Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat / In the U. S. Sloop-of-war Peacock, David Geisinger, Commander, During the Years 1832-3-4

by Edmund Roberts

Bohea Peculs	52,844	Cost Tales	837,556
Congo	139,640	„	3,315,811
Souchong	2,321	„	86,482
Tonkay	23,103	„	631,866
Hyson	6,579	„	342,947
Hyson Skin	786	„	21,450
	225,273
	133⅓
Pounds[†]	30,036,400	on account of the English Company, exported during the season 1832-33
	13,250,185	by vessels of the United States.
	43,286,585	Pounds of tea exported by America and English vessels, from Canton, in the season 1832-1833.

Annual Revenue obtained by the Government of Siam from Farms and Duties.

Names.	Annual quantity.	Prices in ticals.	Duties.	Revenues.
Paddy and rice	1,696,424 coyans of 23 picul	1st sort 16 ticals	}
„ „	„ „	2d „ 14 „	}	862,358
„ „	„ „	3d „ 12 „	}
Orchards	68,235 in No.			545,880
Vegetables	4,251			17,800
Samsoo or spirit shops	Bang-kok			104,900
„ „	Sieuthaja			16,000
„ „	Bangxang			8,000
„ „	Suraburi			4,000
„ „	Krungtaphan			4,000
Bazars	Bang-kok			39,200
„	Sieuthaja			12,800
„	Suraburi			1,600
„	Bangxang			1,600
Duty on floating houses				36,000
Chinese gambling				64,000
Siamese, ditto				58,000
Teak wood	127,000 trees			56,000
Sapan wood	200,000 piculs	1st sort 3½ to 3	}
„ „	„ „	2d „ 2½ to 2	}	84,000
„ „	„ „	3d „ 1½ to 1	}
Cocoanut oil	600,000 „	7½ to 8	1¼ to 1½	56,000
Sugar, 1st	10,000 „	8½ to 9	}
„ 2d	60,000 „	7 to 7½	}
„ 3d	20,000 „	6 to 6½	}1½	40,000
„ black	1,000 „	2½ to 3	}
„ candy	5,000 „	16 to 17	} ½
Jaggery	150,000 jars	18 tcls. p. 100 jrs.	2 tcls	8,000
Salt	8,000 coyans	2½ to 3	6	32,000
Pepper	38,000 piculs	10 to 11	1½	23,200
Bastard cardamums	4,000 „	32 to 40	6 tcls	16,000
Cardamums	1st. 100 „	360 to 380 }	„
„	2d. 150 „	280 to 300 }	16 „	5,400
„	3d. 300 „	200 to 220 }	„
Sticlac	8,000 „	12 13 14	1¼	9,500
Tin	1,200 „	24 26 28	3 tcls	18,200
Iron	20,000 „	4 5 6	„	54,000
Ivory	300 „	160 170 180	12 ditto	2,500
Gamboge	1st 50 to 60	75 to 80 }
„	2d 150 „	55 to 60 }	6 ditto	1,200
„	3d 50 „	40 to 45 }
Rhinoceros horns	50 to 60	800 per picul	32 per picul	1,600
Benjamin	100 „	50 to 55		400
Bird’s-nests	}	1st srt. 10,000	}
„ „	} 10 to 12	2d „ 6,000	} 6 ticals	32,000
„ „	}	3d „ 4,000	}
Young deer’s horns	26,000 pairs	1½ to 2	10 per 100	3,600
Old, ditto, ditto	200 piculs	8 to 9 per pecul	½
Buffalo ditto	200 piculs	3 to 4 per picul	¼	Ticals.
Deers’ nerves	200 „	16 to 20	1½
Rhinoceros skins	200 „	7 to 8	½	800
Tigers’ bones	50 to 60	50 to 60	3 ticals
Buffalo hides	500 „	8 to 10	½
Deers’ ditto	100,000 „	20, 25, and 30	3 ticals	1,600
White dried fish	4,000 „	8 to 9	½
Black, ditto	15,000 „	7 to 8	½	18,000
Small dried fish	60,000 „	3 to 4	¼
Dried shrimps	10,000 „	30 to 35	3 „	4,600
Balachang	15,000 coyans	50 to 60	12 „	8,000
Wood oil	15,000 piculs	3 to 5	½	5,600
Pitch	10,000 „	3 to 4	½	6,000
Torches	200,000 bundles	5 ticals per 100	½	5,600
Rattans	200,000 „	4 „ „	½	14,000
Firewood
Wooden posts	1st. 500 to 600 in No.	1 per 4 ticals	}10 per 100	8,000
„ „	2d. 3,000 „	1 per 2 do.	} 5	„
„ „	3d. 200,000 „	100 per 25 30 40	} 10 „	8,000
Bamboos	600,000,000 in No.	3 ticals per 100	15 100	3,000
Attaps	95,000,000,000 „	3 ticals per 1000	20 „	1,600
Rose wood	200,000 „	342 per picul	10 „
Bark	200,000 bundles	100 per 6 ticals		1,600

