A. D. 1794. 



295 



the years 1777 and 1778 is extraded from the accounts given of them 

 by the Abbe Raynal *. 



White people 



Free people of colour 



Slaves 



Sugar plantations . . . , 



Coffee trees 



Cotton trees 



Cacao trees 



MARTINiaUE 



in Jan'. 17"8- 



S'. LUCIE 



in Jan'. 1777- 



GUADALOUPE 



and its dependencies 

 in Jan'. 1777- 



12,000 2,300 12,700 



3,000 1,050 1,350 



above 80,000 1 6,000 100,000 



257 53 388 



i6,602,870 5,040,962 18,799,680 



1,648,550 squares 597 11,9/4,046 



1,430,020 1,945,712 449,622 



April 4'" — All the duties upon paper, except thofe upon paper paint- 

 ed or ftained for hangings, were repealed ; and inflead of them, a fet 

 of new duties were impofed, rated by the weight, as follows. 



Writing, drawing, printing, and cartridge, papers .... per pound 



Coloured, and whited-brown, for wrapping goods do. 



Brown for do do. 



All other kinds, except sheeting, button, and button-board . . do. 



Pasteboard, millboard, and scaleboard per cwt. 



Glazed paper for clothiers and hotpressers do. 



Foreign-made paper hangings, an additional duty .... per pound 

 Foreign books, bound or unbound, do per cwt. 



The duties on Britiih-made paper, exported in the original wrappers, 

 are allowed to be drawn back. 



For the encouragement of learning, the whole duty is allowed to be 

 drawn back on books in the Latin, Greek, Oriental, and Northern, lan- 

 guages, printed in the univerfities of Oxford, Cambridge, S'. Andrews, 

 Glafgow, Edinburgh, or Aberdeen: and a drawback of two pence per 

 pound is allowed on bibles and certain other books of religion, printed 

 in the univerfities of Oxford and Cambridge, or by the king's printers 

 in England and Scotland. 



Books printed in any part of Great Britain (except thofe entitled to 

 drawbacks as being printed in the univerfities, &c.) and alfo blank books 

 ruled for accounts, are allowed a drawback of two pence per pound. But 

 no drawback is allowed for books, on being printed at the univerfities, 

 &c. or on exportation, unlefs the paper appear, by the proper marks and 

 dates in the lubftance of it, to be of Britifh manufadfure. 



The importation for fale of foreign impreilions of books, originally 

 printed in Great Britain, or which have been reprinted in Great Briiain 

 any time within twenty years back, which had hitherto been permitted 

 on paying high duties, was now totally prohibited. [34 Geo. Ill, c. 20] 



The navy and vidualing bills, made out before the i" of April 1793, 



* The exports of produce to France from Mar- already given, from the fame author. Tiie culiiv- 

 tiiiiqueand Guadalou jem the year 1779 have been ation of »t. Lucie was then but in Its iiifancv. 



