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Ships.
The number of
Ships wanted to ao
do the work is
Foreigners in the 1
• asssal propurtir.na

,4-;1

Annual

By Freight of 1,200 ----
sail of Ships,
making 1,600
Voyages to North
America - £1,512,000

How Ells]
The Freight from the Colonies
is all vent, either in Great
Britain or the Colonies in
proportions
England - 9 parts
Colonies I part

With other disbursements ow
Wages, as under, viz.

£
1,200 Captains per ann. 144,000
1,200 Chief Mates, do. 64,800
1,200 Carpenters, do. .57,600
1,200 Cooks - do. 43,200
7,200 Seamen - do. 200,000
2,400 Apprentices do. 24,000

4,40031 en. Earnings 533,600

Remains No. of
English ships 156
that will be em-
ployed
Produce.
BY. Freight of 150
sail of Ships, mak-
ing 450 Voyages to
Northern Europe £177,300

N.B. The rest in Foreign
Ships.
losixl of. *
The Freight from Northern
Europe is spent in Great
Britain and the Continent in
proportions
England - 2 parts
NorthernEuropel part

3

it of the Freight is the Seamen's

150 Captains per ann. 18;000
150 Chief Mates do. - 8,100
150 Carpenters, do. - 7;200
150 Cooks - do. 5,400
900 Seamen - do. - 22,500
300 Apprentices do. - 3,000

1,800 lien. Earnings 64,200

There will also be the wages to a-variety' ofniechanics de-
pendant on keeping those ships emyloyed,,such as. Ropers, Sail-
makers, Shipwrights Blacksmiths, Mast-makers, Block-
makers, COopers, Anchor-smiths, Chain,makers; Ship-chand-
lers, and their dependants, &c &c. &c. which may be com-
puted at

5000 Men and Boysi, . p . .600 Men and Boys' £
whose earnings; on ! " "`"
200 0001 ' 24,000
whose earnings,on
the average, arer . ' A . the average; are
per annum-' , 1 -per annum - . .
The provisioning the Seamen is of great importance, particu-
larly to the agricultural interests of this country, viz.—

Of the Produce of the United Kingdom.
f

10,200 cwt. Fresh Beef 411,000
24,000 cwt. of Bread 28,800
6,400 cwt. of Flour 10,240
6,400 bushels of Pease 3,840
3,200 bushels of Barley 1;600
1,600 bushels of Oatmeal 800

Per Annum 93,280

1350 cwt. of Fresh Beef 3,375
900 cwt. of Bread . 1,090
300 cwt. of Flour - 480
225 bushels of Barley 113
75 bushels of Oatmeal 39

Per Annum 5,087
N.B. They are supplied with
the rest of their Provisions on
I the Continent on. account of the
I cheapness there.

Of the Produce of Ireland. t
9,600 tierces of Beef £67,200 I None.
6,400 barrels of 'Pork 25,600 Seldom any.

Of Colonial Produce.

00,800 Gallons of
Rum - - - £15,120

300 Gallons -
N. 13. Theyarealways supplied
with Foreign Bpirita at Elsinore.

. ,
As there will be 380 Sail of Foreign Ships employed to bring
the remainder of the Wood from the Baltic? they of course leave
a proportion -of their Freight in England, it may be estimated
as under - . Foreign 4 Pans
England - 1-Part

Making a:-Sum of

£89,p55,

Shipping necessary to replace Losses, &c. ' •
In ENpenses of building 120 The Expense or building 15
Sail
..of Ships of 240 Tons Sail of Ships, to replace the
each, to replace Losses, viz. . Losses, of 240 Tons each,
28,800 Tons at. £l7 10 per I viz. 3,600 Tons at £l7 10
Ton 4 - - - - £504,000 per Ton, is - , £63,000.

Maritime Strength of
This Tiade supports for the
Country an effective Fume of
14,400 choice Seamen at no

expence. -
N. Is. The like Force in the
Anny would cost this COun-
try 1720,000 per annum.
It is not the carriage of the
country which employs • the

reat Britain considered.

This Trade supliorts for. the
•Country an effective Force of
1,800 choice Seamen at no

expense.
N. 13. This TraJe supports for
our Continental Rivals, an
effective Force of 4,)6(l Mtn.
valuable manufactures of any
tipping; and rears the valuable

race of Seamen, forming the maritime strength of a country,
but the low-priced 'bulky articles, viz :—COal, `food, Sugar,
Cotton, Wool, Hemp, Flax, Tallow, Ccirn, heed, &c.
In case the Trade with the Colonies is discontinued, it will
throw out of employment 12,600 Britisn Seamen and 4,400
Mechanics, who together with their families make 42,500 per-
sons, who will need support from their respective parishes, and
will cost the Country thereby 331,5001. per annum.
The Colonies will likewiSe lose the value of their Exports to
Great Britain in Timber, &c. and Which may be estimated at
£350,000 per annum, and Great' Britain will 16se by her
Exports to the Colonies to that amount, viz. £350,000 per
annum.

Russia will lose by her Exports of Hemp, Flax, &c. neces-
sary for the supply of the shipping which would have been
wanted to carry on the North American trade to the amount of
£150,000 per annum. And she will never gain as much by the
increase of her wood trade, although' she might have more than
her proportion of the increase by the change.
Norway appears (by the statements given in the evidence of
W. Stewart, Esq.§ before the Select Committee of the House
of Commons) to gain by the present Trade ; she now -en-
joys with England in her Exports,. &c. exceeding - her Im-
ports £165,515 per annum ; if there were any induceinentS
necessary for her to take more British and Irish Manufactures:,
or Colonial produce, surely this is sufficient, as all she takes of
Great Britain on an average of the last three years, calcailated
in the most liberal way, is £107,828 per annum.
The case is not much different with either Sweden, Russia,
or. Prussia. How vain then is the hope that the countries

Vide Statement of Disbursements before the Select Com-
mittee on Foreign Trade, pages 146-1•17-149. •
t Ev:lenee before the Select Committee, pages 93, 94.
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