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
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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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    [ ” ] Thus,, the year 1705 marked the loweft ftage of the depreffion of commerce; whence it gradually rofe to 1712, the laft year of the war, when our navigation and traffic had gained a manifell fu- periority over thofe of any priot period of peace. Let us behold the rebound of trade, when the return of tran- quillity had removed every preffiire, and the extenfion of the enter- prizes of our merchants, by contrafting the average of the ffiips cleared outwards, and of the value of their cargoes, during the three peaceful years preceding the war with thofe during the three years immediately following the treaty of-Utrecht. Ships cleared outwards. Value of Cargoes. Years. Tons Englifti. D° Foreign. Total. 16991 43,625 — 337,328 — £■ 1700 i. ^ J — 293,703 — — 6,709,881 17^37 26,573 — 448,004 — 14 [ J4j — 421,431 — — 7>^9^* *57$ The nett annual revenue of the Poft-office, accord- ing to an average of the years 1707—8—9—10 — 58,052 D on an average* of the years 1711 —12—13—•^4 90,223 Anxious for his ftabllity, amid the claffi of domeftic parties. King George 1. engaged fucceffively in contefts with almoft every European nation, becaufe each in its turn had given protedlion to the Pretender to his crown : but the difputes of that ** MSS. Harley. * Anderfon’s Commerce, vol. ii. p. 266. But, the office had been now extended, and the poftage railed. C 2 monarch