Goods, Vessels, &c., liable to Forfeiture may be seized by Officers. — All goods, and all ships, vessels, and boats, and all carriages, and all cattle, liable to forfeiture under this or any act relating to the customs, or to trade or navigation, shall and may be seized and secured by any officer of the customs or navy, or by any person employed for that purpose, by or with the concurrence of the commissioners of H. M.'s customs; and every person who shall in any way hinder, oppose, molest, or obstruct any officer of the customs or navy, or any person so employed as aforesaid, in the exercise of his office, or any person acting in his aid or assistance, shall for every such offence forfeit the sum of 2004. § 67. Officer making collusive Seizures, or taking Bribes, and Persons giving Bribes, subjected to Penalties.-If any officer of customs, or any person duly employed for the prevention of smuggling, shall make any collusive seizure, or deliver up, or make any agreement to deliver up, or not to seize, any vessel, boat, or goods liable to forfeiture under this or any act relating to the customs, or to trade or navigation, or shali take any bribe, gratuity, recompence, or reward for the neglect or nonperformance of his duty, every such officer or other person shall forfeit for every such offence the sum of 5002, and be rendered incapable of serving H. M. in any office whatever; and every person who shall give or offer, or promise to give or procure to be given, any bribe, recompence, or reward to, or shall make any collusive agree ment with, any such officer or person as aforesaid in any of H. M.'s possessions abroad, to induce him in any way to neglect his duty, or to do, conceal, or connive at anything whereby the provisions of any such act may be evaded, shall forfeit the sum of 2007. - § 68. Seized Goods, if unclaimed for a Month, to be condemned and dealt with accordingly. All vessels, boats, goods, and other things which have been or shall hereafter be seized as forfeited in or near any of the British possessions abroad, under this or any act relating to the customs, or to trade or navigation, shall be deemed and taken to be condemned, and may be dealt with in the manner directed by law in respect to vessels, boats, goods, and other things seized and condemned for breach of any such act, unless the person from whom such vessels, boats, goods, and other things shall have been seized, or the owner of them, or some person authorized by him, shall, within I calendar month from the day of seizing the same, give notice in writing to the person or persons seizing the same, or to the collector, comptroller, or other chief officer of customs at the nearest port, that he claims the vessel, boat, goods, or other thing, or intends to claim them. - § 69. Writ of Assistance to search for and seize Goods liable to Forfeiture. Under the authority of a writ of assistance granted by the superior or supreme court of justice or court of vice-admiralty having jurisdiction in the place (who are hereby authorized and required to grant such writ of assistance, upon application made to them for that purpose by the principal officers of H. M. customs), it shall be lawful for any officer of the customs, taking with him a peace officer, to enter any building or other place in the daytime, and to search for and seize and secure any goods liable to forfeiture under this or any act relating to the customs, or to trade or navigation, and, in case of necessity, to break open any doors and any chests or other pa kages for that purpose; and such writ of assistance, when issued, shall be deemed to be in force during the whole of the reign in which the same shall have been granted, and for twelve months from the conclusion of such reign.-$70. Obstructing Officers by Force. If any person shall, by force or violence, assault, resist, oppose, molest, hinder, or obstruct any officer of the customs or navy, or other person employed as aforesaid, in the exercise of his office, or any person acting in his aid or assistance, such person, being thereo convicted, shall be adjudged a felon, and shall be proceeded against as such, and punished at the discretion of the court before whom such person shall be tried - § 71. Goods seized to be secured at the next Custom House, and sold by Auction. All things which shall be seized as being liable to forfeiture under this or any act relating to the customs, or to trade or navigation, shall be taken forthwith and delivered into the custody of the collector and comptroller of the customs at the custom house next to the place where the same were seized, who shall secure the same by such means and in such manner as shall be provided and directed by the commissioners of H. M. customs, and after condemnation thereof the collector and comptroller shall cause the same to be sold by public auction to the best bidder: provided always, that the said commissioners may direct in what manner the produce of such sale shall be applied, or, in lieu of such sale, to direct that any of such things shall be destroyed, or shall be reserved for the public service. — § 72. The clauses from 73. to § 89. both nclusive, relate to the mode of proceeding in actions in regard to seizures for the recovery and application of penalties, &c. It seems unnecessary to specify these clauses in this place. Every one who has the misfortune to be engaged in a law-suit with the Crown will of course refer to an official copy of the act, and will also find it for his advantage to employ a lawyer. The Queen may regulate the Trade of certain Colonies.