1-70 A. D. 1731. 



voyage ; us, by an acl of parliament of the gih year of King George I 

 (particularly aimed at the Oftend Eafl-India trade) fuch Britifli fubjeds 

 as fhould be concerned in foreign companies trading to the Eafl: -Indies 

 fhould forfeit all their flock therein, and triple the value ; and any of 

 our king's fubjeds going to, or being found in, the Eaft-Indies (other 

 than thofe of our Eaft-India company) were thereby declared guilty 

 of an high crime and mifdemeanor, &c. as has been fhewn under the 

 year 1723. And his warning had the defired effecl. 



During this year there were re-exported from the port of London 

 alone, in only two of the enumerated commodities imported from the 

 Britifti American colonies, 15,787,155 lb. weight avoirdupois of to- 

 bacco ; and 58,446 cwt. (of ii2 pounds to the cwt.) or 6,54^,952 lb, 

 weight of fugar ; which equally ferves to demonftrate the va ft benefit 

 oi our plantations to their mother country, and the vaft foreign com- 

 merce of the city of London, the whole exports thereof in this one 

 year confifting of no fewer than 105 articles, or different fpecies, of 

 merchandize; many of which were very confiderable ones, — as in the 

 woollen manufadure alone, 894 fuits of apparel ; 22 16 pair of blankets; 

 3847 dozen of caps ; 10,437 dozen of caftors and felts ; cloths long 

 and fhort 4822 ; coverlids 385 ; flannel 48436 yards ; garments 

 1577 ; haberdafliery 827 cwt. ; hofe 7773 dozen; kerfies and dozens 

 2319; perpets 1995 ; plains 9640 goads; rugs 713; ftuffs and bays 

 38,915 pieces; befides vaft quantities of wheat, beans, peas, and oats; 

 bacon, bifcuit, cheefe, flour; Eaft-India goods in vaft quantities; iron, 

 copper, and brafs, ware, lead, and tin, tinned plates ; linen, threads, and 

 tapes, fail-cloth, &c. 



And of London's imports there were 85 different fpecies of merchan- 

 dize, confifting of many forts of drugs, fpices, cotton, deer-lkins, ivory, 

 indigo, gums, goats-fkins, iron, many kinds of dying-woods and oils, 

 naval ftores, rice, rum, turpentine, wine, wool, 8cc. 



This year was concluded the famous treaty of Vienna, between the em- 

 peror Charles VI, the king of Great Britain, and the ftates-general of 

 the United Netherlands, for a mutual guarantee of each others do- 

 minions ; and in a moft eipecial manner, 



' I) For guaranteeing with all their forces the order of fuccefllon, 

 ' which the emperor had eftabliflied by a folemn ad in the year 17 13, 

 ' and again confirmed in 1724, in favour of primogeniture for all his 



* heirs of both fexes, fo as that the eldeft of either fex fhall fucceed to 

 ' all the hereditary dominions of the houfe of Auftria indivifibly for- 



* ever,' commonly called the pragmatic fandion. 



II) For the Spanifli infant Don Carlos eventually to fucceed to the 

 duchies of Tufcany, Parma, and Placentia. France afterwards agreed 

 to this pragmatic fandion. 



