' A. D. 1735. 207 



' V) The fubjeds of both nations may load their fliip:? with any 



* kind of merchandize, paying the fame cuftom as other nations do : 



* and, in cafe of fraud in paying the duties, their goods fhall be for- 

 ' feited ; but without any other punifliment. 



* VI) If any more warlike {lores fhall be found on board any Bri- 

 ' tifh fliip than fhall be neceffary for the ufe of the fhip or paflenger'^, 

 ' it fhall be lawful to feize the fame ; but neither fhip nor effetfls fliall 

 ' be liable to be detained. 



* VII) In cafe of fhipwreck, all manner of afliflance fhall be given, 

 ' without offering the leaft violence to the Ihip's company or effeds. 



' VIII) The fubjedls on both fides may build houfes, and difpofe of 



* them, without being liable to furnifh quarters for foldiers. And pafl- 



* ports Hiall be granted to thofe who fhall think fit to retire, within two 

 ' months after they notify their intention of going away. 



' IX) The Britiih merchants in Rufha fhall not be obliged to fhow 



* their books to any one whatfoever, except it be to prove fomething 



* in difpute. And, for the greater eafe and encouragement of the 

 ' Britifh commerce, it is agreed, that for the future the Englifh manu- 



* fadures fliall pay no greater duty on importation than is fpecified. 



* This treaty is to be in force for fifteen years from the date hereof, 

 ' the 2d of December 1734.' 



The rents of the eflates, forfeited by the attainder of the earl of 

 Derwentwater, were appropriated by parliament for completing the 

 eredlion of Greenwich hofpital, and afterwards for the better mainten- 

 ance of the teamen therein, who are worn out, or have become de- 

 crepit in the fervice of their country. All feamen in the merchants 

 fervice, who happen to be maimed, not only (as in a former acl) in 

 fighting againfi; pirates, but alio in fighting again fl any enemy whatfo- 

 ever of his majefty, are admitted into, and provided for, in the hofpi- 

 tal, in like manner as any feamen maimed, wounded, or difabled in 

 the king's adual fervice. [8 Geo. II, c. 29]. This is truely a noble ap- 

 plication of thofe eflates, very much to the nation's honour, and to the 

 encouragement and comfort of our poor worn-out mariners *. 



We have the following curious piece of intelligence from the anony- 

 mous author of an ingenious pamphlet publiOied in Ireland, entitled 

 the Qiierift. He affirms for certain, ' that the fingle port of Cork ex- 

 ' ported this year 107,161 barrels of beef, 7379 barrels of pork, 13,461 

 ' cafks and 85,727 (irkins of butter. A prodigious quantity of provi- 

 ' fions truely ; while half the people of Ireland are llarving for want 



* of manufactures and tillage, paffurage employing fo much fewer people 

 ' than any other national employment.' This is a pregnant inlhmce 

 of the great trade of the city of Cork, which has long been famous 



• This good law \ras further explained and amenJcd by a (lalutc, 1 1 Ci-a. LI, c. j-'. ^- 



