A. D. 1739. 221 



* fliortlings, mortlings, woolflocks, worfled-yarn, cloth, ferge, bays, 



* kerfies, fays, frifes, druggets, cloth-ferges, fhalloons, fluffs, and other 

 ' draperies, or fluffs mixed with wool or woolflocks ; which fhall from 

 ' time to time be exported from Ireland into the ports of this kingdom 

 ' hereafter mentioned, fliall be fliipped off and entered at the ports of 

 ' Dublin, Waterford, Youghal, Kingfale, Cork, Drogheda, New-Rofs, 

 ' Nevvry, Wexford, Wicklow, Sligo, Limerick, Galway, and Dundalk, 



* and from no other part of Ireland whatever. Nor to any other ports 

 ' of Britain but to Biddiford, Barnftaple, Minehead, Bridgewater, Brif- 



* tol, Milford-haven, Chefter, and Liverpool; and in veffels only of the 



* built of Great Britain or Ireland, and duely regiftered upon oath.' 

 With fundry other claufes for preventing frauds, needlcfs here to be 

 particularized. [12 Geo. II, c. 21.] 



Upon this fubjedl, the author of Confiderations now laid before the 

 Britifli parliament, relating to the running of wool, tlunks it highly 

 probable, ' that more than 1,500,000 people are employed in our Britifh 

 ' woollen manufacture ; and if thefe earn, one with another, fixpence per 



* day for 313 working days in the year, it will amount to Li 1,737,500.' 

 Which is rightly computed, and deraonftrates the immenfe benefit of 

 this manufacture. 



The French having gradually gained the afcendant over us in fupply- 

 ing the European market with fugars, by being permitted to carry 

 them directly from their own fugar iflands to foreign parts, without be- 

 ing firfl landed in France, liberty was therefor granted to carry fugars 

 of the growth, produce, or manufadure, of any Britidi fugar colonies 

 in America, from the faid colonies diredly to foreign parts fouthward of 

 Cape Finiflerre, in fliips built in Great Britain, and navigated accord- 

 ing to law; the major part of the proprietors of which fliips fliall, upon 

 oath, be refiding in Great Britain, and the refidue in the Britifli fugar 

 iflands, and not elfewhere, and cleared out from Great Britain, or the 

 Britifli fugar iflands, on certain conditions therein fpecified. [12 Geo. II, 

 c. 30.] The French had the flart of us in this prudent regulation, by 

 at leafl: twelve years, as appears by their edids of the years 1726 and 

 1727. 



In confequence of a flatute for laying a duly on the tonnage of all 

 fliips belonging or trading to or troni tlie port of I^ivcrpool, for making 

 a dock, piers, &c. for that port, we have feen a printed lift of all the 

 fhips belonging to that famous maritime port and town, taken on tli£ 

 firflofMay 1739: whereby it ajipcarcd, that their number from 30 

 tons and upwards, was 211 fliips and vcilels, amongfl which that year 

 there were i of 400 tons ; i of 350 ; 1 of 300 ; i of 250 ; 2 of 240 ; 

 2 of 200 ; 2 of 190 ; 4 of 180; 7 of 160 ; 15 of 150 ; 10 of 140 ; 5 

 of 130 ; 13 of 120 ; 6 of 1 10 ; and 16 of 100 tons each : the rell fron\ 



