A. D. 1726. 13 j; 



chancery, and of the regifter and clerk of the report-office, but Uke- 

 wife the name or hand of any of the cafliiers of the bank of England, 

 to any certificate, report, entry, indorlement, declaration of truft, note, 

 diredlion, authority, inftrument, or writing whatloever, for receiving or 

 obtaining money or effeds of fuitors in chancery : as alfo any bond or 

 obligation under the feals of the Eaft-India and South-fea companies, or 

 any indorfement thereon. 



1727 — The South-fea company having built another new ihip for the 

 whale fifliery, they fent out their whole twenty-five fliips in the year 1727 

 on that fiihery ; wherein were employed 1 106 men, viz. 762 Britifli fub- 

 ]e&s and 344 foreigners. This aUo proved an unfortunate voyage, two 

 of the fhips being loft, and the remaining twenty-three fliips brought 

 home but 2 2-1- whales. 



The great river and bay of Delaware, and the feas adjoining, abound- 

 ing with fifh of various kinds, fit for foreign markets, whereby the trade 

 of Great Britain, as well as the inhabitants of the province of Pennfyl- 

 vania, would reap confiderable benefits, elpecially by enabling the later 

 to purchale more of the Britifh manufactures than at prelent they are 

 -able to do, an ad: of parliament now palTed, in the 13th year of King 

 George I, for importing fait from Europe into the province of Pennfyl- 

 vania in Britifli fliips, navigated as by the ad:s of navigation, for curing 

 their iilh, in like fort as is pradii'edin New-England and Newfoundland, 

 by virtue of an aft of the 15th of King Charles 11. 



Nothing can more obvioufly demonftrate the amazing increafe of 

 England's commerce in lefs than two centuries paft, than the great in- 

 creafe of many of its commercial and manufacturing towns ; fucli, for 

 inftance, as the town and port of Liverpool in Lancalhire, which in our 

 days is become the greateit emporium of the Britifli empire, next after 

 London and Briftol : and, though it is allowed to be an antient corpo- 

 ration and borough, it was nevertheleis ib inconfidcrable in point of 

 population and magnitude, even in the laft generation, as not to be a 

 I'eparaie parifli within itfelf, till the year 1699, by an art of parliament 

 of the roth and iith of King William, when a new parilh-church was 

 ereded, there being only a chapel there till then. In the year 1715, it 

 was fo much increal'ed, that, by an att of the ill of King George I, a 

 fecond parHh and church was ereded in it. The author of the third 

 volume of the Tour through the whole ifland of Great Britain, publilh- 

 cd in 1727, obfervcs, that in his firfl: vilit to Liverpool in 1680, it was a 

 large handfome thriving town. "At his fecond vifit, ten years after, it 

 M'as become much bigger; and, as the inhabitants reported, twice as 

 large as it was twenty years before : but at his third vifit, in 1726, it 

 was more than double its bignefs at the lime of his fecond vifit in the 

 year 1690. And it is (Hll iucreafing in wealth, people, biifinels, and 

 buildine;';. 



