284 A. D. 1793. 



at lead 100 miles nearer to Glafgow, and alfo, by means of the Forth- 

 and-Clyde canal, to Edinburgh and all the eaft coafl of Britain. And 

 it will enable the fifhermen of the weft coaft to make their voyages to 

 Glafgow in as few days, as they now require weeks to double the difl- 

 ant and dangerous Mull of Kentire. 



Thefe were the moft important of the many navigable canals in 

 various parts of the kingdom, for which ads were pafled in the courfe 



of this feffion. 



Ads were pafled for repairing the harbour of Little Hampton, and 

 the port of Arundel, and for improving the navigation of the River 

 Arun up to Arundel ; for making a harbour at Trevaunance in Corn- 

 wall ; for enlarging and improving the harbour of Carnarvon ; and for 

 enlarging the harbour of Amlwch in Anglefey. 



Several ads were alfo pafled this fefllon for improving the flreets, and 

 for other matters of police in London and its neighbourhood, alfo for 

 improvements in Glafgow, including a new bridge over the Clyde at 

 that city, and for others in many towns throughout the kingdom. ^ 



Tune 8'" An order of council was ifllied for feizing all veflels of 



every nation, except Denmark and Sweden, which fliould be found car- 

 rying corn to France, to purchafe the cargoes for his Majefl;y's fervice, 

 and alfo to allow a reafonable freight, and then to difmifs the veflels. 



ju[y i;'" — Agreeable to the ad, juft pafl^ed, the Eaft-India company 

 raifed the dividend upon their capital flock from eight to ten and a half' 

 per cent, at which rate the payments were now made *. 



The dependence of commerce and manufadures upon agriculture, 

 the principal fource of the materials of both, renders it proper to men- 

 tion the eftablifliment oi a board of agriculture, which, on the fuggeftion 

 of Sir John Sinclair, took place this fummer ; an inftitution, which, if 

 properly condudied, may be of very great fervice in direding and pro- 

 moting the induflry of the country. The annual allowance granted to 

 this board for defraying the expenfes of furveys, falaries, printing, &c. 



is £-:^,ooo. 



The government of the French colony of S". Dommgo bemg unhmg- 

 ed in confequence of a quarrel between a new governor and the civil 

 commiflioners fent out from France, which proceeded to open hoftil- 

 itiesp the revoked negroes feized the opportunity, attacked the city of 

 Cap Francois, maflacred almoft all the white inhabitants, and reduced 

 that fiourifliing city, which for opulence, magnificence, and commerc- 

 ial importance, had no equal in the Weft-Indies, to a heap of a(hes. 

 The few white people, who could efcape the general maflacre, and get 

 onboard any kind of veflels, fled in all diredions ; many to Jamaica ; 

 many more to the United ftates of America. Some of the principal 

 planters came to England, and found means to reprefent to adminiftra- 

 tion, that the French colonifts wiftied to place themielves under the pro- 

 tedion of Great Britain, and that the fovereignty of that noble colony 



* The dividend has continued the fame fince July 1793. 



