480 A. D. 1768. 



This piiblic-fpirited example, fet by General Melville, has fince been 

 followed in feveral of the other Weft-India iflands. 



In the beginning of April the coal trade was interrupted by combin- 

 ations of the iailors and keelmen at Shields and Sunderland, who 

 demanded an increafe of wages. About the fame time the delivery of 

 the coal ftiips in the Thames was put a. ftop to by the combinations 

 and riots of the coal-heavers, who, thinking themfelves injured by a 

 fet of people called undertakers, who, they alleged, paid them their 

 wages, not in money, but in liquor and goods of bad quality, would 

 neither work themfelves for fome time, nor allow the failors belonging 

 to the fhips to difcharge them. In the courfe of thefe riots fome lives 

 were loft. 



Soon after this the failors in the Thames alfo made a demand for 

 more wages, for which purpofe they prefented a petition to parliament 

 and another to the king ; and for fome time they allowed no veftels to 

 fail from the river. 



Sir Stephen Theodore Janflen (who has already been defervedi/ 

 mentioned with honour) conferred an eflential benefit on the public, 

 and more efpecially on the poorer claftes of the community, by efta- 

 blifliing premiums to the mackerel fiftiers for coming up with their 

 boats to market ; in confequence of which fine large mackerels were fold 

 for three halfpence each, which lowered the price of butcher meat one 

 penny a pound. 



A claim was fet up by Daniel Coxe of New Jerfey and others, the 

 defcendants of Do(!Ior Daniel Coxe, who in the year 1696 had pur- 

 chafed the titles of a moft extenfive grant made by King Charles II to 

 Sir Robert Heath of all the lands in America between the latitudes of 

 31° and ;^6° north, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean, toge- 

 ther with the iflands of Veanis* and Bahama, and all other illands near 

 thereto, and lying fouthward of the continent f ; which territory was 

 called Carolana. The claimants requefted either to be confirmed in 

 the pofleflion of the territories, and exercife of the powers, granted to 

 Sir Robert Heath, or to be paid a proper compenfatiou for furrender- 

 ing their titles into the king's hands. When this affair came to be 

 confidered by the lords of trade and plantations, it was concluded, that 

 the claimants, in confideration of furrendering all pretentions to their 

 long- neglected grant, fhould receive 40,000 acres of unoccupied land 

 in the interior part of the province of New-York. 



Mr. Frafer, the conful at Algier, tranfmitted a very circumftantial 

 account of the commerce of that place, ftmilar to what he gave laft 

 year of the trade of Tripoli, as follows. 



* Perhaps Bimiiii, the iilHiid fuppofed by the Spaniards to contain the fountain of immortality, 

 f This defcription, in the hands of a powerful argumentator, might be made to comprehend all the 

 Weft. India iflands. ^ y 6 .6 



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