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out-ports, to pay etrict attention, 

 and apprize thera of any matter 

 that may arise fit for the cogni- 

 zance of the Board. 

 (From Barbadoes Papers, Oct.) 

 By arrivals from Dominica and 

 Martinique, we are informed (as, 

 indeed, was naturally to be 

 expected), that those islands 

 experienced the tempestuous 

 weather with which we were re- 

 cently visited. It had been more 

 severely felt in the former of those 

 settlements ; for, according to the 

 statement of a Dominica paper, 

 provisions of every kind had 

 been laid waste — plantains espe- 

 cially, throughout every quarter; 

 and on many estates, the canes, 

 that were previously in a forward 

 state, had been levelled with the 

 earth ; the coffee trees were also 

 severely shaken. In consequence 

 of this alarming state of the 

 colony, there being the prospect 

 of a want of food for the in- 

 habitants of every description, the 

 House of Assembly had vvisely 

 applied to his Excellency Go- 

 vernor Maxwell, to open the 

 ports of that island, for the ad- 

 mission of supplies, in vessels of 

 any country, forahraited period; 

 and with the advice of his Privy 

 Council, the Governor issued a 

 Proclamation on the 30th ult. to 

 that effect. 



NOVEMBER. 

 The Bulletin respecting the 

 Queen was as follows : — 



" Kew-palace, Nov. \. 

 " The Queen's symptoms have 

 not improved since our last re- 

 port. Her Majesty has not had 

 good night." 



An immense bank covered with 



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cod-fish has been discovered, 

 extending from Papa Westra, 

 in Orkney, along the west 

 coast of the Shetland islands. 

 Already the fishing has beea 

 great. The fishermen report that 

 from 150 to 200 sail of vessels 

 can fish on it, and out of sight of 

 each otlier. 



Protocol of Nov. 3. 



The Duke of Richelieu repre- 

 sented at the Conference, that 

 the terms for the payment of the 

 165 millions to be furnished by 

 France, according to the Conven- 

 tion of the 9th of October, having 

 been fixed at very near periods, 

 a too rapid exportation of specie 

 has been occasioned, which tends 

 to produce a depreciation in the 

 value of the inscriptions, equally 

 injurious to the interests of all 

 the contracting parties. To 

 remedy this evil the Duke of 

 Richelieu proposes — 



1. That the 165 millions which 

 France was to discharge by 

 monthly instalments, from the 

 6th of January to the 6th of Sep- 

 tember, be discharged in twelve 

 months, by monthly payments 

 from the 6th of January to the 

 6th of December, inclusive: the 

 interest for the delay of three 

 months being made good at the 

 rate of 5 per cent. 



2. That the 100 millions in 

 inscriptions, for which the differ- 

 ent Governments have treated 

 with ]\IM. Baring and Hope, shall " 

 be realized by payments made at 

 the same epochs, with the same 

 bonus of interest, in proportion 

 to the delay of three months. 



?>. That arrangements shall be 



adopted with the abovementioned 



houses, in order that the bill* 



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