222 A. D. 1739. 



90 tons downward. And though the printing of the number of their 

 fhips be fince laid afide, we are well alTured that the number of fiiipping 

 of that port is fince very confiderably increafed. 



During the year 1738, there arrived at the port of Amfterdam 18 13 

 {hips of all forts. Boyer's Political ftate for the month of January 1739, 

 (N. S.) from whom that number of fhips is taken, remarks, ' that the 

 ' Amflerdamers conjedure, that London has double their number of 

 ' fhips frequenting their port.' 



In the fame year Roterdam had about 500 fhips entered inwards. 



At London in this year 1739 there were chriflened 16,181 : buried 

 25,432 ; decreafed in the burials in this year 393. 



There were exported in the year 1739 from South-Carolina, 71,484 

 barrels of rice ; 8095 barrels of pitch ; ;^^ ditto of turpentine ; 2734 

 ditto of tar; 559 hogfheads of deer-fkins, ii96 1oofe fkins unpacked; 

 Indian corn and peas 20,165 bufhels ; pine and cyprefs timber and 

 planks 209,190 feet; cedar boards 3200 feet; fliingles 42,600 pieces ; 

 ca(k-fl:aves 56,821; tanned leather 1535 hides; rofin 45 barrels; 

 fafliifras 4^ tons; beef and pork 539 barrels; potatoes 790 bufhels. 

 Cleared outward 238 fliips and vellels. 



1740. — In the year 1740 there was eredted in Sweden aboard for 

 the encouragement of trade and manufactures, which has proved very 

 advantas;eous to that nation. 



For the better fupply of feamen to ferve in Britifh fliips of war, and 

 alfo onboard merchant fliips and privateers, and for the better carrying 

 on the prefent war againft Spain, or any future war, an act was pafled, 

 ' whereby, during the prefent war, merchant fhips may be navigated 

 ' by any number of foreign feamen, not exceeding three fourths of the 



* fhip's company. And for the better encouragement of foreign fea- 



* men to ferve onboard Britifli fhips, either of war, merchant fliips, or 

 ' privateers, during this war, fuch foreign feamen fo fer^'ing for two years, 

 ' fhall afterward be deemed in all refpeds natural-born fubjeds; provided, 



* fuch foreigner fhall not thereby be enabled to be of the privy-council, 

 ' or to be a member of either houfe of parliament, or to take any oflice 

 ' of truft, civil or military, or to have any grant of lands, &c. from the 



* crown to himfelf, or to any other perfon in trufi: for him : and the 

 ' king, his heirs, and fucceffors, are hereby empowered in any future 

 ' war, by proclamation, during fuch war, and no longer, to permit the 



* like number of foreign feamen to ferve in merchant fliips or priva- 



* teers, as well as in fliips of war.' [13 Gt;o. II, c. 3.] This prudent 

 law was followed by another very wife one, in fundry refpeds refem- 

 bling it, for naturalizing fuch foreign proteftants, and others therein 

 mentioned, as are fettled, or fliall fettle, in any of his majefty's colonies 

 in America, the preamble whereof fets forth, that whereas the increafe 



