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W. t• C .4OCCroLCvV La L: 00 4> CI 1.4; .> ,4 . t , --i 1 r LIST of Exroirs from RICA for the 'Yet i :. 1820. k • Hemp, Rhine tons 4,950 -- Outshot - .. -- 2.258 Pass - - . , 2.765 ---- Codas - - - 803 Flax, Ist sort - .. 6,47 . 8 --2 d - - .. 3,285 ---.- 3d - - - 898 Ashes - - - 121 Tallow - - - 1,841 Masts - - - pieces 1.368 Bowsprits - - - ____ 360 Spa s - - - 1,485 Timber - - - .. __ 14,309 Deals - - - i --- 97,560 1 The pieces in standard - 243,750 Linseed, sowing - - barrels 95,362 crushing - - d qrs. , 99,979 Wheat ~,,, - - '24,681 Rye - - - 84,468 Barley . - - —. 60,106 Oats - -- - :219,925 ' This line was written in red ink, LIST of EXPORTS from ARCHANGEL , for the Year 1820. • Iron - - - - tons SOO Heinp - - - - 299 Flax . - - . _ 51 • 'Tallow . - - - casks 7,225 Cordage - - - tons Potashes - - - 26 Bristles - - - - casks 355 Wheat - - - - qrs. 32,190 Rye - - - - 19,659 Oats - - - - 21,684 Linseed - - - 51,549 Tar - - - - barrels 78,354 Pitch - - - - 12,240 Mats - - - - pieces 514,v.28 Deals - - - - 206,345 '' The pieces in standard - 516,327 " This line in the copy written in red ink. 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CD CD CD CD CD C% C 4 U: .01.• • Omissions and Co;•recfions in the Tables at Page 1, Cols. $ and 4, of Supplement No. H. LIST of EXPORTS- from Sr. PETERSRURGH for the Year 1820. Iron - - tons Hemp, clean - - Cutshot - Half clean 12 Hd. Flax - 9Hd Flax •- Tallow. - casks Potashes - - tons Bristles - casks Linseed - - qrs. Fleets pieces Sailcloth - - Raven ducks - Wheat - qrs. Rye. - Deals std. deals • pieces • The pleees in standard _ e,317 ] 9,098 4,402 3,774 6,591 677 98,329 1,445 38,5)3 47,167 52,700 29,324 37,812 9,027 1,000,015 37,089 91,803 * This line was written in red ink. tn t. 7.) C 4 C 4 4 , Gn cl cn '4 '4 CC CC 7 (4 t.. 3 I , Z W. •-• 1 —c -- 0 0 C.: co r..• tx, r•-• Standard Deals 1,861,89?, Average quantity of Standard Deals for 8 years - Average annual Export from Onega - - - 20 cargoes, each of I 2,000 Standard Deals - Wyberg. and other ports in Finland, 40 Do. Do Narva . - 20 Do. Do. Standard Deals 3,030,799 FURTHER PAPERS AND ACCOUNTS Relating to this Subject, not inserted in the preceding Report or Appendix. Petition of the Merchants of Miramichi, in favour of the Timber Euties. A petition of the there-undersigned merchants, ship-owners, and magistrates of Miramichi, in the province of New Brunswick, was presented, and read; setting forth, That it is not without great anxiety and alarm the petitioners have heard that an alteration of the existing arrangement of timber duties is contemplated to be proposed in the next session of parliament, and such an alteration as, if adopted, must ruin a trade which, with due encouragement, will continue to be of incal culable advantage to his maj-sty's colonies in North America ;_ that not only are the merchants, ship-owners, and timber-cutters, but all other classes of people in that pros ince, benefited by the trade, and as one proof among the many the pe titioners could adduce in support of this tact they beg leave to state, that farmers (who a few years ago raised only enough from their lands for the support of them selves and their families, and had no incitement to raise more. because there were then no purchasers for what they could spare) have, since the commencement of the timber trade, - increased their exertions in clearing anti improving their lands, entirely on account of the brisk demand. for all sorts of farming produce required for the use of the timber-cutters and others connected with the trade, and many industrious and deserving emigrants have been enabled to settle on the wilderness lands of that country solely by means of the merchants advancing to them the supplies necessary for their support until their lands were brought to a state of cultivation to yield them a subsistence; the supplies so advanced were payable in timber, which is generally prepared for market during the long winters, when neither farming nor fishing can be carried on; and that, from a thorough con viction that the imposition of a duty upon colonial thither, or any reduction in the duty upon that from foreign countries, would, by destroying the trade of that country, prove utterly ruinous to a large proportion of its inhabitants, without the least possibility of any of them being benefited thereby, the petitioners are now induced to address the house; that in the fullest reliance upon a continuance of the support of government, and naturally conceiving that the, interests of