A. D. 1787. ' 127 



The adl for permitting the exportation of limited quantities of wheat, 

 &c. to the Britifh colonies, continued only fo far as refpeds the export- 

 ation from Lancafter, till 1" May 1788. 



The adt explaining that which prohibits the exportation of tools ufed 

 in the manufadures of iron and fteel, continued till the end of the next 

 feffion. 



The ad for granting bounties on the exportation of Britifh and Irifli 

 linens, and admitting linen yarn free of duty, continued till 24"" June 

 1788. [27 Gfo. ///, r. 36.] 



In order to encourage the art of defigning original patterns for print- 

 ing upon linens, calicoes, cottons, and muflins, the proprietors were 

 veiled with the fole right of vending their goods, printed with original 

 patterns, for two months after the day of publifliing them. [27 Geo. Ill, 

 c. 38.] 



There was raifed by a lottery this year the fum of £'j^6,Sy5, whereof 

 £2^6,Sy5 remained a clear profit to the public over paying the prizes^. 

 [27 Geo. III^ c. 41 .] 



Commillioners were empowered to levy duties from velTels, boats; 

 and goods, in the port of Margate for improving the harbour, the town* 

 and its police. [27 Geo. Ill, c. 45.] 



The profperous trading town of Newcaftle upon Tine obtained a 

 licence for a theatre. [27 Geo. Ill, c. 50.] 



May 6"" — As foon as the parliamentary confirmation of the commercial 

 treaty could be known in France, the king iflTued an arret, containing a . 

 number of regulations to be obferved in the commercial intercourfe with 

 Great Britain. He appointed particular offices for the entry of Britifh 

 goods at the ports of Calais, Boulogne, Havre, Rouen, S'. Malo, Nantes, 

 Rochelle, Bourdeaux, and Cette, in order to prevent all confufion be- 

 tween them and the produdions of other countries, which were liable 

 to higher duties, and were to be entered at the other offices. He 

 eflablifhed a tariff of the duties to be paid agreeable to the treaty on 

 every kind of goods, and minutely fpecified every charge for flamps, 

 &c. ; all which being for the ufe of traders in his own dominions, could 

 be but little interefling to a Britifh reader, even if fucceeding evencs 

 had not fo foon annulled them. 



Great numbers of the negroes, whom the war had delivered from 

 flavery on the continent of America, were fwarming in the ftreets of 

 London, unemployed, and confequently a nuilance to the place. A fo- 

 ciety of benevolent gentlemen formed themielves into a committee for 

 their relief, and fuggefied to government the propriety of eftablifhing 

 them on the coafl of Africa, the native country of themfelves or their 

 anceflors. Tranfports were accordingly appointed to carry them to Sierra 

 Leona, where it was propofed to fettle them as a free and independent co- 

 lony, and to give them a flock of proviiions, arms, and plantation tools^ 



