A philosophical and statistical history of the inventions and customs of ancient and modern nations in the manufacture and use of inebriating liquors with the present practice of distillation in all its varieties: together with an extensive illustration of the consumption and effects of opium, and other stimulants used in the East. As substitutes for wine and spirits / By Samuel Morewood.
- Morewood, Samuel
- Date:
- 1838
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A philosophical and statistical history of the inventions and customs of ancient and modern nations in the manufacture and use of inebriating liquors with the present practice of distillation in all its varieties: together with an extensive illustration of the consumption and effects of opium, and other stimulants used in the East. As substitutes for wine and spirits / By Samuel Morewood. Source: Wellcome Collection.
734/778 page 716
![A Tabular View of the Opium Trade of Great Britain, including that of our India Settlements, with China :—[see page 136. | Great Britain. Exported Years. Retained; Revenue |from India Imported.| Exported.| for con- | at 9s. per | to China. sumption. Ib. Ibs. Ibs. lbs. £ Chests. 1823 | 38,375] 11,016| 20,985] 9,509 | 5,172 1824 | 87,142] 40,309| 22,752|10,199 | 8,080 1825 |123,084| 64,466| 20,582! 9,329 | 8055 1826 | 79,829] 49,776| 28,329) 11,348 | 10,743 1827 |113,140| 87,833] 17,822] 7,894 | 8865 1828 | 84,186] 95,739! 20,680| 6,483 | 11,111 1829 | 48,634] 41,919} 23,970| 4,522 | 11,409 1830 209,076 |170,080 | 22,608} 4,528 | 15,643 1831 | 9,967] 25,045 | 25,937| 5,187 | 20,108 1832 | 68,378] 19,562] 30,258 6,052 | 15,823 1833 |106,846| 53,001 | 35,407] 7,088 | 21,279 1834 | 48,216) 31,604] 28,467 | 5,700 | 20,213 1835 85,481 | 74,126 | 31,181 | 6,249 | 21,350 Table of the quantities of Arrack exported from Ceylon, as noticed in page 182 :— Years. |To Great Britain. To British Colonies.|To foreign States} Value. Gallons. Leaguers. Gallons. £ S. 1833 7,093 3,250 a 12,425 9 1834 6,156 2,022 98 7,737 16 The duty on Batavia arrack, in 1826, was 4s. 6d.; in 1827, 7s. 6d. ; 1828-9, thesame ; 1830, 5s.; 1831, 4s. 6d. ; 1832, 4s. 6d.; 1833, 4s. 3d. The duty charged, in 1834, on the importation of this commodity into Great Britain from the East Indies, was 15s. per gallon, and 9s. from the Colonies ; and on other foreign arrack, £1. 2s, 6d.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33486864_0734.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
