APPENDIX, NO. IV. 



COMMERCI 



city, and a county of itfelf. It is noted for its 

 ale, but has little or no trade, being inhabited 

 chiefly by gentry and clergy.* 



LiiMEKiLNs, [Fife, S.) a village with an ex- 

 cellent harbour for veffels of 300 tuns, at which 

 great quantities of coal are fhipped. 



Limerick, a large and fiourifhing city, con- 

 taining about 40, ceo inhabitants, is a county of 

 itfelf, and alfo gives its name to a very exteiifive 

 and populous county. This city, the commercial 

 capital of the weft coaft of Ireland has a noble 

 harbour in the River Shannon, which has water 

 for fhips of 500 tuns at the quays, and exports 

 confidei'able quantities of corn and fdted provi- 

 fions, and alfo fome linen. 



Lincoln, an antient epifcopal city, a county 

 of itfelf, and alfo giving name to a very extenfive 

 county, is fituated on the River Witham, and has 

 alfo a navigable communication with the Trent, by 

 means of a canal called Fofs-dike, and thereby 

 fends great quantities of corn and wool into Yerk- 

 fhire. 



LiKLiTHGOW, the capital of the (hire of the 

 fame name, and an antient royal refidence, i; a 

 fmall town, wherein tanners, curriers, tawers, and 

 Ihoemakers, were formerly the chief manufafturers. 

 Confiderable quantities of their (hoes go to Ameri- 

 ca. Some carpets and hofiery ware are made here : 

 and there is a print-field, a bleach-field, and fome 

 tambouring for the manufafturers of Glafgow. 



LisBURN, [y^nt. I.) a flourifliing town on the 

 River Lagan, by which, and a canal, it has a 

 communication with the fea and with Lough 

 Neagh. The linen manufafture is carried on to a 

 jjreat extent in this town and its neighbourhood, 

 and the people engaged in it are generally thriv- 

 ing- 



LissADiL, [Sligo, /.) a maritime 'village, noted 

 fur the goodncfs ot its oyfters. 



Little Hampton, [Siif. E.) a fmall fea-port 

 on the Channel, at the mouth of the Arun. 



Liverpool, [Lan. E.) a large, handfome, and 

 profperous, town, containing about 6q,oco inhabit- 

 ants, fituated on the call fide of an eftuary formed 

 by the expanfion of the River Merfea. In or be- 

 fore the year 1 207 the town had buigefles. About 

 the year 1328 they began to make fome improve- 

 ments on their lireets, &c. (See F. i, pp. 374, 

 516.) In 1 5 C5 there were 138 ho\ifeholders and 

 cottagers; but till 1G99 the town was a part of 

 the parifli of Walton, a village feveral miles lower 

 on the iame fide of tlie river. In 1710 the firft 

 dock was built ; and the trade to Africa commenc- 

 ed about the fame time. The port of Cheller 

 was now decliriing, and Liverpool got pofTcfiion of 

 moft of the trade with Mann and Ireland, that 



with the later being the principal bufincfs of the 

 place. In the year 



1336 Liverpool had fome fhipping. (See V. ;, 



pp. 515, 516.) 

 1565 12 veflcls, burthen 223 tuns. 



I70if 102 - - 8,619 



1787 445 meafuring 72.73 1 

 J 790 504 - - 80,003 



iSoo 796 - - 140)633 



The following brief ftatement of the fhipping 

 entered inward and cleared outward, and of the lock 

 dues received, gives a good view of the increafe of 

 the commerce of Liverpool. 



Lock 



dues. 



^'1,7/6 



2,7SO 



4,580 



3,528 



6,5gs 



10,037 



13,244 



12,480 



Coafting veffels are not included in this 



N. B. 



account. 



In the year 1709 Liverpool began to have a 

 fliare of the flave trade, and has long been the prin- 

 cipal port in that branch of bufineis. The follow- 

 ing is a ftatement of its progrefs down to the com- 

 mencement of the prefent war. 



* DoiSor Johnfon faid that the people of Lichfield (his native place) had head*, and thofe of Birmingham and Man- 

 chefter had hands. Perhaps he thought that the important, beautilul, and ingenious, prcdlidions of thole two hives of 

 indufti-j-, and alfo the wonderfully powerful and expeditious machinery, ul'ed in making them, could be fabricated by 

 hands without heads. 



t Liverpool was now inferior only to London, Brillol, Yarmouth, NewcalUe, and perhaps Ipfwich, in quantity ef 

 (Hipping. 



