Affairs of the East India Company: Appendix B No. 2

Journal of the House of Lords: Volume 62, 1830. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, [n.d.].

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No. 2.-An Account of the Quantity and Value of all Manufactures, exclusive of Woollens, Exported by The East India Company and their Officers to China in the last Ten Years (ending the 30th April 1820), thence continued to 1828-29.
- 1810-11. 1811-12. 1812-13. 1813-14. 1814-15. 1815-16. 1816-17. 1817-18. 1818-19. 1819-20.
Quantity. Value. Quantity. Value. Quantity. Value. Quantity. Value. Quantity. Value. Quantity. Value. Quantity. Value. Quantity. Value. Quantity. Value. Quantity. Value.
£ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £
Copper tons 9 1,400 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Iron do. 200 8,911 450 11,912 1,141 19,982 1,539 26,166 670 15,429 665 13,685 301 5,499 552 10,919 548 8,394 600 10,573
Lead do. 1,200 35,402 1,250 31,057 250 7,249 850 17,850 1,000 17,927 1,000 16,326 630 12,949 670 16,928 870 18,965
Tin do. 30 2,246 349 27,172 781 62,519 620 49,500 472 37,693 349 22,688 461 29,931 - - - - - -
Calicoes and Cottons 5,105 9,385 5,616 35,191 15,925 24,437 14,605 52,572 55,555 69,193
Apparel 3,456 4,169 7,120 3,169 5,532 3,521 1,589 2,534 1,403 609
Apothecaries Stores 771 866 600 173 197 241 453 25 163
Anchors 160 110 262 - - - -
Beer 2,635 1,818 1,186 1,274 1,493 3,266 610 678 877 472
Blue 2,408 5,983 4,869 12,435 16,511 22,228 5,784 1,875 90 405
Books, Stationery and Charts 2,121 2,023 866 1,522 1,358 1,472 168 1,368 274 544
Brass Wire 188 130 - - - - - - - -
Bronze, Plaster, Figures and Statuary 44 60 300 15 350 27 - -
Cutlery, Tinware, Tin Plates and Steel 1,772 3,006 2,312 3,017 1,443 1,986 1,897 2,719 2,054 1,230
Cloth Cuttings 1,900 2,400 2,400 1,862 2,362 1,718 650 1,812 961 1,067
Confectionery and Cordials 427 583 285 276 138 310 124 366 50 32
Clocks and Clockwork 985 461 494 617 300 495 1,212 246 1,000 340
Copper Sheets, Nails and Wire 1,721 2,439 20 100 525 - - - -
Stores and Provisions for Supra Cargoes 2,599 1,655 2,195 2,650 2,211 1843 1,733 1,558 1,659 1,869
Carriages and Coach Furniture 25 138 152 - - - -
Fire Engines 200 225 100 170 - - - -
Fowling Pieces, Pistols and Swords 34 40 15 960 - - - -
Glass and Earthenware 5,292 4,180 4,120 6,710 6,737 3,553 229 6,731 1,887 1,322
Jewellery 20 600 526
Lead and Lead Shot 802 569 978 717 3,496 4,410 4,096 3,135 20 345
Linen 762 130 127 352 256 165 296 210 695
Musical Instruments 125 103 394 94 165 247 45 40
Mathematical Instruments 940 770 192 252 645 100 105 305 103 270
Oilman's Stores 710 1,048 187 244 74 850 110 980 37 340
Perfumery 633 1,126 629 1,432 1,130 898 168 1,358 215 354
Pictures 10 243 65 89 350 84 200 365 59 91
Plate and Plated Ware 852 312 613 276 838 250 1,080 738
Playing Cards 115 208 67 69 30 - - - - - - - -
Plate Glass 102 370 826 1,585 1,262 400 305 - - - -
Skins 1,873 4,231 2,568 1,140 640 301 130 870 640 1,605
Sailcloth 727 1,284 150 480 354 - - - - - - - - - -
Saddlery 268 689 165 183 145 347 266 - - - -
Cutbear 400 120 100 205 830 2,283
Upholstery, Cabinet Ware and Turnery 1,434 2,665 589 2,720 4,321 2,284 2,039 3,079 873 868
Wine Bottles and Packages 1,396 1,110 970 879 998 741 120 562 311 296
Watches and Materials 2,582 1,981 2,000 2,526 1,000 550 905 2,054 6,634
Cordage 363 264 - - - - - - - - - -
£ 93,205 126,386 125,130 163,209 142,832 132,030 88,752 113,580 95,706 121,869
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(continued)
- 1820-21. 1821-22. 1822-23. 1823-24. 1824-25 1825-26. 1826-27. 1827-28. 1828-29.
