The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-06-24 00:00:00

DISTILL JI'IOY OP SUG4RS.

The Third Report elute Committee ou the Dis-
tillation of Mugu and Molasses has been printed.
It states that "by far the greatest portion of the
pierwions awl lumber supplied to our It rat ludia
islands has beeu hittierto imported iu Atnericau
vessels, and pie.d for partly iu ruin suid a very small
quantity of Molasses jute only articles of their
growth which the colonists are allowed to barter)
and partly in specie and Bill, of Exclianke, which
latter mode of payment is greatly preferted by the
Americans, who generally insist upon it, and will
dispose. of their cargoes at a considerably less price
to olden' it, and that thu. not shore one-third of
the supplies imported from America are paid for by
bartering ruin and molasses ill exchange.
The lteport ocs onto state, " that the cause of
the prefeience thus shown by the tuerchuuts of the
United States to a mode of payment so distressing
' to the other part, is to be found in the limited de-
mead for ruin and molasses, as compared with the
value of the articles imported, and in the edvautage
%Inch money and bills of exchange aford in the un-
restrained interrourse which they ere allowed to
carry on with the enemy's colonies. It has been
their practice to sail thither with the money of which
they hare drained the British West ladies, and to
purchase with it sugar, mulasses, and coffee, to re-
turn with these articles to their own country, and
then to export the surplus, beyond the demand of
the America., market, to every part of the Conti-
sent of Bionic.
The Report concludes with earnestly recom-
mending the expiohency of permitting the pro-
prietors of We,t India estate;s to hurter sugar and
coffee, us well as rum and molasses, for the lumber

and proiisions imported in neutral vessels during
the war, and thee, st thinks, it coupled with the
adoption of measures of ineeeused vigoor with re-i
bpect to the commerce carried on by the eueiny'a
islands, would effectually rehive the British planter
from the evils he now so justly emtiplaitai of. With
respect to such meusures it euggeste, that a re-
carrence to the rule of the war of 1751 i, or a block-
ade, general or partial, of the hostile euloilie, would
materially alter the cote. •In the course of the Itteport
the Committee observe, that they turned their auto-
tiou to the manner in which the perm:soon to barter,
which they recinutsearl, might affect our North
Atnetican tolunics and the shipping interest of tin.
euuutry ; thPv admit they did not enter fully luta
the subjeet, bet they state, that from the view they
took of it, they do not see any ground of apprelteu-
siuu ; and thit if the weactre recotutueuded even
did partially affect the shippii:g interest, it would
be io a ilegrea so small as to bear no comparison
with the great benefit' to be derived from the mein
niures recommended by the Committee.

1.411 V INTELLIGENCE.

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?MR ISTito r. BULL and SMITH.

Mr. POW I-TIE mowed for judgment on the De-
fendants.

They were convicted, during 'the sittings at Nisi
Prim, in the last term, for aiding anti assisting
the escape of Bo) d M'Culloligis, by entering sham
bail for hien.

Sir NA/H; GROSZ pronounced the sentence of the
Gout. After telling the Prisoners what the enor-
mity of the crime was, ;se adjudged them to he
solstined in Neweate 18 months, end to Nand 011 re
in the pillory its Pslace-yard, for one hour,hetacen
the hours of 12 and I o'clock iu the day.