432 A. D. 1765. 



and Naples, complained in general of oppreflivc laws and cuftoms, and 

 arbitrary proceedings of the people in power. 



There were many other reports, which contained nothing particular 

 with refpedl to commerce. 



To this view of the trade of our merchants fettled in foreign coun- 

 tries I fliall add an account of the fliipping in two of our principal 

 ports. 



There were entered inward this year at Briflol 384 Britifli, and 47 

 foreign, veflels ; and outward 319 Bricifh, and 44 foreign * 



In Liverpool there was entered inward 73S Britifh, and 65 foreign, 

 veflels ; and outward 795 Britifli, and 70 foreign. 



In the year 1565 Liverpool poflxifled only 12 vefl"els, the whole bur- 

 then of which was only 225 tuns, not the burthen of one modern 

 fizeablc fliip for foreign trade. 



From thefe ftatements it appears, that Liverpool had gained ground 

 greatly upon Brifl:ol, and was henceforth to be confidered as the iecond 

 port in Britain, and the commercial capital of the weft coaft. 



Tn Hindooftan we have feen that Coflim Aly Cawn was driven by the 

 arms of the Eaft-India company to feek for refuge at the court of Siijah 

 Dowlah nabob of Oude, who, after the death of Major Adams, openly 

 efpoufed the caufe of the exiled nabob. Though Sujah was a prince 

 of confiderable military talents and reputation in the country, his army, 

 together with that of Coflim, was completely routed with great flaugh- 

 ter by Major Munro at Buxar (22d October 1764) ; and foon after 

 Allahabad, one of his mofl; confiderable cities, tell into the hands of 

 Sir Robert Fletcher (who facceeded Major Munro) ; and in May 1765 

 Sujah himfelf furrendered to General Carnac (the fucceflbr of Sir 

 Robert Fletcher) fubmitting the determination of his fate to the arbi- 

 tration of Lord Clive, when he fliould arrive. And thus Coflim, for 

 whofe perfonal lafcty Stijah had previoufly provided, was again reduced 

 to the condition of a fugitive. 



Li the meantime Mir Jaffier, the company's nabob of Bengal, 

 died, having, according to the cuftom of the country, appointed his 

 oldeft furviving fon his fuccelTor, in preference to his grandlbn, the 

 infant child of his oldeft fon, who died before himfelf. The fervanis 

 of the company at Calcutta made the new nabob agree to pay the com- 

 pany /?8oo,ooo fterling annually, in confidcration of which they en- 

 gaged to relieve him from the trouble and expenfe of maintaining an 

 army, and to take the defence of his country into their own hands. 

 They alfo bound him to manv other very hard conditions, one of 

 which was, that his prime minifler fliould be appointed by them ; or, 



* Mr. Anderfon (under the year 1754) relates, that in the year 1743 he was /9/</, that thetc 

 •were 400 fliips belonging to Briftol employed in foreign trade. 



