SELLERS OF PLATE.
Years of Peace. L | Years of War.
L
1787 6,593 | 1793 8,178
1788 7,953 | 1794 8,296
1789 7,348 | 1795 8,128
1790 7,988 | 1796 8,835
------- | ------- Increase
to 1790
L29,832 | L33,437
L3,555.
Increase
to 1791
1791 L8,327 4 Years to 1791 L31,616
L1,821.
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AUCTIONS AND AUCTIONEERS.
Years of Peace. L | Years of War.
L
1787 48,964 | 1793 70,004
1788 53,993 | 1794 82,659
1789 52,024 | 1795 86,890
1790 53,156 | 1796 109,594
------- | ------- Increase
to 1790
L208,137 | L349,147
L141,010.
Increase
to 1791
1791 L70,973 4 Years to 1791 L230,146
L119,001.
[56] Since Mr. Burke’s death a Fourth Report of the Committee of Finance has made its appearance. An account is there given from the Stamp-Office of the gross produce of duties on Hawkers and Peddlers for four years of peace and four of war. It is therefore added in the manner of the other tables.
HAWKERS AND PEDDLERS. Years of Peace. L |Years of War. L 1789 6,132 | 1793 6,042 1790 6,708 | 1794 6,104 1791 6,482 | 1795 6,795 1792 6,008 | 1796 7,882 ------- | ------- L25,330 | L26,823
Increase in 4 Years of War L1,493
[57] This account is extracted from different parts of Mr. Chalmers’s estimate. It is but just to mention, that in Mr. Chalmers’s estimate the sums are uniformly lower than those of the same year in Mr Irving’s account.