An Account of the Imports from, and Exports to, the United States of America, and the British Continental Colonies, respectively, for the three Years ending the 5th January 1801, and also for the three Years ending 5th January 1793; distinguishing each Year, and the British Manufactures from the foreign same Period: also, a like Account for the three Years ending 5th January 1775. Products: together with the Number and Tonnage of the British and foreign Vessels, which entered and cleared from and to those Countries, during the

1798. Value of Exports.

Total.

Vessels.

Vessels.

Foreign.

Tons.

Vessels.

Tons.

United States of America

1,846,918 14

42,336,511 3 4

British Continental Colonies! 139,381 8

8 362,152 19 4

1774

506,961 II

14 5

83,529 18 7 445,682 17 11||} 698|94,463| — | — |807|101,377| —| —

and therefore the total only of North America can be given for those two years. N. B. In the books of the Customs for the years 1773 and 1774, the officers have omitted to distinguish the particular Colonies from whence the vessels arrived, or whither bound;

imported, from the 1st January 1801, to the latest Period at which the same can be made up.

The bounties paid on corn and rice imported into Great Britain, amounted, between the 1st January 1801 and the 19th June 1802, to the sum

4,337,662

4,328,750

4,146,512

4,426,482

of

£. s. d.

1,912,486 7 7

9 1800

5,774,311

Year 1800

4,824,306

4,734,978

Three quarters

88,024,085 2

R. NICHOLAS. W. LOWNDES. J. OLMIUS. T. CASWALL. A. PHIPPS. W. JACKSON. R. SPILLER.

G. SEYMOUR.

841 6 II 1,734 8

ending roth 1,217 2

Oct. 1801

Note. This Account cannot yet be made up to a later period than the 10th of October 1801; the Inspector General not being in possession of all the necessary documents from the out-ports for the last quarter of that year. WILLIAM IRVING,

Inspector General of the Imports
and Exports of Great Britain.

Inspector General's Office, Custom House,
London, February 25th, 1802.

JAMES PYE, Esq. Poet Laureat.

Lo, from Bellona's crimson car

At length the panting steeds unbound;

At length the thunder of the war

In festive shouts of peace is drown'd:

Yet as around her Monarch's brow
Britannia twines the olive bough,
Bold as her eagle-eye is cast

On hours of recent tempest past;

Through the rude wave and adverse gale,
When free she spread her daring sail,
Immortal Glory's radiant form

Her guiding load-star through the storm;
Directed by whose golden ray,

Through rocks and shoals she kept her steady way; "My sons," she cries, "can Honour's guerdon claim,

"Unsoil'd my parent worth, unstain'd their Sovereign's fame?"

Albion! though oft by dread alarms
Thy native valour has been tried,

Ne'er did the lustre of thy arms

Shine forth with more refulgent pride

Than when, while Europe's sons, dismay'd,
Shrunk recreant from thy mighty aid;

VOL. II.

A barrier 'gainst the foaming flood.
When mild and soft the silken breeze
Blows gently o'er the rippling seas,
The pinnace then may lightly sweep
With painted oar the halcyon deep:
But when the howling whirlwinds rise,
When mountain billows threat the skies;
With ribs of oak the bark must brave
The inroad of the furious wave;
The hardy crew must to the raging wind
Oppose the sinewy arm, th' unconquerable mind
In every clime where ocean roars,

High though thy naval banners flew ;
From where by Hyperborean shores

The frozen gale ungenial blew,
To sultry lands that Indian surges lave,
Atlantic isles and fam'd Canopus' wave;
Though from insulted Egypt's coast
Thy armies swept the victor host,

From veteran bands where British valour won
The lofty walls of Ammon's godlike son:
Useless the danger and the toil

To free each self-devoted soil.

Auxiliar legions from thy side

Recede, to swell the Gallic conqueror's pride:

N n

While on Marengo's fatal plain,

Faithful to honour's tie, brave Austria bleeds in vain.

Not fir'd by ferce Ambition's flame,

Did Albioa's monarch urge his car
Impetuous through the bleeding ranks of war,
To succour and protect his nobler aim.
His guardian arm, while each Hesperian vale,
While Lusitania's vine-clad mountains hail
The ancient rights and laws restor'd,

The royal Patriot sheaths th' avenging sword;
By heaven-born Concord led, while Plenty smiles,
And sheds her bounties wide to bless the sister isles.

