Star.
London, England, 1824-10-29 00:00:00

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WEST INDIA SLAVERY.
LETTER VIII.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.
sta—lt is not without regret that I am compelled to
enter into such frequent, and minute examitistion of,
details: but as it is the only course by which the elueii.
dation of truth oan be effected, so it is the only oaf
open for me to pursue.
have now earnestly to call upon those who are in-
terested, on the one side or the other, on the subject of
saver!, and especially on those interested in the caust
of truth, to/ follow me'carefully into some farther re-
marks upon the Haitian document.
My last letter contained a disproof of some of the
arguments of AWOL= in favour of the accuracy
that document, and I have now to advert to an ingot,*
that he makes, whether the Reviewer was igner
that the American official par extends from Septa..
her to September, and the Haitian year from January
to January?
His argument is to this effect : How can the
viewer protest againit the accuracy of the Haitian ms.
turas, by comparing them with the American official'
returns, and pointing out the difference, when the period
is not one and the same? now what are the precise words
of the Reviewer? " If we compare this statement"
(that is of the Haitian Government) 4, with the official
" returns of the United States, we shall fmd a discre•
ft pancy, which makes it impossible that both official do-
" euments can be correct." All that I have to stew,
therefore is, that the difference which these two official,
docimients demonstratecrrectr.he A
is sufficient to prove,tooielreport
rthastrbtoatih
cannot :
luded to, accompanies a letter from W. H. Crawford,
Esq. Secrkary of .the Treasury, addressed to the
Honourable the President of the Senate, dated 18th of
January, 1823, and printed by order of the Senate of
the United States; and it is perfectly true, that the cal-
culation is made upon the American official year,
namely, from the Ist of October, 1821, to the 30th of',
September, 1822.
The Haitian document to which I shall now refer, is
that printed in the British and Colonial Weekly Register
tor the 25th of September, 1824, asserted by the Editor
to be taken from the original. it merely hays, " pour
" rani ee, 1822, an 19 L'lndependanceA" It is not
stated when the Haitian official year begins or ter-
minates ; but as ANcLus has seen the original doers!
ment, I shall take for granted that the periods of time
rthich he gives are correct; and that the Haitian offi.
vial year begins at the commencement of the year, and
terminates at its close.
In this case, the comparison of the Reviewer is strictly
correct, with respect to V 3 days out of the 365. These
days are identically the same, in both documents. The
remaining 92 days of 1822, are not included in the
American return, which, instead of them, necessaril
included the 92 l'astdays of the yesir 1821. The a
of time, however, are exactly of the same darasion.
If it can be 'hewn, under Oise circumstances,. that
'betels a material discrepancy between the two doce4
meets, anti if it be admitted; that the American docu-1
menu is correct, then am I justified in saying more than
titit which the Reviewer has said I can say, that the
Haitian document is wrong. The Reviewer merely said,
that both could not be right.
What, then, is the extent of inaccuracy on the side of
the Haitian document? I answer thus, (if, after my ex-
planation, I may be allowed to use the American do-
thment at a eounter-document on this occasion„)—the
Haitian document states'ihat the tonnage employed bit
the United States in :importing cargoes into Haits,l
amounted to 88,478 tons. The American document
stares that it only amounted to 44,118 tuns. The
tian document states the value of the cargoes of these'
vessels at 6,641,57 Q dollars ; the America/a document
states them as being worth. only 2,119,811 dollars. In
the first instance making a difference of one-half, andl
in the other of two-thirds. I cannot conceive how it Is
possible to controvert this reasoning, except by iisert•
ing that the American document is talse,or by contend-
mg that the trade carried on during the ninety-two last
days of the year-1822, varying entirely from the same
trade carried on during the sense metier of days in 1821,
made all the difference. But Amours thinks that be
can supply another explanation, and that explanation
appears to me infinitely more absurd than the.conjecobi
ral ones which I myself have supplied, becatise his ex.,
planation is neither more nor less than almost physically
impossible, and it certainly is incredible. These Ms"
strong statements, and if the Ultra-Abolitionists alto*
these statements to be uncontradiated, they will be rah!
of the greatest cowardiee. I challenge them to the proof.
AnctLos states that it is "a well-known fact, that
many vessels clear out from the United Stater for Cuba,
as being the first island in their route,. ai being for 'the
West. Indies generally, 46 which, rievertkekis, land their
eargoa at Haiti ;" consequently; in the American re-
turns, the American export tonnage to Cuba must be
unfairly increased, and the American etport tonnage
to Haiti unfairly diminished. Now, with respect to the
first point, that American vessels touch at Cuba on'
their way to Haiti, I assert, shortly, that that is not the
case; and that the "well-known fact' of ANCILUI is
utterly incredible; but that I may not assert-anything
without a clear explanation of my reasons, I subjoin is
a sate some observations on the navigation between the
United States, Cuba, and Haiti, which incontestibly es-
tablish my position.t With respect to the other asset--;
tion of the American exports to Cuba being unfairly
increased, I have the means of sheering the utter un-.,
possibility of such a statement being tree. ANGLIA; will
not pretend to deny, if his argument be correct, the
exports ham the United States to Cuba being increased,
in the mode stated by him, that the imports frost Cuba:
to the United States, in return, must be less, in very
nearly the same proportion in which be contends that
the American exports to Haiti were diminished.—
Now bow stand the data on this subject ? The Awaken

