A. D. 1 761.' 349 



ing in the fociety for the encouragement of arts and commerce to ad- 

 vance ;^2000 upon a plan fuggefted by Mr. TuU (the fon of the founder 

 of the horfe-hoeing fyflem of hufbandry) for fupplying London with 

 fifli brought from the coaft by land-carriage, which was put under the 

 management of Captain J. Blake. 



Upon invitation from Sir Samuel Fludyer, the firft new lord mayor 

 of London after the king's marriage, the king, queen, and royal family, 

 the court, and the foreign amballadors, were entertained at the inflalla- 

 tion dinner at Gild-hall ; on which occafion one of the foreign mini- 

 fters was fo ftruck with the fuperb difplay of the magnificence and opu- 

 lence of the city, that he faid, fuch an entertainment was only fit to be 

 given by one fovereign to another. 



A method of preferving the bottoms of fliips from the worm, and 

 from the adhefion of weeds, had been fome years before this time fub- 

 mitted to the fociety for the cncovu'agement of arts and manufadlures ; 

 and fome experiments, made in various climates, with wood prepared 

 according to the diredions of the inventor, were found fatisfacftory ; fo 

 that this new method was fuppofed to be of infinite fervice to all kinds 

 of fhipping. 



But this method was foon fuperfeded by another, and apparently a 

 Jnore effectual, prefervative, compofed of thin flieets or plates of fmooth 

 copper, which no worm or animal of any kind will touch, and no ve- 

 getable will adhere to, which are great obje6ls in point of fwift failing. 

 It likeways keeps the fliip tighter than any other flieathing, and is infi- 

 nitely preferable to the old flieaching of lead, which was clumfy and in- 

 tolerably heavy ; whereas the copper is neat and much lighter than the 

 thinneft flieathing of boards, and laflis almoft as long as the fliip can be 

 kept afloat. The firfl: trial was made on the Alarm, one of the king's 

 fliips, at Woolwich ; and it foon came into general ufe, not only in the 

 navy, but alio in the merchants' fervice. 



A manufidure of cambric, in imitation of the French fabric, was 

 eflabliflied at Winchelfea, which was expec1:cd to be of great national 

 advantage, by faving the great funis fent to France for that article. 



Among the patriotic grants of the Irilh parliament for the general 

 improvement of the country, the following are felecT:ed, as more imme- 

 diately connedted with commerce and manufacftures. 



To the trufl^ees for the linen manufacture for two years *' /^8,coo 



To encourage a cambric manufacTiure at DundaFk - 1.375 



To the corporations of feveral inland navigations - 13,500 



The great canal from Dublin to the Sliannon - 10,000 



Making the Shannon navigable from Limerik to Kilaloc 8,coo 



* Bv the jiijicioiis managcnu'iU of llic triillccj the linen mamifaflHic of Irvlaud was lliis year iii- 

 crtafcJ ninvanii iif /,'??,' oo, and w:u Ri'.l incrcufin^. 



