STATE PAPERS. 



709 



Tcntion of unlicensed preachers in 

 this island ; but are of opinion, 

 that any attempt by that board or 

 of any other to direct or inlluence 

 the proceedings of this house in 

 matters of internal regulation, by 

 any previous proposition or decision 

 on what is referred to or under 

 their consideration and ddiberation, 

 is an interference with the appro- 

 priate func^tions of the house, uhich 

 it is their boundcu duty never to 

 submit to. 



Copi/ of Lord Camden'' s Letter upon 

 the Subject of Americun Inter- 

 counc, upon ichich the Lieutenant 

 Governor of J amaica founded his 

 Order of Council of the list of 

 November, 1804. Dated nth 

 December, 1804. 



[Copy.] 

 Doioning-ntrcet, 5th Sep. 1804. 

 Sir, 



In consequence of a report of 

 the committee of his majesty's 

 privy council for trade and fo- 

 reign plantations, I am to instruct 

 ) on not to open the ports ol the 

 island over which you preside, fortlie 

 admission of articles from the Ameri- 

 can states, wliich are not alio wed to be 

 imported by law (except in cases 

 of real and very great necessity), 

 and not to fail to apprize nie, in 

 crery instance MJiercin you shall so 

 do, and to state at the same time 

 the reason which induced you tp 

 adopt the measure, taking care also, 

 in every proclamation which shall 

 be issued for this purpose, to insert 

 conditions which shall prevent im- 

 portations being made from the 

 states of America on more favour- 

 able terms, as to duties on entr} , 

 ' than on similar importations from 



the British colonies in North Ame- 

 rica, where any such duties arc due 

 and payable. 



1 have the honour to be, Sir, 

 your most obedient 



humble servant, 

 Camden. 

 Lieut. -Governor Nugent, ^c. SfC. 



Address of the Assembly of Jamaica 

 to his Mfijesty, upon the Subject 

 of the Prohibition of the Inter- 

 course with America. Dated \Slh 

 December, 1804. 



To the king's most excellent ma- 

 jesty. The humble address of th« 

 assembly of Jamaica. 

 INIost gracious sov,ereign, 



We your majesty's most dutiful 

 and loyal subjects, the assembly of 

 Jamaica, most humbly beg leave to 

 submit to your majesty's consider- 

 ation tlie very serious and alarming 

 evils which threaten this colony, 

 from a resolution of council, dated 

 21st November, 1804, announcing 

 a termination after six months from 

 that date, of the intercourse which 

 has been permitted, in times of war, 

 betwixt America and this island. — • 

 The ruinous and fatal consequence 

 inseparable from such a measure, 

 we have deprecated in an humble 

 address to his honour the lieutenant 

 governor, to which we have been 

 impelled by existing facts and the 

 most urgent and imperious necessity, 

 which a continuance of the recipro- 

 cal interest of the parent state and 

 this island, and of the very existence 

 of the latter, could dictate. Wc 

 have, however, themortilicalion to 

 state to your nlaj^sty, that our ap- 

 t)!iration has been refused; and, as his 

 li(.nour's answer to our address in- 

 forn.s us, in obedience to the impe- 

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