the - colonies would never be sacrificed to advance those of foreign stations, the mer chants of that I..lace have expended vast sunis in forming establishments suitable for carrying on the timber trade, and have been in the habit of importing, and do still continue to import, British manufactured goods to, a large amount, which goods they advance to the timber-cutters, who, have no other Way of making pay ment but in the article of timber; that, in the event of such a stop to the trade as the imposition of the proposed duty would occasion, those costly establishments must go to deCay, the timber-cutters could never pay for their supplies, and all importation of British goods must cease ; for the merchant there depends.exclu sively upon the exportation of timber to Great Britain to make his remittances; that white or yellow pine (of which description the great bulk of the wood of that country consists) was shipped, and is now shipping, at from fourteen shillings to eighteen shillings per ton, which latter is the very lowest rate at which it can be prepared for market: even at these low rates the importation into the mother country this season yielded perhaps in no instance any profit beyond the employ ment of shipping, and, in several cases within the knowledge of the petitioners, was attended with loss to the importer; it is therefore obvious that no duty, how ever small, can be borne, and that the high duty proposed would amount to a complete , prohibition of colonial timber; that the ruin of those innnediately con nected with the trade would not be. the only evil effect of such alteration of the duties, the fisheries of the colonies Would be materially injured, for the salt used in those fisheries is, almost without a single exception, brought .out in vessels chartered to carry timber home; this return freight enables them to bring the salt at a rate which the petitioners think would be trebled at least in the event of a cessation of that trade, and that all the timber brought to this market, or of the growth and manufacture of the province; the petitioners feel a pride in having it in their power to say, that a more loyal people than his majesty's subjects in that province, are not to be found in any part of his dominions; and they are fully per suaded that nothing but the withdrawing the protection hitherto atiiirded them, and thereby destroying all prospect of their earning a comfortable subsistence in that country, could possibly induce them to remove to a foreign state; distressing as the abandonment of the country ww hi be to individual feeling; . alarming as it un doubtedly is, in a rational point of view, and reluctant as the" petitioners are to anticipate a state - of things so tb.eadful. ,yet, from a sense of duty, they feel cm ' pelled to state, as their decided and deliberate opinion, that a speedy depopulation of some districts of that country will follow that almost total annihilation of its trade, which would be the inevitable consequence of the contemplated alteratiOn in the timbei duties ; vast numbers of emigrants, as well as of the youth of the country, and others whO have not yet acquired a fixed residence in it, and there fore do norcorite under the denomination of permanent settlers, and a number, who are now considered of this latter description, would go to some country where farming can (or where they, imagine it can) be carried on to more advantage than in that ; and it is bin too' probable. that that country would be the one, whose ambitious designs all the energies of those provinces may one day be required- to counteract; the petitioners beg leave to add to this, their respectful representation, a statement of the number of vessels that have been loaded in the river Miramichi alone, with the quantity of square timber they carried, during the under-men tioned periodS FroM Ma y to 20th November 1 81 7 , 2 tO vessels, carrying 2,033. tens square timber ; from May to December 181fh 278 vessels, carrying 9:',;33 tens ice - ,are timber; from May to December 1 0 19, 797. vessels, carrying I 07,0fil - tens 'Square timber; in addition to which , masts, spars,'-oars. lathwood, planks, and staves, to a large amount, were also exported to Great Britain during 2,070,799 240.000 480,000 240,000 Y 4 , 4, 4. 4- r , 1I I • I.: I.: I I 111 I I 11111 G a 4. i 1 to Co r toco cc p, • IIILI • i I I 111 i 1 .1. 1 v • _ I ,-• b::: ..t. .: tir c. 7, 1 I:, ga.— : :,1'... 4., 4 _ 1 1 I j 1 , 11 ML F. _____ • . - t..J I I,: t.:: t:', t.:" I:: W.: vs .... 1I I . 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