	Ticals.
Provinces under the superintendance of the crommahathai, or 1st minister	32,000
Ditto ditto ditto of the croomkallahom, or 2d ditto	24,000
Ditto ditto ditto of the crommatha, or 3d ditto	12,000
Revenue of Justice under the Crammamuang	4,800
„ of the Tribunal	8,000
„ derived from the gold in the province called Bangtaphan,	180 ticals weight of gold.
„ „ „ in the province called Pipri	60 ticals weight of gold.
Tribute which the Malays pay for gold mines,	216 ticals weight of gold.

EXPENDITURE.

Salaries which the king pays to the government officers annually	618,800
Alms to the Talapoins and the poor	87,600
Monthly allowances to the sons of the late and present kings, and the second king	29,000
Annual salaries of all the princes employed, and the minors	47,400
Annual pay of the Talapoins	18,240

Statement of Annual Consumption and Value of Indian Opium in China, for the following Seasons:--

Seasons.	Patna and Benares.					Malva.					Total.
	Chests.	Price.			Value.	Chests.	Price.			Value.	Chests.	Value.
		Lowest.	Highest.	Average.			Lowest.	Highest.	Average.
1816-17	2610	1080	1320	1200	3,132,000	600	800	950	875	525,000	3210	3,657,000
1817-18	2530	1200	1330	1265	3,200,450	1150	600	800	612	703,800	3680	3,904,250
1818-19	3050	800	1200	1000	3,050,000	1530	600	850	725	1,109,250	4580	4,159,250
1819-20	2970	1150	1320	1235	3,667,950	1630	950	1400	1175	1,915,250	4600	5,583,200
1820-21	3050	1300	2500	1900	5,795,000	1720	1230	1800	1515	2,605,800	4770	8,400,800
1821-22	2910	1650	2500	2075	6,038,250	1718	1050	1600	1325	2,276,350	4628	8,314,600
1822-23	1822	1180	2550	1552	2,828,930	4000	1080	1500	1290	5,160,000	5822	7,988,930
1823-24	2910	1100	1900	1600	4,656,000	4172	800	1050	925	3,859,100	7082	8,515,100
1824-25	2655	900	1450	1175	3,119,625	6000	550	950	750	4,500,000	8655	7,619,625
1825-26	3442	800	1150	913	3,141,755	6179	560	850	723	4,466,450	9621	7,608,205
1826-27	3661	800	1250	1002	3,668,565	6308	860	1060	942	5,941,520	9969	9,610,085
1827-28	5134	815	1220	998	5,125,155	4401	950	1420	1204	5,299,920	9535	10,425,075
1828-29	5965	880	1100	940	5,604,235	7771	750	1250	968	6,928,880	13132	12,533,115
1829-30	7143	805	1000	860	6,149,577	6857	740	1030	862	5,907,580	14000	12,057,157
1830-31	6660	790	1050	870	5,790,204	12100	520	760	588	7,114,059	18760	12,904,263
1831-32	6060			953	4,234,815	8265			704	5,818,574	14225	11,501,584
1832-33	6931			798	4,459,170	14454			570	8,258,155	21385	13,757,290