386 A. D. 1796. 



much benefited and relieved, and general advantages had alfo been 

 communicated to the owners of plantations in thofe iflands and the 

 merchants conneded with them. But the long continuance of the 

 troubles having prevented many proprietors from reftoring their plant- 

 ations to a produdive ftate, and hindered others conneded with the 

 iflands from being able to procure, and offer, the fecurities, required 

 by the ad to entitle them to a loan of exchequer bills, it was now 

 thought expedient to authorize the commifTioners appointed by that ad 

 to extend the time for payment two years longer than the ad allowed, 

 and in fome cafes to accept payments by three equal inftallments on 

 5'" July 1799, 10'" Odober 1799, and 5"' July 1800. And in order to 

 afford further relief to the perfons conneded with the iflands of Grenada 

 and S'. Vincents, the lords of the treafury w^ere authorized to pay 

 ;^6co,ooo to the commiflioners, who vi^ere direded to advance fuch 

 fums, as they fliould think proper, to perfons conneded with thofe 

 iflands, whether they had already received any of the exchequer bills 

 or not, which fhould be repaid, with intereft at five per cent, by three 

 equal inftallments on the days appointed for the three repayments of 

 »he exchequer bills in certain cafes. Thefe advances of money were 

 direded to be made on the fame terms and conditions, which were pre- 

 fcribed by the ad for advancing exchequer bills, and alfo on the fe- 

 eurity of mortgages on unincumbered plantations to an amount not 

 exceeding the average value of the produce for two years, the confignee 

 of the produce in Great Britain alfo becoming bound for the repay- 

 Tnent. [c. 27] 



By the exertions of the French government many of the choice 

 fpices and other fine fruits, which ufed to be fuppofed peculiar to the 

 Oriental regions, were tranfplanted to their botanic garden in the Ifle 

 of France, and thence to their Weft-India fettlements. The nutmeg 

 trees carried to Cayenne having been unfortunately all male plants, no 

 fruit was ever produced from them. But the clove trees fucceeded bet- 

 ter in that province, and rewarded the induftry of the planters with 

 confiderable crops. 



Mr. Buee, a planter of Dominica, who had already naturalized the 

 cinnamon tree in that ifland, and made trials of feveral valuable exotic 

 plants, having received a prefent of three young clove trees, with print- 

 ed diredions for the cultivation of them, from a friend in Cayenne in 

 the year 1789, and having afterwards purchafed fome more plants at 

 Martinique, and feveral thoufand feeds of cloves, fet about making a 

 plantation of thofe trees, which now began to repay his perfevering in- 

 duftry and attention with the profped of very valuable returns ; for 

 fome fpecimens of his cloves, fent home by him, could not be diftin- 

 guiflied by good judges in London from thofe of the Eaft-Tndies. Mr. 

 Buee alfo fent home a narrative of his fuccefsful manner of cultivating 



