354 A.D. 1795. 



the war, the merchants of each being at hberty to leUime their com- 

 mercial eftablifhments, or make new ones, in each country, according 

 to their own convenience. 



14) The repubUcof the United pro^'inceS, as allies of the French repub- 

 lic, were comprehended in the treaty. 



The French foon after made peace with the landgrave of Hefle-Caflel. 



Thus did the French in the courfe of this learon detach the United 

 provinces, Tufcany, PrulTia, Spain, and Hefle-Caffel, from the confeder- 

 acy formed againfl them, and bring the emperor to declare a difpolition 

 to abandon it aUb. 



The defection of all thefe powers from the alliance with Great Britain, 

 and even the acceillon of Ibme of the chief of them to France, did not 

 prevent the Britilh funds from keeping up at a price which could fcarce- 

 ly be expected under fuch circumftances, the three-per-cents continuing 

 confiderably above twenty years' purchafe ; and the other fimds fluctu- 

 ating from a little above, or a little below, that price. Tliis was chiefly 

 afcribed to the great quantity of money invefted in the Britifh funds 

 by people of property in Europe, who feared the confequences of the 

 convullions on the continent, and trufted to a greater liability in the 

 aflairs of this fea-girt country. 



Auguft 12'^ — The king, by an order in council (which was feveral 

 times renewed) prohibited the exportation of rock fait from 1 2"' Augufl: 

 1795 till the middle of April 1796, in order to prevent the fupply of 

 a neceflary article to his enemies. 



The Britifli forces in the Eafl:-Indies took pofleflion of the Dutch go- 

 vernment of Malacca in Augufl:. And in the courfe of a few months 

 they made a complete conqueftof all the Dutch fettlcments on the coafl: 

 of Ceylon. 



In the year 1 766 the Dutch Eaft-India company, by a treaty which 

 terminated a very expenfive war * with the chief Ibvereign of Ceylon, 

 became proprietors ot all thofe parts of the coafl ot that great and valu- 

 able ifland, which they had not previoufly poflefled, the native prince 

 and his fub'ecis being confined to the interior countrv. Bv the fame 

 treaty the king became bound to deliver all the clmiamon, which is the 

 moft important produce of the ifland, and grows there in the greateft 

 perfection (that which is produced on the fandy downs on the fouth- 

 weft coafl being elleemed the very beft in the world), to the company 

 at the fixed price of five pagodas (40/10 flerhng) for the bale of 88 

 pounds, being about the fame price which the cinnamon cultivated in 

 the company's own plantations coft them f . The pearls found on the 



* So it is called by Admiral Stavorinus fia his ities of tinnamon from Ceylon to Bataria for the 



Voyages to the Eajt InJiei, V. i, p. 350 EngRfh ufe and commerce of their oriental dominions.— 



tranjiation). It coll above eight railLon of gild- The Britifti Eail-Lidia company paid £l8o,oco 



srs, or abont £727;^CO llerb'ng. to the forces employed in the reduction -f the 



^ The Dutch ufed to fend coaQderable quant- illacdastke vaJue of the ciuaamon found in it. 



