2d.--Provisions, 9,911 tons, valued at L133,847 7s. 7d. Six hundred and
forty-two packages of clothing were also received, the precise value of
which could not be exactly ascertained. The provisions were carried in
ninety-one vessels, the united freights of which amounted to L33,017 5s.
7d.[305]
The total number of ships which carried provisions, the result of
charitable contributions, to Ireland and Scotland in 1847, is set down
at one hundred and eighteen; but as only four of these went to
Scotland, one hundred and fourteen of them must have come here. The
total freightage paid to those ships by Government, was L41,725 8s.
5-1/2d; but as I find in another part of the Blue book, that between
L60,000 and L70 000 was paid by Government for freights on the cargoes
of provisions consigned to the Society of Friends and to the British
Association, and which I have above assumed to be L70,000, we may take
it for granted that something like twenty thousand tons of provisions
were consigned to both Societies, the money value of which was about
L280,000.
Two American ships of war, the "Jamestown" and "Macedonian," carried
cargoes of provisions to Ireland, for which no freight was charged.
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