74 A. D. 1 719. 



world, and therefor as much to be valued as gold or filver : that the 

 Dutch fupply Portugal, the Straits, and Turkey, with great quantities of 

 iron ; and had we a full fupply of it from our plantations, we might 

 not only ballaft our fhips with it, but export great quantities to thofe 

 countries, and even to Africa and India : that hemp, another mod 

 neccflary naval ftore, may hereafter be fo enhanced by the czar of 

 Ruflla, from whofe ports we are principally fupplied with it, as to at- 

 tempt, like the Swedes, to oblige us to receive it by his own fhipping, 

 and at his own prices : finally, our greateft fecurity and riches flow 

 from our American plantations : and, were they encouraged to raife 

 all the naval ftores we want, how greatly would our riches be increafed 

 as well as our navigation, people, and power. Our author, however, 

 concludes, that negro flaves in our plantations fhould not be permitted 

 to work in manufactures there, (as certainly many do), but be kept to 

 their original intent for planting and drudgery : and alfo that the in- 

 creafe of woollen, &c. manufadlures there, interfering with thofe of our 

 own, fhould be retrained as much as pofTible. 



Thefe are points of the lad: importance to our commercial interefts, 

 wherefor we have enlarged the more upon them, in fundry parts of this 

 work. 



A convention was renewed and enlarged this year between his majef- 

 ty of Great Britain and the free and imperial city and republic of Ham- 

 burgh, concerning the trade of herrings, &c. viz. 



Article 1) Hamburgh grants permiflion for the free importation of 

 herrings caught on the Britifh coafts, upon paying ihe fame duties of 

 entry as are ufually paid for Flemifh or Dutch herrings. 



II, and III) The Britifh herrings fhall be brought into warehoufes, 

 and (hall be opened in the fame manner as thofe of Holland are. 



IV) The fenate fhall appoint two appraifers and two packers, who 

 fliall take an oath of fidelity every year. 



V) If the proprietors or their fadors come in pcrfon, they fhall have 

 liberty to fell their herrings to any inhabitants indifferently : and if they 

 cannot difpofe of them in eight days, to the inhabitants, they may af- 

 terwards fell them to whomfoever they will, or may fend themwhither- 

 foever they pleafe. 



VI) When the proprietors fend their herrings to flidors, they fhall be 

 at liberty to choofe their fadors either from among the laudable Eng- 

 lifh company (i. e. of merchant-adventurers) refiding in the town, or 

 among the burghers. 



VII) His Britannic majefty's fubjeds Ihall always enjoy the fame 

 privileges and advantages in the herring trade, as are, or fhall be, grant- 

 ed to the fubjeds of the ftates of the United provinces. 



VIII) His Britannic majefty's fubjeds may alfo bring to Hamburgh, 

 falmon, ftockfilh, cod, and all other forts of fiih, either dried, fmoaked„ 



