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ANNUAL REGISTER, 181 7. [Oct. 



1784, but also for wheat and 

 rye-flour, and for other eatables, 

 and for every thing reeiuired for 

 agrirultiire, and for ths lepairs 

 and daily use of tlie sugar- works. 



All articles cotnnionly c.onij)riscd 

 under the dcnoniinaiion of dry 

 goods remnin excluded, and re- 

 served to the commerce of the 

 mothci- country. 



Art. 2. — Foreign vessels shall 

 in return have the liberty to ex- 

 port colonial produce ' to the 

 amount of the cargoes they have 

 brouu,ht. 



Art. 3. — Foreign vessels shall 

 continue to pay the duties of iui- 

 poit established by the arret of 

 the 30th of Aug. 1784, upon the 

 articles therein enumerated j and 

 shall pny an r:'t!itional duty of 3 

 per cent, on ;hose not enumerated 

 in the said arret. 



Art. 4. — Foreign vessels shall 

 pay the export duties established 

 by the arret of the 30th of Aug, 

 17S4. 



They shall pay 8 per cent, upon 

 the cclonial produce which is per- 

 mitted to be exported by the pre- 

 sent ordinance. 



French vessels which may pro- 

 ceed to the United States, for the 

 ])urpose of bringing back provi- 

 sions to the colony, shill only pay 

 an export duty of .5 per cent, upon 

 thi? colonial produce. Their re- 

 turn cargoes shall only be sub- 

 jected to the duties established in 

 their respect, by the airet of the 

 30th of Aug. 1784. 



Art. Tj. — The duties on colonial 

 produce, })ayable by the seller, 

 shall continue to be levied as at 

 present. 



The provisions of the present 

 ordinance sliall remain in force 

 during six months from the date 



of its being published, unless 

 countermanded by superior au- 

 thority. 



Given at Martinique, under 

 our armorial seals, and counter- 

 signeil by our secretaries, this 

 2Sth of Oct. 1817. 

 (Signed) 

 Le Comte de Vaugiraud, 

 Secretaire, Durand Molard. 

 Further Particulars. — Letters 

 received from I'arbadoes, (via 

 Demerara) of Oct. 27, say little of 

 the injury there sustained, as it 

 was confined to a few of the ship- 

 ping : but they confirm in many 

 fatal particulars the deplorable 

 intelligence of the loss of lives 

 and ruin of property at St. Lucje. 

 Tlie governor. General Seymour, 

 survived but a short time after he 

 had been dug out from the ruins 

 of his house. Mrs. Seymour and 

 her children were saved, but all 

 the rest of the family perished. 

 Major Burdett, with his wife and 

 child, were among the number of 

 the killed. The barracks were 

 levelled with the earth. Those of 

 the garrison who escaped destruc- 

 tion, owed their safety to an order 

 to evacuate the buildings before 

 they had given way to the tempest; 

 but every negro house on the 

 island was blown into the air. 

 The town was nearly a mass of 

 ruins ; the cane crops torn up by 

 the root, <ind the countiy laid 

 waste as far as cultivation ex- 

 tended. The secretary to the go- 

 vernor had written a pressing 

 supplication to Lord Combermere 

 for supplies and assistance, on be- 

 half of the destitute inhabitants. 



We have the satisfaction to 

 state, that the Antelope, (Admiral 

 Harvey), whose loss was asserted, 

 had arrived safe at St. Kitt's be- 

 fore 



