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ift, their juft claim on him, for one fourth part of all their lofles fuflain- 

 ed in trade ; as by the afliento contrad he was to be a quarter-part 

 fharer in their profits. 



2dlv, The king of Spain ought to make good the lofs the South-fca 

 company has fuflained by his frequent retufal ol: their annual flhp, as 

 well as by the number of fuch annual (hips fliort of what they fliould 

 have been allowed by the afliento contrad. 



3dlv, The company has yet farther demands to make, whenever a 

 treaty fhall be fet on foot : but, in the meantime, thefe confiderations 

 are more than fufficient to juftify their proceedings, and to demonfirate 

 that the court of Spain was never difpofed in earnefl; to do juflice to 

 our injured people. For the king of Spain did not only fuffer the four 

 months to elapfe, within which time he was to pay the L95,ooo, on 

 the pretext of the South-fea company's failure of paying his demand of 

 L68,ooo ; but, inftead of fulfilling the convention, he feized the fliips 

 and goods of his majefty's fubjeds wherever they could be found, in his 

 dominions or clfewhere ; and alfo ordered all the Britifli fubjeds in • 

 his dominions to depart in a fliorter time than allowed by treaties. 

 Whereupon Gcraldino, his envoy extraordinary, and Terry, his agent 

 at London for the afliento contrad, were obliged to leave the kingdom. 

 And his Britannic majefty on the 23d of Odober 1739 declared war 

 againfl; Spain, for maintaining the honour of his crown and kingdom, 

 and for obtaining redrefs to his much injured merchants and traders, 

 who from all parts of the kingdom made earnefl petitions for relief. It 

 was indeed high time for our government to take this flep, (though 

 with more than feeming reludance) for the violences and inlolence of 

 the Spaniards in America were become abfolutely intolerable, princi- 

 pally owing to our own fhamefuUy pufillanimous temporizing at any 

 rate, rather than refolutely doing ourfelves juflice by force of arms ; 

 they more than ever perfifl;ing in fearching and feizing Britifli fliips, and 

 putting their commanders into irons and prifons, their detaining the 

 South-lea company's {hips, and locking up of that company's warehoufes 

 at Porto-Bello, Carthagena, Havanna, &c. 



It was thought, that taking off the duties upon woollen or bay yarn, 

 imported from Ireland, might be a ' means to prevent the exportation of 

 ' wool, and of woollen manufadurcs, from Ireland to foreign parts, and 

 ' alfo be of ufe to the manufadurers of Great Britain ;' and parliament 

 therefor enaded, that ' from the ifliof May 1740, the fame fliould be no 



* longer payable ; excepting only the duties upon worfl.ed-yarn of two or 

 ' more threads, twifl:ed or thrown, or on cruel, imported from Ireland. 



* And whereas, notwithftanding the feveral laws for preventing the ex- 



* portation of wool unmanufadured from Britain and Ireland to foreign 



* parts, fuch exportation was notorioufly continued ; for farther preven- 



* tion thereof; it was enaded, that all wool, woollen or bay yarn, woolfels,. 



