The Sun.
London, England, 1822-04-03 00:00:00

WEST INDIA TRADE.

COPY of a LETTER from-the CHAIRMAN of the SHIP.
OWNERS' SOCIETY to THOMAS LACK, 'Esq. the
Secretary of the Lordsof the Committee of Privy Council for
Trade and Plantations, on the SUBJECT of the MEDI-
TATED ADMISSION of AMERICAN SHIPS to
TRADE with the BRITISH. COLONIES in the WEST
INDIES. •
Sut—Having reported to the Committee the communication,
with which their Lordships were pleased to honour a deputation
from this Society on Friday last, of the measures lb the contem-
plation of his Majesty's Governmeiit for the relief of the West
India interest, the Committee have taken the same into consi-
deration, together with those observations on the same subject
which were addressed to them by Mr. George Hibbert, Mr.
C. R. Ellis, and Mr. Joseph Marryat, at a meeting on the 6th
ult. ; and by the desire of the Committee I have now to re-
quest you will be pleased to represent to their Lordships, that
they are fully sensible that the situation of the British West In-
dia planter is such as to require, and in their judgment to en-
title him to, all the relief which it is in the power of the 'Aegis=
lature to afford, consistently with what is due to the rights and,
interests of British ship owners, and other important national
objects..
They are equally sensible, that the prosperity of the planters
is most essential to that of the ship owners ; bat although such
be their conviction, the Committee find it impossible to bring
themselves to conceive; that the admitting the ships of the
United States to trade with the British Colonies would be any
thing short of a measure derogatory to the dignity of the British
nation, most destructive of the maritime interests of the country,
most ruinous to the North American Colonies; at the same time
that they are of opinion that it would beproductive of a very small
portion of that relief to the planters which they appear to expect
from it.
In the justly celebrated Report of the Lords of the Committee
of Privy Council, appointed for all matters relating to trade and
foreign plantations, on the commerce and navigation between
his Majesty's dominions and the territories belonging the
United States, made to his late Majesty on the 28ti January,
1791, (Which is understood to have been framed by the late Earl
of Liverpool;Ltheir Lordships declared their opinion, that " it
would be right in an early stage of negociation, explicitly to de-
clare, that Great Britain could never submit, even to treat on
what appeared to be the favourite object of the people of those
States ; that is, the admission of the ships of the United States
into the jsorts of his Majesty's colonies and islands." And, in
the opinion of this Committee, subsequent events have served
to /wove, beyond all doubt, the wisdom of that determination ;
and from which it is their anxious hope that this country will
never be persuaded to depart.
The obligation which, from a-sense of duty, the Committee
feel themselves under, of making this unqualified declaration
upon the present occasion, would cause them considerable pain,
were it not that, besides their belief that the opening of the
West India ports to American shipping would not be attended
with even the limited advantages which the Planters formerly
derived from such intercourse, much less those which they now
appear to expect from it, the Committee are persuaded that
other modes of relief may be resorted to, which, without being
at variance with bur national policy, or injurious to those Bri-
tiO interests which it is so important to protect, would be far
more conducive to the prosperity of the Planters. The Com-
mittee, however, believing as they do that the gnawing prospe-
rity of the British North American colonies is of itself a consi-
derable cause of jealousy to the Americans, and that on the
subject of the trade with the West India colonies, as well as
all others, they would expect a perfect equality of charges, are
far from entertaining a confident opinion that the United
States would agree to enter into the trade, if their produce
were to be subjected to the duties proposed for the protection
of the rival productions of the North American colonies.
The following are among the reasons which the Committee
'have, for thinking that the opening the ports of the West In-
dies to American shipping would not be attended with the ad-
vantages which the Gentlemen connected with those colonies
appear to expect :-
Ist. The United States are now become large manufactur-
ars of spirits, which was not the case formerly. •
2dly, Rum of their own manufacture pays, no duty, whilst
imported rum is subject to a duty of 45 cents. per gallon.
3dly. It appears by the latest advices from New York, that
the market being, abundantly supplied, the price of Antigua
rum (and other rums were in proportion) was only 75 Cents.
per gallon, duty paid, leaving for the importer only about 30
Cents. or 16Ad. sterling per gallon, which is about the price'
that can be obtained for it in London.
Under these circumstances, and as the continuance of the
Foreign Slave Trade will enable the Americans to obtain any
quantity of rum, upon terms at least as favourable as the present,
