The Sun.
London, England, 1818-01-07 00:00:00

REVENUE.

We received the following Official Article too
late to insert it in our First Impression yesterday'
and in the Second we bad only time to insert the
Quarters. We now present it complete as we
yesterday received it, from authority, and we
trust that it will gratify every true friend to the
Country :

ABSTRACT OF THE NET.PEODUCE OF THE REVENVS
IN THE YEARS AND QUARTERS ENDED STH JAIL•
1817 AND 1818.

Qrs. ended sth Jan.
1817. 1818.

R, 58,G48
4,695,074
r,566,532
319,000
2,260,017

353,604
255,318

COMMERCt.

notwithstanding all the gloomy speculations
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anticipations of evil. prognosticators among
Is' the whole internal and foreign Trade of
Great Britain is much improved, improving, and
pet to improve still farther. In every branch of
t'intlfaCtUte: there is general life and activity.
'erY Person is employed. Wages are increased,
:Id though still low in some particular branches,
'pet theyare much improved to what they were
i
L'ilierlY•' Some branches of Trade are improved
b7re dud some less, but the improvement in every
a'ich is universally felt and acknowleked. The
t IPort Trade has been for some time past very
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wir4 and when the accounts for 1817 are made
that will be found, to the astonishment of many,
:the Trade of Great Britain has risen snperior
T.every pressure, and flourishes in all its branches.44Trade to India is increasing in a rapid manner,
titi Promises tote very beneficial to those en.
tleti in it. A new outlet is thus opened for
It
Ittiti'lilndustry and Capital, and within the
inu.mlarits of those Countries, formerly included
114 East India Company's Charter, still more
aptiiible and important outlets will be laid open.
Ifte Trade to South America, and the situation
tthat vast Continent, is at present such, that
° eater into the consideration of it., in all its
t
tkrings, as it does or May affect our Trade, %route'
pelt this article beyond proper bounds, and may
etetote, at another period, afford scope for a
teParate article. THAT IMMENSE and VALUABLE
it
itittle'salso now opening up between our Northern
4Hiericaan and our West India Colonies, will also
our attention."—(Blackwood's Edinburgh
itagazine for December.)
911. this latter branch of Trade we have much
'it add otoselves especially on the value of the
e."4)-`4T'Lbtr ade from the King's Noah American
"lies to the United kiltgaonk—trom the
Li eight which it creates annually for upwards of
• ene thousand sail of ships, and the employment it
V4Etzds to so many thousands at our seafaring
6w-citizens—independent of the extensive and
Ninermis benefits derived through wir the Mari=
time Districts by the building, repairing, and
aivantial equipment of such an :immense tonuage

'I

e hope the Chancellor of the Exchequer w

1411 consider, before he makes any alteration in
Present Dutirs on FOREIGN Timsba, lest he
'could endanger this valuable Trade, which,
th,lo t
'n.tts infancy, produces such beneficial re-
to the Conn Try. In a NAVAL point of view,
;ti" Trade to and from British North America is
t tilt utmost importance, from the great number
N,al'' in
seamen who will be raised in it—and
fit.n the event of hostilities, will always be
4111 reach to answer the calls of their Country
Inth for hour of clanger. Besides, the growing'
ate to the Saint Lawrence, and the incieasioe