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age, authoritatively ascertaining both its quantity and flpeness,before it is entitled to currency in the market. As to Other ma-nufactures, happily unsubjected to the interruption of such mi-nute interference, though of much greater magnitude and value,no accurate statement can be given.

1st, Table of Linen Manufacturedfor Sale.Manufactured in Scotland , at the date of the Union Yards.

of the two kingdoms, ... 1,500,000

When Commissioners were established for encourag-ing manufactures and fisheries in 1727, - 2,183,978

In the year 1801, .... 25,271,155

The value of the last supposed.1,018,642/.

2d, Table of the Value of Scots Exports.

In 1755,

-

.

L. 284,700

18 1

Average of five years

ending in

1760,

375,057

7 0

Ditto of ditto,

ditto,

1770,

451,170

14 10

1780,

549,375

9 11

1790,

769,296

6 11

1800,

- 1,402,650

0 3

1801,

- 2,449,171

4 6

3d, Table of Scots Imports and Exports.

Imports. Exports.

In 1755, - - L. 464,411 11 7 L. 535,576 16 4

In 1801, - - 2,579,944 8 10 2,844,502 4 0

In regard to the export and import of grain, it appears fromMr Chalmers’s statements of averages of five years, that from 1707till 1762, the exports exceeded the imports, at the rate of from7022 quarters (the lowest average of excess), to 57,522 quar-ters (the highest average excess). And that from 1762, the im-ports have exceeded the exports, at the rate of from 16,300(the lowest average excess), to 153,709 quarters (the highestaverage excess.)

4th, Table of Scots Shipping.

The following state of Scots shipping in 1800, is from the se-

fcond volume of Chalmdrs’s Caledonia:

Ships.

Tons.

Men.

Foreign trade, ....

Coasting ditto, ....

Fishing ditto, ....

687

1169

559

81,907

66,133

23,688

5589

4731

4500

Totals, -

Fmployed in 1806, ...

2415

2788

171,728

211,431

14,820