A. D. 1795. 349- 



week for each cailc or package, and alfo the charges of carriage, &c , 

 failing which the wine may be fold, in three months after being ware- 

 houfed, for payment of the duty and charges. If it does not fetch fuF- 

 ficient to pay thefe, it may be fold for exportation, or for being made 

 into brandy or vinegar, under the proper I'ecurities. — The drawback ou 

 wine exported to China having been hitherto fmaller than upon wine 

 exported to India, it was now equalized — The commiilioners of excifc 

 were direded to provide warehoufes for lodging coffee and cacao nuts, 

 and to charge the importers one (lulling per week for every tun, as rent 

 for the ufe of them. The ad contains a multitude of regulations for fe- 

 curing the duties on coffee and cacao nuts. When they are found not to 

 be worth the duties and charges, they are ordered to be burnt, [c. 1 1 8] 



The price of corn being exceffively high, the diftillers were prohibited 

 from ufing any kind of corn, malt, meal, flour, or bran, from the 10'" 

 of July 1795 till the i" of February 1796, under the penalty of/?500. 

 — All contrads, made by diftillers for the delivery of corn fpirits, grains, 



or yeft, during the continuance of the prohibition, were fufpended 



The king, with advice of council, was authorized to give a general, but 

 not a particular, liberty to diftill from corn, &c. after the lo'*" of July, 

 if he fhould think it for the advantage of the kingdom — Spirits, ware- 

 houfed for exportation, were allowed to betaken out for home confump- 

 tion, under the authority of the commiflioners of excife, on paying a; 

 duty of /^40 : 1 8 : 2^ for every tun of fpirits of the ftrength of one in fix 

 under hydrometer proof, [c. 19] 



It may perhaps be confidered as a proof of the opulence arifmg from 

 the commerce of Great Britain, as well as of Britiih liberality and bounty, 

 that the parliament this year granted the fums of ^^98,410 and£27'5^'^> 

 making together /^ 135,910 for the fupport of the Roman-catholic clergy 

 and other emigrants from France * The annual allowance to the Afric- 

 an company was this ye^r enlarged to /,'2o,ooo. — There was alfo a grant 

 of£4,c6g: 2 : o to Mr. Willis, to be applied in forming an eftabhfh-' 

 ment in Africa for the purpoie of opening a commercial intercourfe 

 with the interior parts of that continent, [c. i 20J 



Some doubts having arifen, whether the prerogative of ereding inde- 

 pendent bjrghs of barony was taken away by the ad for abolilhing 

 heritable jurifdidions in Scotland, they were now removed by an ad ot 

 parliament, which direded, that thofe, who fell or feu lands to the 

 Brithh fociety, incorporated for promoting the fifheries, for the purpofe 

 of building villages in thofe parts of the coaft of Scotland,- where the 

 fifheries are, or may be, carried on, may receive charters from the 

 barons of exchequer in Scotland for ereding them into burghs of barony, 

 with powers to the inhabitants, or fuch defcriptions of them as may be- 

 direded by the charters, to eled magiftrates annually, [c. 122] 



* Similar allowances have been made every fucceeding year, the fums being fomeiimes larger, 2iid • 

 foiEctimcs fm&'.ler, tlian thofe now gra.T.cd. 



