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become the fashionable summer resort of the nobility and gentry. The following table will mew the exports and imports for eleven years, beginning with the year 1789 ; also the number of boats employed each year in the mackerel and herring fisheries, with those that come annually from Brighthelmstone.

Exports					Imports	Mackerel Voyage	Herring Voyage
	Plank Loads	Iron Tons	Wheat Qrs.	Oats Qrs.	Coals Chaldrons	Hastings Boats	Hastings Boats	Brighton Boats
From May 1778 to May 1779	327 ½	293 ¼	1331	832	766 ½	38	41	8
80	214	348 ¼	1002	850	781	44	40	8
81	374 ½	256 ½	1556	1043	44	43	13
82	285	224	1369	1995	543 ½	52	43	15
83	288	266	1220	1989	844 ¾	49	54	22
84	178 ½	78 ½	364	1835	1056	46	28	25
85	268 ½	3	424	2206	1209 ¾	46	46	24
86	225	184	2822	1324	1373	42	49	20
87	267 ½	152	2522	1910	1306 ¾	40	49	30
88	305 ½		2151	971	1200 ¼	44	46	32
89	183	¾	252	744	1460 ¾	43	55	23