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London:
PRINTED FOR RICHARD PHILLIPS, No. 6, New BRIDGE-STREET

By whom Communications (Poft-paid) are thankfully received.

(Price Twelve Shillings half-bound.)

Printed by Ji ADLAPD, Duke-street, West-Sirithecla.

No. 139.]

FEBRUARY 1, 196. [1. of VOL. 21.

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Ships.

Tons.

Men.

175794

2,017,240

134,032

IRELAND.

Ships.

Tons.

Men.

1,061

58,060

5,176

THE COLONIES.

Ships.

TONS.

Men.

2,870

196,638

15,091

TOTAL.

Ships.

Tons.

Men.

21,725

2,271,928

154,299

This number of veffels, great as it appears, is till increasing; the number of new veffels each year confiderably exceeding the loffes to which fuch an extenfive navigation must amavoidably be fubject. The number of veffels built and registered in the different ports of the British Empire in the year ending the 5th of January, 1804, was 1402, and the amount of their tonnage 135,349 tons.

This number of veffels, though far greater than is poffeffed by any other nation, would however alone be very infufficient to carry on the extentive commerce of this country; we therefore conftantly fee the colours of all other maritime ftares fying in our perts, and their vellels affisting in conveying the property of British merchants to foreign thores. The account of the number of veffels which entered inwards and cleared outwards (including their repeated voyages) from or to all parts of the world during the year 1804, will fhew the proportion of British and foreign fhipping thus employed :

MONTHLY MAG. NO. 139.

British, Foreign,

531

78,971 5,093 Thefe ftatements fhew the extent and

activity of our mercantile fhipping, and imply that the quantity and value of the goods which they transport must be very great. The total value cannot be stated very accurately; for though accounts are kept in the Inspector-General's Office at the Cultom hole of all goods exported and imported, the information they furnith in this refpect is of little value, except in a comparative view, as they are formed from fixed rates of the value of different commodities which were fettled 110 years ago, and confèquently are very inapplicable to the actual value at prefent. Some idea may be formed of the undervaluation of the Imports from thote of the Eat-India Company, taking the account of their fales as the importation. The medium value of the fales, on an average

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