A. D. 1767. 471 



* and ruin ' Tliey therefor refolved immediately to lefTen the ufe of 

 all fuperfluities imported from abroad, viz. ' loaf-fugar, cordage, anchors, 

 ' coaches, chaifes, and carnages of all forts, horfe-furniture, men's 



* and women's hats, men's and women's apparel ready made, houfe- 

 ' hold furniture, gloves, men's and women's (lioes, fole leather, flicath- 



* ing and deck nails, gold and filvcr and thread lace of all forts, gold 

 ' and filver buttons, wrought plate of all forts, diamonds, ftone and 



* pafte ware, fnuff, muflard. clocks and watches, filverfmiih's andjewcl- 

 ' ler'sware, broad cloths that coft above icypcr yard, mufifs, furs, and 



* tippets, and all forts of millinery ware, flarch. women's and children's 



* flays, fire-engines, china ware, filk and cotton velvets, gauze, pcwterer's 

 ' hollow ware, linfeed-oil, glue, lawns, candjrics, filks of all kinds for 

 ' garments, malt liquors, and cheele *.' And they refolved totally 10 

 abflain from them after the ift of December next. 



They alfo refolved by all prudent ways and means to encourage 

 the manufadures of Britilh America, and more efpecially thofc of their 

 own province : and they particularly recommended to the public atten- 

 tion and patronage the manufactures of glafs and paper. 



They moreover refolved to retrench all fuperfluous expenfe of new 

 clothes, 8cc. at funerals, and on fuch occafions to ufe no gloves but of 

 American manufadure. 



The French prohibited all Britifh veflels from entering the ports of 

 Guadaloupe and Martinique : and two Britilh- American fchooners were 

 adually feized at Mailiniciue, though the inhabitants were at the very 

 time in great difl:refs for want of beef, pork, llour, Sec. with which they 

 were loaded. 



The Spaniards alfo fliowed a hoftile difpofition to our commerce by 

 contrading tlie time allowed for Britiiii veflels to remain at Monte 

 Chrifti to twenty-four hours, and preventing the logwood cutters from 

 working at Spiritu Santo. 



Captain Holland, lurveyor-general erf the northern diflricl of America, 

 tranimitied home an account of the former and prefent ftate of the 

 ifland of Cape L-reton. It appears that, when the French were in pof. 

 feflion of this ifland, they employed in the fiihery on various parts of 

 the coafl 



^co decked fchooners and floops, carrying 2,400 men, and (^infai.offiih. 

 taking, on an average, 700 quintals of flfli, - 210,000 



1,459 llialops, carrying 8,754 men, and taking, on an aver- 

 age, 300 quintals, _ - - 437,700 



647.700 

 the value of which on the ifland at iq/'was - jCs^^M^o 



■ • As I'cvfra! oilicles in this lift, e. p. cordage, America, wliith, if not equally good with lliofc 



•ncliuiA, ftiocs, Icaihcr, nails, &c. aic evidently not of Dritiili fabric, tlic)' determined lu content them" 



fuperfluities, the rcafon of infciling them mull fdvci with. 

 ♦•are b«n, l!i:it futh articles wcic taauufitlurcd ta 



