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.. — •— t,— /- , ' ■ J I 1 j^., ,„•,» alurnvi lip niudeiit to depend iipou our iieiirhbours, mid 



h(her\- u a tonnage bounty, and proport!Gii<:d to the burden not always De piuuLiii i _ i i ^ _^ b. ^,^ ^ 



is too lir|»c. Scco:iJly, 



h(her>- i3 a tonnage bounty, ana P^P";-'^";:".^^^"'"-- ""'r^. I'v"- "lo-id- ^.^.I'othcvmk be O.ipportcd at home, it would not 



of the flup. not to hcrd-hgence or ^^'^^^^'^^^^ bV^raftblfto tax all other branches otMndullry tor th^ 



.hence U ha. been too con,a>o ^^^;^^^^^^^-^_ J;-,, ,.p.„ , is principle the bou.ues upon the expo.- 



^ • rTi •.■,! _i 1 -1 i-l.jtljj and liritilli nuule gun-powder, 



lip a long wav into the laud, and called fea-lochi, aud which, 

 by the operation of the bufs bounty, is gone ainioll entirely 

 to decay. I'onrlhVy, in rasny parts of ScolJand, d.iring cer- 

 tain feaions of the year, heiriugs fiipply a great part of tlie 

 food of the couiinon people ; and, therefore, a bounty, which 

 tended to lower their price in the liomc market, might contri- 

 bute to very general relief. But the herring-buls bounty 

 contributes to no fuch good purpofe. It lias ruined the 

 boat-tiAicry which is bed adapted for the fupply of the home 

 jmrket, and the greater part of its produce is lent abroad. 

 Another ingenious writer. Dr. Anderfon (ubi infra), has 



In pubHc, as well as in private cxpences, great wealth may, 

 perliai)S, frequently be admitted as an apolog-y for great folly. 

 I'nit there irwll furtly be fomcthing more than ordinary iib- 

 furdity in continuing fuch profufion in times of general difU- 

 culty and dillrefs." 



When a bounty m.iy be confidercd as a drawback, it is not 

 liable to the fame ohjeClio:i= w:th that wliich is properly a 

 bounty. Thus, the bounty upon refined iiigar exported 

 is a kind of drawback of the duties upon tiie brown and 

 muicovado fugars from which it is made. That Ipecies »ji 

 refined fugar upon which the bounty is granted is de4io:ra- 



pointed out iimilar defects attending the linieriesof Scotland; nated, in the llalute-book, fugar in the loaf and whole, 



and lie propofes, for remedymg'them, that a reafoiuible being nett." Upon the export of tins ioit of fu^-ar the 



bounty Ihould be allowed on every barrel of lierrings properly bounty was railed by 5 Geo. III. c. 4.;;. to 14s- ^d. ; and a 



cured'; and that the bounty icpou buffes per ton Ihould be further bounty of lis. 6d. was granted by 2 I Geo. Ill 



c. 16., in confequence of an additional duty of 6s. per cwt. 

 laid in I/8j on raw lugar imported. The whole bounty- 

 amounts to 26s. per cwt. When parliament, in 1791, by 

 ,; I Geo. Hi. c. ij. laida further duty of :s. 8d. per c«l. 

 on raw fugar imported from the Bntilli plantations, making 

 the import duty ijs. per cwt. in the whole, no addition was 

 made to the bounty on the export of retined loaf. But an 

 addition was made of 3s. 4d. to ilie drawback, on what the 

 ilatute calls "ballards, and grotind orpowdcrcd lugar," and 

 alfo on " refined loaf broken into pieces," and all fugar 

 called " candy." It was propofed in 1791, when the addi- 

 tional duty of 2 8. 8d. was moved, to augment the bounty in 



lowered, and thefe vclfels be prohibited from fidiing within a 

 limited dillance of the coall. This would allow the natives 

 to filli in their creeks with freedom ; and it would likewife 

 allure merchants to come and purchafe the fifii when fredi 

 caught, and cure them for themfelves. But as the moll im- 

 portant improvement, he propofes that the herring and 

 Greenland wliale-filheries fliould be made to go hand in liai-ui, 

 and mutually aifitl one anotner. The whalc-fifiierv', he ob- 

 iervcs, has been greatly retarded by the large fi/.e of the vef- 

 fels which have been ufually employed in it, and the mifma- 

 nagement that always attends public companies in matters of 



trade. To prevent this, in fome degree, for the future, _. . 



Dr. Anderfon propofes, that the bounty (Ivjuld be granted to the ufual proportion ; but the fugar refiners remonllrated 

 vcflels of a fmaller fiy.e; and that all reftric'lions, with regard againll the mealure, as beiii', according to their Ib'tement, 

 to the number of hands, provilions, tackle, &c. fliould be beneficial only to the planters. By a iubfequent law it is 

 entirely abuliA:ed ; in lieu of which the vefTels fliould be only enacted, that, after the year 1792, whenever the average 

 obliged to purfue the filliing for a certain limited time (if not of the prices of brown or muicovado fugar (taken weekly 

 fooner loaded), without following any other employment, upon oath before the lord mayor ot I,ondon, and publillied 



in the Gazette) fliall exceed, in the fix weeks rclpectively 

 preceding the middle of February, June, and Oclober, the 

 amount of 50s. per cwt. (exclufivc of the duty), the diaw- 

 baek on raw fugar exported is immediately to ceale for four 

 months, and the Ixjuiuy on yijiw^il is to ceafe during a like 

 term, but commencing alter an interval of one nionlh. I'Vom 

 a llatement made bv Mr. Bryan Edwards (Hilt, of the Well 



As thefe fmall vefTels would be equally proper for the her. 

 ring-tilliery as for that in the Greenland leas ; and a.i in botli 

 filheries the necciiary number of kands is nearly the fame, it 

 would be eafy fortliefe adventurers, on their return from the 

 Greenland feas, to put alliore tlicir lor-iling, with the fifliing 

 apparatus, and take on board the tackle, &c. neceifary fur 

 the herring-filliery, and to proceed immediately to the proper 

 ilatioiM in fearch of that kind uf filli. It is further propoled, Indies, vol. ii. p. 4/12.) it appears, tiiat the apparent loli to 



that iiiRead of fixing the rendez.vous for the iMriing-iifliery 

 precifcly to the 221I of June and ,ili of OctoVior, as at pre- 

 I'ent, Iliips might be entitled to receive the bounty, if they 

 bean fifhing on any day between the two periuds above- 

 ;r.entioncd ; tiie ftiips being obliged to continue tlirecinonths 



the revenue, arifing from the bounty, is no more ihau one 

 Ihilling the cwt. But as every hov;Ihead of fugar jofescon- 

 liJerably in weight, alter the duty is paid, and before it is 

 either exported or worked up, and the duty is (jfteii paid for 

 more than the caJks really cunlain, by the ftrict rrgnlatiojis re- 



ipccling 



