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| The French, excluding the foreign tonnage, employed
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350,000
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| Seamen (French),
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50,000
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| About fourteen seamen to every 100 tons.
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| Their West India commerce alone, 600 ships at 350 tons each
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29,000
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| Seamen, fourteen to 100 tons
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29,000
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| Imports from the West Indies
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185 millions livres.
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| Exports to ditto
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78 millions livres.ditto
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From these estimates I have clearly proved, that in the year 1788 the British property in the West Indies amounted to £.70,000,000 sterling. Admitting that the price of Negroes, since the commencement of the war, has risen from £.50 to between £.80 and £.90 sterling per head, the improvement of property in the same period much more than counterbalances the advance; and hence I am perfectly well warranted in saying, that the whole capital of the Old British West India property amounts to at least
