To the incorporated fociety 12000 For carrying on a whale For enlarging the quay at For carrying on the inland To Henry Cottingham, and 6000 1000 1000 1600 4000 600 8000 the tumultuous proceedings of the late mobs For widening the paffage leading from Anglefea-street, to College-green, To the city work-house, To Hugh Boyd, Efq; for his having made a harbour at Bally-caftle; and for his keeping the faid harbour in repair for 2 years To the Dublin fociety, To ditto, to be applied for the encouragement of fuch trades and manufactures, and in fuch manner and subject to fuch regulations, as fhall be directed by parlia ment, For compleating a convenient way, ftreet, and paffage from Effex-bridge, to the caftle of Dublin, For widening the paffage leading from the Inns-quay to Arran-quay, Dublin, 800 340 377 3000 2000 8000 5000 1000 payments to that time 235 15 7 Total 3735 15 7 To answer which fum, there is the following flock in hand in materials: Ninety machines, which, with the necefary alterations and improvements, cost Fitting up a receptacle, office, and fundry 914 160 39 129 14 3 48 15 4 courage and affift the profecution thereof by a further aid. And in regard to any objections that may be made, that the above ftock, on account of its being used, would, if it was to be fold, fall far fhort of its prime coft, which muft be allowed will always be the cafe wherever a bufinefs is dropped fo foon after its commencement (and 2584 12 6 in this particular circumstance, it is probable, would not produce fufficient to reimburse the fuperin97 tendant the monies he has advanced) it may not be improper to obferve, that the alterations and improvements in the machines (from experience found neceffary) have put them in a better ftate than when firft made. Hence there is the greatest reafon to believe, that by an additional aid, this undertaking may be carried on in a greater degree, and to the farther benefit of the public, who could not expect the fuperintendant, with 200ol. fhould feed the multitudes in this metropolis, when it is well known that the fales at Billingsgate, in the 50 19 6 courfe of a year, amount to between 2 and 300,000 1. But nevertheless he has brought upwards of zco tons of fish from diftant parts of the fea coafts, which has produced 19,6411. 19s. 9d. halfpenny; and if it is allowed, as in juftice it ought, that fuch fish has been fold at lefs than half the former ufual prices, the public will find they have gained an advantage of nearly 20,000 l. from this undertaking, befides the effect it has had on the general fale of fifh, probably equal to more than double the above fum; from which the fuperintendant prefumes to think, that his endeavours have benefitted the public to the amount of fifty or fixty thousand pounds. 146 A compleat fett of tur bot-lines, and other apparatus, for two fmacks, of 60 tons each A water cart and tubs for the receptacle, and a large lanthorn erected at Lyme Cob, as a guide to the fishing boats on that coaft 28 39 Total 46, Befides fundry other utenfils the fhops and receptacles. 1.8 in By this it appears, there is a flock of materials in hand amounting to 40631. 1 s. 8 d. to answer the capital of 37051. 15s. 7d. and to rry on the undertaking, in cafe poblic fhould be difpofed to en Account of the fale, charges, and nett proceeds of the Ship La Hermione, a Spanish Regifler Ship, condemned in the high court of admiralty of Great Britain, September 14, 1762. BY the fale of 550 bags of dollars to fundrys, qt. oz. By 1346 fundrys, 476,518 at 63d1 1.165,652 at 63d £. S. d. 126,078 14 3 305,983 13 O 08. 11. By 28 bags of gold coin to Bank of England, weighing 22,974 oz. 3 dwt. 18 gr. at 78s. 6d. By 4 ingots of gold, at their various affays rendered 621 oz. 1 dwt. 14 gr. ftandard at 78s. 6d. 90,173 13 8 £2,437 14 8 By i ditto as above 11 oz. 15 dwts. 9 gr. at 798. 46 11 3 2,484 5 II By 34 ingots filver as above rendered 18,363 oz. 3 gr. ftandard at 64d. 5,030 3 5 By 3 ditto as above 527 oz. 1 gr. at 65d. 142 14 10 5,192 15 0 By 6 oz. 6 dwt. 2 gr. fine gold in 2 ingots, at 86s. Dedu&t expences of parting 445 oz. gilt filver, at 4d. 5 7 8 £. 27 § 33 19 16 11 By fundry trinkets, &c. &c. fold to fundries for 424 7 7 oct. 7. By 427 ferons, and 306 bags Guiaquil cocoa, fold at Garraway's coffee-house, by public sale, in 60 lots, weighing together nett, 1029 C. 6lb. at various prices, from 1018. to 109s. per cwt. Nov. 11. By 1939 blocks of tin fold this day as above, in 39 lots, to fundries, weighing nett, 1065 C. 1qr. 17lb. at various prices, from 92s. to 100s. per cwt. and produced £. 