A. D. 1732. igi 



* dependence they have upon the mother counfry, and confequently 

 ' the fmall reftraints they are under in any matters detrimental to her 

 ' interefts. 



' And therefor, we would humbly beg leave to report and fubmit 



* to the wifdom of this honourable houfe, the fubftance of what we 

 ' formerly propofed in our report on the filk, linen, and woollen, manu- 

 ' fadures herein before recited ; namely, whether it might not be ex- 



* pedient to give thofe colonies proper encouragements for turning their 



* induftry to fuch manufadures and produds as might be of fervice to 

 ' Great Britain, and more particularly to the produdion of all kinds of 

 ' naval ftores.' (Signed) ' Paul Dockminique, &c *. Whitehall, Feb- 

 ' ruary 15, 1 731-2.' 



From the foregoing report, the great ufefulnefs of the inftitution of 

 the board of trade and plantations may evidently be feen j notwith- 

 flanding it too plainly appears alfo, that in anfwer to their annual que- 

 ries fent to our plantations, the governors of the northern colonies, as 

 in the inflances above of New-York and Pennfylvania, may frequently 

 impofe on that board, in favour of their refpedive governments; which,, 

 it is humbly apprehended, might be eafily and efFedually prevented by 

 our Britifli legiflature. 



We fhall only fay flirther, that defedive as the above report to par- 

 liament is, it is undoubtedly to be preferred to the accounts publiflied by 

 any private perfons, and infinitely more fo to fuch as are publilhed by 

 anonymous authors, who, for the mofl part, write for mere private in- 

 terefl;, and ofttimes to mifguide the unwary. 



By this report alfo, the different conftitutions and interefls of our 

 American colonies are clearly explained by undoubted authority ; though 

 we cannot but hope and wiih, that the time will come, when all our 

 American colonies may be fixed on one uniform regal and legal plan, 

 however infuperable the difficulties of fuch a plan may feem to many, 

 who perhaps have not duely confidered, what a Britifli king united to 

 a Britifli parliament can efted for removing all the obflacles refulting 

 from the proprietary, charter, and mixed, conflitutions of feveral of 

 thofe colonies; more efpecially as the removal of Ibme of thofe difHcuI- 

 ties has been already effeded in our own times. 



^^733 — England, and more particularly the city of London, being now 

 become a great mart for diamonds, and other prctious Hones and jewels, 

 (according to the preamble to an ad of parliament, for the free import- 

 ation and exportation of diamonds, pearls, rubies, emeralds, and all 

 other jewels and pretious flones) from whence mofl foreign countries 

 are lupplied, and great numbers of rough diamonds are fent from abroad 

 to be cut and poliflied here, which is a great advantange to this nation ; 



• Tlicrc arc fcTcral arliclcs deficient in this abllraft by Mr. Anilcrfon, wlio has liad an impcrfeft copy 

 uS the report : but, in the prcftnt ftatc of Amrricn, they arc not fo intcrcftmg as \>hen he wrote. M. 



