340- 



A. D. 



1795- 



March ^"* — An embargo being laid on all Britilli fliipping in all the 

 ports of Great Britain, another requifition was made from the owners 

 of all veflels, excepting thole belonging to the king and the royal family, 

 and craft ufed only in rivers and canals, to furnifli able-bodied m.en for 

 the navy, one able feaman being accepted as equivalent to two able- 

 bodied men, in the following proportions from each port. 



and WALES 



Looe 16 



Liverpool ij/l 1 



Lyme 23 



Lynne 1 03 



Maklon g4 



Milford 70 



Minehead 18 



Newcastle 1,240 



Newhaven 17 



Padstow 19 



Penih}n 11 



Penzance 35 



Plymouth q6 



Pool 279 



Portsmouth 75 



Poulton and Preston 17 



Rochester.. 134 



Rye 90 



Gaint Ive« 31 



Sandwich 7-^ 



Scarburgh 275 



Scilly 3 



Shoreham IS 



Southampton 133 



Stockton 73 



Sunderland 66y 



Soutliwold 21 



Swansea 85 



Tmro 11 



Wells 50 



Weymouth 139 



M'hitehaven 7OO 



Wliitby 573 



Wisbeach 19 



Wood bridge 1:3 



Yarmouth ......... 50S 



ENGLAND 



-Abervst^^ith Og 



Aldburgh I9 



Armidel 33 



Barnstaple 74 



Beaumaris 1 p0 



Berwick 43 



Biddeford 43 



Blakeney 2() 



55oston 60 



Bridgewater 20 



Bridlington 50 



Bristol 6158 



Cardigan 139 



Cardift" 14 



Carlile 10 



Chepstow 38 



Chester 25 



Chichester 56 



Colchester 84 



Cowes 59 



Dartmouth 394 



Deal 10 



Dover 241 



Exeter , . . 186 



Falmouth 11 



Faversham 147 



Towey 70 



Gloucester 28 



Gweek 7 



Harwich 144 



Hull 731 



llfracombe 49 



Ipswich 58 



Lancaster l63 



lanelly 32 



Ijondon 5,704 



Ic. 9] *. 



In order to' conned the whole of the ads of this feffion for levying 

 men to ferve in the navy, I here introduce the act, whei-eby 



April 28'" The juftices of the peace and magiftrates of cities and towns 



were authorized and required to fend onboard the navy all able-bodied 

 idle and diforderly perfons, exercifmg no lawful employment, and not 

 having ' fome fubflance fufficient for their fupport and maintenance' f, 



f The prel'ent ruinous, and rapidly-progreffive, 

 depretiatioii of money muft foon reduce many 

 geiillemen of inal! fortunes, wlio /au/y had ' fome 

 ' fubllancc f!ifG--MVnt for their fupport and maiu- 

 ' teuance,' to tiiis dcfcription of men qualified for 

 the fervice of the navy-^and their wives and child- 

 ren 



SCOTLAND. 



Aberdeen 219 



Ayr 33 



Alloa 05 



Anstruther 53 



Borowstownness 155 



Campbelltown 125 



Daiifries 17 



Diuibar 38 



Dundee 13C) 



Fort WiUiam 11 



Glasgow with Greenock "> ^ 

 and Port-Glasgow . . J "^^ 



Inverness 40 



Irvin 131 



Isle Martin . '. 6 



Kirkcaldy J 30 



Kfrkcudbright ....... ly 



Kirkwall 31 



Leith 206 



Lerwick 6 



Montrose I07 



Oban • 20 



Perth 32 



Portpa trick g 



Prestonpans . 3 



Rothsay 16S 



Stornovvay 52 



Stranrawer 25 



Thurso 12 



Tobirmory 5 



Wigton 25 



* Thefe three ads give a pietty good compara- 

 tive view of the population of eack (hire, and ot 

 the (liipping trade of each port, in the kingdom : 

 •and the extrafts here given from them render it 

 unneccfTary to take any notice of thrt-e finiilar afts 

 'in the end of the year 1796. 



