A. D. 1765. 4n 



trading to Morocco, who alleged that the emperor of Morocco would 

 refent fuch a trade as an encroachment upon his dominions, he at laft 

 obtained the afllirance of a grant for twenty-one years, and thereupon 

 fet lail with a proper afTortmcnt of goods for the trade, laid in by him- 

 felf and one or two merchants conneded wiih him. But however flat- 

 tering the profpedt of this new trade might be, it was entirely fruflrated 

 by the tragical confequences of the treachery, or perhaps the groundlefi 

 apprehenlion, of the natives *. 



The manufadure of Englifli cambrics, eftabliflied fome time ago, 

 was now brought to fuch perfedion, that they were efteemed nothing 

 interior to the French fabric, and promifed, with dvie encouragement, 

 very foon to fupcrfcde the necellity of importin'j any from France f. 



The beginning of the year 1765 is dirtinguiftitd, or at lead ought to 

 be diftinguiflied, by two inftances of nice honour and ftridl integrity, 

 which deierve to be duely noticed in this work. 



A lady, whofe name ought not to have been fupprefled, had a ne- 

 phew, a grocer, who had failed- about the year 1745, and paid his cre- 

 ditors lof in the pound. By her will flie bequeathed a fum of money 

 to pay tiie balance due to his creditors. 



Mr. Stephen Theodore janflen, formerly lord mayor of London, and 

 one of the reprefentatives in parliament for the city, had the misfortune 

 to fail in bufmeis the year after his mayoralty. His friends immediate- 

 ly fettled on him an annuity of £,600 for life, 01 which he paid annu- 

 ally ^480 among his creditors, though acquitted of his former debts, 

 as far as a certificate figned by the creditors could acquit him. The 

 citizens of London, as a mark of their approbation of fuch honourable 

 condud, did themfelvcs honour in bellowing u])on him, without any 

 previous canvafs, the lucrative and confidential office of city chamber- 

 lain : and Mr. Janflen's fnbfcquent conduct did honour to their choice. 

 A few days after his eledion his brother Sir Abraham Janllen died and 



* One of his men was miirdcrcd, and the king land witli a ((iiantily ol gold, orchill, \va::, woods, 



of tlic placo attempted to jioifoii the wliole crew : feathers, and (l<ins. 



whereupon Captain Glaff, being in want of necef- Captain Glafs, having been joined at Canary 

 farics, wliich he iNpcCted to get from the flioie, by his wife and daiighttr, emb.irkcd onboard a 

 or, according to other accounts, witli a view of vclTcl bound for London, and had aclually got 

 felling fome goods he found not faleable there, fight of the land of England, when four n;ffianj 

 went over in his longboat to one of the Canaries, of the crew, in purfuancc of a fcheme they had 

 where the Spanidi gimrnor, pretending that he laid before they (ailed, munlered their own corn- 

 was a fpy, kept him in prifon, till he found means, mander, Captain Glafs, his wife, daughter, and 

 by writing with charcoil upon a bifcuit, to repre- fervjint, with fome of the ftamen not concerned in 

 fent his cafe to tiie captain of a Britilli fhip of war, tl-.eir plot, in older to poffefs a large fum of mo- 

 wlio, after beinj; fent to prifon himfelf, procured ney onljoard the fliip. 



his liberty. In the meantime the natives of Gue- Such was the melancholy end of this entcrpril- 



der took advantage of the weakened Hate of the ing and unfortunate gentleman j and with him, I 



(hip's comj)any, made an attack upon her, and believe, his jjrojetted trade alio perirticd. 

 were bravely repulfed by the mate, who at laft dc- f 300 pieces were fold at Gairaway'i coffee- 



fpairing of his commandir's return, fiiiled for Eng- houfe at 13^6 a yard on an average in January 



1765. 



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