the Committee conceive that any considerable demand in Ame-
rica for rum or molasses of the British Colonies is not to be
expected.
With regard to sugar and coffee, as t 1 United States are
abundantly supplied with them from various places ; and the
sugar of New Orleans, which is duty free, is equal to that of
the West Indies, which pays 12s. 6d. per cwt. ; and the price
of coffee is much higher in Europe than in the United States :
a demand there for those articles, to any extent, appears to be
highly improbable.
The Committee abstain from entering into the question of
the benefit which the planters derive from the existing inter-
course with the British North American Colonies ; or the de-
gree in which the trade of those settlements might be injured
by the measure proposed,. they trust, however, they have said
enough to shew that the Planters cannot reasonably expect that
this trade, if opened to American competition, would be so
beneficial to them as formerly.
The following extract from the evidence laid before the Lords
of the Most Horrourable Privy Council of the 31st of May,
1784, will shew the character of the trade during the period
that American shipping had access to those Colonies ; when
the situation of the United States was far more favourable to
the object than at the present day, viz. :
" It was suggested to the Committee, that the confining the
intercourse with our West India Islands to British ships would
be a means of securing to the Planters a greater export for their
produce than if the ships of the United States were allowed to
come as formerly to the ports of our islands; for though the
West India Planters and Merchants seemed to imagine that
before the war the Americans took from the British West India
Islands their produce in payment for nearly the amount of what
they imported, the accounts of Imports and Exports state the
value of the produce of the Continent of North America, im-
ported into the islands, as valued at the port of importation at
720,0001 annually, including freight ; and the amount of the
produce of our islands, imported into North America, valued in
like manner, at the port of importation, at 42070001., including
freight; which makes a balance of 300,0001. in favour of the
Americans : and it has been asserted, by merchants well versed
in that commerce, who have appeared before the Committee,
that the Americans never took, in payment of their cargoes,
more than a small part of the produce of our islands ; one in
particular has informed the Committee, that the Americans
trading to Jamaica, before the war, used to take produce of that
island, in payment for provisions and lumber, imported there,
in nearly the following proportions :—The southern provinces,
About one-half or rather more ; the balance in dollars. The
middle provinces, about one-fourth ; balance dollars and sterling
Bills of Exchange. The northern, or New England Govern-
ment, not above one-tenth ; balance in dollars.
" And so unwilling were the Americans to take the prodOe
of the British Islands, that when they sold their lumber and
provisions in exchange for produce, and-not for cash, they gene-
rally demanded a higher price. With the cash thus procured,
whatever it might be, they went down to the Foreign Islands,
and purchased sugar, molasses, and coffee, much cheaper than
our Islands could afford them."
As to whether the -ships to be employed would be mostly
American or mostly Rritish, the Committee have only to state,
that formerly. " more than three parts in four of the ships em-
ployed in carrying on the commerce between the British West
India Islands and North America, were American."
In the year 1807, the vessels which arrived from the United
States in Great Britain were as follow :
, Ships. Tons. Men.
British - 84 18,229 1,091
American - 602 159,731 7,031
And of the ships by which the trade between this Kingdom
and the United States is now carried on, the proportion is as
follows, viz. :
Arrived in 1819— Ships. Tons. Men.
British - 121 28,279 1,420
American - )333 104,507 4,536
Cleared out in 1819—
British - 104 25,026 1,315.
American 333 105,539 '4,691
Formerly, " the provisions and lumber imported from the
United States into the West India Islands, were found to tend
to diminish the immediate intercourse, as well between those
Islands and the British Dominions in Europe, as between the
said Islands and the remaining British Colonies in America ;"
and the Committee have not the smallest doubt but that, undr
the like circumstances, such would again be the effect..
As to the benefit to British shipping from the circuitous
voyage alluded -to by Mr. Hibbert, it was in evidence before the
Privy Council, that, " upon an experiment made for two or
three successive years, of carrying on the trade by a circuitous
voyage, that is, by sending ships from England to America to
take in lumbeie and carry the same from thence to the islands,
it was found not to answer; that the ships did not save them-
selves in point of expence, and that it would never answer to a
merchant to employ ships in such circuitous voyages upon spe-
culation."
The Committee regret that they are nos in possession of ac-
counts which Would shew the quantities of West India produce

