A. D. 1789. 195 



winding courfe from Stroud water, a navigable branch of the Severn, 

 to the head of the navigable water in the Thames near Lechladc ; and 

 at Sapperton it goes under a hill in a tunnel of two miles long, part of 

 which is hewn out of the folid rock. This canal, which carries barges of 

 70 tuns with 4 feet draught of water, was completed on the 19"" of 

 November 1789, when a barge from the Severn paffed into the Thames. 

 The Dutch colony at Demararay had a very narrow efcape from ex- 

 termination by the hands of the Negro flaves. About a thoufand of 

 them had entered into a confpiracy to put every white man to death, 

 which was adlually carried into execution upon one plantation by mif- 

 take on the day preceding the concerted one, whereby the whole plot 

 was defeated. The ringleaders of the Negroes fubmitted to the tor- 

 tures inflided upon them with unfhaken fortitude. 



In Bengal Earl Cornwallis iffued orders, in the different languages of 

 the country, for abolifliing the flave trade : and he held out rewards for 

 the delivery of any perfon unjuilly detained in flavery, as well as for the 

 difcovery of offenders. 



The Eaft-India company entered into a contract with the Spanifh 

 Philippine company to fupply them, to a large amount, with the pro- 

 duce and manufadures of Bengal and Madras, to be delivered at Manila, 

 and to be paid for in dollars. 



December 2" — The diredors alfo gave public notice, that, in order 

 to give every encouragement to the Britifh mauufadures, they had re- 

 folved to make an augmentation of above 2,500 tuns in their exports 

 for this feafon. They alfo gave leave to the commanders and ofBcers 

 of their {hips to fill up all outward tunnage, unoccupied by the com- 

 pany's goods, freight-free : and they allowed their fervants, and the 

 merchants refiding under their protedion in India, to fill up fuch home- 

 ward tunnage, as may be unoccupied by the company, at a reafonable 

 freight. 



In confequence of this indulgence, 245 tuns of merchandize, over 

 and above the former privileged quantities, were carried out this feafon, 

 moflly by the captains. 



The following account of fhips belonging to the weflern parts of the 

 world, which were at Canton in China this year, fhews the proportions 

 of the trade of the feveral countries with that empire. 

 The Portuguese, who once engrossed the whole of the Oriental trade, had 3 

 The Dutch - - .- .5 



The French - - _ _ ^ 



The Danes - -- j. i 



The United states uf America - - _ j5 



The British East-India company - = - 21 



Biitish subjects residing in India -. _ - 40 



\_Meares's Voyage, p. Ix^^xvii.] S6 



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