552 A. D. 1774. 



Norwich *, Birmingham, Sheffield, Wolverliampton, Waliiill, and Wed- 

 nefbury, againft laying any additional duties on foreign linens, the con- 

 fequence of which, the petitioners obferved, miift be fimilar impofitions 

 upon Britifli manufadures in other countries, whereby the trade and 

 manufadures of the petitioners, and the general commerce of Great 

 Britain, would be materially injured. Counter petitions, praying for 

 additional duties, were prefented from the linen manufadurers in the 

 north of England and Glafgow. I do not find, that the houfe of com- 

 mons came to any conclufion upon the linen bufinefs. 



March — For the fupport of the fugar colonies in the Weft-Indies, the 

 merchants were allowed to export wheat, meal, flour, bread, bifcuit, and 

 ftarch made of wheat, not exceeding in the whole 2,000 quarters in a 

 year from the port of London, and other grains, peas, beans, malt, and 

 oat-meal, from other ports of Great Britain, on giving bond for due 

 landing at the deftined ports, unlefs at times when corn may be export- 

 ed with a bounty. The inhabitants of Guernfey, Jerfey, and Alderney, 

 were alfo allowed to (hip wheat, meal, bifcuit, &c. for the fifhery at 

 Newfoundland or other Britifh colonies in America, where the fifhery 

 is carried on. [14 Geo. Ill, c. 5.] 



The ad for confining the importation of gum-fenega to Great Brit- 

 ain, and for laying a duty of 30/" per hundredweight on the exporta- 

 tion of it, being found to operate as a premium to fmugglers, who car- 

 ried it to Holland either dired from Senegal, or clandeftinely from Brit- 

 ain, the duty on exportation was reduced from 30/" to 5^, to take place 

 after the 5"" of April 1774. [14 Geo. Ill, c. 10.] 



The ports concerned in the Newfoundland fifhery were permitted to 

 export limited quantities of bifcuit and peas for the ufe of their fiflieries, 

 though the general exportation of grain ihould be prohibited, on giving 

 proper bonds. [14 Geo. Ill, c. 11.] 



In confequence of the outrage committed upon the tea Ihips in the 

 harbour of Bofton, an ad w^as pafTed, whereby all bufinefs of landing 

 and fliipping goods in the harbour of Bofton was fufpended after the 

 i" of June 1774, with an indulgence of fourteen days for vefl^ls then 

 in the harbour, excepting only military ftores for the king's fervice, 

 and fuel and viduals for the ufe of the inhabitants of Bofton from other 

 parts of America : and all charter-parties, bills of loading, and contrads 

 for (hipping goods for Bofton were declared null and void. [14 Geo. 

 Ill, c. 9.] 



When the banking company, under the firm of Douglas, Heron, and 

 Company of Ayr, refolved to difcontinue their bufinefs, they foimd it 



* Norwich is the chief feat and center of the goods, for w]\ofc fake tlie linen manufaiSlure has 



hi^ht vooUen maiiufaiSure. Did the people of been bolftered up with bounties, and fenced with 



Nonvich confidcr themftlves as not having a com- high duties upou foreiga linens ? 

 Bion taufe with the other manufa£\urers of woollen 



