The Sun.
London, England, 1825-08-18 00:00:00

HAY 'l' I.

[From the Philadelphia Gazetk.l
A gentleman has furnished us with a statement
of the trade of Port-au-Prince during the last
year, from which an idea may be formed of the
great and growing importance of the commerce of
this island. It will be recollected that there are
12 or 13 other ports at which foreign vessels are
. permitted to enter. The statement is by no
means full, as no account is taken of lumber,
India and European goods, and other articles
shipped from America. If these were added
together, the total would be 1,200,000 dollars,
and it would be found that one-third of tht
receipts into the Treasury are paid by citizens
of the United States. It is proper to observe.
that much of the coffee exported to France is on
American account, .and that the Americans are
customers of the Ilaytians for full one-third of
the exportable produce. Even when there was
a discriminating duty of 5 per cent. in favour of'
the English, our merchants found a vent in Hayti
for some European and Indian goods, and during
the last year for domestic cottons. How import-
ant must this trade become to both countries now]
that the duties are equalized.

TRADE OF PORT-AU-PRINCE FOR THE YEAR ENDING
DECEMBER, 1824.
•

Atherican vessels, 131 - Tonnage
English - - 111 - ditto
Breinen - 6 - - ditto
French - - 33 . ditto

183

16,537
2,953

638
6,095

IMPORTATION DUTIES PAID.

26,223

America
England
Bremen
French, &c.

Dollars. Cents.
201,550 45
105,900 !ill
39,903 13
110,932 52

Dollars 453,337 03
IMPORTATIONS FROM AMERICA.
33,123 barrels flour.
8,649 ditto pork.
1,257 ditto beef.
5,912 ditto fish.
265,133 lbs. butter, cheeSe, and lard.
43,955 ditto barns and sausages.
41,262 ditto sperm, and tallow candles.
1,600,147 ditto codfish.
462,560 ditto tobacco.
2,054,603 ditto rice.
812,562 ditto soap.
9,164 gallons oil, linseed and fish.
37,642 pair shoes.
7,755 hats.
Valuation per Invoice. - Dollars 801,769 00
Tariff Dollars 1,184,3113 00
1311.01).TATION FROM OTHER. COUNTRIES.
Per invoice. Valuation.
D 807,214 00 D 1,238,582 50
216,651 00 308,772 40
436,954 80 621,281 00
F.XpORTATION.

England
Bremen
French, dm

Coffee. Cotton. LogwocA.
American - 6,508,649 439,184 162,641
English - 3,467,042 6,398 72,275
Bremen - 1.720,354 51,562
French - 7,781,977 425,503 528,551

Total - 19,478,0221b5. 871,085 821,629
With quantities of Cocoa, Tobacco, Mahogany, Shell, and Hides
The Export Duties were paid as follows :
Dollars.
American , - - - - 242,753 15
Englis - - -- - 129,515 84
Bremenh - - - - - - 64,507 78
French ' - .. - - - 302,313 21

736,989 93
Add Import Duties - 458,337 08

Total Revenue D 1,197,427 06
[Port-au-Prince iK the capital of the Republic and the place
of its greatest trade.]

