Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat: In the U. S. Sloop-of-war Peacock, David Geisinger, Commander, During the Years 1832-3-4Roberts, Edmund
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Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat: In the U. S. Sloop-of-war Peacock, David Geisinger, Commander, During the Years 1832-3-4
Roberts, Edmund
Southeast Asia -- Commerce; Southeast Asia -- Description and travel
Now, on a cargo of $40,000, it would give the sum of $4,000
_Add_ to this $1,50 per pecul on sugar exported,
which was equal, at the lowest calculation, to twenty-five
per cent., on $40,000, which gives 10,000
_Also_, $3,50 per ton for charges 975
And presents, say 1,000
If there is added the _difference_ in the sale of the
imported cargo to the king or to individuals, the estimate
cannot be less than twenty per cent., and probably
twice that amount would not cover the loss, 8,000
_Add_ to this an additional price paid to the king on
the produce exported, say it was twenty per cent., is 8,000
Three months’ charter, arising from detention, at
$900 per month 2,700
Three months’ loss of interest is 600
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$35,275
From this amount deduct the _single charge_ of
1,700 ticals per each Siamese fathom on the _breadth_
of vessels bringing merchandise. If only specie were
brought, 1,500 ticals.
Sixty-eight thousand ticals at sixty-one cents, on
seventy-five feet beam, is 4,275
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Making a difference of not less than $31,000
The result is, that the treaty has secured to us a valuable branch
of commerce which was entirely destroyed, and which will continue to
increase vastly, as the Siamese recover from the serious disasters
which resulted from the inundation of the valley of the Menam, for
upward of three months, during the year 1831.
_Exports from the river Menam (Siam) during the year 1832, showing the
quantity and market value of each article._
NAMES OF EXPORTS. QUANTITY. PRICES.
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