CONTENTS. 
V 
APPENDIX TO BOOK V. 
Some account of the Cultivation of the Clove Tree in the Island, 
of Dominica, hy William Urban Buee, Esq. of that Island; from 
a Memoir presented by him in 1796 to the Lords of the Com¬ 
mittee of Council for the Affairs of Trade and Plantation . 151 
ft 
BOOK VI. 
GOVERNMENT AND COMMERCE. 
CHAP. I. 
Colonial Establishments.—Of the Captain General or Chief Govern¬ 
or \ his powers and privileges.—Some refections on the usual 
choice of persons for this high office.—Lieutenant General, Lieu¬ 
tenant Governor, and President.—Of the Council, their office 
and functions.—Origin of their claim to a share in the legisla¬ 
ture.—Its necessity, propriety, and legality considered.—Some cor¬ 
rections in the constitution of this body proposed. . . . 163 
CHAP. II. 
Houses of Assembly.—•Prerogative denied to be in the Crown of esta¬ 
blishing in the colonies constitutions less free than that of Great 
Britain.—Most of the British W°,st Indian Islands settled by emi¬ 
grants from the mother country .—Royal proclamations and char¬ 
ters, confirmations only of ancient rights.—Bar ’badoes, and some 
other Islanas, originally made counties palatine ——Their local le¬ 
gislatures how constituted, and the extent of their jurisdiction 
pointed out .—Their allegiance to, and dependence on the Crown of 
Great Britain, how secured.—Constitutional extent of parliamen¬ 
tary authority over them . ..... 187 
