68. 

 THE BEE, 



OR 



IITERARY WEEKLY INrELLIGENCER, 



FOR 



Wednesday, Apkil 4. 1792. 



ON THE POLITICAL PROGRESS OF BRITAIN. 



Continued from p. 48. 



'Tis time to take enormity by the forehead and brand it. 



Bem Johnson. 



Sir, 



T^HE Engllfli merchants abused their permifsion of a 



partial trade to the coast of Spanifh America. " The 



" agents'of the Britifh South Sea company, under cover 



♦• of the importation, which they were authorised to 



" make by the fhip sent annually to Porto Bello, 



•' poured in their commodities on the Spanifh con- 



*' tinent, withoyit limitation or restraint. Instead 



*' of a fhip of five hundred tons, as stipulated in the 



^* treaty, they usually employed one which exceeded 



" nine hundred tons inhvirden. She was accompanied 



** by two or three smaller vefsels, which, mooring ia 



*' some neighbouring creek, supplied her clandestinely 



*' with frefti bales of goods, to replace such as werj 



" sold. The inspectors of the fair, and of^ccrs of 



" the revenue, gained by exorbitant presents, can* 



TOL. viii, X f 



