348 A. D. 1761. 



this year's was the greatefl outfit for the fifhery fince the attempt to re- 

 vive it by bounties *. 



In a treaty of peace and commerce concluded with the emperor of 

 Morocco in July 1760, and ratified 5th Augufi; 1761, it was fiipulated, 



Article 2, 6) That all Englifli fhips arriving in any port of the em- 

 pire of Morocco, and finding their cargoes unfaleable there, fhould be 

 at liberty to carry them to any other port of the empire, and pay duty 

 only once, fire-arms, fwords, and other implements of war, and mate- 

 rials for building fhips, being free of all duty ; and that fliips bound to 

 other parts of the world, calling at any of the ports of Morocco, ftiould 

 pay no duty ; and fliips belonging to either party, driven into the ports 

 of either country by ftrefs of weather, fhould be protedted, and enjoy 

 perfedl liberty. 



3, 4, 17) Ships of both parties fliould have liberty to navigate the 

 feas without any fearch or hindrance on fhewing their paflports. 



7, 8) The king fhould be at liberty to eflablifli a conful, or confuls, 

 in the dominions of the emperor, who fhould refide in what ports or 

 places he, or they, fhould think proper ; they, and all the Britifh mer- 

 chants, with their fl\milies and fervants, enjoying perfed liberty, reli- 

 gious, civil, and commercial. And the fubjeds of Morocco fhould en- 

 joy equal liberty in Britain. 



12) Subjeds of Morocco carrying cargoes from Britain fhould have 

 the advantage of a Britifli convoy to Gibraltar, and thence to their own 

 port on the coafl of Morocco. 



15) All fubjeds of the king, whether Britifli or German, found on- 

 board the fhips of any other nation, with whom the emperor of Mo- 

 rocco is at war, are to be delivered free of ranlbm to the Britifh conful, 

 or the principal Britifh merchant at the port they are carried into. The 

 people of Morocco, found onboard any vefTel taken by Britifli fhips of 

 .war, are to be treated in the fame favourable manner. 



24) The payment of 225,000 pefbs duros [hard dollars] was to be 

 confidered as entire fatisfadtion for all redemptions, differences, difficul- 

 ties, &c. 



The people of England now beginning to underfland the great ad- 

 vantages of inland navigation, the duke of Bridgewater's example was 

 followed on the oppofite fide of the country in a canal extending 

 from Lynn to Northampton, the navigation of which commenced 

 with the paflage of 38 barges loaded with coals, Sec. on the 7th of 

 Auguft. 



It is faid, that the Dutch annually receive from this country the 

 enormous fum of /!!i 00,000 for the fingle article of turbot, and alfo 

 large fums for other fpecies of fifli. The Norwegians alfo carry off 

 large fums for lobfters and crabs. It was therefor a patriotic undertak- 



* A chronological (latcment of thi Scottidi fifherv \v!U be after A-arJs Infsrted. a 



