A. D. 1718. 6^ 



XI) For compelling the company's fadors at Panama and the Havan- 

 na, to pay a duty of fix pieces of eight for the burial of each negro. 



XTI) Tn denying the company's facftors at Buenos-Ayres the lands fti- 

 pulatcd by the afliento contrad: to be afligned them for raifing cattle, 

 provifions, &c. and for their negroes. 



__ XIII) Extorting extravagant port-charges there, for the company's 

 {hips, and obftrudling their purchafing goods there : with other abufes 

 at that port, and at Panama. 



XIV) The Spanifh guarda-cofta fhips flopping the company's afliento 

 {hips, and taking from them fundry things not contraband. 



For thefe and fome other grievances and defeds in the afliento con- 

 trad, the company prayed his majefty to procure redrefs, which he was 

 gracioufly pleafed to promife, when the differences with Spain fhould be 

 adjufled. 



N. B. By the feizure of the company's efFeds on the breaking out of 

 this war, they are faid to have been lofers above L 200,000, which was 

 never efFedually made good. 



In this fame year, the Dutch colonifts at Surinam in Guiana are faid 

 to have begun to plant coffee ; which was then thought to be much bet- 

 ter than either the coffee of Martinico or Jamaica. 



About this time, according to Bi{hop Huet, (in his Memoirs of 

 the Dutch commerce) the Dutch fent annually to the countries within 

 the Baltic fea no fewer than 1000 or 1200 fhips to load the bulky com- 

 modities of thofe northern countries, with which they fupply many 

 other parts of Europe ; fo vaft then was, and in a great meafure ftill is, 

 their trade to Denmark, Sweden, Ruflia, Pruffia, Livonia, &c. within 

 that fea. 



The felling or buying of chances, and parts of chances, of tickets in 

 the ftate-lotteries of Great Britain, being at this time in general pradice, 

 a claufe in an ad of parliament for continuing certain duties on coals 

 and culm, &c. prohibited inch pradices : and alfo all undertakings re 

 fembling lotteries, or being on the footing of a ftate-Iotttry, were ftrid- 

 ly prohibited, under th.e penalty of Lioo, over and above all penalties 

 enjoined by former ads of parliament againft private lotteries. 



The Oftenders ftill continuing their trade to Eafl-India under the 

 emperor's protedion and comniiflions, an ad of the Britiih parliament, 

 of this 5th year of King George, paffed, for the better fecuring the law- 

 ful trade of his majefly's fubjeds to and from the Eaft-Indies, and for 

 the more effedual preventing all his majefly's fubjeds from trading thi- 

 ther under foreign commiflions ; whereby it was enadcd, that where- 

 as it is of great importance to the welfare of this kingdom, that the 

 trade to and from the Eaft-Indies be regulated accordin.j to ads of par- 

 liament and the royal charters; and that, particularly by an ad of the 

 5th of King William ill, the Eaft-ladies fliould not be viflted nor 



