156 A. D. 1730, 



cwt. — ditto lead per cwt. 2746 cvvt. — ditto in fhot, 847 cwt. — alum, 



1275 cwt — copperas, 4033 cwt tobacco, 866,163 lib — calicoes, 



76,847 pieces — ^old watches, 47 — filver watches, 113 — wrought plate, 

 972 ounces. (Befides S3g,3S3 ounces of foreign filvcr, and 36,294 

 ounces of foreign gold.) 



Imported m the port of London. — Wine in cafks (chiefly pipes or 

 butts) 4299cafks — ditto from Leghorn, 459 chefts — wine Rhenifh, loi 9 

 aums, each of 40 gallons — brandy from Dunkirk alone, belides brandy 

 from Holland, 24,687 gallons — rum from the Britilh American colo- 

 nies, 6327 gallons — fugar from ditto, 1421 hogflieads — rice from Caro- 

 lina only, 3025 hogfheads — Spanifh wool, in bags, 1 144 bags — indigo, 

 chiefly from Spain and our own colonies, 57,784 lib — hemp, from the 

 Eafl: country, 1 160 cwt. — thrown filk from Italy, 31,21 8 lib. — raw filk, 



3441 lib coffee from Turkey only, 1781 cwt — oil from Gallipoli 



only, 390 tons — Holland cloth, or fine linen from Holland, 66,286 ells 

 — ditto from Hamburgh and Bremen, 1,232,209 ells — Irifh linen, 

 179,114 yards — linen-yarn from Hamburgh, 73,450 lib. — coffee from 

 Mocha, 5000 bales. 



The whale fifhery on the coafl: of New-England was profperous this 

 year ; and the rice raifed in Caroliiia (now a very thriving colony) ap- 

 pears to have increafed ; as by a claufe in an adt of parliament in the 

 preceding feflion [3 Geo. II, c. 29] for granting liberty to carry rice, 

 &:c. they were permitted to fliip it to any place in Europe fouth of Cape 

 Finifterre, without firft being landed in England, or being made an 

 enumerated commodity *, whereby the coafts of Spain and Portugal in 

 the Ocean, and of Spain and France in the Mediterranean, befides Italy 

 and the gulf of Venice, and all the Spanifli and Portuguefe ifles, are 

 open to them. Provided, however, that it be all carried in Britifh 

 fhips, navigated as by the ads of navigation, and no other commodity 

 be lb carried but rice only. 



The fame privilege was extended to the rice of Georgia, by an a<5l 

 [8 Geo. II, c. 19.] And, in confequence of thefe judicious indulgences, 

 the Britifh plantation rice has fupplanted thofe of Verona and Egypt, 

 wherever they have come in competition. 



On the 29th of May the king of France eflablifhed the following re- 

 gulations for his royal council of commerce. 



' That it be compofed of the duke of Orleans, the cardinal deFleury, 

 ' &.C. and meet every 15 days, or oftener, as the king fhall diredf. 



' The keeper of the feals, the fecretaries of flate for foreign affairs, and 

 ' for the marine, and the comptroller-general of the finances, fhall make 



* Rice was tlicught incapable of bearing the expenfe of being landed in a Britifti port, and then re- 

 fliipped for a forcigu market. A. 