exported to the British North American Colonies of late years,
in exchange for lumber,- provisions,. &c.; they presume,. hew-
ever, it may be taken for granted, that all supplies which the.
West Indies receive from these Colonies are paid for in rum
and other produce : and if.so, the supplies of lumber &c. af-
forded by our countrymen in North America must be infinitely
the most beneficial to the planters, so far as relates to payments.
It is urged, however, that the supplies from the United. States
would be cheaper than from Canada, or the other North Ame-
rican Colonies ; but why this should be so, the Committee can-
not comprehend.
The Committee are, 'indeed, but too sensible that the heavy
charges upon vessels at the several British colonies, and the
shameful practice of making such charges at every port at which
a vessel may land any part of her cargo, must have tended, ma-
terially, to raise the price of the goods, especially of articles of
which the prime cost is so small ; and it is, indeed a crying evil
under any circumstances. If, however, such excessive differ-
ence- in the price is to be attributed to the cheaper rate at which
lumber can be shipped in the United States, or conveyed in fo-
reign vessels, it then must be evident, that unless the protecting
duties upon'American lumber were to be considerable in amount,
the British North American Colonies must sink under the com-
petition ; and what then is to become of the numerous British
ships and seamen, to which and to whom they now give employ-
ment ? and the Committee may add, what will be the situation
of the Su_gar colonies themselves, in the event of another war
with the United States ? - •
The Committee have no exact account of the number of ships
employed of late years in the trade between the British North
American and the West India Colonies ; but, in the year 1814,
it appears, by the official accounts, that the amount was 49,838
tons ;.anct they are persuaded that the annual tonnage entering
the West Indies from those ports cannot amount to less than
100,000 tons.
A letter which has been shewn to the Committee, dated Ber-
muda, the lath January, 1822, represents the British shipping
annually trading with that colony alone as amounting to aO,OOO
tons. As the writer places the subject now under consideration
in the point of view in which such other information as the Com-
mittee have been able to collect has presented it to their minds,
they deem it proper to insert the following extract :
" Should youi apprehensions be confirmed, and our West
India Islands be opened to the American flag, the business in
Bermuda will be completely at an end ; and in consequence,-it
will not be necessary to use St. Thomas as a port of transit,
which, had the trade continued in its present state, would have
been the case ; but however it may be, we shall prefer almost
any permanent arrangement that can be made to the present
state of uncertainty and suspense."
" In a political point of view, we certainly think that the
proposed measures will be highly injurious to the best interests
of the country, and we do not, believe that the West India
Planter will derive that benefit from the free intercourse which
is expected. The opening of our West India ports is, to Ame-
rica, a most important object to gain ; it is toe, perhaps, a point
of which our Alimsters do not sufficiently understand the im-
portance, possibly for want of local knowledge. The restrictive
measures of the United States have operated to their own injury,
and the people generally cry out loudly for their removal. The
British tonnage which entered and cleared at Bermuda in the
years 1819 and 1820, amounted to nearly 60,000 tons annually.
Why this should be conceded. to America I cannot understand.
The United States is no longer a market ofmuch importance
for West India rum, which has become almost out of use, and
is now substituted by their own home made spirit."
From this letter then it appears, that the present paralysed
condition of the trade of Bermuda is attributable to the state of
uncertainty in which the merchants and ship owners are kept,
las to the intentions of his Majesty's Government with respect to
the measure now under consideration.

