2 12 A. D. 1736. 



nowleen to be to hem in all our fettlements on the eall coafts of North- 

 America by forts, all along the river Mifllfippi, as far up as Canada, and 

 thereby to exclude the Engliili from any couimerce with the numerous 

 nations of Indians weft of our colonies ; of which plan Dr. D'Avenant 

 gave public warning fo early as the year 1698 : yet even now the fcales 

 did not fall from our eyes. It feems the French had got together 2500 

 white men on Mobile river, on which they built a fort with an intent 

 to invade Carolina ; but the advice of peace between the French and 

 us obliged them to dilTemble that defign, and our Chickafaws proved 

 too hard in the end for their Indian allies. 



For two years paft the general courts of the South-fea company had 

 fruitlefs debates concerning an equivalent propofed by G^raldino, the 

 Spanifh agent with that company, in lieu of their annual fhip, which 

 feemed calculated to amufe the company, and to delay the Spanifh ce- 

 dula, or permiflion, for lending out their annual fhip, without any fe- 

 rious intention to give the company due fatisfadion. On the 1 1 th of 

 Auguft 1736 the general court took that matter again into confider- 

 ation, after much had been printed in newfpapers, by way of letters, 

 for and againft the equivalent, and alfo for the company's farming their 

 introdudion of negroes into particular parts of the Spanifh Weft-In- 

 dies, viz. to Vera Cruz, Campeachy, Guatimala, &c. and the fevejral de- 

 mands made by Geraldino before a cedula could be granted : but it be- 

 ing obferved in this general court, that the court of diredors were bet- 

 ter acquainted with the fecret fprings of thofe points, it was finally re- 

 folved, ' that the feveral matters relating to difpatching an annual fhip, 

 ' to the payment demanded by the king of Spain of a quarter of the 

 ' profits made by the fhip Royal-Caroline, and the value of the dollars 

 ' payable for the negro duties, be referred to the court of diredors, to 

 ' do therein as they fhould think moft for the intereft of the company.* 



This year an account was laid before the houfe of commons of the 

 corn exported from England between chriftraas 1734 and chriftmas 

 1735, with the bounty paid thereon, viz, 



57,520 quarters of barley, bounty L7190 ; 219,781 quarters of malt, 

 bounty L26,434 ; 1920 quarters of oat-meal, bounty L240 ; 1329 

 quarters of rye, bounty L232 ; 153,343 quarters of wheat, bounty 

 1138,335 ; total quarters, 433,893 ; total bounties, L72,433. 



A fleet of 27 fail arrived this year at Lifbon from Pernambuco in 

 Brazil, the cargo whereof was, 



In money, 1,300,000 crufados for the merchants; 200,000 crufados 

 for the king. 



4 odtaves of diamonds. 



6294 chefts of fugar, and 700 fmall chefts ditto. 



8600 rolls of tobacco. 



84,000 half hides, and 13,000 whole hides, in the hair.. 



