238 A. D. 1792. 



deliver the fpecification of his invention of a machine and certain chym- 

 ical compofitions, for the purpofe of making various kinds of woolen 

 cloth and other articles, to the lord chancellor, who is required to de- 

 liver the fame to two perfons under oaths of fecrecy to be examined by 

 them, and afterwards to lodge it in a cover under his (the chancellor's) 

 feal in the office of one of the mafters in chancery, [c. 73.] 



A6ls were palTed for improving the harbours of Ramfgate, White- 

 haven, Boflon in Lincoln-fliire, Broadftairs in Kent, and Beer in Devon- 

 fhire ; and alfo for feveral navigable canals, roads, bridges, and other 

 improvements for the advancement of the commerce and general pro- 

 fperity of the country. 



The war in India v/as terminated by a treaty of peace to be binding 

 ' as long as the fun and the moon endure.' 



Tippoo Sultaun of Myfore confirmed to the Eaft-India company all 

 the privileges and immunities of trade, granted to them by his father 

 Hyder Ally in the year 1770. He alfo confented to cede to the com- 

 pany and their allies the half of his dominions, to confift of fuch diftrids 

 as they fhould think mofi: convenient to be annexed to their refpedive 

 poffelTions, and moreover to pay them a large fum of money *. And he 

 gave two of his fons as hoflages for the performance of his engagements. 

 This treaty was figned in the camp near Seringapatam, the capital of 

 Tippoo's dominions by Earl Cornwallis, governor-general of the com- 

 pany's territories in India (March 18"'). 



The king of Denmark ifllied an ordinance (March 20'"), which per- 

 mits the flave trade to be carried on by his fubjeds till the year 1803, 

 after which it is no longer to be tolerated in any of his colonies. The 

 Danifh Weft-India merchants exprefl'ed no difl'atisfadion on the publica- 

 tion of this order. 



The diredors of the Sierra Leona company fent out five fhips f to 

 their fettlement on the coaft of Africa, with a governor, council, and 

 other officers, a mineralogift, and a botanift, together with a fmall mi- 

 litary eftablifliment for the protedion of the fettlers. They gave the 

 natives to underftand, that their eftablifliment was for the purpofe of 

 exchanging Britifti goods for African produce, and that they would have 

 no concern, nor would permit any perfon in their fervice to have any 

 concern, in the flave trade ; that they would carefully avoid having any 

 quarrel with the natives, and would eftabliih feminaries of education to 

 which they ftiould be permitted to fend their children ; that the chief 

 intention of the eftablifliment of the colony was to ftimulate the in- 

 duftry of the natives, and to point it to ufeful objeds :}:. 



* The amount is not txprtffed in the treaty. f The fiiil of them arrived in February 1792. 



But I find it clfewhere ftated at forty lacks of J Th.- flave trade having already rendered the 

 pagodas (21,600,000 llerling) ; the territory ced- ufe of Britidi goods fo general among the Negroes, 

 cd to the company being valued at ^240,000 Her- that they arc even conlidered as neceflary to their 

 ling of annual revenue. comfort, it vpas thought reafonable to believe that 



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