An estimate of the comparative strength of Britain during the present and four preceding reigns; and of the losses of her trade from every war since the Revolution ... To which is added an essay on population / by the Lord Chief Justice Hale.
- George Chalmers
- Date:
- 1782
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An estimate of the comparative strength of Britain during the present and four preceding reigns; and of the losses of her trade from every war since the Revolution ... To which is added an essay on population / by the Lord Chief Justice Hale. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![fucd its occupations, and the enterprize of traders fent to every quarter of the globe adventures to an extent beyond ail example. It is the boad: of Britain, ** that while other countries fuffered innumerable calamities, during, that long period of hoftilitieSy this happy ifland efcaped them all; and cultivated, unmolefted, her manufadlures, her fifheries, and her commerce, to an amount which has been the envy and wonder of the world.” It is in- deed demonftrable, that there never had been in England, at any period, fo many indujirious people, as there were at the return of peace in 1763*’. It is an acknowledged fadi, that Scotland furnifhed a larger number of recruits for the fleets and armies of Britain, during the laft war, than England, in proportion to the inferior amount of her fighting-men. The following detail will however fhew, that the induftrious clalTes were not the Icaft afFedled by the drain of that long eouffe of hofliilities. The amount of the linen manufadture of Scotland, which was ftamped far faU : In 1728 2,183,978 yards, 10,624,435 D'*^ of the value of £• i03»3I2 0 p 1758 — — D*^ — 424,141 10 7 1759 10,830,707 -D® — D“ — 451>390 *7 3 1760 ——« 11,747,728 Do __ D° — 522,153 10 4. Increafe of 1760 917,021 D° — D^ ■— 71*762 13 I Of the augmentation of the whole produdls of Scotland during the war, and con— fequenlly of its labour, we may determine from the following detail ; [See the. Chronological Table before inferted.] Value of merchandizes exported from Scotland in 1756 — f. 663,401 60 — 1,086,205 64 — 1,243,927 There were exported yearly of BrttiJh-m^nufaSiured linens, according to an average of feven years of peace, from 1749 to 1755 576,373 yards. Ditto, according to an average of feven years of fubfequent war,. from 1756 to 1762 — ■ 1^355,226 ditto. Having thus difeovered that the fword had not been put into ufeful hands, let us take a view of the great woollen manufadlories of England ; which will ftiew us,, that no man had left the loom to follow the idie trade of war : Value of woollen goods txpoitsd in — J755 — 57 — 58 - 59 — 60 — £> 3>575>297 4>758,095 4,673,462 5>352»299.. 5,453,172. As thefe prodigious exportations were fo fuperior to thofc of any preceding period j](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28757671_0157.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
