ANNALS 



OF 



C O M M E .R C E, 



MANUFACTURES, FISHERIES, AND NAVIGATION, 



WITH 



BRIEF NOTICES OF THE ARTS AND SCIENCES CONNECTED WITH THEM. 



CONTArNINC THIi 



COMMERCIAL TRANSACTIONS 



OF THE 



BRITISH EMPIRE AND OTHER COUNTRIES, 



FEOM THE EARLIEST ACCOUNTS TO THE MliETINCi OF THE UNION PAllLIAMENT IN JANUARY 1801 J 



AND COMPRKUENDINC TUK MOST VAr.UABLF PART OF THE UTE Mn. AXULR'OVS HliTORY OF COMMERCE, VIZ. fHOM THt VSAP. 14W 

 TO THE END OP illt REIGN OF GEORGE II, RUNG OF GREAT BRITAIN, &c. 



WITH A LARGE APPENDIX, 



CONTAINING 



CHBONOLOGICAL TABLES OF THE SOVEBEIGIVS OF EUROPE, 

 lABLFS OF THE ALTEKATIONS OF MONEY IN ENGLAND AND 

 SCOTLAND, 



A CHK0N0L0GIC4L TABLE OF THE pniCES OF CORN, &C ami 



A COMMEUriAL AND MANIFACTI RAL GAZETTEER OF THE 



UNITED KINGDOM OF CREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND ; 



AVITII A GENERAL CHllONOLOGICAL INDKX. 



T/ie J>ititnt Part composed from the most authentic Orig'umI Historians and Piihlic "Records, 



printed and in Manuscript ; and the Modern Part from Materials of viiquestionable 



Autlientieitfi (most/i/ unpablislied) extracted from the Records of Parliament, 



the Jccounts of the Lustom-hoiise, the Mint, the Board of Trade, the 



Post-Oj/ice, the East-India Compani/, the Bank of £lnty land, 



6)C. S^:c. 



Btj DAVID MACPUERSON. 



IN FOUR rOLUMES. 



VOL. I. 



PRINTED FOR 



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 SCATCllEUD AND LETTERMAPf, G. RORffTSON, WYNNE AND SON, DARTON AND IIAKVEY, 

 CLARKE AND SON S, C A DELL AND DA VIES, LACK I N C. TON ALLEN AND CO. J. M A WM A N, 

 J II AUDI KG, BLACKS AND PAKRY, J. BOOKER, AND J. ASPERN E, 



LONDON; 



AND FOR MUNDELL AND SON, EDINBURGH. 

 1805. 