The Committee apprehend that there can be but one opinion
of the necessity that yelief should be afforded to the planter. In
the early part of the year 1784, upon an inquiry by the Com-
mittee of Privy Council, which was instituted upon " the re-
presentation of the West India planters and merchants, purport-
ing to shew the distressed state of his Majesty's Sugar Colonies,
by the operation of the Order in Council of the 2d July, 1783,
and the necessity of allowing a free intercourse between the
sugar Colonies and the United States in American bottoms, the
price of rum was stated to have broke at Savanna la Mar, at
2s. 6d. per gallon; at Kingston it had sold at 2s. 9d.; and, by
accounts from the Leeward Islands, dated in February, the
price of new rum was expected to be 2s. 3d. and strong Gre-
nada rum 2s. 6d. per gallon."
At the present time the prices in London, after the freight,
insurance, and landing charges have been paid, are as follow:
Leeward Island, proof spirit, Is. 6d. Ter gallon.
Jamaica, above proof, ls. 10d. to 2s. 6d. per gallon, according
to strength.
Yet such have been the effects of the increased extent of the
British Colonies by the acquisition of Demerara, Berbice, St.
Lucia, and Trinidad, and the reduced prices of home made
spirits, that the supply of rum far exceeds what is required for
consumption in this country ; and such is the effect of the con-
tinuance of the Foreign Slave Trade, that the demand " for
exportation" has been rapidly decreasing, and has nearly ceas-
ed ; whilst the stock on hand, in the first week of January last,
in the West India Docks, was no less than 30,535 puncheons,
and 626 hogsheads !
The quantity of sugar was 40,931 hogsheads, and 3,286 tierces.
It remains here only to consider that means of relief are avail-
' able to the planters ; and the following have occnrred to the
Committee.

Ist. To extend the provisions of the 52 Geo. 111. cap. 98 ; the
55 Geo. 111. cap. 29 ; and the 57 Geo. 111. cap. 4, which per-
mit the direct exportation of produce from the West India Colo-
nies to Malta and. Gibraltar, and other places to the southward
of Cape Finisterre ; so far as to allow the free exportation, either
direct or indirect, of West India produce, in British ships, to any
part of Europe; and instead of the restrictions of licenses, bonds,
returns, and all the other embarrassing ceremonies prescribed
by those laws, by which the object of them, has been defeated ;
and instead of exports from those places to the Colonies being
limited to the " direct" return of the identical ships which had
first proceeded to them from the West Indies, that.any British
vessels should by allowed to proceed from any port in Europe,
to the British Colonies, with cargoes of lumber, staves, and such
other necessary articles as will not interfere with the.productions
or manufactures of the United Kingdom.
2dly. 'To extend to the British North American Colonies,
generally, the privileges granted to Bermuda by the 53 Geo.
111. c. 79 ; the 53 Geo. 111. cap. 50 ; 55 Geo. lil, cap. 29 ;
and 57 Geo. 111. cap. 4. and 28 ; -and to constitute them bond-
ing ports for British-West India produce; and to allow them
privileges similar to those proposed to be allowed to the West
India Colonies.

idly. To permit the importation of British. West India pro-
duce into Guernsey and Jersey, either direct from the British
Colonies, or from the warehouses of this country.
4thly. To reduce the fees charged upqn ships laden with lum-
ber, &c. in the West India Colonies ; and so to regulate them
as that the charge may be in due proportion to the parts of the
cargo landed at each port.
Othly. It is stated to the Committee that foreign spirits are
admitted to entry at New South Wales on the same 'terms as
British Plantation ram. The Committee submit that this de-
cided preference to foreign spirits (for, with reference to the
distance from Which it is brought it is a preference) ought by
no means to be allowed.

