The present state of the British sugar colonies consider'd
Subtitle: in a letter from a gentleman of Barbadoes to his friend in London
Publisher: [J. Wilford]
Published: 1731
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 28
Subjects: Sugar trade; History; Commerce
Notes: "Probably by John Ashley": ms. note on fly-leaf.

Ashley gives the conditions which led to French supremacy in the sugar trade, cites comparative figures for Barbados and Martinique, and asks that trade restrictions be placed on foreign powers and the British North American colonies.