526 A. D. 1772. 



bing, fo fatally attendant on fuch fchcmes in the early part of this cen- 

 tury, no transfer of anv part of the joint (lock was to be permitted till 

 five years after the eredtion of the company. 



The reports made about this time by Mr. Scammel furveyor of the 

 king's woods in America, and Captain Holland the geographical fur- 

 veyor of the northern diftridt of America, reprefent the country be- 

 tween St. John's river in the Bay of Fundy and Kennebeck river as one 

 of the grandefl: magazines ot pines, fit for marts and yards for the 

 navy, in the world. Mr. Scammel fays, he meafured one, which was 

 above feventeen feet in circumference ; and he alfo obfcrves, that the 

 white oak of that country is of a very good texture for fliip-building. 



Ju!v 6'' — In confequence of a reprefentation from the journeymen 

 cabinet-makers of London, fetting forth that prodigious quantities of 

 magnificent houfehold furniture were imported from abroad on pre- 

 tence of being the property of foreign ambafladors, but in reality for 

 fale, the lords of the treaiurv ordered a feizure to be made of fome 

 hundreds of chairs, fofas, marble tables, tapeftry, and other furniture, 

 faid to l)e but a fmall part of the goods of that kind configned to the 

 Venetian ambaflador. He thought proper to make a demand of the 

 goods imported under his privilege, but received for anfwer, that the 

 king would not fuffer his minifter at Venice to infringe the Venetian 

 laws, nor the \''enetian minifter here to violate the laws of Great Bri- 

 tain. Very different was the conduct of Prince Mafl'erano, the Spanifli 

 ambafliidoi , who, at a meeting of the foreign ambafladors, declared, 

 that, as he caaie here to preferve, not to violate, the rights of nations, 

 he would keep no company with any one, who would degrade himfelf 

 from the dignified rank of the reprelentative of a fovereign to the 

 defpicable character of a fmuggler. In a few days after another meeting 

 was held at Prince Maflerano's houfe, where the foreign minifters figned 

 a p.ip< r, to be fent to the fecretaries of flate, wherein they declared up- 

 on their honours, that they would permit no goods to be imported in 

 their names but what fhould be truely for their own ufe. 



Auguft: 3i'- — The Windward iflands in the Weft-Indies fuffered pro- 

 digioully from a hurricane of uncommon violence. In St. Chriftophers 

 almoft all the plantations were laid wafte : the fugar mills and works, the 

 canes and other plants, and even trees, were blown down, and all the 

 houfes in the ifland v« ere either totally deftroyed, or very much damaged. 

 The ihipi alfo were driven onftiore and wrecked. The diftrefs of the ifland 



was dreadful, and it was univerfal At Antigua, the ftation of the 



fliips of war allotted for the protection of the Windward iflands, the 

 admiral alone efcaped being ftranded, and many merchant fliips found- 

 ered. The towns and houfes on the plantations met with the fame de- 



Ilrudion as thofe of St. Chriftophers At Dominica eighteen veflels 



were loft And at Montferrat and Nevis fcarcely a houfe efcaped 



