A. D.I 7 19- 75 



or in barrels, paying the cuftomary duties. And, in like manner, the 

 inhabitants and burghers of Hamburgh (hall have free liberty to trade, 

 according to their antient cuflom, to the provinces of the Britifh king- 

 doms ; and may carry their merchandi^ie thither, and truck or exchange 

 the fame for thofe forts of fifli and other goods. 

 Done at Hamburgh, Sib February lyip *. 



It was at this time computed, that from the year 171 1 to 171 9 (both 

 years included) being nine years, there had been exported from Eng- 

 land to Eaft-India, in foreign filver bullion, the fum of L3, 786, 005, 

 which on a medium is, one year with another, 1^^20,66^] annually. 



Captain Barlow was fent out by certain private adventurers f , for the 

 dlfcovcry of a north-weft pafTage to China, &c. through Hudfon's bay. 

 Eut this proved a moft unfortunate attempt ; for neither he nor any of 

 his company were ever heard of. Yet a part of the wreck of his fhip 

 was faid to be found in that bay, in the latitude of 6^ degrees north. 

 [E//is's l^uyage to Hudjoii's bay, />■ 78, ed. 1748.] 



About the clofe of this year a pamphlet appeared with a propofal 

 for a fettlement to be made in tlie country of Guiana, in South Ame- 

 rica, by the South-fea company, upon a plan which the anonymous au- 

 thor alleges he had laid before King M'^illiani 30 years before. His 

 pamphlet is intitled an Hiftorical account of the voyages and adven- 

 tures of Sir Walter Raleigh (from whom he fays he is defcended.) But, 

 in our humble opinion, this kinfman of that great man could not have 

 touched upon any part of his adventures which does fo little honour to 

 him as that wild fcheme ; of which we have faid enough in its place, 

 next to the projed: of a north-weft pafllige, this unaccountable whim of 

 a fettlement in Guiana has at different times employed our fpeculative 

 ichemers to the leaft purpofe. 



In this 5th year of King George I a patent was granted to Sir Tho- 

 mas Lombe for the fole and exclufive property, for 14 years, of that 

 wonderful machine for filk-throwing, fometime before ereded by his 

 brother on the river Derwent, at Derby, by mills, which work three ca- 

 pital engines. This amazingly-grand machine contains 26,586 wheels, 

 and 97,746 movements, which work 73,726 yards of organzine filk 

 thread every time the water wheel goes round, being thrice in one mi- 

 nute, and 318,504,960 yards in one day and night. One water wheel 

 gives motion to all the other movements, of which any one may be flop- 

 ped feparately, without obftructing the reft. One fire engine conveys 



Mr Wich, tlic rtfiJeut at Hamburj^h, wlio f According In Dr. Forrtcr, he and Captain 



■iirgotiatcd tliis tif.ity, wrote lionie in Ortobir Knight wcic fcnt out together by the Huellon's 



1719, tliat the quality of the htrrini;-3 impoitcd b.iy coropany. [Dif.-.veriet in the tfirlh, fi. ■;,%■] y 



this year from Great Urilain had proviJ ixcicd- iL- £n^l;/blt\vifldlijii.] AI. 

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