ODE for his Majesty's Birthday, 1802. By HENRY
JAMES PYE, Esq. Poet Laureat.

No more the thunders of the plain,
The fiery battle's iron show'r,
Terrific, drown the duteous strain

That greets our Monarch's natal hour;
Peace, soaring high on seraph wings,
Now strikes her viol's golden strings;
Responsive to the thrilling note,
Symphonious strains of rapture float.
While grateful myriads in the Pæan join,
And hail her angel voice, and bless her form divine.
Through many a whirlwind's blast severe,
The rage of elemental war,
Stern heralds of the op'ning year,

Sol urges on his burning car; Though dark the wint'ry tempest lours, Though keen are April's icy show'is,

Still, still his flaming coursers rise, Till high in June's refulgent skies 'Mid the blue arch of heav'n be victor rides,

And spreads of light and heat the unextinguish'd

tides.

Glory's true sons, that hardy race,

Who bravely o'er the briny flood,
Smiling serene in danger's face,

Uncheck'd by tempest, fire, and blood,
Britain's triumphant flag unfurl'd,
The terror of the wat'ry world,

Now freely to the fav'ring gale

Of commerce spread the peaceful sail,
And friendly waft from ev'ry shore,
Where Ocean's subject billows roar,
The gifts of Nature, and the works of toil,
Produce of ev'ry clime and ev'ry soil.
The Genius of the sister isles

On the rich heap exulting smiles,

"Mine the prime stores of earth's remotest zone, Her choicest fruits and flow'rs, her treasures all my own."

Nor second you 'mid glory's radiant train,

Who o'er the tented field your ensigns spread: Whether on Lincelles' trophied plain

Before your ranks superior numbers fled;
Or on lerne's kindred coast

Ye crush'd invasion's threat'ning host;
Or on fam'd Egypt's sultry sands
The banner tore from Gallia's vet'ran bands;
Your sinewy limbs with happier toil
Now till your country's fertile soil,
Mow with keen scythe the fragrant vale,
Or which aloft the sounding flail,
Or bow with many a sturdy stroke,
King of our groves, the giant oak;

Or now the blazing hearth beside, With all a soldier's honest pride,

To hoary sires and blooming maidens tell Of gallant chiefs who tought, who conquer'd, of who fell.

Yet, in the arms of Peace reclin'd,

Still flames the free, the ardent mind;
And should again Sedition's roar

Or hostile inroad threat our shore,

From Labour's field, from Commerce' wave,
Eager would rush the strong, the brave,
To form an adamantine zone
Around their patriot Monarch's throne.
But long with Plenty in her train

May Concord spread her halcyon reign,
And join with festive voice the lay sincere
Which sings th' auspicious morn to Britain ever
dear.

MR. PITT'S STATUE.

UNDER this head we have collected to. gether the various articles which appeared in the different public prints upon the subject of the statue proposed to be erected in honour of Mr. Pitt. This statue is in itself a thing of no earthly importance; but when considered as an instrument of party, it becomes worthy of notice; and will, doubtless, form an object of attention with the biographer and the historian. To the articles respecting the statue, we think it right to add those relative to the first public celebration of Mr. Pitt's birthday; and, while we are about it, we shall give a place to the articles respecting Mr. Addington's birthday, and a statue which, it would seem, the people of Edinburgh (resolved not to be outdone by those of London) are about to erect in honour of Mr. Dundas.

Lloyd's Coffee-house, May 8, 1802-A sub- scription is opened for erecting a statue of the Rt. Hon. Wm. Pitt, late First Lord of the Treasury, and Chancellor of the Exchequer, for his distinguished and valuable services, which he has rendered to his country during the course of his able and upright administration.

Lloyd's Coffee-house, May 18, 1802.-At a general meeting of the subscribers for the erection of a statue of the Rt. Hon. Wm. Pitt, for the distinguished services which he has rendered to his country during the course of his able and upright administration; J. J. Angerstein, Esq. in the chair; Resolved, that the money subscribed and to be subscribed for the above purpose, shall be vested in trustees, to be hereafter appointed, to be applied by them in such manner as they shall think expedient in the erection of a statue or monument to the memory of the Rt. Hon. Wm. Pitt, after his demise; and in the mean time to accumulate. The chairman having reported, that the money already received has been laid out in the 3 per cents, Res. that the said money, together