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A petition was sent from here some time ago to request that the packets from England might wait here instead of at St. Thomas, when it was asserted that it would be inconvenient for the packet to wait at Tortola, in consequence of the mailboat from La Guayra not being able to beat so far to windward without detaining the packet. The fact however proves the contrary, as the boat from the main, after leaving her bags with the packet, and stopping on her own account twenty-four, or perhaps forty-eight hours, arrives at or passes by Tortola on her passage to windward, very frequently some days before the arrival of the boat from Barbadoes following the packet, and as in this case she would not have to call at St. Thomas, she might at least be here two days earlier. Surely this will not be considered too much for a British Island to ask of the Parent State.

The next most convenient island, as to geographical position for an unlimited free port, is Dominica, situated between the French islands of Martinique and Guadaloupe; it would command a large trade with them and other countries. The succession of hurricanes, which since the last war have desolated this island, has reduced the colonists to the lowest ebb of despondency. Nothing but a thriving trade can restore the prosperity of this once flourishing colony, which has received no assistance from the governor to repair the mischief arising from these fatal visitations.

APPENDIX P.

The following is an estimate of the sum of £16,167 required to be voted by Parliament, to defray the charges of the salaries of Governors, Lieut.Governors, and others in H. M.'s West India Colonies, from 1st of April, 1834, to 31st of March, 1835:

Governor-in-Chief of Antigua, St. Christophers, Dominica, and their dependencies, £3,000; Lieut.-Governor of St. Christophers, ditto of Dominica, each £1,300; Governor-in-Chief of Barbadoes, St. Vincents, Grenada, and Tobago, £4,000; Lieut-Governor of Grenada, £950; Lieut.-Governor of Tobago, £1,300; Lieut.-Governor of the Bahamas, £1,200; Secretaries to the Governors-in-Chief of Barbadoes and Antigua, £300 per annum each; Chief Justice of Tortola, £178; ditto of Anguilla, £200; Lieut.Governor of Grenada,* £273; ditto of Dominica, £366; clerks and stationery to the Governors-in-Chief, £200; total, £16,167.

To be abolished as vacancies occur.

APPENDIX Q.

WEST INDIA POST.OFFICE CHARGES AND ARRANGE

MENTS.

RATES OF PASSAGE IN THE W. I. PACKETS.

From Falmouth to Madeira

From ditto to Bermuda via Halifax

To or from Halifax and Bermuda

From Bermuda to Falmouth via Halifax

From Falmouth to Barbadoes, St. Vincent, Grenada,

St. Lucia, Martinique, or St. Domingo From ditto to Dominica or Guadaloupe

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From ditto to Antigua or Montserrat

From ditto to Nevis or St. Kitt's

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From ditto to Tortola, St. Thomas, or Jamaica

From ditto to Carthagena or Honduras

From ditto to Vera Cruz or Tampico

From St. Thomas to Falmouth

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From Jamaica or Havanna to Falmouth

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Female servants to pay two-thirds of the Cabin passage-money. Men

servants as steerage passengers.

N.B. All former rates to be cancelled.

Peace Establishment, 17th August, 1832.

LEEWARD ISLANDS.-12 weeks; sail Saturday after 3rd Wednesday every month. Route: to Barbadoes, St. Lucia, Martinique, Dominique, Guadaloupe, Antigua, Montserrat, Nevis, St. Kitt's, Tortola, St. Thomas, and Falmouth.

MEXICO, JAMAICA, AND HAYTI,-18 weeks; sail Saturday after 3rd
Wednesday every month. Route: to St. Domingo, Jamaica, Belize,
VERA CRUZ, Tampico, Vera Cruz, Havannah, and Falmouth.
JAMAICA AND CARTHAGENA.-16 weeks: sail Saturday after 1st Wednes-
day every month. Route: to Barbadoes, St. Vincent, Grenada, Ja-
MAICA, Carthagena, Jamaica, Crooked Island and Falmouth.

POST OFFICE REGULATIONS. Of the two monthly packets, which arrive at Barbadoes from Europe, the first called the Jamaica packet,' after landing her mails for Barbadoes, &c. proceeds (in the event of her

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arriving before 12 o'clock,) the same day, with the English and Barbadoes mails to St. Vincent and Grenada, and from thence direct to Jamaica ; but should she arrive after twelve o'clock, she remains at Barbadoes until the following evening.

The day after the arrival of this packet, the mail-boats invariably sail, and in the following order, viz :—

No. 1. Demerara direct: after landing her mails there, she proceeds, the next tide, to Berbice, where she remains three days. She returns to Demerara, and from thence to Barbadoes. This boat may be expected to return in about fifteen days from the day she left Barbadoes.

No. 2. St. Lucia, touching at the whole of the islands northward to St. Thomas's. She remains at each of the same islands six hours, on her return to Barbadoes. In 21 days she may be looked for at Barbadoes.

No. 3. Tobago, Trinidad, Grenada, and St. Vincent, remaining 24 hours at each island, and returns direct to Barbadoes. Fifteen days is the usual time in which this route is performed.

No. 4. La Guayra; remains there one week, and from thence proceeds to St. Thomas's, where she remains six hours. This boat returns direct to Barbadoes, and is considered due in 28 days from the time of her leaving Barbadoes.