The Committee conceive it can hardly be necessary (even if
time would allow) for them to enter into particulars, for the
purpose of shewing that the measures they have pointed out
would be extensively beneficial to the British sugar planter :
not only are the countries of the North of Europe the greatest
consumers of sugar, but they are also the natural producers of
those commodities which the sugar colonies most require. If a
direct intercourse with them were permitted, the British planter
would have the means of entering into competition with the fo-
reign planter, from which he is at present debarred.
The like result would atten'd the affording the proposed fa+
cilities to the islands of Guernsey and Jersey ; the Fiscal regu-
lations of France are constructed without reserve, with the
express intention of encouraging Vessels of the smallest size in
their portg for the purpose of smuggling their commodities into
this country; which' practice :Might be retaliated, if not coun-
teracted, by allowing the Merchants of Guerniey and Jersey a
sufficient supply of West India productions; and„the Committee
conceive that the means of preventing the abuse of the indul-
gence might be easily provided, by regulations to which' the
Merchants of those Islands would most cheerfully conform.
It is submitted to their Lordships that-three important objects
would be obtained by the measures herein suggested. Some ad-
ditional employment may probably be afforded to British Ship-
ping : The extension 9f foreign plantations, and consequently of
the Slave Trade (to the continuance of which the distress of the
British Planter is chiefly to be ascribed) wouldbe discouraged :
And the procuring of Lumber, &c. from the North of Europe
for the direct supply of the Btitisn Colonies would bespeak-a
degree of independence on, the United States' that may be ex-
pected to have a salutary effect in that quarter, and possibly lead
the Americans to a proper estimate of the value of the inter-
course with the Colonies which this country already, permits,
and the enjoyment of which they sullenly reject. It appears to
the Committee to be peculiarly deserving of their Lordships'
consideration, whether, if-American Ships were to he admitted
into the Colonies, other. Foreign Countries
,would not expect
to be allowed the same privilege?
Were the Legislature to adopt the measures lierein pointed
out, the Committee strongly incline to an opinion, that before
they could be acted upon, the United States would have with-
drawn their existing interdiction to an intercourse with the
Colonies by British ships.
Although encouraged by the expectation that this Govern-
ment will, at the urgent solicitation' of the' West India interest,
consent to relieve, its Colonial System, so far as to admit Ame-
rican ships to' trade with the Plantations, the American people
are reported to have become extremely impatient at being re.

strained from availing themselves of the permission to trade with
them in British ships • what then may be eipected to be their
feelings, on finding that other measures of such extensive et&
cacy have been resorted to for the relief of the planters ? and
. (with reference to the constituting the North American Colonies
Bonding Ports), when some of those measures are calculated to
excite in that Government well-grounded aprrehensions on the
score of its revenue ?

The Committee are by no means disposed to underrate the
value of a commercial intercourse with the United States, by
means of British ships ; they cannot however but think that, in
a political point of view, it is not to be compared with the inter-
course with other foreign countries, and especially if carried on
between the United States and the British Colonies in the Ttrest
Indies as as the seamen engaged in that trade, in particular, rea-
dily and naturally acquire thosei-onnexions in the United States,
which, for want of knowing the language, they cannot form in
other foreign countries, and which must tend powerfully to
weaken their attachment to their native land.

So many motives combine to induce the Planters to consign
their productions to the United Kingdom, that the exportation
of them direct to Foreign Ports would never be overdone ; it
would act merely as a safety•valve tethe home market.
If the Planters be allowed to send their sugars direct to Fo-
reign Countries, there can be no doubt that the practice of
claying would be adopted to a considerable extent, which would
have the, same effect_ as if the crushed sugars were again ad-
mitted into Russia.

The Committee can imagine no possible objection to such a
further departure from the Colonial Bystem as herein pointed
out ; when that system was established, this country could con-
surne all that the CalonieS produced; or find a readrinarket for
the surplus ; they now produce much more than is required, and
the relief which might have been derived from re-exportation to
the Coptinent of Europe is cut off' by the vast addition to the
productions of Foreign Colonies, which' the continuance of the
Slave Trade has enabled them to make.

