a8 A. D. 1783. 



By proclamations, iflued on the 6'" of June and 5"" of November, 

 American tobacco was allowed to be imported into London, Brillol, 

 Liverpool, Cowcs, Whitehaven, and Greenock, and to be warehoufed 

 under the cuftody of the revenue officers. By the firft proclamation 

 the importer was to pay down five per cent on the value in part of the 

 duty ; but that being found too great a hardfhip, the fecond proclama- 

 tion allowed the whole duty to be bonded. Thefe orders having ex- 

 pired, a new order by the king in council was iflued (26"' December), 

 comprehending, with fome variations, all the feveral regulations hither- 

 to iflued. It permitted the importation of any unmanufadured goods, 

 not prohibited by law (except oil), and pitch, tar, turpentine, indigo, 

 mafts, yards, and bowfprits, being the produce of the United ftates of 

 America, either by Britifli or American fubjeds, and either in Britifli 

 or American vefl^els, on paying the fame duties as were payable on the 

 importation of fuch goods from the Britifh colonies by Britifh fubjeds 

 in Britifli vefl'els ; the produdion of the documents required by law be- 

 ing alfo difpenfed with, and all drawbacks, exemptions, and bounties, on 

 goods exported from Great Britain to the United flates being allowed as 

 fully as on fuch goods exported to the Britifli colonies. 



Tobacco, the produce of the United flates, was allowed to be import- 

 ed in the fame manner into this kingdom, the importer, on paying down 

 the duty called the old fubfidy, being permitted to warehoufe it under 

 the king's locks, and to give bond for payment of the remaining duties 

 within the time limited by law. The importers of tobacco in London, 

 Briftol, Liverpool, Cowes, Whitehaven, Greenock, and Port-Glafgow, 

 were indulged with the perraiflion to give bond for the whole duties, 

 and to have their bonds difcharged on exporting the tobacco within the 

 limited time *. 



With refped to the intercourfe between the United ftates and the 

 Weft-Indies, the regulation contained in the order of the 2 ' of July was 

 continued in force. 



The city of New York, the laft poft occupied by the Britifli troops in 

 the territory of the United ftates of America, was completely evacuated 

 by them on the 27"" of November ; an ad, which may be confldered as 

 finally clofing the long-continued hoftility between Great Britain and 

 America, which, it is earncftly to be hoped, will never again be renew- 



* Mr. Chalmers obferves, that in the year 1732 time, by enforcing more ftridly the laws againfl 



the aflembly of Virginia folicitcd from parliament the cultivation of tobacco at home, the American 



ihe liberty of having tobacco bonded in the man- planters enjoy a double monopoly of tobacco, as 



Iter now permitted ; but their application vvfas de- the Britifh landholder cannot raifc it on his owu 



feated, more by the interefted oppofition of the land, nor can the Britifli confumer receive it from 



tobacco-faflors than by the unwillingncfs of the Spain or Portugal, the tobacco of thofe countries 



Itgiflature ; and that the favour, refufed to them being loaded with duties amounting to a prohibi- 



when fubjefls, was thus fpontaneoufly granted to tion. lOpliilons on American independence, p. 38.] 

 them, when become foreigners ; while at the fame a 



