A. D. 1764. 407 



finding wheat charged at 8/4 a bufheL fixed the price at s/by their own 

 authority, and cleared the market at that price. The gentlemen of York 

 contributed a fund for importing foreign grain to be diftributed to the 

 poor, which, if there was a real fcarcity, was at leafl a well-intended 

 charity; but, if the fcarcity was artificial, it may be doubted, whether 

 the application of a part of the money, for the purpofe of enforcing the 

 laws againft the counteradors of God's bounty to mankind, would not 

 have been a more effectual charity *. 



The filk-weavers prefented a memorial to the lords of trade, fetting 

 forth their hardfhips arifing from the importation of foreign wrought 

 filks and velvets, and praying, that at leaft double duties fliould be laid 

 on all fuch goods. 



At the fame time the filk-throwfters and others in the filk trade pre- 

 fented a memorial, flating, that the quantity of raw filk imported was 

 not fufficient to anfwer the demands of the trade. 



A third memorial was prefented by the filk-mercers, who aflarmed, 

 that there was no v/ant of employment, but a great want of hands to 

 execute the work offered to the weavers. 



There is a ftrange contradiction in thefe three memorials. Parlia- 

 ment endeavoured to fatisfy all parties by an adl pafl'ed in the enfiiing 

 feffion, which will be noticed in due time. 



The following account was tranfmittcd from Nova-Scotia of the ex- 

 ports of that province during the year 1764. 



66,400 quintals of dried cod, value - - ;i(?39,840 



7200 barrels of pickled fifh, _ _ _ 7.770 



Lumber, to the amount of - - - 700 



Sole leather tarnied at Halifax and Lunenburg, - 200 



6 tons of cheefe, - - - - - 280 



Furs, _____ _ i6,coo 



;^64,79o 



But 22,000 quintals of the cod were caught by the people 



of New-England, value _ _ _ 39,000 



So that the exports really proceeding from the indufiry of 



Nova-Scotia are reduced to - - - ;iC25.790 



Mofl of the expenfes attending the late war being now paid off or 



• If wc may judge from tlic crowds tliat were warrants and receiving the bread, than tlicy faved 



to be feen waiting at tiic ditLrcnt plaets in and by getting it fourpence under tlic price. And 



about London, where biead was given out below there is rcal'on to believe that the more worthy 



the niarkei pi ice in tlie yeai 1796, wlitn the <[uar- p.irt of the poor (generally fuflcred the hardlhip in 



tern loaf wa-i at the enormous price of 1/3, we may lilence, from a principle of modeily, which was in 



probably be warrnnttd to fuppofe, that the poor reality tlie bed ccoaomy with regard to the value 



lod more in the time walled in applying for the of their time. 



