ANNALS 



OF 



COMMERCE. 



A. D. 1760. 



O"E0RGE the Second, king of Great Britain, died on the 25th day of 

 Odober 1760, and was fucceeded by his grandfon, George prince of 

 Wales. 



In the reign of George II the agriculture, manufactures, and com- 

 raerce, of Britain were greatly improved. The roads throughout the 

 kingdom were put in a much better condition than they had ever been 

 in before, and the navigation of feveral rivers * was improved, where- 

 by various parts of the country were enabled to have a regular and 

 convenient mutual intercourfe ; and internal trade, an objed Hill more 

 important than foreign trade, was greatly facilitated. Thefe great im- 

 provements appear to have been in no degree checked, but rather to 

 have been in a ftate of progrellive advancement, during the extenfive 

 war which raged in the laft years of George II f. 



Accounts were received of an alarming infurreclion of the negro 

 Haves in the pariflies of St. Mary's, St. kllizabeth's, and St. Thomas in 

 the eaft, in Jamaica. Many white people were killed, many planta- 

 tions laid delblate by the infurgents, vaft numbers of the unhappy ne- 

 groes were deftroyed, and that opulent and tlourilhing colony was in 

 imminent danger of total rnin, before the exertions of the military and 

 the militia, with the allillance of the fleet, were able to quell this de- 

 fperate attempt of the wretched flaves to recover their hbcrty. 



• Tlie vaft benefits flowing from llie creation f The advancing profperity of tlie kingdom in 



(If I may be allowed the cxprcfTion) of new li- this reljrn has been clcnily and forcibly iUuftrated 



vers, or artificial caiiah, were only beginning to by Mr. Chalmers, in his I'Jlimalc of the comp.i:;i- 



bc underftood as yet in IJritain. livfjirength of Great Britain^ cd. 1794. 



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