A. D. 1771. 



5'9 



Countries, &c. 



Dominica 



Grenada 

 Jamaica 

 Montserrat 

 Nevis 



St. Christophers 

 St. Vincents 

 Tobago 

 Tortola 



New-Providence 

 St. Croix 

 St. Thomas 

 St. Eustathius 

 Foreign West-Indies "1 

 and Bay of Honduras / 



Imp. and exp. of England 

 Imp. and exp. of Scotland 



Total, Great Britain - 



1772 — This winter the Dutch were in the greateft diftrefs for want 

 of corn and cattle, having received little or no fupply from Poland, the 

 ufual great granary of the north (which was now ravaged and defolated 

 by the inroads of the neighbouring powers) or from any other of the 

 corn or paflure countries ; whereupon the iinall quantity of provifions 

 they pofTefTed, or obtained, rofe to a mofl enormous price. Such, not- 

 withftanding the opinion of a very great political economift, mull fome- 

 times be the confequence of a nation de])ending entirely upon others 

 for the firft of neceflaries, even though there fhould be the moft un- 

 bounded freedom of commerce in their ports. 



A large quantity of the Portuguefe gold pieces, ufually called half- 

 joes, was carried into the province of Quebec from the neighbouring 

 provinces in the fpring of this year, which, being delicient in weight, 

 produced great inconvenience in the trade of the couiury. 



Louis de St. Pierre reprefentcd to government, that he had at the 

 expenfe of his whole fortune brought to perfecTiion the culture of filk 

 and the making of wine at New Bourdcaux in South-Carolina, and that 

 he had now 100,000 vine plants, and above twenty additional families 

 of French proteftants, ready to embark with him for that country. 

 But being unable of himfelf to fupport the expenfe, he prayed for 

 fome afliflance from government. On his cafe being referred by the 

 treai'ury to the lords of trade for their confideration, they recommend- 

 ed Mr. de St. Pierre as deferving public encouragement and fupport ; 

 and the governor of South-Carolina was afterwards dircded to put him 

 in pofleflion of 5,000 acres of unlocated land. 



In the meantime the fociety for the encouragement of arts, com- 

 merce, &c. liad tcllificJ their approbation of Mr. dc St. Pierre's indullry, 