The second monthly packet, usually termed the Island Packet,' sails the next afternoon, should she arrive before sunset; but if she arrive after sunset, she does not sail until the second afternoon. She proceeds to St. Lucia, and touches at all the islands northward to St. Thomas's, where she awaits the arrival of the eight-day boat, with the English mails. The mail-boats sail the same day with this packet, viz:

No. 1. St. Vincent, Grenada, and Trinidad, at each of which islands she remains only sufficient time to land the mails, and then proceeds to the other. On reaching Trinidad, she returns immediately to St. Vincent, and there takes off the mails for Europe, which are ready for her arrival, and conveys them to Grenada, where they remain until the Tobago and Trinidad mails reach that island, when the whole are forwarded to St. Kitt's by the same vessel. This service is usually performed in 21 days.

No. 2. Tobago, remaining there three clear days, to receive return mail for Europe; and then proceeding to Trinidad for the mails of that island, when she takes both to Grenada to join the mail-boat at that island from St. Vincent, and calls at the latter, on her return to Barbadoes. Fifteen days is the time usually occupied in completing this service.

No. 3. Eight-day boat sails the day after a week of the sailing of the packet; that is, if the packet sail on a Tuesday, Wednesday week is the day for the boat. She touches at St. Lucia, and the whole of the islands northward to St. Thomas's, where she remains twelve hours; and on her return to Barbadoes, she remains six hours at each of the same islands.

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She is considered due at Barbadoes about the fourth week of her departure.

No. 4. Demerara direct; after landing her mails there, she proceeds, the next tide, to Berbice, where she remains three days. She returns to Demerara, and from thence to Barbadoes. In fifteen days she may be expected to return.

N. B. The mails are closed at the Post Office at 3 o'clock P. M. on the days of sailing.

The two monthly mails are made up at the Post Office, St. Martin's-leGrand, London, on the first and third Wednesdays in each month, and the regular times for the sailing of the packets from Falmouth, are the Saturdays next following the first and third Wednesdays in each month. Each packet is considered to be due at Barbadoes five weeks after the regular time of her sailing from Falmouth.

RATES OF PASSAGE IN THE W. I. MAIL-BOATS.

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From Barbadoes to Antigua

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to Demerara, Dominica, Grenada, or St. Vincent

to St. Kitt's, Nevis, Montserrat, or Surinam

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to Antigua, St. Kitts, Nevis, or Montserrat

From Grenada to Antigua, St. Kitts, &c.

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From Tobago to Antigua, St. Kitts, Nevis, or Montserrat

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to Grenada, St. Vincent, or Trinidad

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Servants to pay half price. A reasonable Freight also for all baggage above a bed and trunk. Passage-money paid before the baggage is delivered.

INDEX.

Anguilla, locality and area, 378. history, aspect, government, &c. 379.
Army employed in West Indies, 446. mortality of in Jamaica, 180.
Antigua, locality, area, &c. 354. discovery and history, &c: ib. physi-
cal aspect of, 355. St. John's Harbour, &c. 356. geological fea-
tures, 358. climate, meteorological register, &c. 359. vegetable
kingdon, 360. fish, great variety of, 361. population, white and
coloured, 362. commerce, revenue and expenditure, 363. form of
government schools, &c. 364. state of religious instruction, 365.
total abolition of slavery, 1st August, 366.

Barbadoes, geography, area, &c. 312. course and distance to other
ports, ib. discovery, colonization, and history of proprietary go-
vernment, 313 to 320. terrific hurricane in, 321. present king's
visit to, ib. government chronological list of, 322. physical aspect
of, 323. climate and vegetation, 324. population and commerce,
325. revenue and expenditure, schools, &c. 326. form of govern-
ment, &c. 327. power of the executive, 328.

Barbuda, description of, 364.

Baryma, river, latitude and longitude of, 1. territory, area, &c. ib.
Berbice, river, description of, 13.

Birds, West Indies, description of, 94.

Bahamas, locality, area and history, 385. physical aspect of, 386.
names and position of each isle, 387. acres of land in each granted
and warranted, 388. geology and climate, 389. population, white
and coloured, 390. commerce and produce, 391. finances, revenue
and expenditure, 392. government, laws, and prospects, 393.
Bermudas, locality, area, and history, 394. physical aspect and geo-
logy, 395. climate and vegetation, 396. population and divisions,
397. produce, finances, and government, 398.

Cassada-root, description of, 78.

Codrington College, Barbadoes, account of, 527.

Coffee, imported from each West India possession, 443. imported into
the principal British ports, 444. destructive effects of high taxa-
tion on, 439. projected fiscal regulation on, 442. advantages of
lowering duties, 440. consumption in the United States, 441.
Coffee-plant, account of, 182.

Cacao-nut, description of, 244. consumption of, 444.

Commerce, value of in each W. island, Appendix M.

Cromwell's wise colonial regulations, 147.

Compensation-money, £20,000,000; how it should be disbursed, 424.
Columbus, his discovery of West India Islands, Intr. iii. shipwreck on
Jamaica, 137.

Currency, (vide each island,) projected improved plan of, 453.

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