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The commiffioncrs for the difcovcry of the longitude having already 

 paid to the authors of various inventions ^6000. the whole fum allotted 

 tor making experiments, they were further empowered flill to receive 

 propolals, and, on feeing a probal-ility of fuccefs, ftili ro allow a fum 

 not excetdincr £2000. to each author of an approved plan for afcertain- 

 ing che longitude. It was now that payment was ordered to Mr. Har- 

 riion of the balance of the j(^20,ooo promifed by former adts of parlia- 

 ment, his ti i.e-keeper having on the fecond trial run the longitude to 

 Barbados within ten minutes, or one fixth of a degree *, on condition 

 of dilcovering the art of conflructing his time-keeper within fix months 

 of the date of pafling this a6l. and delivering three time-keepers made 

 by him, and proved by fufficient trials to be capable of afcertaining 

 the longitude with the required degree of exatSnefs. 



A reward of ^(^^3000 was allowed to the widow of Profeflbr Mayer of 

 Gottingen for a let of lunar tables cnnftruded by hma upon Sir Ifaac 

 Newton's principles, which were found very ufeful iii determining the 

 longitude ; and alio a revvard of ^^300 to Profeflbr Euler of Berlin for 

 aflifting Mayer in his work. And /."5000 is offered to any one, who 

 fliall make any improvement in thele lunar tables, or fhall make any 

 diicoverv or improvement ufeful in navigation. [5 Geo. ///, re. 11, 20.] 

 Thus does Great Britain invite and animate the learned and ingenious 

 of all nations to exert their talents in the fervice of fcience and com- 

 merce. Indeed, it is probable, that this great and importatit defidera- 

 tum in navigation is, by the time-keeper, the marine chair, the improv- 

 ed lunar tables, and Dodor Malkelyne's improvements in the allow- 

 ances for parallax and refradion, now brought as near to perfedion as 

 it is pofTible to bring it. 



April 19" — The encouragement held out to the cultivation of madder, 

 by the ad 31 Geo. If, c. 12, was prolonged for fourteen years, to be com- 

 puted from I ft Auguft 1772. 



May 10 — The focietv of the free Britifh fidiery, incorporated by ad 

 of parliament [23 Geo. 11, c. 24] had, by virtue of ieveral ads enjoyed 

 an annuity of three per cent, payable by the receiver-general or the cul- 

 tomsonall money adually employed mthe fifhrry, and a bounty at 30/", 

 afterwards railed to 50/", per tun, on all veflels from twenty to eighty tuns 



began in the year 1739, he fnul^d, and faid, 'I ' j^2 50,000 of their gains will be brought into his 



' will leavr that to Joint of my fucctfT rs, who ' Maje:ly's exchtqiier by means of the labour and 



' may have more courjge thsn 1 iiave, and be Icfs ' produce of this kingdom, a,< immenfc quantities 



' a friend to commerce than I am. It has_ been a ' of every kind of our manufactures {fo thither ; 



• maxim with me, during my administration, to ' ami as they increafe in their foreign trade, more 



• cnroiirajje the trade of the Amirican colonies in ' of our produce will be wanted. This is taxiiig 



• the ucnioft latitude, and even to jafo over fome ' them mure agreeably both to tlieir owii conllitu- 

 ' irregularities in their tiade with Europe : for by ' tinn and to ours.' 



• encoura;j;ing them to an exttnfivc gnuving fo- * The grtatcll exafln-fs required by the a6l. of 



• uign comri.d.-e, if the- ^,ain jfjocooo, I im parliaiuent to entitle the inventor to the highefi. 



• convinced, that in two years afterwards full reward was only half a degrte. ' 4 



