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commerce, and as it likewife fhews Spain's feeblenefs in the South fea 

 when at war with us, it feems needful, though very briefly, to relate its 

 fiiccefs. He failed from Portfmouth in September 1 740, and in May 1 74 1 

 he got round Terra del Fuego into the South fea, after much peril and lofs 

 by florms. In September 1741, he took a rich Spanifh prize ; and, coaft- 

 ing along Chili, in November the fame year, he took another Spanifli 

 prize, laden with cloth and iron. Sailing to the coafl:of Peru, he took, 

 plundered, and burnt, the town of Payta, in the fame month. Thence 

 he failed to the coaft of Mexico, and oppofjte to the harbour of Acapul- 

 co, he learned that the Manilla fliip was not to fail during that feafon ; 

 wherefor, in May 1742, he fleered weflward for the coafi: of China, 

 where he arrived in November ; and he remained in the road of Macao 

 till April 1743, when he failed for the Philippine ifles ; where, in June, 

 he took a very rich Acapulco fliip, bound for Manilla, with the trcafure 

 of which he failed homeward, reaching the Cape of Good Hope in 

 March t 744 ; and on the 14th of June he anchored at Spithead with 

 only the Centurion, his 60 gun fliip, all the refl being lofl, or left as un- 

 able to proceed. This is the laft, Britifli circumnavigation of the globe, 

 much to the glory of the n:ition, and to the greatly-merited emolument 

 of the noble commander of it *. 



There were exported this year from South-Carolina 91,1 10 barrels of 

 rice, 10,263 barrels of pitch, 2374 barrels of tar, 562 barrels of tur- 

 pentine, 432 hogflieads of deer-llcins, befides cherts and loofe ones, &c. f 



1 741. — In the year 1741 the induftrious and ingenious Mr. John Smart, 

 of the city clerk's office in London, publiflied an accurate account of the 

 number of houfes in every precin*!;!: of the twenty-five wards within the 

 bars or limits of the lord mayor of London's jurifdid;ion, (the twenty- 

 fixth ward, named Bridge-ward without, not having any houfes reckon- 

 ed therein) whereby he makes the whole number of houfes therein to 

 amount but to 21,649. -^^^ though in his dedication to the common 

 council, he defires them to correcl the errors m his account, (which, fays 

 he, like a modeft man, I fear are many) yet, as he was known to be an 

 accurate perfon, and that no one has animadverted on, nor contraditfled 

 his account, wc may take it for granted that it is a true one. How in- 

 accurate then mufl the writers of the former part of the preceding cen- 

 tury have been in magnifying the number of ibuls within the jurifdic- 

 tion beyond all rational probaliility ? More elpecially when it is confi- 

 dered, that, after the great conflagration in 1666, very many void Ipaces 

 were built up, as well as the ground of fpacious houfes and gardens of 



• Britain can boaft of m.iny circumnavigations -f The total value of the imports of England in 



fince that one, and much mure to the glory of the th: ye.ir 1740 was L6,703,778, and of the ex- 



uation ; inasmuch as the purluils of fcicncc arc ports (not iiichuling coin and bullion) 1^8,197,788 



more honourai)lc than thdfc of depredation, thoiigli [li^hilivonh's i'td'c] M. 



perhaps not fo mucii to the cnioUimcnt of the 

 commanders. M. 



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