A. D. 1^62. 



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357 



Hamburgh and Bremen, though the number of Dutch veflels, as ufual, 

 greatly exceeded ours. 



The whale fifhing this year had very little fuccefs. 



From London y fliips got 7 fize- 



able fifh and 1 1 very fmallones. 



From Hull 2 (liips - o fifh. 



Newcaftle 4 - i 



Liverpool 2-1 



Exeter i - o 



1 1 very fmall. 



Englifli fhips 16 



9 fifh. 



ships. 



From Leith - - i 



Borrowfioimnefs 2 



Anf^ruther(i fhip lofl) 2 

 Dundee (2 very fmall) 2 

 Dunbar - 3 



Aberdeen - i 



14 



sizeable 



fish. 



4 



o 



o 

 o 



I 

 5 



Scottifh fhips 

 And 154 Dutch fhips got only 43 fifh. 



The Havanna, a place formed by nature and by art for a moll fpa- 

 cious, fecure, and, I might almoft add, impregnable, harbour, the moft 

 important fettlement belonging to the Spaniards in the weftern he- 

 milphere, and the general center of all their commerce in that quarter 

 of the world, was attacked by a formidable force under the command 

 of Lord Albemarle and Admiral Pococke ; and after a gallant and ob- 

 flinate defence of ten weeks, was furrendered, and with it a confider- 

 able diflrid of Cuba, the largefi ifland of the Weft-Indies, on the i4tli 

 of Auguft. By the capitulation, all the private property was fecured to 

 the inhabitants. But above twenty capital fliips of war, moft of them 

 of the line, and all the money and merchandize belonging to the king 

 of Spain, eflimated at near three millions fterling, fell into the hands 

 of the conquerors. One coniequence of this important conqueft was, 

 that a very confiderable trade w.u? immediately opened with it, as will 

 appear in the ftatement of the imports and exports, for the fhort time 

 it continued in our hands : but the principal value of it was, that, as 

 the lols of it ftruck at the very vitals of the commerce and revenue ot 

 Spain, it was very inftrumental in reftoring the blelfmgs of peace. 



Though the mere depredations of war do not properly belong to tlia 

 hiftory of commerce, yet a brief notice inay be admitted ot the cap- 

 Lure of the Hermione, a Spanifli rcgifter fiiip, loaded with bullion and 

 rich merchandize, which afterwards fold for confiderably above halt a 

 million fterling, by two floops of war, as having contributed, with the 

 treafure brought from the Havanna, to increafe the circulating money 

 of the nation *. 



* Of tlu' pri/c-moiiey, tht ailmiial anj two cnp- wlio coulJ taiie care of their niooi y ; and foine 



tains had cich about ^65,000, the toinniiffioncd of the petty officers, by rctiriiij; to their native 



officer* about /^ 1 3, 000, the warrant officers about places, and cntcrii)g into the herring; fifliery, bc- 



jC433>> ''"•" pt'^'-y officers about yriS04, and the c.inie men of coul'tqucnce, and cliict magillratci 



private men ab'>ut Ca^S f'lch. All were enriched «>f the towns. 



