Star.
London, England, 1826-08-18 00:00:00

ST. JAGO DE LA VEGA, JULY 8.

We have received, by a private channel, the St. Jago
Gazette of the s:h July, from which we take the fol-
lowing a t cle :

FROM Tilt POSTSCRIPT TO TriE ST. 3AOO GAZETTE.
At a Meeting of the Honourable the C..mmissioners
of Accounts, which took place at their office, in King-
yesterday, several papers were laid before them,
relating to the e;actioa of duties on vessels by the Or.
ficers of the Custom House, under instructions from
England, and totally unauthorised by the laws cf this
land. The consequences have been, that the Receiver
General, conceiving it his duty also to levy the duties
hich he is empowered to do by law, several vessels are
about to leave the port of Kingston rather than pay such
double dirks, without discharging their cargoes, which
will be a great and continued loss to the revenue, until
remedied, and a severe injury to the trade of the island.
The Collector of the Customs stated to the Meeting,
that he was compelled to confot m to the instructions he
had received, and the following document was laid
before it :

" The b. ig Golden Grove arrived in Kingston har-
bour, on the morning of Saturday, Ist July, and was
reported the same day at the Custom-house, and has
remained since without being able to discharge, in con-
tinence of the Collector refusing to grant warrants,
until the duties formerly paid to the Receiver General
a-e paid to him, and which are, at the same time, still
demanded by the Receiver General. Every endeavour
has been resorted to at the Custom-house and Receiver
General's office, to arrange, so that the vessel may go on
discharging, by offering to pay the whole duty to the
Collector, on his promising to pay over three-fourths,
before the vessel sails, to the Receiver General ; the
other one-fourth has also been tendered (making an ad-
dition of '25 per cent. chargeable to the vessel.) But both
insist on having the full amount paid into their re-
sf ective offices.
The vessel, therefore, awaits the decision of the Com-
u issioners of public accounts, to whom it is referred,
whether the Receiver General may allow the vessel to
clear without paying the additional duties? Otherwise,
the vessel must immediately leave the port, by which
the revenue will safer by the loss of the duty parible
on the cargo, consisting of 850 barrels flour, 4 barrels
linseed oil, 8 kegs chewing tobacco, 30 barrels leaf
tobacco, BM. hogshead staves, 150 bags corn, 100
hams, '2 boxes soac."—The Board soon afterwards
agreed to the following Resolution:—
That copies of the several letters and documents laid before
the Board (regarding the present system of collecting and appropri-
ating the Custom-house duties), be transmitted to William &hillock,
Esq. for the information of his Grace the Governor, with a parti-
cular request that he would call his Grace's early attention to the
embarrassments which have been occasioned to the trade of this
14acti, by the measures adopted by the Cheers of his Majesty's
Customs, under the instructions they have received from England.
The evil consequences arising from the demand of double duties
being made evident, by the statement laid before the Board, relating
to the brig Golden Grove, and applicable, not only to the case of the
vessel, but to other vessels now in this harbour, and at the out-ports,
as welt as to such as may soon be expected to arrive; and must pro-
4h.,te, if not speedily remedied, a great defalcation in the revenue,
ard especially in that part allotted to the subsistence of the troops."

A gereral opinion prevails that Doctor BonnowEs,
the Dean of Cork, will be the new Bi•hop, in the room of Doctor
WaNsonton. Dean Bunoowas is at present at Cheltenhant.

The inquest 01 the Ward at Ct•e4p paid a morniq
visit, this day, to the publicans in that Ward, in order to examine
""" ineantres, agreeably to the new regulation, and found all thi
Pt...kraus good stun and true.