196 



A. D. 1789. 



Thus of 86 veflels there are 61 belonging to Britifli fabjeds, of which 

 number the 21 in the fervice of the company are the largefl and bed 

 appointed merchant fhips that fwim upon the Ocean \, and of the 40, 

 called country (hips, many are very little inferior to the company's fliips. 

 Of the remaining 25 veflels, 15 belong to the defcendents of Britons 

 fettled in America ; and it is not improbable, that fome of them are 

 partly fitted out by Britirti capitals, as is alfo known to be fometimes 

 the cafe with other foreign Eaft-India fliips *. 



The cultivation of coffee in the French part of S'. Domingo was fo 

 furprifingly increafed in a few years, that inftead of five millions of 

 pounds, the quantity exported in the year 1770, the exports of that art- 

 icle this year amountecl to no lefs than feventy-Jix ?inlUons of pounds, 

 which 2iX.£/\. : lo per hundredweight was worth £;^,^20,ooo. [Edwards's 

 Hjft. of the Wejl-Indks , V. \\,p. 299.] 



The following account fliows the number of fugar plantations in each 

 of the parifhes of Jamaica, and of the Negroes belonging to them, agree- 

 able to the returns on the 28'" of March 1789. 



Counties, f Parishes. 



S'. Mary's 



S'. Anne's 



S'. John's 



Middlesex. < S'. Dorothy's 



S'. Thomas in the 'Vale , 



Clarendon 



■Vera 



S'. Catherine's 



"S'. Andrews' 



S'. George's 



Portland 



Surrey •< Port Royal 



S'. David's 



S'. Thomas in the east 

 , Kingston 



fTrelawney . 

 j S'. James's 

 Cornwall.., < Hanover. 



I Westmoreland 

 \.S'. Elizabeth's. 



Sugar plantations. 

 63 

 30 

 21 

 12 

 33 

 56 

 26 

 3 



244 



24 

 14 

 23 



3 

 12 

 83 







63 

 67 



69 

 62 

 26 



159 



307 



Negroes. 



12,065 



4,90s 



3,713 



1,770 



5,327 



10,150 



5,279 



408 



3,540 



2,795 



2,968 



358 



1,890 



15,786 



O 



15,692 

 12,483 

 13,330 

 11,219 

 5, 1 12 



43,626 



27.337 



57,835 

 128,798 



Total plantations and slaves upon them 710 



The town of Kingfton, the commercial capital (though not the feat 

 of government) of Jamaica, contained at this time about 1,670 houfes, 

 befides warehoufes and negro huts. The inhabitants confifted of near 

 7,000 white people, above 3,000 free people of colour, and near 17,000 

 llaves. 



* In the year 1791 veffels under Genoefe col- 

 ours began to trade to China- When Lord 

 Macartney's fquadron was oa the coaft of Cochin« 



China in the year 1793, they were joined by a 

 veffcl under Genoefe colours, but chiefly manned 

 by EngUflimen, 



