A. D. 1769. 491 



Gnlf of Perfia, where the company had feme petty difputes with a few 

 turbulent chiefs on the coafts. Afterwards the powers to be veiled in 

 Meflieurs Vanfittart, Scrafton, and Ford, as fupervifors, were finally ad- 

 jufted ; and government appointed two frigates to condudl them to In- 

 dia *. 



The flourifhing and improved ftate of the company's commerce was 

 made evident from a comparative examination of their exports, where- 

 by it appeared, that the manufadures, produds, flores, &c. fhipped by 

 them in the feven years ending with 29"" September 1769 had exceed- 

 ed thofe of the feven preceding years by the fum of ^^959,379 : 4 : r i ; 

 and that the gold and filver exported in the fame ipace of time were lefs 

 ^y £^ ,374,591 : 7 : 6 ; that in the year 1767 there was only £g4.6 : 5 : 4, 

 and in 1768 none at all, the great remittances from Bengal and Madras 

 having been fufficient, with the goods carried from England to China, 

 for the inveftments from that empire. The accounts of a fcarcity of 

 filver in Bengal, and the uncertainty how far that prefidency might be 

 enabled by the territorial revenue to fend fupplies to China, induced 

 the company in 1769 to fhip filver to the amount of /^i 62,1 37 : 10 : o 

 to China. 



Odober — The difcontents of the journeymen filk-weavers were fre- 

 quently breaking out in combinations for raifing their wages, and for 

 impofing taxes upon their brethren to fupport them in idlenefs and in 

 their ads of violence upon the property of their employers, whofe looms, 

 together with the goods in them, they frequently defl:royed, in defiance of 

 the law, which punifiies fuch enormities by death. Their riots were at 

 length fupprefied, but not without bloodfhed, feveral of themfelves, and 

 fome of the foldiers, being killed in the fkirmiflies. 



An account of the exports of the province of South Carolina from i* 

 November 1768 to i" November 1769 was fent home by Lieutenant- 

 governor Bull. They amounted to ^404,056 fterling, whereof there 

 was fhipped for Great Britain to the amount of - £260,^04. 



Portugal, 24,264 barrels office, - - 54,594 



Spain, 5.046 do. "."."..' ^^'353 



The chief articles of the exports, with their prices in Charleftown, 

 were as follows. 



Rice 



Butter 



Pitch 



Turpentine 



Tanned leather 



Pork 



• The Aurora frigate, onboard which th;fc gentlemen were, was unhappily loll, and it w»i r.ever* 

 known wlitrc or how they pel idled. 



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