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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    by the treaty of Paris entire freedom war again reilored to commerce, the traders once more exerted their energy, bv fending out adventures of an unexampled amount, to every quarter of the globe, though the nation was fuppofed to be ftrained by too great an exertion of its powers : and all the falutary elfeds of an augmented manufafture and an extended traffic were inftantly feen in the commercial fuperiority of the three years following the pacification of 1763, over thofe enfuing the peace of 1748,, though thefe have been celebrated juftly as times of uncommon, profperity. ' ' Examine the following proofs :r Years. *749 50 51 1758 J759 1764 65 , 66 3772 73 74 The grofs income of the Poft-office, foreign and domeftic,, •which can alone demonJirate»A^y^ the Editor of the Annual* Re- gifter, the extent of our correfpondence, amounted in 1744, to,^ — — £-235,492: in 1764, to. - 432,048 Such,- There were exported, as part of the cargoes of 1758, prize-goods of the value 901,207; and. as part of thofe of 1759, the value of 69,2,743. In. the aoaount of the cargoes exported in the year 1766, and alfo in the feries of. 3.772-3-4, the value of corn was not included, fince it was not exported; which,.-. noakes a confiderable difference, as hath been already obferved, ^ Of 1773, p. 225. Ships cleared outwards. Value of cargoes. Tons Engliih. P° foreign. Total. , 609,798; — 5*9386 —f 661,184 —12^599,112 — 389,842 — 116,002 — 505,844 — 406,335 — I2I,Cl6 — 527,351 12,618,335- ’I39947»7&8 “ 639,872 — 68,136 — 708,008 — 1419259950 — 756,187 — 65,630 — 821,817 — 159613,003 r-