270 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1809. 



of conveying the heaviest piece of cause for exultation, that under tire 

 ordnance; and a number connected forced and untenable restrictions 

 together form a bridge for the pas- against our export trade, during the 

 sage of cavalry. last twelve months, more woollens, 

 Thisinvention of colonel Brown's have been manufactured, and con- 

 has been highly approved of bj'^ the siderably more sold than in the last 

 duke of York, lord Moira, lord or the preceding year. 

 Mulgrave, lord Chatham, and sir Court of King's Bench.— Right of 

 A. Wellesley. The colonel, we Gauging in the London Docks. 

 understand, is fitting up one of his — The City of London v. the Lon- 

 batteaus with two 6-pounders, one don Dock Company. 

 in the head and the other in the This day a trial at bar was had 

 stern. before lord Ellenborough, sir Nash 

 State of the Woollen Manifacfure Grose, sir Simon Le Blanc, and sir 

 from the 25th of March, 1808, Jo'm Bailey, to ascertain the right 

 to the 25th of March, 1809. of gauging wines, oils, and other 

 NARROW CLOTHS. gaugable matters in the London 

 Minedthisyeai-144,524making5,309,007 Docks. The city of London claim 



Last year 161,816 5,961,253 that rightexclusively to themselves. 



Decreased. ...TT?;!^ "m^e bj virtue of a charter granted to 



BROAD CLOTHS. them m the tenth year or the reign 



Milledthisyear279,859 9,050,970 of Edward 4th, which charter the 



Last year 262,024 8,422,143 London dock company insist was 



, ,. „ J ■ confined to the city of London, and 



Increase 17,835 628,827 » .. • •'•.i .r 



692 246 ^ co-extensive with the scite on 



' which the London docks are built. 



TotaUncrease in yards 6,581 The emoluments derived from the 



The increase of 628,827 yards exercises of the right contended for 

 \n broad cloihs, ought to be parti- now amount to 70,000/. annually, 

 cularly remarked to those who are At the time of the grant they did 

 not acquainted with the minutiae of not exceed 7,000/. 

 the manufacture, as being at least The attorney general who con- 

 in a double pvoportion to the de- ducted the suit for the city of Lon- 

 crease in the narrotos. And it thus don (assisted by IMr. Garrow, the 

 appears, notwithstanding all the recorder, common serjeant, and 

 prohibitory decrees of the enemy Messrs. Dampier and Watson), 

 from without, and the anxious ef- addressed the jury at considerable 

 forts of the enemy at home, to re- length. He admitted the words of 

 present us as a " sinking country,'' the charter were infra civilaturo, 

 that our manufactures have, during and thereby granting the right of 

 the last year, increasedin the aggre- gauging all gaugeable matters tvith- 

 gate 6,581 yards ! ! in the city ; but he would contend, 



But there is anothar considera- that by those words the city and its 



tion, worth the notice of our rea- liberties were comprehended, and 



ders: — In March, 1808, the stock that the right was not confined 



of cloth on hand was very great, within the walls of the city. As a 



The very reverse is now the case ; proof of that fact, the lord mayor, 



and instead of lamentations we find who was the city ganger, was ob- 

 liged 



