292 A. D. 1752. 



' refpedl: to all nations, excepting the Hamburghers, who muft pay 



' more than others : the Englifh, Dutch, Swedifli, and French, fliips are 



' not fearched, when provided with proper pafles, according to treaties, 



' and pay down only i per cent for fuch goods as are not fpecified in 



* the tarif ; but all other nations pay i^ per cent, and muft fubmit to 

 ' be fearched. With regard to the Hanfe towns on the Baltic, there is 

 ' a great variety in the toll they pay, for alraoft every one of thofe 



* towns is treated with in particular.' 



This year the king of Naples (afterwards king of Spain), eftablifhed 

 a commercial company at Meflina ; principally intended for ereding 

 manufa<flures of filk, fluffs, and camblets ; the company, for ten years 

 to come, to be exempted from all kinds of duties : and, for their far- 

 ther encouragement, he has limited the exportation of raw filk to half 

 the wonted quantity. Thus almoft every corner of Europe, in our age^ 

 ftrives to gain fome part of the commercial advantages, which they 

 clearly obferve to contribute fo much to the enrichment and exaltation 

 of nations. 



We, the fame year, learned from Spain, that they are there flriving for 

 the increafe of commerce and manufactures : that of late they have in the 

 kingdom of Valencia 2000 looms for filk and woollen; 1000 in Gra- 

 nada ; 500 in Catalonia ; and that, throughout all Spain, they reckon 

 in all 10,000 fuch looms, for filk, gold, and filver tiffue, middling and 

 coarfe woollen cloths, bays, ferges, camblets, &c. ' And' (fays Don 

 Geronymo de Uftariz, a judicious Spanifh author) ' they are projecting 

 ' no fewer than 60,000 new looms, whereby, not only to fupply them- 

 ' felves and their Indies, but to export to other European nations ; and 

 ' to ereCt I know not how many other new manufacftures : of all which 



* it will be right to fufpend our belief till experience clears it up.' 



1-753. — By a fupplemental act of the Britifh parliament, of the 26th 

 of George II, to explain, amend, and render moreeffedual, an ad of the 

 23d year of George II, entitled, an Ad for the encouragement of the 

 Britifh white-herring fifhery, and for regulating the faid fifhery accord- 

 ing to the calendar now in ufe, &c. 



I) It was now enaded, that the commencement and duration of the 

 filheries, as direded by the former ad, fliall hereafter be conformable 

 to the calendar now in ufe. 



II) The fociety fhall not be intitled to the bounty of thirty fhillings 

 per ton for fuch veffels as fhall return into port at the end of the fifhery 

 with a lefs number of hands than they are required (by the firft ad) 

 to have onboard at the rendezvous, unlefs it fhall appear that fuch 

 number hath been reduced by death, ficknefs, or defertion, without any 

 fraud or collufion, on the part of the fociety : and the veffels are al- 

 lowed, between the intervals of the Shetland and Yarmouth fifheries, to 

 put into any port of Great Britain or Ireland, for the purpofe of chang- 



