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COXE’S TRAVELS IN RUSSIA, 8723
White Sea to the havens of the Baltic*. The Britifh merchants, who were highly
favoured by that monarch, fettled in the new metropolis, which fuddenly became the
principal mart for the Ruflian trade. The privileges of the Britifh factory eftablifhed
in Ruffia are confirmed by a folemn treaty of commerce and navigation, concluded in
1734 between George II. and the Emprefs Anne; and fince renewed, between His
prefent Majefty and Catherine II. t
The whole trade of St. Peterfburgh in exports andimports for 1777, with the Eng-
lifh and other nations, was,
In exports - - 2,400,000).
000,000l.
Imports - - 1,600,000 epee _
Balance in favour of Rufia 800,00e
The Britifh fhare in this trade is,
In the exports about } e 1,508,782]. 6 1,932,724]. 18
Imports - - 423,942 12
Gain - - 1,084,839 14
Confequently, the trade with all other nations (the Ruffian fubjects included) is,
In the exports - SoL,e87l ia?
Imports - - Us 76,057 8 ‘ Beoeieer 4
Lofs > - 284,839 14
From henceit is evident Ruffia gains annually
by her trade with the Britith fubjeéts about § 1208438391. 14
aa ae fhe loles by her trad ee all other 284,839 14
Remains annually a clear gain of about 800,000 0
ee a
But fhould the contraband traffic (in which the value of the imports far exceeds that
of the exports, and in which the Britifh have little or no concern) be included, it will
confiderably diminifh the balance of thefe commercial profits as juft ftated.
* In 1752, Elizabeth again reftored the ancient immunities of Archangel ; and its prefent trade is not
inconfiderable. ‘The port fupplies the government of Archangel, and part of thofe of Nifhnei-Novogorod
and Cafan, with European commodities, and draws in exchange from thofe parts corn, flax, hemp, coarfe
linen, cordage, fails, mafts, tallow, which are moftly conveyed by the Dvina: it forms alfo a principal
communication with the northern and weftern parts of Siberia, from whence furs, fkins, and iron are
rocured.
i + The reader will find the firft treaty of 1734 in Rouflet’s Supplement to Dumont’s Corps Diplo-
matique, vol. iii. p. 495 ; and the lait, of 1766, in a Collection of Treaties between Great Britain
and other Powers, vol. ii. p. 309—327. , :
$ See Britifh exports and imports, Appendix, No. 2-
VOL. Vie a According
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