The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies, Том 2John Stockdale, 1807 - 616 страници |
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... returns from the property . - Annual Disbursements . - Net profits.— Various contingent charges not taken into the account.— Difference not commonly attended to , in the mode of esti- mating the profits of an English estate , and one in ...
... returns from the property . - Annual Disbursements . - Net profits.— Various contingent charges not taken into the account.— Difference not commonly attended to , in the mode of esti- mating the profits of an English estate , and one in ...
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... Returns . → Advantages resulting from this Trade to Great Britain.- Measures adopted by Government on the Re - establishment of peace . - Proclamation of the 2d July , 1783. - Petitions from the West Indies . - Opposition of the ...
... Returns . → Advantages resulting from this Trade to Great Britain.- Measures adopted by Government on the Re - establishment of peace . - Proclamation of the 2d July , 1783. - Petitions from the West Indies . - Opposition of the ...
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... practical farmers on their own lands , of which the returns are , in the highest degree , fluctuat- ( g ) Moseley on the Climate of the West - Indies . VOL . II . ing IV . BOOK ing and uncertain . Under these circumstances WEST INDIES . 17.
... practical farmers on their own lands , of which the returns are , in the highest degree , fluctuat- ( g ) Moseley on the Climate of the West - Indies . VOL . II . ing IV . BOOK ing and uncertain . Under these circumstances WEST INDIES . 17.
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... return as can possibly be ob- tained : viz . By the British French Dutch Danes Portuguese No. of Slaves exported . 38,000 20,000 4,000 2,000 10,000 Total 74,000 Of which Gambia furnishes about Isles Deios , and the adjacent rivers No ...
... return as can possibly be ob- tained : viz . By the British French Dutch Danes Portuguese No. of Slaves exported . 38,000 20,000 4,000 2,000 10,000 Total 74,000 Of which Gambia furnishes about Isles Deios , and the adjacent rivers No ...
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... return . I remember that both he and his fellow - sufferer laughed immoderately at some- thing that occurred , -I know not what . The next morning one of them silently expired , as did the other on the morning of the ninth day . BOOK IV ...
... return . I remember that both he and his fellow - sufferer laughed immoderately at some- thing that occurred , -I know not what . The next morning one of them silently expired , as did the other on the morning of the ninth day . BOOK IV ...
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acre admit Africa America annually appears assembly authority afore authority aforesaid Barbadoes Black BOOK Britain British sugar British West Indies cacao called canes Cape CHAP circumstances cloves coffee colonies colour common commonly council court cultivation death degree duties Eboes encrease England English Europe expence exported favour foreign frequently further enacted gallons give Gold Coast governor groes Guiney Hispaniola hogsheads imported indigo inhabitants Jamaica Koromantyn labour land Mandingoes manner manufacture master means melasses ment Mestize mother-country Mulatto nation native nature Negroes neral Obeah observed overseer owner parish parliament person plant plantation planters ports possessed pounds produce profits provisions publick punishment purchase quantity regulations render settlement ships slave or slaves Slave Trade slavery sold species sterling suffer sufficient sugar islands supply supposed tion Tortola trees vessels West Indian Whidah White whole Windward Islands
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Страница 525 - States only, it being expressly agreed and declared, that during the continuance of this article, the United States will prohibit and restrain the carrying any molasses, sugar, coffee, cocoa or cotton in American vessels, either from his Majesty's islands, or from the United States to any part of the world except the United States, reasonable sea-stores excepted.
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Страница 441 - Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power. The taxes are a voluntary gift and grant of the Commons alone. In legislation the three estates of the realm are alike concerned ; but the concurrence of the peers and the Crown to a tax is only necessary to clothe it with the form of a law. The gift and grant is of the Commons alone.
Страница 448 - English woollen and other manufactures and commodities, rendering the navigation to and from the same more safe and cheap, and making this kingdom a staple, not only of the commodities of those plantations, but also of the commodities of other countries and places, for the supplying of them; and it being the usage of other nations to keep their plantations trade to themselves.
Страница 493 - America, it must be a considerable time before any convention or treaty for establishing and regulating the trade and intercourse between Great Britain and the said United States of America, upon a permanent foundation can be concluded...
Страница 566 - ... alone ; and by the third, to bring them to her in a raw or unmanufactured state, that her own manufacturers might secure to themselves all the advantages arising from their further improvement This latter principle was carried so far in the colonial system of...
Страница 525 - American vessels shall be subject there to no other or higher tonnage duties or charges than shall be payable by British vessels in the ports of the United States ; and that the cargoes of the said American vessels shall be subject...
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Страница 570 - To prohibit a great people from making all that they can of every part of their own produce, or from employing their stock and their industry in the way that they judge most advantageous to themselves, is a manifest violation of the most sacred rights of mankind.