[261] The premium of insurance, which had in 1782 been fifteen guineas per cent on ships engaged in the trade with China and India, did not exceed half that rate at any period between the spring of 1793 and the end of the struggle. (Lindsay's Merchant Shipping, vol. ii. 265. See also Chalmer's Historical View, pp. 308-310.)
[262] Letter of Bombay merchants to Sir Edward Pellew; Nav. Chron., vol. xxiii. 107.
[263] Robert Surcouf, by J. K. Laughton; Colburn's United Service Magazine, 1883, part i. pp. 331, 332.
[264] Milburn's Oriental Commerce, vol. i. p. xci.
[265] Naval Chronicle, vol. vii. 276.
[266] Naval Chronicle, vol. iv. pp. 150, 151, 326.
[267] Registration of vessels made in all ports of France (except the newly acquired departments) from September 1793, to September 1796:—
| Under 30 tons | 3,351 | (undecked) |
| Between 30 and 100 tons | 1,897 | |
| " 100 and 200 tons | 532 | |
| " 200 and 400 tons | 193 | |
| Above 400 tons | 55 | |
| —— | ||
| 6,028 |
It should be explained that as all ships, old as well as new, had to register, this gives the total of French shipping without deduction for losses.
[268] Moniteur, 26 Floréal, An 9 (May 16, 1801).