A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis: Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their PreventionColquhoun, Patrick
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A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis: Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their Prevention
Colquhoun, Patrick
Crime -- England -- London; Police -- England -- London
_It is, therefore, to be understood that the following Estimate of
Foreign Articles is made up according to the_ present value, _as
nearly as it has been possible to ascertain it, by the payment of the
Convoy-duties, under the Act 38 Geo. 3. cap. 76--It exhibits a very
astonishing picture of the immense opulence and extent of the commerce
of the Metropolis; and accounts in a very satisfactory manner for the
vast resources of the Country, which have been manifested in so
eminent a degree in the course of the present and former wars._
From whence Number of Average Value of Goods Value of Goods Total Value of
arrived. vessels Tonnage. Imported. Exported. Goods imported
including and exported.
repeated
voyages.
£. s. d. £. s. d. £. s. d.
East Indies 53 41,456 6,544,402 10 2 3,957,905 5 1 10,502,307 15 3
West Indies 346 101,484 7,118,623 12 8 3,895,313 18 7 11,013,937 11 3
British
Continental
Colonies 68 13,986 290,894 4 10 1,347,250 1 7 1,638,144 6 5
Africa and
Cape of
Good Hope 17 4,336 82,370 15 0 449,077 19 3 531,446 15 1
Southern
Fishery 29 7,461 250,689 3 2 54 16 4 250,743 19 6
Greenland
Fishery 16 4,769 64,142 0 8 0 0 0 64,142 0 8
United States
of America 140 32,213 1,517,386 2 8 3,898,864 12 9 5,416,250 15 5
Mediterranean
and Turkey 72 14,757 390,794 19 10 118,914 3 7 509,709 3 5
Spain 121 16,509 776,686 12 2 171,073 4 6 947,759 17 8
Portugal 180 27,670 414,359 7 2 438,877 16 2 853,237 3 4
France 56 5,573 15,951 17 8 859,974 16 0 875,926 13 8
Austrian
Flanders 66 5,104 21,027 3 2 118,064 2 2 139,091 5 4
Holland 329 19,166 673,241 17 4 1,538,120 3 6 2,211,362 0 10
Germany 235 37,647 2,658,011 8 2 8,014,260 3 0 10,672,271 11 2
Prussia 608 56,955 220,827 14 0 211,662 12 0 432,490 6 0
Poland 69 17,210 207,477 0 0 35,468 18 3 242,945 18 3
Sweden 109 14,252 152,707 6 10 169,293 18 4 322,001 5 2
Denmark and
Norway 202 48,469 94,821 3 6 711,082 10 8 805,903 14 2
Russia 230 56,131 1,565,118 7 6 452,106 16 7 2,017,225 4 1
Foreign
Coasting
(Including
repeated
voyages.)
Guernsey,
Jersey and
Alderney 46 5,344 218,916 12 8 83,281 12 1 302,198 4 9
Ireland 276 32,824 1,878,971 7 2 659,922 14 1 2,538,894 1 3
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