A. D. 1 79 1. 



Exports from S'. Domingo to France from i 

 cember 1791. 



225 



January to 31" De- 



Clayed sugar 70,227,708 pounds . . 



Brown sugar 03,1/7,512 pounds .. 



Cortee 68,151,180 pounds .. 



Cotton 6,280,126 pounds . . 



Indigo 930,010 pounds .. 



Cacao 150,000 pounds .. 



Melasses 29,502 hogsheads 



Tafia, or rum 303 barrels . . 



Tanned hides • 7>897 sides . . . 



Raw hides 5,1 86 



Turtle-shell 5fl00 pounds .. 



Lignum-vitae, Campeachy, and other woods 



Totals 



The following information, concerning the trade of S\ Domingo in 

 the year 1788, is not from the fame authority, but was colleded by Mr. 

 Edwards, when he was at Cap Fran9ois in the year 1791. 



The trade of the colony with France employed 678 vefTels, whereof 

 580 meafuring i 89,679 tuns (on an average 327 each) were from France 

 dired, 224 of them being from Bourdeaux, 129 from Nantes, 90 from 

 Marfeille, and 80 from Havre de Grace. Thefe 580 veifils carried out 

 linens, woolens, lilks, cotton goods, wine and other liquors, flour, 

 bread, faked provifions, &c. to the amount of 86,414,040 livres. The 

 other 98 veflels went by the way of Africa, whence they carried to S'. 

 Domingo 29,506 negro flaves, who were fDld for 61,936,190 livres, be- 

 ing about £60 fterling each. 



The Spanish colonists in 259 vessels, measuring 15,417 tuns, imported, chiefly 

 in bullion, to the amount of - . _ 9,717,113 



and exported in negroes and European manufactures - - 5,587,515 



This is exclusive of the inland trade with the Spaniards living on the same island, 

 of which there is no account. 



The trade with the North-Americans and other foreigners was carried on 

 in 763 vessels measuring 55,745 tuna. They imported goods to the amount 

 of - - ., _ _ 6,821,707 



and exported to the amount of - - - 4,409,922 



There were also 45 French vessels, measuring 3,475 tuns, employed in the 

 trade with North America. They imported to the value of - 465,081 



and exported the produce of the colony to the value of - 525,571 * 



Such was the flourifhing ftate of this, by far the moft important of 

 the European colonies in the Wefl-Indies, and there was every appear- 

 ance of continuing and progreffive improvement and profperity. But this 

 noble colony, in confequence of the convulfions produced by the French 

 revolution, and of fome inconfiftent ads and improper interference of the 

 national affemblies, was now doomed to fuffer a dreadful reverfe, and to 



* This account of the trade of S'. Domingo 

 may be compared wiih that already given of its 

 exports to France in the year 1775. 



N. B. All the films in thefe ilatements are in 



Vol. IV. 



the currency of S'. Domingo, three livres of which 

 are equal to two of French money, or thiity-fix 

 about equivalent to one pound fterling. 



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