A. D. 1793. 263 



1^93, January 8"' — The king was empowered to prohibit, by pro- 

 clamation or order in council, the exportation of pig iron, bar iron, 

 hemp, pitch, tar, rofin, turpentine, anchors, cables, cordage, mafts, 

 yards, bowfprits, oars, oakum, oker, llieet copper, and other naval flores, 

 on penalty of forfeiture of vcflel and cargo. Saltpetre, gun-powder, arms, 

 and ammunition, when prohibited to be carried coaftways by the king 

 in council, were alfo made liable to forfeiture, together with the veflel 

 carrying them, if fhipped for coafting carriage. [;^^ Geo. Ill, c. 2.] 



The advifers of the order of council of 9"" November 1792 were 

 fheltered from profecution by an ad of indemnity. The fame ad more- 

 over prohibited the exportation of wheat, flour, or bread, before the i*' 

 of March 1793, with the exception of foreign wheat and flour imported 

 and warehoufed for exportation, and the quantities permitted to be ex- 

 ported to certain countries by the ad 31 Geo. Ill, c. 30. The king was 

 alfo vefl:ed with a general power to flop the exportation, and permit the 

 importation, of corn, flour, and bread, by an order in council, during 

 the continuance of the current feflion of parliament ; and to permit po- 

 tatoes to be carried coaflways, or to Ireland, or as' fhip's flores, [r. 3.] 



Some plants of the genuine cinnamon, the mango, and feveral other 

 valuable produdions of the Eaft-Indies and South-fea iflands, were found 

 in a thriving flate onboard a French fhip, which was conveying them 

 from the Ifle of France to S'. Domingo, when flie was taken in the year 

 1782 by Captain Marfliall of the Flora, one of Admiral Rodney's fquad- 

 ron, who depofited them in the magnificent garden belonging to Mr, 

 Eafl: at the foot of the Liguanea mountains in Jamaica. Some faniples 

 of the cinnamon, brought home from Mr, Eaft's garden, have fuffi- 

 ciently proved, that it is the true Ceylon fpecies : and, as it has been 

 alfo cultivated to fome extent in feveral other parts of Jamaica, one 

 gentleman having fet out 50,000 plants of it in his own grounds, there 

 feems good reafon to exped:, that it may become an important article 

 in trade. 



By the death of Mr. Eafl, which happened in January 1792, his noble 

 garden having become the property of his nephew Mr. Eafl, a gentle- 

 man refiding In England, he liberally offered it to the afTembly of the 

 ifland at their own price, who thankfully accepted his offer ; and thence- 

 forth it became the principal public botanic inftitution of the ifland *. 



But a more capital, and eflentially important, addition to the veget- 

 able produdions of the Weft-Indies was happily accompliflied, after 

 lome unfuccefsful attempts, by the arrival of Captain Bligh in the Pro- 



* The lovers of botany may enjoy the catalogue garden Is taken. There is a fcientific account of 



of the rare plants, growing in Mr. Eaft's garden the cinnamon trees of Jamaica in the eighth volume 



at the time of his death, in the appendix to the oi \\\tTranJact]ons of the focuty far the encouragement 



hrft volume of the L'i/Iory of the Wfl-Indies by Mr. of arts, mainfu&ures, and commeree. 

 Edwards, from wI.o:n this brief account of the 



