654 ^^' '^' 1780. 



the expenfe of the ruin of milUons. So oppofite are thefe two chn- 

 nidters *. 



March 2i« — ^Twelve millions were raifcd for the fcrvice of govern- 

 ment by a loan, the fublcribcrs to which received an annuity of £.i\, 

 with a terminable one of ;^i : 16 : 3 to continue for eighty years, for 

 every/?! 00 paid in, together with a privilege of having four lottery 

 tickets at /?£0 each for every fubfcription of £1 ,CiOO ; the whole funi 

 to be railed by the lottery being ^^480, 000. [20 Geo. Ill, c. 16.] 



The leveral a6ts, which prohibited carrying gold or filver coin to Ire- 

 land, were repealed. The Irilli were allowed to import foreign hops, 

 aud to receive a drawback of the duty on Britifh. They were alfo 

 allowed to become members of the Turkey company, and moreover to 

 carry on a direct trade between Ireland and the Levant fea in the fame 

 manner as the Turkey company of England had hitherto exclufively 

 done. [20 Geo. Ill, c. 18.] 



Several ads which were near expiring, were continued as follows. 



The ad: for fecuring to the Eafl-India company the exclufive trade to 

 India, and preventing Britifli fubjeds from trading thither under foreign 

 colours, continued to 25"^ March 1781. 



The ad for importing fait from Europe to Quebec, continued till 

 24'h June 1785. 



The act for permitting the free importation of raw goat-fkins, continu- 

 ed till 20''' June 1785. 



So much of the ad for allowing the exportation of limited quantities 

 of wheat to the fugar iflands and other places, as relates to the fugar 

 iflands, continued till i" May 1781. 



So much of the ad 17 Geo. Ill, c. 43, as relates to the exportation 

 of tobacco-pipe clay to the fugar iflands, continued till 24'h June 1783. 

 [20 Geo. Ill, c. 19.] 



The liberty of navigating Britifh fliips with foreign feamen, not 

 €xcceeding three fourths of their complement, was prolonged till 25"> 

 March 1781. {loGeo. Ill, c. 20.] 



April — The chevalier de Pinto, the Portuguefe amballador, prefented 

 fome memorials complaining of infradions of the treaties between 

 Britain and Portugal, and remonftrating againft an additional duty pro- 

 pofed to be laid upon Portugal wines. The feveral articles of his com- 

 plaint were found to be frivolous, or unfupported by proof: and with 

 refpcd to the propofed duty on wine, it was anfwered, that, as the wines 

 of France would be affeded by it in the proportion, ftipulated in the 



* The reader may compare Loch's EJfays on the of Scotland ctnifdered, 8^" Ed'm. 1733, written by 



trade, commerce, nr.anuj'aaures, and Jijher'tes, of Scot- Mr. Lindfay, alfo a merchant in Edinburgh and a 



land, 8.0 .\din. 1773 and 1778, with the fpecious, friend to the profpcrity of his country, when the 



but miftaki.u (ik t ill-intended) arguments for pre- inftilled rage for the linen manufaClure was in its 



ferriiig tht linen manufacture, urged in The interejl youth and grtatefl vigour. 



