474 A* ^' ^7^7 



In Odober the governor and company of the bank of England raifed 

 the dividends upon their capital ftock from ^ve to ^ve and a half per 

 cent. 



December — The feveral a<5ts prohibiting the exportation, and encou- 

 raging the importation, of corn of all kinds were continued for a 

 limited time. [8 Geo. Ill, c. i, 2, 3 ] 



During the recefs of parliament feveral orders of the fame purport 

 had been ifTued. 



The fociety of arts and fciences this year honoured Mr. Doflie with 

 a gold medal for his written communication of the method of making 

 pot-afli and barilla in America. They alfo gave Mr. Philips a premium 

 of /^ 1 00 for difcovering his improved method of dying leather red and 

 yellow, which was found fuperior to what is imported from Morocco. 

 They moreover prefented another gold medal to Mr. Dingley for eredt- 

 ing at Limehoufc a faw-mill to be worked by the wind, with an im- 

 proved fet of machinery for fawing timber with exaclnefs and expedi- 

 tion. A committee of the fociety examined Mr. Pinchbeck's improve- 

 ment of the wheel crane, which prevents the fatal accidents, to which it 

 had formerly been liable. 



The follo'ving authentic ftatemcnt of the commerce of Peterfburg, 

 tranfmitted by the Britifli conful, fhows how greatly the Britifli trade in 

 Ruflia was improved in the courfe of this year. In the year 1767 there 

 failed from that port 200 Britifh veflels, whereof 77 were for London, 

 21 for Hull, 14 for Briftol, and 41 for the other ports of England; 9 

 for Leith, and 16 for the other ports of Scotland ; 7 for Dublin, and 4 

 for other ports in Ireland ; i for America; and 10 for Lifbon and the 

 Mediterranean. There failed 202 vefllls of other nations, of which 44 

 were for Amfterdam. 



This year 74 veflels were loaded at Archangel, of which 40 were for 

 Amflerdam, 15 for Hamburgh, only 7 for London, and none for any 

 other Britifh port. Hence it appears, that the P^.nglifh trade with Ruf- 

 fia, originally eftabliflied at Archangel, has ahnoft entirely left that port, 

 and fixed at Peterfburg. 



According to a report from the Britifli refident at Hambiirgh, 254 

 vefTels arrived in that city from Britifli ports in the year 1766, whereof 

 167 were Britifli ; and in 1767 there arrived 224 from Britifli ports, 

 whereof 186 were Britifli. The decreafe of 30 fliips, he fays, is owing 

 to the prohibition of exporting provifions, but, he adds, that the trade 

 was in every other refped as brifk as beiore. There was alfo this year 

 a decreafe of 34 fliips in the number of arrivals from France, but, the 

 vefTels being larger, the tunnage, or real quantity of fliipping, is fup- 

 pofed to be as great now as before. 



It appeared by the cuftom-houfe books, that above a million of 

 money was paid for the corn imported in the courfe of this year. 



