An Account of the Number of Vessels, and the Amount of their Tonnage, and the Number of Men and Boys usually employed in navigating the same, which belonged to the several Parts of the British Empire, on the 30th of September in each Year respectively, during the Years 1789, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1796, 1797, 1798, 1799, 1800, and 1801: distinguishing Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Plantations in America and the West Indies.

On the 30th Sept. 1789: On the 30th Sept. 1790: | On the 30th Sept. 1791:
Ships. Tons.

Men. Ships. Tons. Men. Ships. Tons. Men.

(continued)

7.

8.

9.

On the 30th Sept. 1795:| On the 30th Sept. 1796:
Ships. Tons. Men. Ships. Tons. Men. Ships. Tons.

On the 30th Sept. 1797:

Men.

116,467 17,067 1,519,298 120,979| 16,903| 1,614,996|| 124,394

The returns from many of the ports in the plantations being unreceived, and others which are received standing in need of correction, that part of this Account which relates to the year 1801, is from that cause unavoidably defective; but I conceive that the defect is not equal to the amount of shipping belonging to those ports, because it always happens, that when the returns from all the ports in the British empire are collected together and checked by each other, son e alterations become necessary in most of them, owing to the circumstance of vessels being registed de novo at ports to which they did not formerly belong, without the knowledge o the officers at such former ports; I therefore do not presume to lay this Account before the House, as correct with respect to that year.

May 15th, 1802.

I

J. DALLEY,
Assist. Reg. Gen. of Shipping.

Return to an Order of the Honourable the House of Commons, for “An Account of the Produce of the Duties on Exports and Imports and Tonnage of Shipping, com-
monly called the Convoy Duty; from its Commencement to its Termination: distinguishing each Year; distinguishing the Duties on Imports, on Exports to Europe
permanent.
and Exports to Countries out of Europe, and Tonnage, respectively: and distinguishing the Duties on Sugar, which by an Act of the last Session were made

s. d. £. 7 28,980

208,241 3

7 35,425 6

5 263,666 10

From the 5th July 1798 to the 5th Jan. 1799 135,048 7
From the 5th Jan. 1799 to the 5th Jan. 1800 219,413 16
From the 5th Jan. 1800 to the 5th Jan. 1801 260,251 2
From the 5th Jan. 1801 to the 1st Oct. fol-
lowing

£.
9164,028 8
3 55,458 10 9 274,872 7
1366,103

-

I

£.
199,548 I 4226,040
296,617 8 10 592,772 19
271,645 II 8609,433 18
43,458 7 10578,706 17

£. S. d.

£. s. d.
739,416 11 465,004 13 11
22 67,432 19 1956,823 7 2
2182,396 5 111963,475 15 91

471,932 IO I 694,097 15 3

Note. No accounts having been kept of the convoy duty received on goods and shipping to or from each particular country, the Inspector General
cannot comply with that part of the above-mentioned order which requires the “Amount of the duties on exports to Europe to be distinguished from the
exports to countries other than Europe," without a considerable delay.

Inspector General's Office,

Custom House, London, 5th April 1802.

WILLIAM IRVING,
Inspector General of the Imports and Exports of Great Britain.

An Account of the Number of Vessels, and their Tonnage, which have entered inwards at the several Ports of Great Britain from the United States of America, in
also distinguishing each Year.
the Years ending the 5th January 1800 and 1801: also, for the three Years preceding the 5th Day of January 1793: distinguishing British from Foreign Vessels; and

In the Year ending 5th Jan. In the Year ending 5th Jan. In the Year ending 5th Jan. In the Year ending 5th Jan.||In the Year ending 5th Jan.

1600.

British.

99196

343 175,2251

Foreign. British. Foreign,
British.
Foreign.
Ships Tons. Ships. Tons. Ships. Tons. Ships. Tons. Ships. Tons. Ships. Tons. Ships. Tons. Ships. Tons. Ships. Tons. Ships. Tons.
77 17,2-4 550 124,015 312 64,197 246 |45,234|| 247 53,102 18 62,25 197 42,035 313 |64,035
The account of ships employed in the foreign trade, being prepared from general returns, transmitted from the out-ports for each year ending the 5th
January, the Register General could not make up the account in terms of the order, viz. to the 5th July in each year, without incurring a considerable
25th February 1802.
delay, which the obtaining fresh returns from the out-ports of England and Scotland would unavoidably occasion.
J. DALLEY, per Register General of Shipping.

Cinnamon.

Imported.