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FORTIA’S TRAVELS IN SWEDEN. 383
Commerce. ‘The commerce of Gottenburg is very confiderable, and may be looked
upon as conftituting a feventh part of the whole exports, and one fourth of all the im-
ports of Sweden; the ifland of Mar/frand in its neighbourhood, ever fince 1775, has
been a free port. In {pite of the convention between France and Sweden in 1784, by
which an entrepot was to be granted to the former in exchange for the ifland of St. Bar-
tholomew, there is but one fingle French merchant eftablifhed here, (M. Fournier ;)
but this convention has not been executed in every point, and upon this may be ob-
ferved that the Swedifh government has taken advantage of the fituation of France, too
much occupied with concerns of a greater magnitude to attend to thofe of fuch trivial
nature, and has neglected to fulfil all the ftipulations of a treaty, fo binding in itfelf, as
to condition, that in cafe of non-conformity on the part of Sweden with its various arti-
cles, France is to refume pofleffion of St. Bartholomew; in a word, it may be faid, that
one of the parties is in full pofleflion of the grant made to it, the other not. In this
town there are about a dozen Englifh houfes; the Englifh are better looked upon here
than any other nation. Gottenburg is a long mile diltant from the North fea, and on
the Gceutha, which is here a very broad river. In the year 1790, there entered its
port feven hundred and feventeen foreign, and five hundred and ten national fhips ;
thence failed for foreign ports feven hundred and feventy-nine, and five hundred and
fifty-three to different parts of Sweden. Out of the feven hundred and feventeen which
entered this port, but fixteen were French, (the fame number as arrived at Stockholm.)
The number of merchant veflels belonging to Gottenburg is, as ftated at prefent, two
hundred and fifty ; it is our opinion however, that it does not exceed two hundred and
ten.
Eaft India Company. ‘This company, notwithftanding it has the privilege of trading
likewife with India, difpatches one or two and fometimes, but rarely, three fhips in a
year to China alone. In January 1791, it poflefled feven fhips in good condition, and
one on the ftocks. This company is managed in an admirable manner ; it has four
dire€tors, one of which is prefident, (Mr. Hofterman,) and four others at Stockholm,
who are only honorary members of the direction ; no one, not even the King himfelf,
has any right of infpection into the affairs of this company; the warehoufes, notwith-
ftanding they are large, cannot contain more than three cargoes. The veflels in general
fail for China in the month of January; they are obliged to faw through the ice to get
to fea. If any order be fent to China, a very exact model of what is required muft go
with it, for the Chinefe copy minutely, even defects. Oftend and Antwerp hold many
fhares in this company.
The following is a table of the exports of produce from Gottenburg, in 1790; which
may be looked upon as lefs thana common year. The war having lafted to the middle
- of it, and fhipments in confequence were not fo numerous, the fea being open but a
few months of that year; for notwith{tanding the belligerent powers had no cruizers at
fea, the fcarcity of failors, from fo many being employed on board the navy, muft have
had a fenfible effect on fhipment.
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