| | Tons inward, | Tons inward | | | Year. | British. | Foreign. | TOTAL. | +-------+--------------+-------------+------------+ | 1801 | 922,594 | 780,155 | 1,702,749 | | 1802 | 1,333,005 | 480,251 | 1,813,256 | | 1803 | 1,115,702 | 638,104 | 1,753,806 | | 1804 | 904,932 | 607,299 | 1,512,231 | | 1805 | 953,250 | 691,883 | 1,645,138 | | 1806 | 904,367 | 612,904 | 1,517,271 | | 1807 | Records lost | | | | 1808 | Records lost | | | | 1809 | 938,675 | 759,287 | 1,697,692 | | 1810 | 896,001 | 1,176,243 | 2,072,244 | | 1811 | | | | | 1812 | Records destroyed by fire. | | 1813 | | | | | 1814 | 1,290,248 | 599,287 | 1,889,535 | | 1815 | 1,372,108 | 746,985 | 2,119,093 | | 1816 | 1,415,723 | 379,465 | 1,795,188 | | 1817 | 1,625,121 | 445,011 | 2,070,132 | | 1818 | 1,886,394 | 762,457 | 2,648,851 | | 1819 | 1,809,128 | 542,684 | 2,351,812 | | 1820 | 1,668,060 | 447,611 | 2,115,671 | | 1821 | 1,599,274 | 396,256 | 1,995,530 | | 1822 | 1,664,186 | 469,151 | 2,133,337 | --PORTER'S _Progress of the Nation_, 407. It appears from this most instructive table that, under the protection system, from 1801 to 1823, the British shipping employed in conducting our commerce had gained so decisively on the foreign employed in the same commerce, that it had increased, from having been on an average of five years, at the commencement of the second, about two British tons to one foreign, to be, on the last five years, about _four_ British tons to one foreign: in other words, during these twenty-two years, the proportion of British to foreign shipping had _doubled_. Turn now to the contrast afforded by the comparative progress of British and foreign shipping from 1823, when the reciprocity system was introduced with certain states, to 1847, when it was made universal by the suspension of the Navigation Laws in March of that year:--