20 A. D. 1783. 



not much exceed half a million of gallons*. With refpeil to a fupply 

 of corn from Canada, it was obferved, that though that country had had 

 plentiful harvefts from the year 1772 to 1778, and particularly in 1774, 

 yet thefe years of plenty were followed by fuch a fucceflion of defedive 

 crops, that, from 1779 to 1782 inclufive, the exportation of corn and 

 bread was prohibited, and the province even received fome fupplies 

 from other quarters : hence it was evident, that there could never be 

 any dependence upon Canada for a regular fupply. As to Nova Scotia, 

 it was not alleged, that it had ever been capable of railing corn for its 

 own confumption. 



May 24"" — Sir Roger Curtis, who was fent as ambaflador to Morocco, 

 concluded a treaty with the fovereign of that country, whereby 



Article i) The Englifh have liberty to enter the ports of Morocco, 

 and to buy and fell, like other nations ; and the merchants of Morocco 

 are permitted to repair to the Englifli ports. 



3, 4, 5) The emperor of Morocco granted to the Englifh two houfes 

 at Tangier, and promifed to build one for them at Marteen. 



6) The Englifh were allowed to load provifions and refrefhments 

 from all the ports of Morocco for one year from i" April 1783 free of 

 all duties ; after which they were to pay ftipulated duties on exporting 

 oxen, fheep, and fowls, and the old-eftablifhed duties on all other ar- 

 ticles ; except at the port of Mogadore, where they mufl pay the fame 

 duties as the merchants of other Chriftian nations. They were allowed 

 to carry mules from all the ports of the empire, with an allowance of 

 barley for their fupport, on paying a duty of ten cobs for each. 



7) The provifion veiTels from Gibraltar were to pay ftipulated duties 

 according to their burthen ; and veiTels loading any other kinds of mer- 

 chandize were to pay the fame anchorage duties as the merchant veffels 

 of all other nations. 



June — The government of France made a propofal to the court of 

 Great Britain, that they fhould, in conjundlion with the other powers of 

 Europe, abolifli all exclufive trade. The miniftry declined giving any 

 anfwer, till the return of a meflenger they fent to the emprefs of Ruflia, 

 in order to know her fentiments upon the fubjed;. 



June 25'^ — A public bank was opened in Dublin with an original 

 capital of ^^600,000, which was lodged in the king's treafury at an in- 

 tereft of three per cent. By royal authority all taxes, duties, &c. were 

 ordered to be paid into this bank. 



* We muft make a confidetable allowance for exaggeration here. The average quantity of rum 

 imported in ten years from 177310 1782 was ... - 2,062,842 (gallons, 



of which there were exported - - - » - 617,939 



We muft therefor fuppofe that - - - ' - i ,444,903 gallons 



Ti-ere annually confumed in this country'. The quantity of rum carried to all North America from the 

 Britith Wtft-India iflands on an average of three years preceding the war was 2,900,00c gallons. What 

 then became of the remaining three millions of gallons ? [[See Lord SljeJiM's Obfervations on Americaa 

 eimnune, pp. 192, 2C^,fixlh ed-~\ 



