Exclusive of specie--the amount of which, from the western coasts (p. 102) of America, cannot be less than 10,000,000 dollars yearly to Great Britain, and perhaps half as much to the United States. The value of British imports from Western America is not given in the official tables in any tangible shape, and therefore the imports are taken to be the same as the exports. The amount of imports from China is taken correctly from the tables; and the value of all the rest, as near as possible, from the same tables, in proportion; the whole being entered to all countries east of the Cape, China excepted; but in this amount also the amount for freight and charges should, it is thought, be added. The proportion of foreign and colonial produce, &c. to British manufactures exported, is, according to the official tables, as near as may be, the proportion taken. The value of the whole British trade to the places specified, may therefore be fairly taken at 17,500,000_l._ exports and imports, and exclusive of the profits thereon.
Next comes the trade which the United States have with all these places. In this there are more precise data, as the value both of exports and imports is given in their tables; but it may be observed, that the amount, both as regards imports and exports, is given exclusive of freights and charges, which in almost all the articles carried is greater in proportion, as regards the American trade, than in British produce and manufactures. It may also be observed, that the whole trade which the United States have with all countries to the eastward of the Mauritius, would pass through, and return through, the communication made in central America, as the nearest and the best route for them. The following was the trade and tonnage of the United States with the places specified in 1835:--
Imports. Exports. Tonnage Tonnage Inwards. Outwards. British East Indies, dolls. 2,293,012 406,543 7,400 5,655 Dutch ditto 582,159 581,149 3,497 8,669 Spanish ditto 283,685 15,919 2,647 222 Asia generally 377,842 434,037 479 2,593 China 7,892,327 1,010,483 15,550 8,123 Mexico, 1/2 4,033,034 5,265,053 18,225 15,768 Chili 787,409 1,476,355 2,535 9,191 Peru 618,412 58,863 493 685 South Seas 27,348 97,169 39,506 280 N. W. Coast America " 118,813 45,886 ---------- ---------- -------- ------- 16,595,228 9,464,384 136,218 51,216 1/4 freights, &c. &c. 4,123,807 2,388,093 51,216 ------- ---------- ---------- -------- 20,719,035 11,852,477 187,434 11,852,477 ---------- -------- ---------- Total United States 32,571,512 Ditto specie 5,000,000 ----------- Grand total, dollars 37,571,512--Sterling, £7,827,398 at 4_s._2_d._ -----------