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fubjccts fraudulently fliipping from Leghorn quantities of French wool- 

 len cloths for Turkey under the denomination of Engliili, to the great 

 detriment of the Britilh woollen manufadures. 



By the fame aft alfo provifion was made againft another fraudulent 

 practice, viz. whereas the woollen manufadures of France are of late 

 years fent to Turkey in great quantities; and the French, in return 

 thereof, bring back raw filk and other commodities to Marfeilles and. 

 other ports, which have afterward been carried thence into Italy, from 

 whence they were afterward fhipped for Great Britain in Englifli fhips, 

 greatly to the difcouragement of the Britiili woollen manufadures and 

 to the advancement of thole of France ; meafures were therefor hereby 

 laid down for preventing both thefe abufes. But this aft was to con- 

 tinue in force during the war with France, and no longer. 



There being an unufual fcarcity of gold and filver at this time in 

 England, partly occafioned by much money being carried out of the 

 nation on account of our expenfive wars in Germany and America, &c. 

 and partly by the large demand for the current fervice of the year 1759 ; 

 the bank of England, for the better accommodation of the public in 

 their receipts and ))ayments, in April 1759 iflbed cafii-notes for L15 

 and for Lio, which have proved very convenient for payments. Pof- 

 fibly, that bank, without any great inconveniency to themfelves, and 

 with coniiderable conveniency to the public, (more efpecially in the 

 country, now that the forging or altering them is rendered fo difficult, 

 if not quite impoffible) might ifllie notes as low as L5 ; but lower than 

 that fum would probably be attended with real inconveniences, in a 

 country of fo extenfive an inland commerce : though, as we have elfe- 

 where obferv'ed, notes of the two incorporated Edinburgh banks, even 

 fo low as twenty (liillings fterling, are circulated all over that country, 

 and prove extremely ufekil in fairs, and country places. 



In the month of May the fertile French Welt-India ifland of Gua- 

 daloupe, after having held out ever fmce February againft a Britifh fea 

 and land force, furrendercd to our troops by capitulation. It is by fome 

 comput(;d to produce no lefs than 40,000 hogflieads of lugar, one year 

 with another ; but this is fmce known to be exaggerated. 



In that fame month the foreign newfpapers acquainted the public, 

 that the king of Denmark, having ordered an account to be taken of 

 the number of men, women, and children, throughout all his dominions 

 ot Denmark, Norway, Holrtein, the ilkmds in the Baltic, and tlie ct)un- 

 ties of Oldenburgh and Delmenhorft in \V'e(l[)halia ; tlKy amounted 

 lo 2,444,000 fouls. It does not thereby appear, that his Danilh ma- 

 jefly's iubjects in Iceland are included in this cenlus ; though, conlidcr- 

 ing the barrennefs of that iiland and the cold climate, they can be 

 but few in number. 



We had public advices this year from Charleftown in South-Carolina, 

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