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THE WEST INDIES.

We have 'men favoured with a copy of tha following
important dispatch, which was communicated last
evening to the West India Association :
TO GOVERNOR SIR C. GREY, &C.
Downing-street, Oct. 30.
Sir,---I transmit to you herewith a copy of a me-
morial from proprietors, merchants, and others, con-
nected with the island of Jamaica, in which they re-
present the difficulties under which they labour, and
apply for assistance to be able to surmount them.
The topics brought before her Majesty's Govern-
ment in this memorial are, as you will perceive, the
same which have been for some time past under their
constant consideration ; but the progress of events
gives them every day an increasing interest and im-
portance.
Long before the enactment of the Act for the ulti-
mate repeal of the discriminating duties on foreign
sugar, it had become manifest that in the existing
state of opinion in this country, founded as it was in
reason and on facts, if the cultivation of sugar by
free labour could not be sustained on principles of
free trade, it could not be sustained at all. So long as
these principles were not brought into operation
it was obvious that the basis on which this com-
merce and cultivation rested was hollow and unsound,
and that all calculations connected with it must pro-
ceed upon very doubtful and precarious data. It was
essential, therefore, to ,the 'welfare of all parties to
commence without delay the experiment of bringing
the principles of free trade by progressive steps into
full activity, and maintaining the cultivation of sugar
with a reduction and early extinction of the discri-
minating duties. This experiment being indispensably
necessary was to be undertaken in a spirit of hope
and confidence, and in that spirit I trust it will still
be carried on. But, at the same time, there is no
application of the principles of five trade which was
entitled to more anxious attention on the part of her
Majesty's Government with a view to promote its
success ; because, of all merely commercial measures
it is that which involves the most momentous conse-
quences, moral and political, as well as commercial.
With the maintenance of the colonial agriculture and
exports is bound up the moral and industrial well-
being, the education, enlightenment, and good go-
vernment of the negro race in the British colonies ;
and, along with that, the abatement and ultimate
extermination of the slave trade and of slavery
throughout the world.
It was with a full sense of the importance of the
interests depending, and of the critical nature of the
experiment, that I applied myself to the subject when
I assumed the seals of this office; and then, as now,
the want of an adequate supply of labour was the
difficulty most dwelt upon by the planters and mer-
chants ; and this was the evil which it was obviously
most essential to obviate.
For the early, though not, certainly, the imme-
diate mitigation of this evil, I looked to the education
and industrial training of the negroes, and I have
pressed this subject repeatedly and most anxiously on
the attention of the Assemblies. For a more direct
alleviation I place great reliance upon the introduc-
tion of improved methods and implements of agri-
culture and processes of manufacture; and I have

rejoiced to receive, from time to time, reports of
improvements of this nature being in successful pro-
gress. But the supply of labour by immigration
was the resource for which it was conceived that the
assistance of her Majesty's Government might be
chiefly made available ; and I lost no time in con-
sidering by what means this assistance might best be
given. The expense of the transport of Coolies
from British India was such as to excite
doubts on the part of the Jamaica Assembly
as to the expediency of carrying that immi-
gration forward, and I saw much reason to apprehend
that these doubts were well founded, and that this
immigration could not be conducted on any terms
which would render it adequately remunerative. It
remained to establish, if possible, an extended emigra-
tion from the parts of Africa where slavery does not
prevail, and whence an intelligent and serviceable
class of emigrants might be procured. After every
practicable inquiry had been made in this country as
to the prospect of succeeding in such an attempt, her
Majesty's steam-ship Growler was dispatched to the
Kroo coast for emigrants, and, although she has been
for the moment diverted from the prosecution of that
particular service by the occurrence of an opportunity
of conveying a large number of liberated Africans to
the West Indies, the intelligence which has been
received by no means abates the hopes which have
been entertained,,and she has gone back to Africa with
the additional adiantage of conveying thither, as dele-
gates from British Guiana and Trinidad, between 100
and 200 Kroomen and other Africans. These persons
have been exceedingly prosperous in British Guiana,
and they return to their country, according to a
dispatch from Governor Light, of which a copy is
annexed, with large sums of money, the earnings of
their labour in the West Indies ; 29 of them having
deposited in the hands of the captain of the Growler
no less a sum than 5711. 15s. 10d. lam not, there-
fore, without hope that the succeeding operations of
the Growler may realise the prospect of emigrants
being obtained from the Kroo coast in large numbers,
and her Majesty's Government are prepared to take
prompt measures for conveying them to the West
Indies with the least outlay which may be found to
be compatible with the proper conduct of the service.
