1761.  L s. d.
Total export of British goods 10,649,581 12 6
Ditto of foreign goods in time 3,553,692 7 1
Ditto of ditto out of time 355,015 0 2
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Total exports of all kinds 14,558,288 19 9
Total imports 9,294,915 1 6
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Balance in favor of England L5,263,373 18 3
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Here is the state of our trade in 1761, compared with a very good year of profound peace:  both are taken from the authentic entries at the custom-house.  How the author can contrive to make this increase of the export of English produce agree with his account of the dreadful want of hands in England, page 9, unless he supposes manufactures to be made without hands, I really do not see.  It is painful to be so frequently obliged to set this author right in matters of fact.  This state will fully refute all that he has said or insinuated upon the difficulties and decay of our trade, pages 6, 7, and 9.

[48] Page 7.  See also page 13.

[49] Pages 12, 13.

[50] Page 17.

[51] Page 6.

[52] “Our merchants suffered by the detention of the galleons, as their correspondents in Spain were disabled from paying them for their goods sent to America.”—­State of the Nation, p. 7.

[53] Pages 12, 13.

[54] Page 6.

[55] Something however has transpired in the quarrels among those concerned in that transaction.  It seems the good Genius of Britain, so much vaunted by our author, did his duty nobly.  Whilst we were gaining such advantages, the court of France was astonished at our concessions.  “J’ai apporte a Versailles, il est vrai, les Ratifications du Roi d’Angleterre, a vostre grand etonnement, et a celui de bien d’autres.  Je dois cela au bontes du Roi d’Angleterre, a celles de Milord Bute, a Mons. le Comte de Viry, a Mons. le Duc de Nivernois, et en fin a mon scavoir faire.”—­Lettres, &c., du Chev.  D’Eon, p. 51.

[56] “The navy bills are not due till six months after they have been issued; six months also of the seamen’s wages by act of Parliament must be, and in consequence of the rules prescribed by that act, twelve months’ wages generally, and often much more are retained; and there has been besides at all times a large arrear of pay, which, though kept in the account, could never be claimed, the persons to whom it was due having left neither assignees nor representatives.  The precise amount of such sums cannot be ascertained; but they can hardly be reckoned less than thirteen or fourteen hundred thousand pounds.  On 31st Dec, 1754, when the navy debt was reduced nearly as low as it could be, it still amounted to 1,296,567_l._ 18_s._ 11-3/4_d._ consisting chiefly of articles which could not then be discharged; such articles will be larger now, in proportion to the