180G.] 



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gaol, but being perfonally acquainted with 

 Bagnel Harvey, their commander, by addref- 

 fmg a letter to him, he was difcharged. But 

 Harvey having incurred the difple ifure of the 

 rebels, by his lenity, the command was given 

 to another, who fent him again to gaol, wliere 

 he remained twelve days, when he was re- 

 Jeafed by General Moore. 



In his 79th year, the Rev. Thomas Main, 

 who had been diflonting minifter of the parilh 

 of Drunigoolan for fifty feven years. He was 

 one of the nldeft of the fjsceding body of Prcf- 

 byterian clergy in Ireland: when a ftudent, 

 he bore arms in the royal army, as a volun- 

 teer, at the battle of Falisirk, 



MONTHLY COMMERCTjVL REPORT. 

 'T'HE tiking of Buenos Ayres has had a moft pleahng effect on our manuf.ifturers and mer.. 

 chants, and has opened a new market of confiderablc, but not unlimited, e;:tcnt. The ci- 

 vilized popul.ition of all South America does not exceed five millions, and th.^t of La Plata, 

 Chili, and Peru is not more than three millions ; of courfe, it will be fcveral years before 

 our manuf.i(Sures can come into contaft With more than half this population, aad there may 

 be danger of the market being overltockcd by needy and oyer fanguine adventurers. 



We have taken fome pains to colleft from Skinner, Helms, Humboldt, Davie, and oth^r 

 recent authorities, the loUowing particulars relative to the ftate of the Spa.iifli trade with 

 tliele countries. 



During 1778, tlie firft year after the eftablifhment of new commercial regulations, the 

 following number of veflels were freighted for South America, from feven of the principal 

 ports of Spain. 



The fulijoined tables fliow alfo at one view the value of their cargoes in Britilh money, 

 and (he proportion between the exports of Spanifh produce, and that furnifhed by other ftates. 



From 1778 to 1788, the number of free ports in the mother country had been increafed 

 from feven to twelve. The exportation of Spanift mercliandize had alfo, during the fame 

 peiiod, been m'.re than quin-tupled, the exports of foreign products in Spanifh bottoms 

 more than tripled, and the imports ftom America in rctuin jjuKnicntcii bv nwe than nine- 

 tentlis. "^^ •' -j-h. 



