328 REPORT OB* COMMITTEE IN LIMA* 



Report of the Committee, appointed by a public 

 meeting of British Merchants and Residents 

 at Lima and CallaOy to inquire into the expe- 

 diency and practicability of establishing a 

 periodical intercourse between Great Britain 

 and the Western Coast of South America, via 

 Panama* 



The Committee appointed by the British 

 merchants^ at a pubUc meeting held on the 12th 

 ult.^ at his Majesty^s Consulate General, "to 

 examine into, and report upon, the expediency 

 and practicability of any project, for the esta- 

 blishment of a periodical intercourse between 

 the several ports of the Pacific and Panama, 

 that might be submitted to their consideration,^^ 

 have now the honour of presenting the following 

 report as the result of their deliberate and 

 unanimous opinion. 



The total impracticability of establishing, 

 at the sole or joint expense of native, British, 

 or foreign residents on the Pacific coast, a line 

 of packets between the several ports of that 

 coast and Panama, having for its principal 

 object a periodical conveyance of letters, at 

 once presented itself to the committee, on 

 account of the very inadequate income to be 



