France. 



CGENERAL 



167S 

 1661 



16S3 



16S4 

 16S5 



16S7 



16S9 



1092 

 1694 

 1696 

 1697 



1698 



J 700 



1701 



Senegal comp. erefted — trade much increafed ii, 596 

 France(iiccurdin^ to Vo!taire)poireircs 100 fiiips 

 of ti)L' line, feveral of 100 guns — Toulon, 

 Breft, &c. fortified ports, &c. &c. 

 France at the zenith of power, S;c. 

 Eltimate of the decline of French commerce 



witli England and Holland fince 16S3 

 Eaft-India co:npany new-modeled 

 Edift of Nantes revoked, and many hundred 

 tliuufands of the mod: valuable people forced 

 to emigrate, whereby the trade and manufac- 

 tures uf France are carried into other countries 6i6 

 Eaft-InJia company transfer their privileges to 



private merchants ... 



Great Britain, Holland, Germany, and Spain, 



combine agairift France 

 French fliips of no and 104 guns deftroyed 

 Pondicherry taken by the Dutch 

 Royal Senegal company ellablilhed 

 Peace — Pondiclierry reilored— commercial pri- 

 vileges granted to' the Dutch — other re- 

 florations .... 



Freiicli take Carthagena in America 

 A commercial treaty with England attempted 

 Several infiitutions for the improvement of the 



marine — St. Domingo company 

 French fettle on the MiiTilippi 

 A council of commerce, confifiing of minifters 

 of ftate and merchants, eftablillied — great ef- 

 fefts afcribed to them 

 The king occupies Spain for his grandfon 

 State of the commerce and colonies of France, 

 drawn up by the council of commerce, with 

 their advice for the improvement of them 

 A diminution of the money makes the people 

 prefer paper — bank treafure feized - iii 

 Bank iffue notes with intered — Miflifippi, or 

 India, company ellablithed (See M'Jifppi 

 company) . - . - 



Money diminifhed — reftored — funding projefts 

 Bank ilFue 1000 millions of livres in paper 

 French fortify Niagara in America 

 French fupply great part of Europe with fugar, 



indigo, and other Weft-India produce 

 Regulations for the council of commerce 

 French build Crown-point and Ticonderago 

 Sales of Eall-lndia goods 

 Commercial and colonizing exertions 

 Merchant ven'elsof France ftatedonly at 600 

 Salesof Eaft-India goods 22,000,000 livres 

 Account of French fifliery at Cape Bieton 

 Eaft-India company's fettiements 

 French ereft Fort Du Ouefne in America 

 Amount of fales of 15 cargoes from India 

 The Eaft-India company difpatch 25 (hips 



1JI7- :.i. f D ■-_:^ !-> I_ . 1_ _ tC*- 



606 



609 

 609 



629 



637 



65. 



662 

 6S2 



691 

 692 



693 



701 



704 



708 



709 



710 

 . 50 



ss 

 64 



66 

 115 



131 

 156 



17' 



205 



213 

 225 

 226 

 246 

 25s 

 305 

 3°5 

 306 



1765 



1766 



1767 

 1770 



i»775 



War with Great Biitain — French take Minorca 307 

 Eftimate of riches, population, &c 

 American forts, Goree, &c loft 

 Pondicherry alio taken by Britifti forces- 

 King endeavours to fupport Eaft-India comp. 

 He allow s foreign velTels to approach his Weft- 



Ii\dia iftands - . . 



