2o8 A. D. 1735. 



for that particular branch of commerce. Since this author wrote, the 

 linen and cambric manufactures of Ireland are very much increaled in 

 the province of Ulfter, where the linen manufadure began, and are 

 fafl fpreading over a great part of the other three provinces. 



From Paris we received the following account of the chriflenings, 

 marriages, and burials (ufually fliled the bills of mortality), of that 

 great city, for the years 1733 and 1734, viz. 



Chriftened. Married. Buritd. 



1733 - I7'825 - - 4132 - - I7>4c6 



1734 - ^9^^35 ' - 4130 - - ^5, ^^2 



32,528 



1736 In the year 1736, upon Mr. Egede's return from his million 



in Greenland, he obtained a million-college to be eftabliflied at Copen- 

 hagen (according to Dr. Bufching's New geography) for fending mif- 

 fionaries thither to convert the natives. And the trade from Denmark 

 to Greenland, according to him, is at prefent carried on by a company 

 at Copenhagen, who fend thither three or four fhips annually. Dr. 

 Bufching's Geography (publillied in Englilh in 1762) likewife acquaints 

 us of three or four chriftian millions then fettled there, and of four 

 Danifh colonies now exifling there ; and alfo of a Moravian colony and 

 congregation, now (1761) growTi fo conllderable as to equal all the four 

 Danifh ones. 



The pope having, as already related, made the port of Ancona on 

 the Adriatic Ihore a free port, the republic of Venice, by way of pre- 

 caution, and, after much deliberation, agreed to make their capital 

 city of Venice likewife a free port, to the great joy of their merchants. 

 By their new regulation, no cargo of merchandize was to pay any more 

 than one ducat at entrance, and half a ducat upon exportation, where- 

 by the merchants were thenceforth to be exempted from all that flavilh 

 attendance and dependance upon commilTioners and cuftom-houfe offi- 

 cers, and the charges necefTarily attending the fame, which lb much 

 embarrafled the commerce of this flate, and of the merchants of other 

 nations trading thither. 



The parliament palled an ad [9 Geo. II, c. 29] for building a bridge 

 over the river Thames, from New-palace-yard (or the Wool-llaple) in 

 the city of Weftminfler to the oppofite fhore in the county of Surrey. 

 This noble flrudure, hitherto the mofl beautiful and uniform flone 

 bridge in all Europe, its vaft magnitude confidered, by the parliament's 

 bounty in granting feveral lotteries, and at different times feveral fums 

 of money for it, was at length completed, much to the honour of the 

 nation, the conveniency of inland commerce, and the accommodation 

 of all ranks of people. The feveral flatutes made concerning it like- 

 wile provided for the removal of many old and decayed houfes, and 