It is indispensable that that outlay should be defrayed
by the colonies to which the emigrants are taken; nor
is it possible for me, especially in the present state of
the resources of this country, and having regard
also to the extraordinary demands made upon them
from the various exigencies of the time, to hold
out any expectation that her Majesty's Government
can recommend to Parliament that either a grant
of money or a loan should be made by this country
to the West India colonies for the advancement of
these objects; but any number of merchant vessels
will be employed which it is found possible to em-
ploy with advantage, and the expenses of which the
colonies may be prepared to provide fnr. The man-
ner of conducting the service must afford an absolute
and indisputable security against any immigrants
being taken without their free consent, obtained by
fair and well-founded statements. Her Majesty's
Government cannot for a moment admit the validity
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that being
they rescued
may
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of freedom. Such a proceeding
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make more slaves than it redeemed,e
and to make them in the worst way, by furnishing,
like the slave trade itself, a provocative to the system
of barbarous outrage and warfare by which that
traffic is fed. It is indispensable, in order to
guard against abuses of this nature, that the
service should be conducted under the regu-
lations of the Government, and on those parts only of
the African coast where slavery and the slave trade
are found not to prevail. At present, however, there
is nothing to show that the employment of ships of
war will be necessary, or that any cost of superin-
tendence need be incurred beyond that of a Govern-
ment agency, on board the vessel and on the coast.
Such a superintendence is, in fact, as necessary to the
success of the undertaking as it is essential to the
character of this country; for any occurrence of
abuses would inevitably put an end to the operations.
With regard to the means by which the colonies
might be enabled to meet the cost—when I first came
to the consideration of this subject, the wisdom of the
Assembly of Jamaica had already furnished, in the
clause of their Immigration Act imposing stamp
duties on engagements for immigrant labour, an
example of legislation which I did not fail to adopt
and recommend to other colonies. I added, as you
Jamaica,
a suggestion for the im-
positionimmigrants introduced
are aware, and I still recommend to the attention of
thegioslfautumreonotfbfy tax aica n
at the public expense, and not under a stamped en-
gagement to labour. This may not be required in
the case of the Coolie immigrants, whose habits and
hirefnifi themselvesthat
comparative isolation in the community throw them
upon engagements with the planters as a necessary
resource. But I should fear that without it the
to
African immigrants introduced at the expense of the
colony,work,
inll
noortd
alwayser t
that
be they
foundey m yto a
expecta-
tion and repay the cost of their passage.
Such are the measures which I have hitherto
adopted and recommended to meet the deficiency in
the supply of labour, and the steps which were neces-
sary to give effect to these measures, so far as they
depended upon her Majesty's Government, have been
taken, I trust, with the least possible delay, and with
all the care requisite to give them a fair prospect of
success ; and there Is no other proper and practicable
measure calculated to advance these objects in which
we should not most gladly co-operate with the Legis-
lature of Jamaica to the utmost extent of the means
at our disposal.
If the measures now in. ,
contemplation, or any
evised for the introduction
others which may be d
of immigrants, should have an extensive success ;
and
neither that success, nor the anticipation of
it, be allowed to interfere with the diligent pur-
suit of every possible improvement in agri-
culture and manufacturing processes, and still less
.
with the education and industrial training of the ne-
groes, I trust there
's good reason to hope,
t difficulties of the West
not only that the present difficulties
prove to be temporary, but
Indian interest may
sed away, any measure
that when they shall have Pas