Emigration loathe colonies encouraged 

 Several afts of the French in the Weft-Indies 



hoftlle to Great Britain 

 Progrefs in re-eftablilhing the trade of France 

 French prohiBit Britifti veflels frojii iheiriflands 471 

 Eaft-India trade laid open — conij ,iny receive an- 

 nuities from the king — retroljeft of their 

 trade at Hougley — private traders unfuc- 

 cefsful — general diftrefs by reduition of the- 

 public intereft ... 45^ 



Wc.l-India commerce of France this year 583, 584 



310 

 310 



344 

 402 



40S 

 419 



422 

 435 



1776 



'777 

 1773 



1779 

 17S1 



1782 



1783 



17S4 



French fufferbyruHiing into American trade iii, 590 

 American privateers ftielteredin French ports 611 

 Alliance with tlie United States of America 615 

 Alliance notified to the Britilh court — war 6i5 



F. fleet coverthe channel — defeated by Keppel 624 

 Many rich ihips taken by Britifti cruifers 624, 627 



1785 



17S6 



1787 



17SS 



1790 

 1792 



1793 



1794 



•795 



1796 



I'"rcnch commerce in India ruined 

 Retrofpecl: of Eaft-India fales at L'Orient 

 F. French fuccefsful iu the Weft Indies 

 Finances ably and lioneftly managed by Necker 



— imports, expoits, current money, and 



population, as ftated by him 

 French and Spanifti fleetsfiU thechannel, threat 



en Ireland — and go lionie 

 Many French tranfports taken 

 French take Nevis, St. Chriftophers, Mont. 



ferrat, Demararay, and lilequibo 

 And alio Minorca - . _ 



Sums advanced by the king to America 

 And, onhis fecurity, by the Dutch 

 Herring Filhery of France - . . 



Peace — various reftitutions, &.-C. in America, 



Africa, and Afia, &c. - iv 



France a great fufferer by the war 

 France propofes to Great Britain to abolifti all 



exclufive trade ... 



The freedom of trade, allowed to the Ameri- 

 cans, now abridged 

 Free ports opened in the Weftlndies, &c. but 



with very contracted privileges 

 In return forfome commercial privileges, France 



gives the ifland of St. Bartholomew to 



Sweden - . . 



A new exclufive company for Eaft-India trade 



eftabliihed, the I fte of France being ft ill free iv,8i 

 A rage for Englifti goods produces decrees 



againft foreign luxuries 

 Expenfe of thewar 

 Imports from the French Weft Indies 

 New coinage of ^"27, 000, 000 fterling. Sic. 

 Commercial treaty with Great Britain 

 Anotlier with Ruflia - _ - 



A colony fettled in Madagafcar— abandoned 

 Artiftsand manufacturers invited 

 Supplementary treaty with Great Britain 

 Officers and regulations for trade w ith Great 



Britain appointed by the king 

 Cotton and indigo imported from Goree 

 Ainicable arrangement with Great Britain re- 



fpecling the trade and faftories in India 

 Almort at war on account of the ftadtholder 

 The Levant and Ruflia trades of France 

 Duties onfome F. goods lowered in Gr. Britain 

 Smuggling export of wool from Englandre- 



duced by the treaty 

 Eaft-India trade open — tax upon fait aboliftied 

 Vefteh loaded in England with corn for France 



oblige to land it - - 



War w itl) Great Britain and Holland 

 All the French pofts in India taken by the 



Britifti ... 



Whale filliery of Dunkirk ruined by the war 286 

 All French property in Great Britain rendered 



dormant by aft of parliament 

 Commiirioncrs appointed for French property 

 Tlie French make the Dutch their allies 

 . hey make peace with Tufcany,Piufl]a, Spain, 



lie . - . 



French prohibit Britifti goods — detach Sar- 

 dinia, &c from the alliance againll thein — 

 make an agreement with Pruftia, and get 

 Spain to join them againft Great Britain 



They fsize jLeghornand Britifti property in it 



630 



631 

 639 



676 



698 

 700 



707 

 70& 



717 



718. 

 726 



1—3 



9 



SS 



69. 



9S 



97 



98 



III 



116 



117 

 117 

 121. 



127 

 12S 



130 

 131 



134 



I7S- 



i7»- 

 211. 



254- 

 264. 



285 



292 

 299 

 334 



353- 



380- 

 381; 