Quantity. Value. Quantity. Value. Quantity. Value. Quantity. Value. Quantity. Value. Quantity. Value. Quantity. Value. Quantity. Value. Quantity. Value.
£ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £
Apparel 278 99 445 28 144 210 158 410 779
Apothecaries Stores 649 540 504 602 465 503 550 640 900
Beer 188 60 596 20 52 20 45 217
Boots and Shoes 137 27 240 25 88 44 15 95 170
Books and Charts 225 8 67 216 110 58 242
Candles 54 60 82 60 54 54 54 50
Clocks and Clockwork 560 750 1,596 300 990 600 1,979 3,518
Cutlery 193 128 589 485 175 350 115 430 327
Cotton Wool bales 11,243 93,402 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Cottons and Printed Calicoes 50,279 14,901 29,024 14,394 16,604 44,120 34,610 25,747 Ps 29,950 68,543
Cotton Twist cases 42 494 Bales 300 10,338 Bales 50 955
Confectionery and Compounds 29 143 264 22 10 29 48 8 67
Carriages 130 100 158
Copper 756 61 1,350 114 232 665 35
Cutbear 530 378 398 - -
Coach Furniture 45 60 - -
Fire Engines 340 50 400 36
Glass and Earthenware 5,069 512 4,866 3,490 3,661 1,289 787 818 598
Gold and Silver Lace and Thread 375 100 180 180 950 400
Hats 144 289 140 154 159 87 66 67
Haberdashery 130 461 202 18 15 150 905
Hosiery 90 39 501 145 271 145 112 103 58
Carried forward £ 153,207 16,918 40,583 21,823 22,431 48,665 37,409 42,956 78,025
Brought forward 153,207 16,918 40,583 21,823 22,431 48,665 37,409 42,956 78,025
Iron and Ironmougery 1,979 1,598 1,821 1,890 928 1,348 641 1,634 1,174
Jewellery 225 400 108
Lead and Lead Shot 255 125 680 1,226 918 - - - -
Looking Glasses 12 12 438 20 25 50 500
Linen 280 76 438 485 126 329 88 250 233
Leather, wrought 20 122 610 70 29 40 40 - -
Mathematical and Optical Instruments 25 55 85 320 96 400 100 154
Metals; viz. Iron tons 1,259 13,040 1,136 11,147 1,139 10,795 1,490 13,529 1,638 14,691 2,419 34,443 2,101 29,043 1,501 17,487 1,886 18,180
Lead do. 500 11,437 500 11,046 935 20,480 950 22,433 1,460 32,470 1,447 40,050 1,900 38,874 1,700 32,625 1,000 17,792
Tin do. 123 8,342 287 18,650 29 1,881 - - - - - - - - - - - -
Musical Instruments and Music 70 215 60 270 656 350 150
Millinery 45 21
Oilman's Stores 95 141 250 13 93 21 53 6 12
Perfumery 1,143 60 528 555 1,275 337 262 228 215
Painters' Colours 405 61 140 - - - - - - - -
Plate and Plated Ware 461 127 437 111 484 360 56 34 150
Pictures and Prints 160 65 20 280 - - - - - -
Playing Cards 32 25 4
Provisions 150 90 300 100 90 382 20
Printing Materials and Apparatus 107 80
Steel and Spring Steel 540 160 12 232 120 50 30 140 - -
Skins 736 1,250 7,130 36,446 27,019 8,832 2,600 60 1,000
Stationery 40 65 795 306 190 260 65 155 178
Statuary 285 25 54 42 - - - -
Saddlery 65 40 160 42 80 10
Ship Chandlery 42 40 - - - - - - - -
Snuff 119 15 38 52 60 47 27 - - - -
Stores and Provisions for the Factory 2,093 2,060 4,751 9,128 3,767 4,125 5,393 7,239 2,158
Tin Ware and Tin Plates 391 438 151 930 941 938 407 967 348
Turnery 40 32 40
Toys 30 - - - -
Upholstery and Cabinet Ware 2,040 640 802 1,020 168 412 500 92 230
Watches 5,703 2,653 1,100 1,100 365 1,000 780 380 3,216
£ 202,797 67,676 92,902 111,753 106,630 143,922 118,074 105,255 124,098

No. 2.-An Account of the Quantity and Value of all Manufactures, exclusive of Woollens, exported by The

The Quantities of the Exports by The East India Company are alone given in this Account, as no account

East India House, 1st June 1829.

East India Company and their Officers to China in the last Nine Years, ending the 30th April 1829-continued.

whatever is kept of the Quantities of the Exports made by the Officers of the Company's Ships on their own Account.

(Errors excepted) THO. G. LLOYD, Acct Gen.

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