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flowing from the mountain, and in an adjoining bog, about eight hun- 

 dred ounces of gold, feveral pieces of which weighed about 2 ounces, 

 one weighed 5, and one 20 ounces 2 pennyweights 21 grains. The 

 place, which had got the name of Little Peru, was taken poflellion of 

 for the king by a detachment of the army * (Odober 15'''). 



Odlober 7'" — Thirty fail of Britifh veflels, richly loaded from the Med- 

 iterranean, together with the Ccnfeur a (hip of 74 gims, one of thofe 

 which were convoying the fleet, were taken by a French fleet of fuperi- 

 or force. About the fame time eighteen fail of homeward-bound vef- 

 fels from Jamaica were alfo taken by the French. 



The number of Britifli veflels, taken by the enemy flnce the com- 

 mencement of the war, was now efl;imated at three thoufand, and the 

 number of thofe taken from them at only eight hundred. It is nor to 

 be inferred from the great difference in the number of captures, that 

 the French cruifers were more alert than the Britifli ; but only that the 

 Britifli vefl^els upon the ocean were vaftly more numerous than the 

 French. 



The colony at Sierra Leona recovered from the effeds of the calamit- 

 ous vifitation of the French in September 1794, fooner than could have 

 been expeded. By this time their affairs were fo well re-eftabliflied, 

 that they had detached a party to fettle a fa6lory at Rio Pongas for 

 the fake of maintaining the intercourfe with the friendly nation of the 

 Foulahs. 



November i" — It was found neceflTary to prohibit generally the ex- 

 portation of Britilh and foreign wheat, rye, barley, bear or bigg, peas, 

 beans, oats, meal, flour, bread, malt, potatoes, and Indian corn ; and 

 alfo to permit the importation, in any veflTels whatever, of the fame ar- 

 ticles, without payment of any duty. The proprietors of foreign corn, 

 lodged in warehoufes, were at liberty to take it out duty-free for home 

 confumption, or to export it. The powers vefted in the king, by the 

 ads ;^5 Geo. Ill, c. 4, for regulating the coafting carriage of corn, and 

 for authorizing exportation in certain cafes, were continued, as was alfo 

 the liberty of importing kidney beans, and a variety of kinds of live 

 fl:ock, and proviflons of various forts, enumerated in the fame ad. 

 Thefe regulations were to continue in force till the expiration of fix 

 weeks after the commencement of the next fefllon of parliament. [^6 

 Geo. Ill, c. 3] 



December i" — The exportation of candles, tallow, and foap, to any 

 foreign country, not belonging to Great Britain, was alfo prohibited on 

 penalty of forfeiture of the goods and the vefl^el carrying them, and alfo 

 jT^o for every hundredweight. Coafting veflTels carrying thofe articles 



* A fci'entific account of this mine by Mr. appears, not as an article of revenue, but as an 

 Mills may be found in the Philofophlcal tranfaalont article of expenditure, in the public accounts of 

 for 1796, part i,pp. 34, 38]. And it afterwards the governments of Ireland. 



