ABSTRACT
The enumeration of sugar, the writer added, was likely to lose for England much of her foreign market for that commodity. Considerable information on the foreign trade of the English is obtainable from British consular reports preserved in the Commercial Series of the Board of Trade. In fact, the relief from English competition in refined sugar stimulated the Continental refineries to make larger demands for the British raw product. The demand for sugar on the continent of Europe was largely satisfied from England until near the end of the seventeenth century. Many cargoes of sugar were observed going east to Stettin, Danzig, Konigsberg, Eastsea, and Stockholm, but practically all were carried in Dutch ships from Amsterdam, and it is probable that a great deal of the sugar was of French origin. Hamburg, in the early part of the eighteenth century, was supplied with raw sugar from England alone.
