28o A. D. 1750. 



of commerce concluded at Utrecht in the year 1713; thole articles ex- 

 cepted which are contrary to the prefent treaty, which fliall be abolifli- 

 ed and of no force; and, namely, the three articles of the laid treaty, 

 commonly called explanatory. 



X) All the reciprocal differences, rights, demands, and pretenfions, 

 which may have fubfifted between the two crowns of Great Britain and 

 Spain, in which no other nation whatever has any part, interell, or 

 right of intervention, being thus accommodated and extinguiflied by 

 this particular treaty; the two mod ferene kings engage themfelves 

 mutually to the punctual execution of this treaty of reciprocal compen- 

 fation. 



This is truely a moft definitive treaty, in the flridefl fenfe, as it relates 

 purely to diiferenccs between Great Britain and Spain, without any re- 

 lation to, or connedion with, any other nation : and accordingly it has 

 hitherto, till very lately, been well obferved on both fides ; and hereby 

 a period was abfolutely put to all foreign commerce whatever of the 

 South-fea company. 



This year an a6t of parliament was pafled to encourage the importa- 

 tion of pig and bar iron from his majefty's colonies in America, and to 

 prevent the eredion of any mill, or other engine, for flitting or rolling 

 iron, or any plating forge to work with a tilt hammer, or any furnace 

 for making fi:eel, in any of the faid colonies. The title of this flatute 

 fufficiently Ihews how jealoufly our legiflature prevented our greatly-in- 

 creafing northern colonies from going far into manufactures interfering 

 with thole of their mother-country. Neverthelefs, as our continental 

 colonies are increafing faft in people, furely fome latitude mtifl:, and will 

 hereafter, be allowed in that refpect, as the proportionable increafe of 

 our people there will undoubtedly occafion a like or greater increafe 

 of our general commerce thither. 



By a ilatute of the 30th of King George 11, this ad of the 23d of this 

 king, for importing bar iron from America into the port of London, 

 was extended to all the ports of Great Britain ; and fome claufes in the 

 firfl; ad, of lefs importance, were repealed. 



This year an ad of parliament pafled for extending and improving 

 the trade to Africa, lis preamble jufl:ly remarks, that the trade to and 

 from Africa being very advantageous to Great Britain, and neceflary 

 for fupplying the plantations and colonies with a iufficient number of 

 negroes at reafonable rates, ought, for that reafon, to be free and open 

 to all his majefly's fubjeds ; it was therefor enaded that it fliall be 

 lawful for all the king's fubjeds to trade to and from any place in 

 Africa, between the port of Sallee in South-Barbary, and the Cape of 

 Good Hope, without any refi:raint whatfoever, except as herein after 

 exprefled, viz. 



I) All his majefl:y's fubjeds, who flaall trade to and from Africa, be- 



