Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1821-08-24
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We come now TO the conclusion of the late
war, between the United States and Great
Britain. IN the absence of official documents,
which | am promised by the custom-house, /
will offer Il few facts. which will shew the d.
nhmu'ion OF our trade, by restrictions.
nave stated before, that 600c tons of ship
ping cleared from this port for Bermuda and
Halifax from 5lst Dec. 1919 To LIST Jan. 1891 :,
one year the number was ca vessels what
was the value of the cargoes, they carried out.
cannot tell exactly but as the cargoes OF 80
were insured here, find the amount export
ed in those, to be an average OF $3.50; then
say G4 at 1850 will give the whole export of
| the year S 800. | have before me the a.
mount exported to The British West Indies in
lSl6, 1917 and 1915, by one house in Norfolk {;
the average IS for each year s $50, 900.
lou were here during those years, and well
know, that one house did not do all the bust
| ness TO the British colonies but from what
can learn, that house did about one-fourth of
II, VI hch gives the amount of exports from
Norfolk to the British West Indies, rather over
one million Of dollars fallen in December
last, short of two hundred thousand dollars,
| and daily falling of.
Another fact may be stated though it will
not shew the tliminuion of our exports from
Norfolk to the British West Indies, to the full
extent, twill in part do so. lately examined
the records of the Marine Insurance Compa
ay's Office, from the 3lst March 1905. TO the
3lst March 1904. From those it appears, that
assurances We're made in that Office, for that
| time, on cargOes from Norfolk 60 the British
colonies amounting 10 $4,000 dollars. Now
there can be no doubt, as to that amount go
ing TO those colonies. because if the vessels
had gone elsewhere, they would have deviated,
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that all nor near all, the cargoes of vessels
trading to the British West Indies from this
| port, did not insure in that office, some were
insured TO the North, and some in England.
and some We're not insured-but great num-
Der were insured here, " TO one or more Is
lands" not designating a mode of nsurng,
very common to guard against deviation. and
sometimes TO conceal their destination from
mercantile neighbors what these would or
rather the cargoes did amount to, cannotsay.
but from my knowledge of the business at
that time, should not hesitate to say that the
| exports from Norfolk TO the British colonies
did not fall short of 100000 dollars.
BY accident, | laid my hands upon an old
magazine, as far back as 1897, which contains
the impOrtations into jamaica, from the Uni
ted States, from December 1886, to the 1st
March 1887, which Twill put down as iud it
the period being only three months.
2,4j6,000 slaves and heading
100000 feet of scantng
100000 feet of plank
G,9G2 barrels of bread
1l,483 do. of -four
$3.50 do. of corn
1869 iierces of rice
100000 of shingles.
The ostensbc object of our restrictive sys-
bl.ip I'm
cation, and cripple tIlat of England, we will
examine that subject.-Om recent measures
have not been sufficiently long in force, for the
trade which is to be affected by them, to get
into regular channeI.-Butit is Just beginning
TO receive a new direction, which will put the
British navigation, certainly upon as good, pro-
badly upon better footing than ours, as re-
spccts the portatiOn.--Already, shipments
of American produce have been made from
Great Britain to the West India colonies, and
orders 1re now here, for shipments 10 Great
| Britain, intended ultimately for their colonies.
In business of this sort, il is evident, that so
far as relates TO the carriage from this coun-
| try to Britain, the ships Of both countries are
upon an equal footing afterwards, it exclu-
sively belongs TO those of BRITAIN Before a
comparative view is taken of the expense OF
transportation by way Of Bermuda, and by
way Of Liverpool, fact not generally known
will be stated-More than three-fourths OF
the ships that go from Britain to her colonies
| go in ballast, or which is The same thing, upon
an average, they are not one-foGrth laden
hence freight from Faganj 10 the colonies
must be very small Coasideration.-And ]
will undertake 10 say, ihs me three-lourths.
not now laden or occupied, are competent to
carry as much o. our produce as tlie colonies
will want.