134 A. D. 1726. 



And our re-exportaiions may be about - - 1,500,000 



The other duties and funds may be about - - 2,199,328 



If there be eight millions of people in England, I believe 

 I fhall not exceed in fuppofing them to conlume in manu- 

 fadurcs about _____ 16,000,000 



Now, although the interefl arifing from mortgaged lands 

 be included in the before-named rental, yet the mortgages 

 themfelvcs are often transferred, and may therefor be 

 deemed money in circulation : and thefe have been com- 

 puted at one fifteenth part of the whole value of the lands, 

 or about _ _ _ _ - 26,000,000 



The national debt about - - - 53,000,000 



The malt-tax about _ _ _ _ 600,000 



So that the whole money-tranfadions of this nation feems 

 to be about _____ Li26,i99,328 



This Mr. Philips fpeaks of as a ftupendous thought. 



Now, though this computation may in general be thought liable to 

 fome exception, yet fome parts of it may hereafter flrike out new lights, 

 or at leafl ftart new thoughts, for jufter computations. 



While Britain and the l^ates-general of the United Netherlands were 

 remonftrating at Vienna, and promulgating ads of parliament and pla- 

 carts againft the continuance of the Oftend company's trade to India, 

 that company's general court refolved this year to make a dividend of 

 1 2 per cent to their proprietors, and to maintain their fettlement at 

 Coblore on the coafl; of Coromandel, their fadories at Bengal, and their 

 trade to Canton in China. Neverthclefs, we fhall foon fee an end put 

 to that company. For, though neither gratitude for pad benefits, nor 

 regard for the cleareft and flrongefi: treaties, could prevail at Vienna, the 

 refolutions of the two powers, fo nearly interefi;ed in the fuppreffion of 

 that company by main force, became too flrong to be much longer re- 

 fifted. 



The weftern fuburbs of London fo greatly increafing, wherein per- 

 fons of quality and diftindion ufually refide, the legiflature, by a claufe 

 in an ad for granting an aid to his majefi;y by laying a duty upon all 

 viduallers, &c. empowered the commiflioners for hackney coaches and 

 chairs to add one hundred hackney chairs to the former numbers, fo as 

 the whole exceed not 400 in number : each of which fliall continue to 

 pay \oJ per annum for their licences. 



By an ad of parliament of the 12th of King George I, for better fe- 

 curing the monies and efFeds of thefuitors of the court of chancery, &c. 

 it was made felony without benefit of clergy, not only to forge or coun- 

 terfeit the name or hand of the accountaat-general of the court of 



