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Show 1% \,\. [A: B.T.] ET/Je Clo/0722's: ufeful to G. Briz‘az'n. CANADAPAMPIILET- 187 of it, it [1115 long [law at aflan/1.. Limited as our ---I have already faid, that our e0 [e in t/ N '- y, higar planters are by the feantmefs of_te1'r1tor t prelen their d they cannot increafe much beyon here{how {hall I as evil, an is number; and this tbern Colonie: double in about 2? yiars, exilufiile of after, that will be little helped by our keeping In the firfl term, total of Weft India iflands 6 In the fecond term, ditto, - - - -, ggéigii i: is (,luadaloupe.--The trade to our Northern Colonics, is not only greater, but yearly increafing with the increafe of people : and even in a greater proportion, as the people incrcafe in wealth and the ability of fpending, as well as in numbers *. In the firfi term, total for northern Colonies ‘ The writer has [fince] obtained accounts of the exports to New}; that there America, and the my; India Mam/J; by which it appears, . as been {ome increale of trade to thofe Iflauds as well as to North Increaf'e, only ,5. 0,404,504 In the {econd term, ditto, - 2 1 -' ;::I4::?: :4 : Increafe,£.3,927,789 3 1 - - - 86 ‘ By thefe accounts it appears, that the exports to the Weft India 1flands, and to the northern colonies, were in the firit term nearlv thefe accounts will {how the reader at one view the amount of the equal; (the difference being only 122,9361. 105. 4d.) and in the {econd term, the exports to thofe iflands had only increafed 4434,5041. zs. 1d.-Whereas the increafe to the northern colo- exports to each, in two different terms offive years; the terms taken nies is 3,927,789]. 33. 1 d. almoltfour mil/iom. at ten years dittance from each other, to {how the increafe, v12. Firit Term, from 1744 to 1748, inclufive. Nerf/2m: Colanitx. my} India Iflandr. Some part of this increafed demand for En ‘liih goods may he afcribed to the armies and fleets we have had oth in North A'me: from America, though in a much leis degree. The following extraét 1744-£.64o,114 12 4 ----- £796,112 17 9 woe-534,316 2 5--- 503166919 9 1746-7544945 4 3 ------- 472,99419 7 1747 726,648 5 s ------ 856,463 18 6 1748-83°,243 l6 9 ------ 734,095 15 3 Total, ,6. 3,486,268 1 2 Tot. ,413,363,337 10 10 Difference, 122,930 10 4 1:. 3,486,268 Second Term, from 1754 to 1758, Nurt/Je‘rn Coloniex. 1754-1,246,615 1 11 -- 1755---1,177,848 6 10 1756-1,428,720 18 1o------ 1757--1,727,924 2 IO ------- I758--~I,832,9+8 I3 10 Total, £7,414,057 4 3 1 2 inclufive. [Vt/1‘ India [/Iamlr. 685,67; 3 o 694,667 13 3 733,458 16 3 776,488 0 6 - 877571 I9 II Tot.£.3,767,841 12 11 Difference 3,646,215 11 4 .6 7,414,057 4 3 flea and the Weft Indies; not fo much for what is confirmed bv the foldiery; their clothing, Itores, ammunition, &c. {cut from hence on account of the government, being (as is {uppofedl not Included in thefe accounts of merchandize exported; but, as the war. has occafioned a great plenty of money in America man 1 of the inhabitants have increnfed their expence. , ) N. B. Thefe accounts do not include any exports from Sm!- Imzd to America, which are doubtlefs proportionably conliderablc » nor the exports from [rt/and. ‘ [I {hall can-y on this calculation where Dr. Franklin left it. For four years, tram 1770 to 1773 inclufively, the {(11116 avenue mama] exports to the {tune ports of the VVeit Indies, is 994 46310and to the fame ports of the North American plaiiiatioh's 2,919,6691. But the 11111111711 averaqu ofthe firit and {econd terms of the former, were 672,6681.a11d7§3,5651:ot‘thelaiter 697 2‘ l and 1,482,8111. , 1' H I In ten years therefore (taking the middle years ofthe terms) the :North American trade is found to have (I'm/Mn! the \Vell Indizm' m the next fixteen years it becomes 1:1 1te1' hv {bur-fa/flr-W'itli refpec‘t to itlet', the North American irade in '2: years (takixw the Extremes of the terms) has quadrupled; while the \Veil lIiiliJn trade incrcafed only one half; of which incrcafe l apprehend [:1B b 2 indie! |