-------+----------+----------+----------+---------- Years.| Exports.| Imports.| Excess of| Excess of | | | Exports.| Imports. -------+----------+----------+----------+---------- | Spanish | Spanish | Spanish | Spanish | Dollars.| Dollars.| Dollars.| Dollars. | | | | 1771 | 3,122,197| 3,116,374| 5,823| -- 1772 | 2,909,371| 2,170,741| 738,630| -- 1773 | 3,193,912| 2,789,869| 404,043| -- 1774 | 3,184,641| 2,941,011| 243,630| -- 1775 | 3,083,773| 2,692,420| 91,353| -- 1776 | 3,319,070| 2,305,228| 1,013,842| -- 1777 | 3,139,678| 2,006,561| 1,133,117| -- 1778 | 2,440,042| 1,776,674| 663,368| -- 1779 | 2,274,308| 2,075,022| --| 430,714 | | | | 1783 | 2,788,702| 1,914,202| 874,500| -- 1784 | 2,921,274| 2,781,833| 139,441| -- 1785 | 2,670,468| 2,654,687| 15,781| -- 1786 | 2,495,038| 2,639,663| --| 144,624 1787 | 2,634,049| 2,506,267| 127,782| -- 1788 | 3,700,209| 3,017,853| 682,356| -- 1789 | 2,956,240| 2,840,127| 116,113| -- 1790 | 3,011,040| 3,073,801| --| 62,761 1791 | 3,771,263| 3,098,849| 672,414| -- 1792 | 1,172,670| 1,295,959| --| 123,289 -------+----------+----------+----------+---------- There was, of course, a lamentable falling off in the foreign trade of Java after the commencement of the war of the French revolution: some of the best markets were almost entirely closed to it, and the intercourse with the mother-country was nearly destroyed. The total of exports to Holland and her eastern possessions, from the year 1796 till 1806, amounted in value to only 7,097,963 Spanish dollars; the imports to 3,073,894 Spanish dollars; leaving a surplus of exports of 4,024,069 Spanish dollars. The Americans began to frequent the market of Batavia in 1798, and through them principally was the trade carried on till the conquest of the Island by the British, except during the short interval of the peace of Amiens. No specie (with which Holland chiefly paid for her eastern commodities) was imported from the mother-country from 1795 downwards, except during 1802-3 and 1803-4, during which there was only the very inconsiderable sum of about half a million of rupees imported.