49^ 



A. D. 1800. 



to be employed by the couit of exchequer in improving the roads in 

 the Highlands, [c. 57] 



The wine of the Cape of Good Hope, now under the Britifh domi- 

 nion, was allowed to be imported, on paying no higher duties than thofe 

 paid on Portugal wines ; and fpirits produced in the fame fettlement 

 were admitted on the duty payable upon Weft-India fpirits. [c. 60] 



June 30'" — Though the diftillers had lately been permitted to ufe 

 fugar inftead of malt or corn, the ads prohibiting the ufe of it in brew- 

 ing were ftill in force. As a fcarcity of corn, and a glut of fugar, point- 

 ed out the propriety of allowing the later to be ufed inftead of the 

 former, wherever it 'could be fubftituted, the brewers were now author- 

 ized to ufe mufcovado fugar for nine months enfuing, but no fugar in 

 any other ftate, nor any melafles or honey, [c. 62] 



A deduction of 2/4. from the duty on foreign kid fkins imported, and 

 of 2/9 from the drawback on exporting them, was now enaded. [c. 6;^1 



Four temporary ads, relating to the admiflion of merchandize in 

 neutral veftels, were continued till i" January 1804. [c. 65] 



An ad, paffed in the fecond year of King James I, which prohibited 

 the ufe of horfe hides in making boots and flioes, was now repealed ; 

 and a number of regulations for preferving the hides from damage were 

 enaded. [c. 66] 



July 2* — In confequence of the attempts made in Ireland to throw 

 oif all connedion between that country and Great Britain, it was thought 

 proper to revive the antient propofal for an incorporating union be- 

 tween the two countries. His Majefty, by meflages to both houfes of 

 the Britifh parliament (22'' January 1799), recommended the confider- 

 ation of the moft effedual means of ' difpofing the parliaments of both 

 ' kingdoms to provide, in the manner which they (hall judge moft ex- 

 ' pedient, for fettling fuch a complete and final adjuftment as may beft 

 ' tend to improve and perpetuate a connedion eftential for their com- 

 * mon fecurity, and confolidate the ftrength, power, and refources, of 

 ' the Britifti empire.' Though the meafure met with very ftrenuous 

 oppofition in the parliaments of both kingdoms, the union was finally 

 carried by majorities in both, without any convention of commiflioners 

 from the two kingdoms, and now finally ratified by the royal aflent. 

 Article I) From the firft day of January 1801 the two kingdoms are 

 united into one, by the name of The United kingdom of Great Britain ami 

 Ireland: the armorial enfigns, flags, &c. to be appointed by the king. 



II) The fucceflion to the crown of the united kingdom continues limit- 

 ed and fettled according to the exifting laws, and the terms of the union 

 between England and Scotland. 



III) The united kingdom is ' reprefented in one and the fame parlia- 

 ' ment, to be ftiled The parliament of the United kiJigdom of Great Britain 

 ■' and Ire/and.^ 



IV) The Irifh peerage is reprefented by four lords fpiritual eleded in 



