise, 9,716,588 dollars; specie and bullion free, 1,111,364 dollars; dutiable merchandises, 64,921,263 dollars ;-duty paid on the latter, 21,457,830 dollars.-Total value of imports, 75,748,720 dollars.

CHAPTER XXIV.

NAVIGATION AND TRADE BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND BRITISH POSSESSIONS IN NORTH AMERICA AND THE WEST INDIES.

THE Commercial intercourse between the colonies now forming the Atlantic States of America, and the British colonies in the West Indies, was of great value before the declaration of independence.

On the termination of peace this trade might have increased to the reciprocal advantage of the United States and of the British colonies, if the wise policy brought forward by Mr. Pitt, in 1783, had not been thwarted by Lord Sheffield and others, and if the most illiberal orders in council had not been, instead, pro

mulgated; and which nearly paralysed this trade until somewhat more liberal measures were brought forward in 1830, and legalised in 1831. In respect to the American trade with the West Indies, the ports of the latter were open to United States vessels on the payment of differential duties, from 1795 to 1807.

Incalculably great would have been the navigation and trade, and the consequent bonds of material and peaceful interests, if the maritime and trading intercourse of Great Britain and Ireland, with the whole of Anglo-America, including the United States, British North America, and the British West Indies, had been established upon the free basis of a general coasting trade.

From 1795 to 1801, the exports from the United States to the West Indies, and the imports from the latter to the former, were as follow:

During the years 1802, 1803, and 1804, the value of the exports and imports, according to an estimate made by the secretary of the Treasury, was—

The Average Annual Trade of the United States, for Three Years, according

to the same authority, was as follows:

I. With the dominions of Great Britain in Europe (Gibraltar excepted).
The annual exports were estimated at about 15,690,000 dollars, viz.:—
Domestic produce.

Cotton
Tobacco

........

Provisions......

Lumber, naval stores, and pot ashes

All other articles of domestic produce.....

dollars.

dollars.

5,640,000

3,220,000

2,160,090

1,510,000

900,000

13,430,000

Foreign merchandise

2,260,000

15,690,000

The annual imports, at 27,400,000 dollars, viz.:

In merchandise paying duties on its value, embracing, with inconsiderable exceptions, all the woollen, cotton, linen, silk, metal, glass, and paper manufactures

26,060,000

All the articles paying specific duties, and consisting principally of salt, steel, lead, nails, and porter