ENGLAND FIFTY YEAUS AGO.—ID seventy
years the people of Great Britain have advanced full eight
millions. In 23 years, the number of inhabited houses in Eng-
land and Wales alone have advanced one-half. Fifty years
ago, the very existence of canals was a matter of incredulity.
Fifteen millions of public wealth have now been profitably ab-
sorbed by these mighty ducts; and at least half as much more
is at this hour destined for their formation. Fifty years ago,
there wag' hardly a steam-engine in the kingdom. There can-
not now he less than twelve thousand—a creation of power
equal to at least a quarter of a million of horses; an energy
which, in a single day, would have raised up the great pyra-
mid of Egypt. Fifty years ago, our annual export of manu-
factured cotton did not amount to a quarter of a million in
value: it has now swollen to nearly thirty millions. In the
same period, our exported woollens, in defiance of Saxon,
Prussian, Spanish, and American competition, have advanced
more than two millions. Fifty-years ago, our imports of raw
silk were only three hundred thousand pounds in weight : they
are now nearly three millions. Fifty years ago, our export of
iron was hardly twelve thousand tons : it is now about ten times
as much. Fifty years ago, our exports of linens were about
four millions of yards: they are now nearly forty millions.
Fifty years ago, the whole value of our exported produce, both
native and foreign, was just fifteen millions of money : the
value. of British produce exported, alone, is now more than
fifty millions. A hundred and twenty years ago, says old
Tucker, there were only two or three vessels in Scotland above
two hundred tons ; our whole tonnage is row more than a
quarter of a million, employing twenty thousand souls. A
hundred and fifty years ago, says Chalmers, the whole navy of
Britain did not amount to a hundred thousand tons : it is now
at least three millions of tons, employing about two hundred
thousand souls.—(Edinburgh Observer.)
GAME LAWS.—It will be seen by the following
notice, which appeared in the London Gazelle of the 30th Oct.
1690, that St—James's Park was then within the rigorous opera-
tion of the Game Laws :—" IVhereas his Majesty bath em-
powered John and Thomas Webb, gentlemen, keepers of the
fowl in St. James's Park, as also keepers of the Game within
ten miles of the Court of Whitehall, and the precincts thereof';
and information being given, that notwithstanding his Ma-
jesty's commands, several persons do molest and kill his Ma-
jesty's ducks and game within the said limits; it is therefore
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his Majesty's especial command, that none presume to keep a
fowling-piece, gun, setting-dog, greyhound, or other dog, net,d
tunnel, trammel, or other unlawful engine, wherewith to e-
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taken from any such offender.—NOTTINGHAM."
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MASONIC NOTICES FOR NEXT WEEK.
ENGLAND.

Monday, August 22, LONDON.• Nos. 4, 46, 71, 305, 407.
COUNTRY. Nos. 238, 320, 425, 455,
499, 541, 546, 553, 578,
cBO.
- 23, LONDON. No. 349.
COUNTRY. Nom. 33, 67, 63, 145, 427,
471, 497, 501, 523, 579.
Wednesday, - 24, LONDON. No. 2.
COUNTRY. Nos. 84, 126, 129, 215,
314, 400, ,414, 442, 449,
463, 478, 518, 577, 606,
661, 690, 705.
Nos. 7, 39, 82, 142, 156,
216, 327, 481. Gen.
Corn. Fern. Sch. at 11.
COUNTRY. Nos. 45, 57, 70, 153, 119,
176, 178, 214, 243, 269,
384, 420, 453, 461, 518,
545, 552, 556, 560, 586,
587, 642, 679, 717.
- 26, LONDON. No. 239.
COUNTRY. Nos. 53, 236, 283, 533,
550, 655, 709.
--- 27, LoNnoN.
COUNTRY. Nos. 358, 412, 492, 675.

Tuesday,

Thursday, - 25, LONDON.

Friday,

Saturday,

PRICE OF STOCKS THIS

Bak Stock
3 per Cent. Bed.
3 per Cent. Cons. 894- i 90 89k
3A per Cent.
Ditto Bed
4 per Cent. New IO3U
Bank Long Ann. 22 5-16ths 4
India Stock
Ditto Bonds 45 pm.
South Sea Stock lOl

PIIIOES OF FOREIGN F
Austrian Bcis,s per cent
Brazilian Bds

I1;25

Buenos Ayres lids
Chilian, lids, 6 per cent —
Colombian Bils, 6 per ct. 85
Do. do. 1824
Danish, 5 per cent...,
Do. Scrip dis.
Dreek lids
Do. Scrip, 1325 10+ 11 121 dis.
exican lids
Do. Scrip 11125 , 3 dis.
Neapolitan, 5 per cent. ...