A. D. 1765. 413. 



Africa, they found, that the forts were generally in a defencelefs con- 

 dition, and the garrifons unacciuainted with military difcipline, and too 

 weak, to uflford any profpcdl of defence, even againft the natives ; that 

 places, reprefented as of great importance for improving our commerce, 

 and where the natives had even requefted us to make fettlcments, were 

 totally neglected ; and that the civil government was as defedtive as the 

 military, there being at Fort-Louis a town confi fling of about 4000 

 people, totally deflitute of government ; though, in the time of the 

 French dominion at Senegal, that town, together with Podore on the 

 fame river, was fubject to the command of the French governor. 



The nature of the commerce at Senegal, which is chiefly for gum, 

 differing greatly from that on the other parts of the coafl, and the in- 

 habitants being alfo very different, and feveral fettlements being made 

 fiir up the river, it was conceived to be impolfible for the committee of 

 African merchants, a fluduating body annually eleded, to govern that 

 country with propriety. It was therefor determined to ered that tract 

 of the coaft lying between Cape Blanco and Cape Rouge, and including 

 the rivers Senegal and Gambia, into a royal government, to be called 

 the province of Senegambia, with a civil conftitution, and a military 

 cftablifhment for the government and lecurity of the fectlement. The 

 expenfc of the civil and military eftabliflimcnts- of the intended pro- 

 vince, including an armed floop and two flat-bottomed gun-boats for 

 defending the entry of the river, was ftated at ^(^f 2,000 for the firft 

 year, and ;^i 0,000 a year afterwards. 



By the adl of parliament for vefling this province in the king, the 

 trade of that coaft was declared to be open to all Britifli fubjeds, rcTerv- 

 ing, however, a power of granting to George Glafs an cxclulive trade for 

 twenty-one years to his newly-difcovered port of Regcala or Gueder *. 



March 22'' — The liberty of importing cattle from Ireland, free of 

 duty was prolonged for feven years. [5 Geo. ///, c. 10.] 



It was enacted, ' that from and after the firfl day of November 1765 

 * there (hall be raifed, levied, colledted, and paid unto his Majefty, his 

 ' heirs and fucccflbrs, throughout the colonies and plantations in Ame- 

 ' rica, which now are, or hereafter may be, under the dominion of his 

 ' Majefly, his heirs and fuccellors,' llamp duties upon all kinds of le- 

 gal or commercial writings or contrads, pamphlets, newfpapers, adver- 

 tilements, almanacks, cards, dice, &c. Thele duties were to be under 

 the management of the commiflioners of the ftamps in Great Britain, 

 who were to appoint officers to attend in every court through all the 

 colonies to watch over the coUettion of tlie'ftamp duties -f . [5 Geo. Ill, 

 c. I 2.] 



• Mis pott was far north of tfie north cm mo ft f A fchcmc for IcTvIr.g a tax in the Btitifh co- 

 rimit of tjciiog .mbia. The fate of Glafs's unfor- Ionics in America haviiig been piDpoftil to Sif 

 tiuiatc cntcrprifc has been already ootictd. Robot WalyuU during lUc Sp aniib war, wki«h 



