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A. D. 1761. 



There were entered this year from and to foreign countries in the- 

 various ports of Great Britain : 



Inward 

 Outward 



There belonged this year to all the ports 

 of England 6119 veflels of the reputed burthen of 

 and of Scotland 956 _ _ _ 



405,795 tuns. 

 51.523 



Total 7075 - - - 457.316 



The net amount of cufloms, including the Weft-India four-and-a-half- 

 per-cent duty, paid into the exchequer in the courfe of this year, was, 

 from the cuftom-houfe in London, - /^i, 858, 151 18 il 



and from the cuftom-houfe in Edinburgh, - 8,000 o o 



Total net revenue of the cuftoms of Great Britain, ^{"1 ,866,151 18 11 



And there were coined at the mint in the courfe of the year 

 11,790 pounds of gold, value - - ^550.^87 15 o 



and I o pounds of filver, - - - 3100 



;^55o,9i8 15 o 



1762, January 4''' — War was proclaimed againft Spain. 



January 2 2"* — A treaty was entered into with the bey of Tunis ; but 

 though called a treaty of commerce, it contains nothing worth men- 

 tioning in a commercial point of view. 



A loan was opened for twelve millions by open fubfcription at the 

 bank. For every ^^i 00 the fubfcribers were entitled to an annuity, 

 which was to continue at £4. for 19 years, and afterwards to be reduced 

 to jT^' ^^^ ^1^0 ^^ ^ terminable annuity of ,^1 for 98 years. [2 Geo. 

 Ill, c. 10.] 



The trade carried on by the French with the Weft- Indies, though 

 crippled by the capture of feveral of their iflands, was ftill confiderable 

 and productive : and therefor the Britifti miniftry confidered their re- 

 maining iflands as the points wherein they were moft vulnerable, and 

 by the polleflion of which a peace might moft fpeedily be effeded. 

 Martinique, the chief of the French windward iflands, was according- 

 ly attacked by a confiderable force under the command of General 

 Monkton and Admiral Rodney ; and by a final capitulation (for there 

 were two previous partial ones) the whole ifland was furrendered to the 

 Britifli commanders (February 13th). 



The conqueft of this important ifland naturally drew after it. the fub- 



