sugar raised in Brilain. Ttb. 29. 



INTELLIGENCE RESPECTING ARTS. 

 T Ian for moderating the price of sugar. 



The present extravagant price of sugar has attracted the 

 ' attention of every clafs of persons in this island, and has 

 brought forward many plans for remedying that evil, some 

 of which will no doubt take effect at some future period ; 

 but there is reason to suspect, that the nation must submit 

 to the hardlhip for a good while, before things can be 

 brought to bear. 



Among the first plans that was suggested for this pur- 

 pose, was that of manufacturing sugar from the maple tree, 

 in America. It has been long known, that the juice of 

 one kind of maple, common in most of the American states, 

 can afford a grained sugar, without any other procefs than 

 that of evaporating the watery parts by boiling •, but the 

 quantity of water that requires to be difsipated, renders 

 that procefs so tedious and expensive, in a country where 

 labour is very high, as gives reason to fear the afsistance 

 that can be derived from thence will be but very inconsi- 

 derable. 



The quantity of sugar that may be imported from the 

 East Indies, and from Africa, may be indeed immense j and 

 if ever government fhall regulate the duties, and draw- 

 backs, so as to put the sugars obtained from Britifti settle- 

 ments in these parts, on the same footing as those from the 

 West Indies, there seems no reason to fear that ever this 

 country will run a riik of being again thrown into such 

 distrefs for this article as it is at present. 



But Ihoxild government refuse to relax the monopoly in 

 favour of the West India islands, it does not seem to be 

 altogether beyond the bounds of pofsibility to supply our- 

 selves with sugar from the produce of our own fields j for 

 I know of no law in existence, that authorities the fheriff 



