482 A. D. 1799. 



Pimento per cwt. 3/2 Sugar do, . Sd 



Rum, wine, per gallon id Sucrads in boxes do. . 5/" 



Sarsaparilla per cwt. 6/ Turtle-shell do. . 5/ 



Every cafk or other package of articles not fpecified, if under two hund- 

 redweight 2/5, if above that weight 5/. Articles brought loofe, and 

 chargeable with cuftom duty rated per hundredweight, to pay 1/ per 

 hundredweight ; and thofe not chargeable with duty to pay fuch rate 

 as uled to be paid in the port of London. [Local a^s 39 Geo. III^ c. Ixix] 



The fandion of parliament was given to another undertaking, the 

 very reverfe of an artificial navigation to avoid an expenfive and tedious 

 land carriage or circuitous water carriage, being an artificial fubaqueous 

 land conveyance, inftead of a cheap and direcl natural water carriage. 

 A number of gentlemen, being perfuaded that a tunnel, or road pafllible 

 for cattle and carriages, under the Thames betweeii Gravefend and Til- 

 bury, mufi: be of great advantage to the kingdom, and efpecially to the 

 counties of Kent and Effex, fubfcribed for making fuch a one. They 

 are incorporated by the name of The company of proprietors of the tunnel 

 under the River Thames. Their capital is ^(^30,000, with power to in- 

 creafe it to ;^50,coo. They are authorized to levy tolls, from 2d fox 

 a foot paflenger to 10/" for a carriage with four wheels ; and they are to 

 receive ;^ I coo a-y ear from the treafury as payment for the pafFage of 

 all troops and military ftores. They are bound to have their tunnel at 

 all times fufficiently lighted with lamps, and alfo to pay £,%o annually 

 to the king as compenfation for his ferry, and /^30to the corporation of 

 Gravefend for theirs, both ferries being henceforth veiled in the com- 

 pany, [Local acls, c.hixm] 



The king was empowered to give a charter to a new company, to be 

 incorporated under the firm of The Globe infurance company, who propofe 

 to make infurances on lives, and againfl lofs by fire ; to buy or fell an- 

 nuities for lives, or on furvivorfhip ; to grant fums payable at future 

 periods, either at home or abroad ; to receive depofits ; to ad as treaf- 

 urers for benefit focieties and other benevolent inftitutions ; to make 

 provifion for clergymen and their widows and children ; and to receive 

 depofits from members of the indufi;rious clafles of fociety and others, 

 payable at a period of not lefs than fix months. Their capital is declared 

 to be from ;^5oo,ooo to /"i ,000, coo. [Local a8s, c. Ixxxiii] This com- 

 pany confifi;s of near 900 proprietors ; and their capital is one million. 



In the courfe of this leffion ads were palTed for repairing the piers, 

 and improving the harbours, at Margate, Brixham quay in Devon-fliire, 

 Leith, and Grimfby : — feveral ads, formerly palled, for canals were 

 amended ; and the barons of exchequer in Scotland were authorized to 

 lend a part of the money, repaid by the proprietors of the Forth-and- 

 Clyde canal, to thofe of the Crinan canal : and a great number of ads 

 for improving cities and towns, roads, and bridges, were alio paffed. 



The following accounts, illuftrative of the afifairs of the Eaft-India 

 company, are extraded from the papers laid before parliament. 



