^^o A. D. 1761. 



For a new key and other improvements at Limcrik - 4,500 



Improving the navigation of the Barrow and the Boyne 4,000 



Building piers at Dunleary and Balbriggan - - 4,500 



Improving Cork harbour by clearing the channel - 4,000 



Finilhing the harbour of Wicklow - - 1.850 



To finifh a dock at Dublin - - - 1 ,gco 



To lengthen the wall of the ballaft-office - - 5, 000 

 And to the Dublin fociety for the improvement of hufbaiid- 



ry and other ufeful arts _ _ _ 12,000 



Thefe grants, when added to thofe voted for churches, fchools, hofpi- 

 tals, mills, &c. are, confidering all things, wonderfully liberal : and there 

 is this great bleiling that attends fuch expenditure of public money, 

 that, if the object fliould even not be accompliflied, yet the money is 

 employed in diffusing induflry and comfort among a vaft number of 

 workmen, who are thereby enabled to maintain their families, and to 

 raife up a healthy and induftrious race of future workmen to fupport 

 and enrich the flate. And as fuch public works, confidered and plan- 

 ned by the national wifdom, and executed under the fuperintendence 

 of men of the firft profeflional abilities, fcarcely ever mifcarry, they are 

 in every fenfe the furefl: means to enrich a country. The fame, or fi- 

 milar, grants were repeated, as often as they were needful, by the par- 

 liament of Ireland. 



For the convenience of change, gold pieces of the value of 5/3, called 

 quarter guineas, were coined ; but being very fmall, they were found 

 trifling and inconvenient, and the circulation of them was difcontinued 

 in a few years. 



The following is a llatement of the number of cattle, &c. killed in 

 the city of London during the year 1761. 

 711,121 flieep and lambs, 

 78,254 bulls, oxen, and cows, 

 104,760 calves. 



The following flatement of the royal navy of Great Britain in the 

 year 1761, may be ufeful in order to compare it with fubfequent 

 ones. 



2 {hips of the ifl rate, 

 carrying 



146,932 hogs for pork, 

 41,000 hogs for bacon, 

 52,600 fucking pigs. 



II 



60 



43 



71 

 40 



68 



1 2 bomb veiTels j 

 10 fire fhips ; 



4 flore fliips ; 



39 hired armed veflels ; 

 7 royal yachts ; 



5 fmall yachts ; 



Total, 372 velTels of all kinds. 



The official value of the imports and exports of Great Britain from 

 Chrillraas 1760 to Chriftmas 1761 was as follows. 



