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A. D. 1795. 



kind. And fo his voyage was confidered by the national aflembly of 

 France, who decreed, that his veffels {hould not be molefted by any of 

 their {hips of war, as the old government of France had formerly done 

 in favour of thofe of Captain Cook. 

 Captain Vancouver gives a lift of 



5 vessels belonging to London, 



] Bristol, 



2 Bengal, 



3 Canton, 



7 United states of America, 



2 Portugal *, and 



1 France, 



in all 21 veflels employed in the fur trade on the north-weft coaft of 

 America in the year 1792. He refleds heavily on the injudicious com- 

 petition of the European and American traders on that coaft, and the 

 cruel, and impolitic, pradice of felling fire-arms to the natives. He 

 obferves, that the Ruffians have advantages over all other nations in the 

 fur trade. They have formed feveral fettlements in the north-weft ex- 

 tremity of America, where they live among the natives, to whole habits 

 of life they approach nearer than any other European nation; and they 

 carry their furs to the northern parts of China, where they are chiefly 

 in requeft, whereby they have a much fhorter voyage, and alfo obtain 

 much higher prices, than the other adventurers in the fur trade, who 

 are obliged to go to Canton. 



At Valparaifo Captain Vancouver was informed that from the i" of 

 January to the 31" of December 1793 the money coined in the mint 

 at Mexico, confifted of 



gold to the value of 884,262 pesos, or hard dollars, 



and silver 23,428,680 



the total being . . . 24,312,g42, which, however, was the greatest quan- 

 tity ever coined in one year. 



A particular account of the quantities of gold and filver coined 

 at Mexico in every month of this year (1795) publifhed by Co- 

 lonel Tatham [Political economy of inland navigation, p. 32] makes 

 the total of the gold amount to the value of 644,552 dollars, 



and of the silver to 23,948,929 



being in all 24,593,481 dollars. 



And this account is alfo accompanied by a notification, that it is the 

 greateft coinage of money that was ever made in that mint. 



September — A gold mine was difcovered in a mountain called 

 Croughan Kinfhelly in the county of Wicklow in Ireland. In the courfe 

 of about fix weeks the people of the adjacent country found in a ftream 



* It is more than probable, that both thofe vef- Voyage, V. i, />. 404, and Perovfes Voyage, V. i, /. 

 fels under Portuguefe colours were the property of 514 of Engij/h trarjlauon, 4'° 1 799. 

 Britith fubjefts fettled in India. Sec Vancouver't * 



