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pretexts, was grounded an applica- 

 tion for an infringement of the 

 Company's privileges. Whereas the 

 fact is, that these 108 ships, with 

 the addition of others subsequently 

 admitted, were unloaded in the 

 month of November, such only 

 excepted as were delayed by causes 

 not dependant on the Company. 



The general state of the business 

 performed by the Company during 

 the last year will stand thus : — 598 

 ships have unloaded, and 106 

 smaller vessels and craft ; — of the 

 above number of 598 ships, 593 

 were completed upon the 3rd Dec. 

 1808. 



Thus so early as the close of the 

 month of November, the great 

 body of shipping in the West India 

 trade were completely cleared of 

 their cargoes ; an instance of dis- 

 patch singular and unexampled, 

 and evidently proving the superi- 

 ority of your establishment, par- 

 ticularly under the embarrassing 

 circumstances of an extraordinary 

 accumulation of produce on hand, 

 occasioned by an almost total stag- 

 nation of export; if these advan- 

 tages be contrasted with the delays, 

 impediments, losses, and abuses, 

 which must have arisen under the 

 former system, their value will be 

 incalculable. 



During the utmost pressure, and 

 under peculiar circumstances of the 

 season, the Company did undertake 

 to provide at its own expense, and 

 beyond its exclusive means, an ex- 

 traordinary provision of warehouse 

 room, but it did not become neces- 

 sary to resort to it, beyond an ac- 

 commodation for 5,747 casks and 

 4',137 boxes, and511 barrels of prize 

 or foreign sugar, and thus may the 

 dispatch given to the shipping in 

 •ii'ch a season, afford the best proof 



of the adequacy of the Company's 

 resources to the general exigencies 

 of the trade ; but it may be pro- 

 per to add the following statement 

 of the quantity of goods actually 

 lodged within your warehouses at 

 one time, exclusive of the articles on 

 the quays ; — 1 02,647 hhds. andtrs., 

 11,612 chests and brls. of sugar.— 

 14,681 puns, and hhds. of rum. — 

 58,239 hhds. and trs., 190,408 

 bags, coffee.— 1 ,411 bales, 164 pock- 

 ets, &c., cotton. — 24 casks, 3,168 

 bags pimento. — 201 casks, 1,006 



bags, ginger 1,100 casks, 13,257 



bags, cocoa. — 1,786 casks, wine, 

 —Making a total of 1 1,612 chests, 

 &c. 1,575 bales, 207,839 bags, 

 158,678 casks. Let this statement 

 be compared with all the accommo- 

 dation existing at the port, for the 

 housing of West India produce, 

 previous to the formation of the 

 docks, which according to the best 

 computation in respect to the arti- 

 cle of sugar only, was not capable 

 of containing beyond one-third of 

 the quantity, which has been actu- 

 ally deposited in your warehouses. 



The system of providing dis- 

 tinctl}' for the shipping of goods to 

 the West Indies, and the security 

 aflbrded thereby both to the ships 

 and goods, belongs peculiarly to 

 your establishment ; and, to a sys- 

 tem so recent and dependant upon 

 corresponding regulations of the 

 revenue boards, it cannot reason- 

 ably be reproached that it is yet 

 susceptible of improvement ; suffi- 

 cient however has appeared to show 

 that this part of your establishment, 

 is one, which must eventually prove 

 of essential benefit to the West- 

 India trade of the port. 



The regulations of the Company 

 have all been framed in strict con- 

 sistency with its solid and permanent 



interests, 



