FOOTNOTES:
[340] 8 Anne, chap. xii.
[341] ‘Commercial Dictionary,’ p. 1504.
[342] ‘Commercial Dictionary,’ p. 1505.
| Specification of the Trades. | Vessels. | Tonnage, including their repeated Voyages. | Value of Imports and Exports. | Estimate of the Amount of Packages Out and Home. | Estimate of the Amount of Plunder. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Foreign. | British. | |||||
| £ | £ | |||||
| East Indies | 3 | 50 | 41,466 | 10,502,000 | 300,000 | 25,000 |
| West Indies | 11 | 335 | 101,484 | 11,013,000 | 400,000 | 232,000 |
| British American Colonies | 0 | 68 | 13,986 | 1,638,000 | 65,000 | 10,000 |
| Africa and Cape of Good Hope | 0 | 17 | 4,336 | 531,000 | 20,000 | 2,500 |
| Whale Fisheries, North and South | 0 | 45 | 12,230 | 314,000 | 20,000 | 2,000 |
| United States of America | 140 | 0 | 32,213 | 5,416,000 | 260,000 | 30,000 |
| Mediterranean and Turkey | 29 | 43 | 14,757 | 509,000 | 70,000 | 7,000 |
| Spain and the Canaries | 119 | 2 | 16,509 | 947,000 | 60,000 | 10,000 |
| France and Austrian Netherlands | 121 | 1 | 10,677 | 1,015,000 | 20,000 | 10,000 |
| Portugal and Madeira | 55 | 125 | 27,670 | 853,000 | 50,000 | 8,000 |
| Holland | 329 | 0 | 19,166 | 2,211,000 | 60,000 | 10,000 |
| Germany | 172 | 63 | 37,647 | 10,672,000 | 240,000 | 25,000 |
| Prussia | 527 | 81 | 56,955 | 432,000 | 60,000 | 10,000 |
| Poland | 31 | 38 | 17,210 | 242,000 | 70,000 | 5,000 |
| Sweden | 100 | 9 | 14,252 | 322,000 | 50,000 | 3,000 |
| Denmark | 194 | 8 | 48,469 | 806,000 | 60,000 | 5,000 |
| Russia | 5 | 225 | 56,131 | 2,017,000 | 150,000 | 20,000 |
| Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, and Man | 4 | 42 | 5,344 | 302,000 | 15,000 | 2,000 |
| Ireland | 3 | 273 | 32,824 | 2,539,000 | 160,000 | 5,000 |
| Coasting Trade | 0 | 6,500 | 560,000 | 6,600,000 | 900,000 | 20,000 |
| Coal Trade | 0 | 3,676 | 656,000 | 1,710,000 | ... | 20,000 |
| 1,843 | 11,601 | 1,776,326 | 60,591,000 | 3,030 000 | 461,500 | |
| Annual loss in tackle, apparel, and stores, of 13,444 vessels | 45,000 | |||||
| Total depredations, estimated at | 506,500 | |||||
[344] Vide Mr. Colquhoun’s work, p. 109. Five revenue officers received 150l. each, independently of the money received by the mate and agents in this iniquitous business.
[345] Rival traders looked enviously on this privilege, “which could not fail to give an inconceivable spring to commercial pursuits if extended to all the other great branches of trade.” And yet the warehousing system, when proposed, met, as we have seen, with fierce opposition.
[346] Local Acts, 59 Geo. III., cap. 79.
[347] The opposition to the construction of docks in London was so great that the watermen and barge-owners frequenting the Thames not merely claimed, but obtained a large sum of money by way of compensation, nominally on the ground of being deprived of their vested rights to the use of the foreshore of the river; but beyond this pecuniary compensation, a clause was inserted in the Dock Acts, granting to all watermen for ever the right of entering the docks, and delivering or receiving whatever amount of cargo they pleased, free of any charge. These privileges, granted no doubt originally to stifle opposition, they still retain to their own gain and that of the wharfingers, but to the loss of the companies. Surely when the monopoly of the companies expired, a monopoly to which they were for the time fully entitled, considering the service they had rendered to the Crown in the protection of the revenue, these privileges to the barge-owners should also have been withdrawn.
[348] The capital of this dock company, since amalgamated with the St. Katharine’s and Victoria Docks, amounted on the 1st January, 1873, to 8,809,872l. The report of the Company states that “the number of loaded ships from foreign ports which entered the docks during the six months ending the 31st of December last, was 746, measuring 519,359 tons, and for the corresponding period in 1871, 759 ships, measuring 526,931 tons The quantity of goods landed in the docks during the past six months was 294,462 tons, and for the corresponding period in 1871, 285,854 tons. The stock of goods in the warehouses of the docks on the 31st of December last was 347,696 tons, and at the same period in 1871, 338,436 tons.”
[349] Papers supplied by the Secretary to the Company.
[350] Gibbon, c. xxxi.; and [vol. i. p. 189].
[351] Accounts, Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, for the year ending July 1, 1872.
[352] This number includes wet and dry, or graving-docks, half-tide docks, basins, locks, and floats. The number of wet docks, exclusive of basins and locks, is somewhere between forty and fifty, but in some instances it is difficult to distinguish one from the other. The details will be found in [Appendix No. 7].
[353] The expense of the dock police force alone amounted in 1872 to 25,636l. 4s. (see Accounts, Mersey Docks and Harbour Board).
[354] Reports of G. F. Lyster, Esq., Engineer of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, 1872.
[355] Engineer’s Reports, p. 14.
[356] The [frontispiece] to this volume contains a plan on a reduced scale of the whole of the existing and contemplated dock-accommodation, which has been courteously supplied by the Secretary.
[357] Bye-laws of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, 1866.
[358] Bye-laws, Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, p. 36.