2^6 A, D, 1793. 



balance of trade in favour of that kingdom. They therefor recommend 

 to the houfe to inftruct Mr. Fuller, their agent, to petition parliament 

 for a repeal of that part of the act, which regulates the exportation of 

 fugars from Great Britain to foreign markets. 



After fully confidering the ftate of the fugar trade, the committee 

 turn their attention to the confequences of an abolition of the Have 

 trade, which they predi6l to be the total depopulation and utter ruin of 

 the ifland *. They then obferve the late increafe of coffee plantations. 

 During th,e whol^ of the firft period of their inquiry the exports of that 

 article were only 2,114,842 pounds, and they were annually decreafing. 

 During the fecond period, in confequence of the redudion of the excife 

 duty in 1783 to 6d a pound, the exports have annually increafed; and 

 in 1 79 1 they amounted to 2,999,874 pounds. They ftate the number 

 of coffee eftates to be now 607, and the negroes employed upon them 

 to be 21,011. Thefe eftates being mollly new-fettled, and the coffee- 

 trees requiring five years to come into full bearing, the exports of cof- 

 fee may be expeded in a few years to be an objed of great importance 

 to the commerce of Great Britain. 



This year the city of Waftiington, or the Foederal city, intended for 

 the feat of the general government of the United ftates of America, was 

 founded on the north bank of the River Potowmack, having a diftrid 

 annexed to it on both fides of the river, which is detached from Vir- 

 ginia and Maryland, and is under the jurifdiclion of the city. The fi- 

 tuation unites all the advantages defireable for a city deftined to be the 

 commercial, as well as the legiflative, capital of the United ftates, being 

 nearly at equal diftances from both ends of that extenfive confederacy 

 of republics, having eafy accefs to and from the Ocean for the largefl 

 merchant ftiips by the great river Potowmack and the noble Bay of 

 Cheflapeak, both remarkably clear of ftioals and dangers, and commun- 



* They ' fuppofe a planter fettling with a gang • that (he will be obliged to purchafe, inftead of 



«,of one hundr>.d African Haves, all bought in ' felling, tl.ofe articles at toreign markets, to the 



Vthe prime of life. Out of this gang he will be ♦ great benefit of other nations, who will not fol- 



« able at fir It to work, on an average, from eighty ' low her example, but who will, on the contrary, 



< to ninety labourers. The committee will further ' encourage their fugar colonies, and extend their 

 • fuppofe, tliat they increafe in number ; yet in the ' cultivation.' 



•courfe of twenty years this gang will be fo far With fubmiffion, it may be afked, if people bc- 



« reduced in point of llrength, that he will not be come fupcrannuated in twenty years after being in 



« able to work more than from thirty to forty. It the prime of life, and it the children of thcfe fuper- 



< will, therefor, require a fiipply of fifty new ne- annuated people are all in a ftate of infancy ? If. 

 c groes to keep up his eftate ; and that not, owing one half of the flaves are women (as they ought to 

 c to any cruelty, or want of good management, on be, if the planter looks to futurity), will not thofe 

 « his part : on the contrary, the more humane he fifty women in twenty years havt, befides younger 



< is, the greater number of old people and young children, at leall one hundred grown up to young 

 « children he will have on his eftate. This decreafe men and vvomcn, capable of partaking the labour 

 € of culture will be gradual, and will not at firft be of their parents, and replacing their lofs by fuper- 

 « materially felt : but in the courfe of time it will annuation or death, as has been the cafe with the 

 « reduce the quantity of fugars and coffee export- working people in all othei parts of the world from 

 <.ed to Great Britain by her own colonies fo much, the creation to this day ? 



