A. D. 1792, 



'55 



The quantity of sugar imported into Great Britain 

 from Jamaica during each period was cwt. 



and from the other islands ——~ 



Shipping cleared out from Jamaica in the") 



year 1787 J 



and in the year 1791 (increase 52,361) . . 



Average price of slaves f 



tuns 



Hire of labourers per day 

 American lumber -^ 

 Irish salted beef 

 — pork 



advanced 



{ 



Herrings 



Herrings imported during each period barrels 



Annual export of sugar from Jamaica to \ j^ 



Great Britain J ■*■ 



Average gross sales of it 



Amount of duties, insurance, freight, com-^ 



missions, S:c. and value of the supplies I 



from Great Britain and Ireland for the j 



estates ) 



Net proceeds at the disposal of die planter . . 



Net proceeds of the whole 



Annual exports of sugar to America .... hogshead: 

 Number of sugar estates in the island 



In tlie year* 

 1772, 1773, 1774. 1775 * 



3,921,781 

 3,762,804 



«5,.783 



£iA 10 3f 



O 1 2 



76,168 



980,436 



iBl U 8 



16 ii 



900,775 



18 A\ 



11 6 

 408 

 775 



4^27,855 10 3 



Annual average of taxes raised in the island .... 

 Extra public burthens amount to above 



Sugar estates require on an average an annual supply of six new negroes, the 

 expense of which, and the taxes (whereof two thirds are paid by the 

 sugar-planters) reduce the above net proceeds to £72Q,QQ2 .-2:4 for tlie 

 income of 7/5 sugar estates. That sum was inadequate to the support 

 of tlie planters and their families, and the payment of their debte ; and 

 thence in the course of twenty years Liiere were sold for debt 177 estates 

 there were thrown up ~ - - 55 



»nd remaining now (1792) in the hands of creditors - 92 



The sugars were boiled with wood got 



upon the plantations. 



In tlie yeai-s 

 1785,1789, 1790,1791. 



5,130,085 

 2^63,228 



13S,UQ 



i£A7 2 6\ 

 in 1793 59 2 9 

 I 9 



37 



22; 

 10 



m 



} 



per cent. 



169,051 



1,282,514 



tB2 18 7 



1 6 5 



1 12 2 



707 

 whereof 47 



are new-settled. 

 ,^102,328 4 3f 

 45,000 O O 



The planters have 

 begun to pay their 

 debts, and have got 

 into better credit. 



with imported 

 coals on many 

 plantations. 



The committee apprehend, that the uncertainty of drawbacks being 

 allowed, or not, mufl prevent foreigners from applying to Great Britain 

 for fugars, whereby they are in danger of being confined to the con- 

 fumptlon of Great Britain and Ireland, the confequence of which mufl 

 replunge the planters Into the ftate of bankruptcy and ruin, from which 

 they are beginning to emerge. They aflert, that Wefl-India produce 

 is as much a part of the national wealth, as If it were raifed in any part 

 of Great Britain : and they obferve, from an account publlfhed by Mr. 

 Arnould, that France, previous to the revolution, received annually one 

 hundred and twenty millions of llvres for fugar and coffee exported to 

 Italy, Holland, Germany, and the Baltic, which fum of itfelf turned the 



mentioned in this report an 



* Though the American war began in 1775, 

 the American privateers did not feize Well-India 

 veflels tiU the beginning of 1776. 



t All the fuma 

 fterling money. 



X The weight here ftc^ted is what the fugari 

 weighed when landed in Great Britain. , 



