A. D. 1791. 223 



The a6t prohibiting the exportation of tools, &.c. uleci in the manu- 

 fadtires of iron and fteel, was continued till the end of the next fellion 

 of parliament. 



And the ad permitting the free importation of raw goat-fkins was 

 made perpetual, [c. 43.] 



A flill further additional bounty of 1/6 per cafk of 50 gallons was 

 granted to encourage the exportation of pilchards, [c. 44.] 



The port of Newcaftle upon Tine was added to the lift of thofe in 

 which tobacco and fnuflf may be imported, [c. 47.] 



There was raifed by lottery for the public fervice the fum of ;^8o6,250; 

 whereof ;C3°2,250 remained a clear profit after paying off the prizes. 



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There was a renovation, now become annual, of the adl for regulating 



the Have trade ; and there is no further mention of commiffioners for 

 eftimating the lofTes, fuppofed to be fuifered by the flave-raerchants in 

 confequence of the gentle controul upon their trade *. [r. 54.] 



Of a very different ftamp was the next ad. It incorporated, for thir- 

 ty-one years, Granville Sharpe Efquire, Samuel Whitbread Elquire, and 

 a number of other benevolent gentlemen, who believed, that the trade 

 in flaves was an infuperable obftacle to the civilization and cultivation, 

 of Africa ; and that if thefe objects were duely attended to and encour- 

 aged, Atrica might foon become an inexhaulUble fource of raw ma- 

 terials, a vaft market for Britilli manufadures, and the theatre of a mofl 

 extenfive trade, founded upon the folid and permanent principles of re- 

 ciprocal advantage. This iociety, under the name of the Sierra-Leona 

 company, were inverted with the ufual powers, privileges, and obliga- 

 tions of a joint-ftock company: and they were upon no account to deal 

 in flaves, or to keep any perfon in flavery. The king was empow^ered 

 to give the company a grant of the peninfula f of Sierra Leona, or a 

 power to purchafe lands from the proprietors of that part of the coaft of 

 Africa. The company are direded to puhlilh an account of the ftate of 

 their funds in the month of April every year in the London Gazette. 



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Notwithftanding the feveral ads, pafTed in the laft and in the prefent 

 reigns, to prevent frauds in the manufadures of combing wool and 

 worfted yarn, the manufadurers of Norwich and the neighbourhood of 



* As a proof of the beneiici.il effefts of the re- parliamcit in 1792, probably failed before the 

 gulating ads upoa the (lave trade, it is proper to commencement ot the regulations, 

 obferve that a LiTerpooI (hip, which took in no f The boundaries are — the River Sierra Leona 

 fewer than 515 flaves, loll orJy one in the middle on tlie north, the River Bunch on the cait, (but 

 pa(rage this year ; and that the mortality in the its courfe is from ealt to well according to the 

 harbours of the Well-Indies between the day of maps) the River Camaranca on the fouth, and the 

 arrival and the day of fale, which ufcd to be on Ocean on the wed. The trad included within 

 average 4|- per cent, was now rather under \ per thefe boundaries cinnot, however, with any de- 

 cent. The velTels which loft the veiy great i.um- gree of propriety be called a peninfula. 

 birsin 1788, mentioned by Mr- Wilberforce in 