• Such a departure would, in fact, only be permitting that to-
bo done in an advantageous Manner, which is already' allowed
by the Warehousing System, under which the productions of
the• Baltic, and of the Colonies, meet and ecchange themselves
in the English warehouses, but are prohibited from going for-
ward to their destinationti, until they have passed through that
expensive ordeal. But with this differenceohat a British ship
would alone be the carrier for the whole voyage.
A ship may bring sugar from Jam4ea, land it in the ware-
house, and the next day begin to take it in again for St. Peters-
burgh. On her return from Petersburgh with a cargo of lum-
ber, &c. she may land it in the warehouses, end the next day
begin to take it in again for Jamaica. It is true, that some
duties upon• the ship are received by Government; and dues
and charges of various descriptions by pilots, light-house esta-
blishments, dock companies, &c ; but how insignificant is the
benefit which those interests thus derive, at the expence of the
Planter and consumer, compared to the sacrifice which is re-
quired from the Bridal Colonies at large.
The Committe are most ready to believe that, unless relief
be afforded to the Planters, all of them must be greatly im-
poverished, and much of their land will be thrown. out of culti-
vation ; and the Committee feel confident that the Planters
may be essentially relieved by the mode which they have point-
ed out.—The opening the Colonies to Ainerican shipping they
are firmly. persuaded would not answer ,the intended purpose-;
and the measure would be in direcl opposition to the ancient
law of this country, which is founded upon a principle of public
law, approved and adopted by all European nations, who, as
mother aunties, have ever claimed a tight of restraining the
trade and navigation of their C'olopies, in such manner as, in
their judgment, would be, most conducive tntheir own interests.
As to the more liberal policy_ of the French, Danes, &c. in
allowing American Vessels to enter their Colonies, it must be
sufficient to observe, that they are under a necessity of permit-
ting them, not having such articles in their own countries
their Colonies require, and which they, therefore, suffer the
Americans to supply.
There are, besides, many inwortant political considerations
which make the case widely different.
The. Committee have requested me tosbring under the notice
of their Lordships the following extract from the Report of the
Lords of the Committee of Privy Conneil, dated 28th January
1791,. before referred to. Their Lordships say, "In Sformer
Report of the 31st of May, 1784, they humbly submitted to his
Majesty their reasons for not allowing to the ships of the United
States the privilege Of trading to the ports of his Majesty's said
Colonies and Islan ds,and his Majesty was pleased to approve oftke
advice then given. Many of the Merchants and Planters of the
Islands in the West Indies, who formerly resisted this advice,
now acknowledge the wisdom of it. Parliament, by passing an
Act for making permanent regulations, founded on that Report,
have given their sanction to the system of policy therein recom-
mended. The great advantages which have resulted from the
measure appear in the accounts appended to the Report."
And sue i this Society hope will be the decision of their Lord-
ships on the present occasion, and such the Committee confi-
dently anticipate will be dap result of adhering to a principle,
which every consideration, of national policy and of justice to our
fellow subjects in the North American Colonies, and to our
ship-owners and seamen, dictates to the nation to hold sacred
and inviolate.

In conclusion I am to add, that believing as the Committee
do, that the adoption of the measures they have pointed out
would be productive of great relief to the British planter ; and
that an intercourse with the•Uspited States by American shipping,
whilst it would not be attended with any impertant advantage to
him, would be pregnant with consequences of the most injurious
description to British shipping, and the North American Colo-
nies, the Committee most respectfully, but at the same time
most earnestly, intreat of their Lordships, that the effects of the
measures which they have humbly recommended, and any others
of a similar tendency which their Lordships' wisdom may sug-
gest, may be tried, before the admission of American ships into
the British Colonies be resorted to : should these prove ineffec-
tual, anxious as the Ship-owners are that additional Rivals should
not be raised up against them, they will most reluctantly object
to the adoption of such further relaxation of the Colonial Sys-
tern as circumstances may hereafter render expedient and indis-
pensably necessary.---I have the honour to be,
Sir, your most obedient humble Servant,
- J. W. BUCKLE.

Extract of a letter from Revel, dated the 18th of February,
2d of March :—" The winter hitherto has been such as was
never before remembered by the oldest person. The frost has
never put a stop to or inconvenienced the navigation : the roads
and harbburs have all the appearance of the month of June,
nor have the surrounding hills or the country any snow left."
The public are cautioned against purchasing shrubs or plants
in garden-pots or boxes, of those who hawk them about, as
there have been several vtry shameful instances of a num-
bp. of valuable plants and shrubs'having been cut off just above
'the roots, in the grounds of some Agentlernen in the vicinity of
the metropolis. They are afterwards placed. in fresh mould, in
garden-pots or boxes, and will only for a short time preserve
their freshness.
On Wednesday a medical student was fined by the Police
Court, Edinburgh, in the sum of two guineas, for abst:, acting
a newspaper from a coffee-room in the New Town.
EXECUTlON.—Yesterday morning Edward Cochrane was
executed ht the Old Bailey, pursuant to his sentence for burglary
committed at. Hendon.

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BIRTHS.
On Monday, April 1, Lady Frances Ley, of a daughter.
At Battersea, on the Ist inst., the Lady of Cuthbert Rippon,
Esq. of 'a son. "

DIED.

On the 29th ult., Lady Elton, wife of Six A. Elton, Bart.,
of Clevedon-ceurt, Somersetshire.
On the Ist instant, Mr. Stephen Ofmond, at 1;16 itouse, Little
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