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 {| class=table-financial
 * class=table-financial-cell-header | Tons.
 * class=table-financial-cell-dotted | The French, excluding the foreign tonnage, employed
 * 350,000
 * class=table-financial-cell-dotted | Seamen (French),
 * 50,000
 * class=table-financial-cell-indented | About fourteen seamen to every 100 tons.
 * class=table-financial-cell-dotted | Their West India commerce alone, 600 ships at 350 tons each
 * 29,000
 * class=table-financial-cell-dotted | Seamen, fourteen to 100 tons
 * 29,000
 * }
 * class=table-financial-cell-dotted | Their West India commerce alone, 600 ships at 350 tons each
 * 29,000
 * class=table-financial-cell-dotted | Seamen, fourteen to 100 tons
 * 29,000
 * }
 * class=table-financial-cell-dotted | Seamen, fourteen to 100 tons
 * 29,000
 * }

From these estimates I have clearly proved, that in the year 1788 the British property in the West Indies amounted to £.70,000,000 sterling. Admitting that the price of Negroes, since the commencement of the war, has risen from £.50 to between £.80 and £.90 sterling per head, the improvement of property in the same period much more than counterbalances the advance; and hence I am perfectly well warranted in saying, that the whole capital of the Old British West India property amounts to at least