toas-, andin the same year the native-craft-amounted to 455 vessels;’tor 7,472-
tons, of together 55,762 ttoris. i aChevquantity.eleared'out. duringl the-Same
year.Was 44,618'tons of shipping, f'and,.7;762'of ynMiVes craft, makirig/toge-
^ther>g;«75. m
In the year" 1813, the number of square-rigged i vessels wasi288j'band,tthe
tonnagec51,092, the native craft-, amounting to -796 [.vessels, ,or .13,21'4-tons,
tOrj together 64,806 tons.e ,?
Er0tln.l814;.r 821';ships, .or 68,564 tons, cleared- out with 56.8 Jn&tive;afeSsels,
or 9,154.tons, shewing the total tonnage of. Batavia-during,this-year, to have
amounted .to 72,718 rtons.
'.t-I-The returns for jfchg following year, have. not^hebnereediKed^ehuf thej^Ipe
< estimated -to, exjeeed: eithef;of the1twotfQEmertyedrs,^.and7;not!i{td.4hflsvej£failen
much short q£, one hundred-thousand tons; and-it .may^fctnoficed^ltfat
during one. year afters the first accounts; were received *of- theLsnecessesriof
the allied armies against-France,' no-less than. thirty-two. ships, vmfiasupng
fifteen thousand tons, -cleared iout, and; carried’ cargoes, Jthe* producerofdava,
tditfie .London, market.;,
.-’ .The average annual.tonnage.which cleared Out from the port io£$Stumb'dya,
forTthe..three .last years, amounted donbout. thirtyrthttus^n'ditons/ a'ndjlhe
native. tonnage .trading, to the neighbouring^ port.-o£jGr'S'si'h'isi estimated to
have even exceeded that quantity., .
‘ At the smalLport of Sumenap, situated -atthe-ieast endi n{‘,Madnr,a.^v/Mch
is a principal resort1 for the native trade, • the .-tonnage iwhich cleared out was
t Small p r d h u s and vessels, ■ ,J £ - - T o n n a g e , - !
And the estimated.valuelof'the samfe,.' -
•> * Imports. '-'i-'f!: o-of
Foril812.~^ - Rupees. 625*628 d^^,.Rupees?-396j82tfe • ■?
The value rofthe; imports andlex-ports of Semdrangj'. on which, dutiesuwere
actually collected-ait that port, were j
:. v For
' * The greatest-pait;-orrather .nearly the-’frhole-of these exports and imports, 'consisted of
.colonial produce,, oflattiicles of sibsistencBi-.or. native t manufactures, ;mutuallyd exchanged
tvfio, islands; of Madd^a and Jaya^, Not a-.tenth part of the imports, came from
beyond’Java;, v
"" v Exports, '■
't J?or 1 Rupees' 55'5,044J----,—Rupees 167,101
>. • 985-709 ’■
r .549,088.'
. The nativ®0^fiagcf whifchrcleared^fi?otti4i2êwtè'a«^-’was as follows :
In 1 862 vessels-:__Ü—or 8,058 tons.-
1 ^ d o ^ ^ ^ J '^ , '6 5 7 ».
. 12,935
jo The jtrade^frotn ithe other* minor ^ptmts/was inconsiderable/^ the effect of
fcht regu]atidn§,$pass.ed in 1843 beihg'/ye'f hardly felt. ^’From PaJcalungan
thftjtQptiagftjiwhich-cleared, w'as/for 1812; 5;962|&&ïS-and for 1813,- 4,679
±prg,%*jflte«imports .tbcifig "about- liilD/QOO irupees, and ther exports 300,000
rupees in/each yêaV;' ;fiohöT4g<2^fof;1812,H 2',445-ton s*1 and for 1813,'1,926
tons,?, thegimports being iabout - 50,000,' ’ and* the exports about ,60;000 rupees
ip^abfcyear.
- The* amount of tonnage wlfiëjiitëuchtéeï at Anyer, on the way through
th|'Straits of Sunda, -to.'arid'.from' Europe, Africa,-and America;, was
In '73--ship,siiJ~^X. 29,450 ,
1 3 7 * 5 4 6
(.-;By an ..official retprii)made in'March 1816, it- appears that the total quantity
of(,tonnage,mYvësséls'boardedon'their passage through .the Straits of-Sénd’a,
amountedf in , Ï842 ’to .45,000 ‘tons, in 1813-,to 56,000 toia, <int,!f814 to
%000 (tpn^>n.d> iös,(l815; to 130,000'tonèitof'which adding a third, for
yessgls^whiich passed'without being.boarde'^ithe- whole? amoun't- of tonnage
fag these‘.fojir years -wo.uld’be 890,000, the quantity in .the fourth-, of these
years being nearly-triple that r of; the first._-
The, commerce of. Java may- be; considered,under the'two general divisions
ofljtheV native. and; the-i European, - the former' iricludihg th e ’internal-and
coasting4rade, with that of the Malayan Archipelago’in general; the latter
comprehending that’.carried on" by-Europeans and Americans .with India,
China and Japan, Africa, -America, and1'Europe.
Java^has; already. been described-as a great-- agricultural .country.. It* Native trade,
has long, been- considered as’the granary of'the Eastern Islands.
The‘southern coast is-for the most part inaccessible, and seldom visited by
traders; but" along .thq north coast there are no less; than thirteen principal
2 C 2 ports,