• Such are the real words used by the Editor of the lfritise end
Gioia 'eft Maw; and he s?p, the document printed by
is " end espy of this account from the original Bahian due-
° mot now itibre .a. Ai I cannot. believe an Add deenment
him that said to be foraidied by M. hew, the Secretary-General,
" Maisano wish*" weld be is had French, I m*onw there is
mew typographical war, even in this eopp,
_dtgh k was in-
tended to wreathe etrois of animism Or/ad copies of this un-
fortunate loosest.
it I have to shew, Namely with Wreaks m the , gaelsedes
tween the United States, Cabe, nod Bald,lllll a dreolliitance
stated br ASIILUS as " a well.halord bet :" is utterly *WO* as
esplainiag **their die teamgmeilvillopedin the raped Wish hem
the Unload States to Held doh oak • fee Cobs,. big the Ant
* Island la their mete. as fee the •Wat boa" freirflejw:nichi
• aeverdidem, dwir cargoes at Bahr Asie‘tra, , only
says that a natmy vends" thus dear oat. The meet tof
di to be explained beiwess the Hakim and Ueitelir&atos
dodussebts is 44,365 teas of Shipping,os nrardsof one
half the tonsage said to be employed MS 14 the Haitian document: i
The Seeder ought to have beforeliiii a chhrt viewing the shoals
of thi Great &Lama Bank, and. be will mei that dtboogis Cobs is

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Official Report already-gifted to, motes that the is.
posit 'onstage from the United Sentm to Cuba, for the
year 1822, amounted to 108,894 tons, of which 6,986
seem foreign; and, the same -document says, that the
quantity of tonnage employed in the imposts. from
Cuba into the United States, amounted (instead of
being 44,'.f%5 tons less than the exports) to 125.895 tons,
of which 7,490 tons were foreign ; so that, instead q
being less than the amount of tonnage employed in the
exports, which was necessary to establish Auokuill
proposition, that document thews khe imports from(
Cuba into the United States actually amounted tq
19,071 tons more than the exports from the United,
States to that Island.
But if It would be more satisfactory to ANOLUS to be
overthrown by an authority on his own side, I refer
him to a celebrated pamphlet, intituled 44 East and Wed
Lydia Sugars;" and in page 67 of that pamphlet he will
find the following passage : Besides a considerable
a trade which this Island (Haiti) maintains with France
a and Germany, and the amount of British Manufac-
" tutus which it annually consumes, it carries on a very
*extensive commercial intercourse with the United
States." Now, if the Author of the East and West
India Si.rvrs had not been more accurate than tinocus
and Mr. Whitmore, he would have talked of exported
cargoes from the United States into Haiti, valued at six
millions of dqllars. But what does he say? alt ap-
pears from eclat documents laid before Cargrets.that
so in the year ending September, 1821, there had been
a imported into the United States from Haiti, produce
amounting in value to 2,246.237 dollars, and exported
from the United States, maze? TO HAITI," Inlet by the
way of Cuba, as Avows implies,) "pods amounting in
" value to 2,270,601 dollars."
Take the case of the tonnage which Mr. Whitmore
and ANOLUS estimate at 88,478 tons, how does the an-
thor of The East and West India Sugars confirm
their authority in that respect? He says, a The ton.
" nage lielonging to the United States, employed in this
" trade, amounted to fifty thousand tons." The Ame-
rican document for 1822, states it to have been 44,800
tons. Perha?s ANIMUS would immediately argue, if I
were to give frith an opportunity, that the water of
the pamphlet on East and West India Sugars adverts to
the year 1821? 1 give him the full benefit of that dis-
tinction, but I will chew him, from the following state-
: ment, derived from a genuine and not from a spurious
document, the near equality in value of the exports and
imports for the three years, 1821, 1822, and 1823
&roars from and 'smart into the Thorne STATIS, with respect
to Ham, doyley the Years 1621, 1622, and NU.

Amount of Imports.

Donn,.
2,244,235
2,118,811
2,578,782