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‘Wood for dying and other ufesy 
1,800,000 pounds weight, at twelve livres 
ten fous the hundred, 225,000 livres. 
‘The whole of the abi articles amounts 
to an exportation of 275,300,000 pounds 
weight of commedities, the fale of which 
produced 135,768,0c0 livres French mo- 
ney. 
In the enumeration of this value, nei- 
ther recoo nor canepecier are included, nor 
feveral other commodities that are not li- 
able to the duties on exportation. Their 
quantity is therefore unknown to thofe 
employed in the colleétion of thofe duties. 
- The commodities imported into St. 
Domingo, in exchange for the abeve, are 
either territorial produétions of the pro- 
vifional kind, fuch as flour, meat, and li- 
quors, or inftruments of agriculture, and 
articles of furniture and of drefs. 
According to the fpirit of colonial go- 
vernment, none but Frenchmen are allow- 
ed te carry to the French colonies any ar- 
ticles of induftry; but, by the Confular 
Decree of the 4th Meffidor, roth year, fo- 
reigners are permitted to import feveral 
commodities and other articles neceflary 
for fubfiftence, and for the labours of the 
field. = 
Here follows a lift of the principal arti- 
cles in the affortment of the cargoes fhip- 
ped from France for St. Domingo. ~ 
Flour, falt-beef, bacon, or falt-pork, 
wines from Bourdeaux and other places, 
falt-butter, beer, cyder, and other drinks, 
liqueurs and fruits preferved in brandy, 
oil of olives, foap, tallow, wax-candles, 
falt-fith, cod, and live-ftock. 
French and foreign linen cloth, grocery, 
French and [India muflins, beam and other 
handkerchiefs, haberdafhery, iron-ware, 
linens, hofiery, woollen and other cloth, 
and drapery, ftuffs, paper, plate, jewellery, . 
houfhold furniture, effects, and moveables ; 
arms, iron, pitch and tar, fails and cord- 
age, 
Goods of this defcription were exported 
from France to St. Domingo, in 1788, to 
the amount of 54,573,000 livres French 
money. They were fhipped at Bourdeaux, 
Nantes, Marfeilles, Havre, Rochelle, Bay- 
onne, Dunkirk, St. Malo, and fome other 
fmaller ports. 
This exportation employed 465 veffels, 
meafuring,altogether, 138,624 tons. Bour- 
deaux alone employed 176 veffels, of which 
the tonnage amounted to 54,405. 
Foreign importations into St. Domingo, 
during the year 1788, were valued at 
7380,000 livres of commodities, allowed 
of by an act of council, paffed the 30th 
ef Auguft, 1784. The exportations by 
Reply in Vindication of the Berkeleian Sy/tem. 
523 
this foreign trade confifted of 3,707,000 
livres of fuch articles as were permitted by 
the above act. 
Here follow the commodities allowed by 
the Decree of the 4th Meffidor, to be im- 
ported into the French colonies, at the 
{taple ports, which, in St. Domingo, are 
Cape. Frangais, Port au Prince, and Cayes 
St. Louts. 
Timber for building, and for joiner and 
and cartwright’s work, wood for dying, 
pitcoal, live-ftock, falt-beef, cod, and Sali. 
fith, rice, Indian-corn, pulfe, Jeather (tan- 
ned and raw) fkins, rofin, pitch, and tar. 
The commodities allowed by the above 
decree to be exported by foreigners from 
the French colonies, are molafies, rum,taf- 
fia, articles manufactured in France, wine, 
brandy, oil, foap, cloth, and linens, ne- 
groes, and all fort of merchandize within 
the meaning of the ftaple trade. 
We thall clofe with the above particu- 
lars, what appeared to be deferving of in- 
fertion in this performance, refpeéting the 
French part of the Ifland of St. Domingo. 
We fhall now proceed to the Spanifh 
part, after premifing that we have only 
general remarks to offer on its territory 
and productions. 
(To be continued.) 
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To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
Le ee : 
HERE have been ages when at the: 
Ji. bar, in the pulpit, and in the /ehools 
of what was called at that time philofophy, 
it was ufual, inftead of meeting a ferious 
queftion in a calm and ferious manner, to 
intermix Paffion and Ridicule as auxiliaries : 
who too generally became principals; un= 
til Truth andReafon were forgotten on both 
fides in the conteft. And, when this mode 
of conteft was prevalent in this ifland, 
trial by combat, to which my opponent 
feems by his exordium to have fome lin- 
gering partiality, prevailed alfo, And 
there were then two clafles of combatants, 
both in the literary and the manual warfare: 
for fome, and thofe the moft honoured 
even then, chofe to conduét the combat of 
words with courtefy and reciprocal atten- 
tion to their antagonift and the caufe3 - 
while the many were more eager to annoy 
and perplex, than folicitous to convince + 
as in the manual warfare, while fome ad- 
vanced with the polithed Aelmet and /hield, 
the fpear and the faulchion, in the attitude 
and guile of chivalry, the reft (by neceffi- 
ty, however, and not by choice) were con- 
fined to the ruder weapons, the heavy faff 
and the fand-bag ; which gave to the cons 
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