5,168 o 92 6,038 16 9 Discount 2 per cent. By 8 bales Vigonia, and r ditto Alpalca wool, fold at public fale in 9 lots to fundries, weighing 129 4 £. 141 8 13 10 O 10 O 155 8 O Discount z per cent. 151 10 3 17 8 By 61 barrels gunpowder, qt. 34C. at 6os. By a launch belonging to the fhip fold by Tho. Mayne, and Co. at Gibraltar, for ps. 51 1 6 at 4od. 1763. March 4. By the fhip Hermione, with all her tackle, apparel, and furniture, guns, ftores, &c. fold this day at public fale for 102 O 8 10 3,010 May 16. By a bounty bill for 150 men, dated Jan, 1763, at 51. is Deduct fold at 7 per cent. disc. Brokerage L. 61 17 62 1 05 £. 825 0 O 762 1 6 62 18 6 For freight of the treafure from Gibraltar CHARGES. For duties paid on the cargo at the Cuftom-house, with officers fees and amount of the fubfidy 1747, on the cocoa not drawn back For brokerage paid on felling the treafure, cargo, and ship For all charges of lighterage, landing, wharfage, and warehouse-rent, &c. on the cargo, &c. £. 13,055 18 1,120 12 Total amount 544,648 16 £. 5,303 6 3,030 6 O 747 5 O 1,685 4 6 0314,176 10 24,942 11 6 Nett proceeds £. 519,705 10 To 3 commiffion officers at To 8 warrant ditto £. 13,004 14 I each is 4,336 32 39,014 2 3 34,689 5 4 1,806 10 10 36,130 17 485 5 4 76,132 13 FAVOURITE's SHARE. 64,872 13 To 2 commiffion officers N. B. The Active being entitled to the whole bounty money, occafions the difference in the shares between the at £12,974 10 9 4,324 16 11 25,949 I 8 O 4 9653 + Remarks on fome cautions in our last volume to perfons going to Scotland to be married. [We cannot infert these remarks with out thanking the author of them for his favourable opinion of our labours, and his public-spirited endeavours to prevent our alarming and misleading, when it was only our intention to warn and inftruct. We never thought otherwife of the marriage act than the public, and, at prefent, many of the legislature feem to think. Nor should we have ventured to infert these cautions, bad they not flood unimpeached for a long time in one of the best monthly productions.] To the AUTHOR, &c. Yearly purchafe Mr. Dodfley's Annual Register, and read it with much pleasure: the relation of facts which one finds there, is ge'nerally, if not always, authentic; and the obfervations upon these facts ufually candid and juft. I have not yet gone through the last volume, but I have already found what appears to me to be an attempt to deceive: if it is fo meant, I am perfuaded the compiler has done it with a good intention, and from an extreme regard to the late marriage bill. The article I refer to is in the chronicle for January, 1762, and intituled, "Cautions to perfons going to Scotland to be married." The author of thein mentions the formalities required by the law of Scotland to couftitute a marriage regular; obferves that in moft of the marriages made by people from this country thefe forms are omitted; and concludes with faying, "And what an unhappy fituation muft the parties to fuch marriages be in, or their iffues, if when the validity of these marriages comes to be litigated in England they fhould be deemed invalid, as not being had in pursuance of the laws of that country in which they were celebrated! It is to be hoped indeed that these marriages will be allowed good, as were the fleet marriages, though very irregular ones: but what perfons of common prudence would run any hazzard at all on fuch an occafion?" You fee, fir, the author fays not that the marriages are invalid, he could not confiftently with truth, and I fuppofe him incapable of deviating from that; but I think he means to confound irregular or clandeftine marriages with fuch as are void and null; and to create doubts in the minds of ignorant people concerning the validity of irregular marriages: to this end feem to me to tend the cautions, which probably come from a friend to the marriage bill. I never yet have seen the utility of this law, unless to innkeepers on the road, poft boys, oftlers, and an epifcopal clergyman at Edinburgh, who makes a good living by tying the hands of our amorous adventurers; and I believe the English are the first nation who ever had fagacity enough to difcover that it was for the advantage of the ftate to lay any restraint on marriage, to put any flop to this fource of national strength, For my own part, I think this law more unfriendly to natural liberty, and infinitely more pernicious to the state, than any excife law that was ever yet paffed. When I fee fuch a buille now made about liberty, and reflect how quietly the marriage bill was received, one would imagine we were not the fame people we were fome few years |