text:  Now we think it might admit of proof that as much as nine-tenths of all the produce brought to this country from Russia is so brought in British bottoms and so also of the exports to Russia; although in 1840 the last of the Board of Trade tables containing such particulars no more than 1629 British vessels of 340 567 tonnage against 296 foreign of 79 152 tonnage entered British ports from Russia--the proportions being much the same outwards; but whether the foreign were all Russian vessels may be doubted