-H. M. may, by and with the advice of H. P. council, by any order or orders in council issued from time to time, give such directions and make such regulations touching the trade and commerce to and from any British possessions on or near the continent of Europe, or within the Mediterranean Sea, or in Africa, or within the limits of the E. I. Company's charter (excepting the possessions of the said company), as to H. M. in council shall appear most expedient and salutary, any thing in this act to the contrary notwithstanding; and if any goods be imported or exported in any manner contrary to any such order of H. M. in council, the same shall be forfeited, together with the ship importing or exporting the same. - § 90. Certificate of Production of East India Sugar. It shall be lawful for any person, being the shipper of any sugar the produce of some British possession within the limits of the E. I. Company's charter, about to be exported from any place in such possession, to go before the collector or comptroller or other chief officer of the customs at such place, or, if there be no such officer of the customs, to go before the principal officer of such place, or the judge or commercial resident of the district, and make and sign a declaration before him that such sugar was really and bona fide the produce of such British possession to the best of his knowledge and belief; and such officer, judge, or resident is hereby authorized and required to grant a certificate thereof, setting forth in such certificate the name of the ship in which the sugar is to be exported, and the destination of the same. - § 91. Ships built prior to 1st January 1816 deemed British Ships within certain Limits. All ships built at any place within the limits of the E. I. Company's charter prior to the 1st January 1816, and which then were and have continued ever since to be solely the property of H M. subjects, shall be deemed to b British ships for all the purposes of trade within the said limits, including the Cape of Good Hope, any thing in this act or in any other act or acts passed in this present session of parliament to the contrary notwithstanding. - § 92. Certificate of Production of Cape Wine. The shipper of any wine the produce of the Cape of Good Hope or of its dependencies which is to be exported from thence may go before the chief officer of the customs, and make and sign a declaration before him that such wine was really and bonâ fide the produce of the Cape of Good Hope or of its dependencies; and such officer is hereby authorized and required to grant a certificate thereof, setting forth in such certificate the name of the ship in which the wine is to be exported, and the destination of the same. - § 93. Certificate of Production of Goods in Guernsey, &c. - Any person who is about to export from any of the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, or Sark to the U. K, or to any of the British possessions in America or the Mauritius, any goods of the growth or produce of any of those islands, or any goods manufactured from materials which were the growth or produce thereof, or of the U. K., or of materials duty-free in the UK., or whereupon the duty has been there paid, and not drawn back, may go before any magistrate of the island from which the goods are to be exported, and make and sign before him a declaration that such goods, describing the saine, are of such growth or produce, or of such manufacture, and such magistrate shall administer and sign such declaration; and thereupon the gover nor, lieutenant governor, or commander in chief of the island from which the goods are to be exported shall, upon the delivery to him of such declaration, grant a certificate under his hand of the proof contained in such declaration, stating the ship in which and the port to which, in the U. K. or in any such possession, the goods are to be exported; and such certificate shall be the proper document to be produced at such ports respectively in proof that the goods mentioned therein are of the growth, produce or manufacture of such islands respectively. -94. Spirits not to be imported into or exported from Jersey, &c., except in Vessels of 60 Tons, and in Casks of 20 Gallons at the least. No brandy, Geneva, or other spirits (except rum of the British plantations) shall be imported into or exported from the islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, or Sark, or any one of them, or be removed from any one to any other of the said islands, or be carried coastwise from any one part to any other part of any one of the said islands, or shall be shipped in order to be so removed or carried, or shall be waterborne for the purpose of being so shipped in any vessel of less burden than 10 tons, nor in any cask or other vessel capable of containing liquids not being of the size or content of 20 gallons at the least; and that all brandy, Geneva, or other spirits imported, exported, removed, carried, shipped, or waterborne contrary hereto shall be forfeited, together with the vessel or boat importing, exporting, removing, or carrying the same, and all the guns, furniture, ammunition, tackle, and apparel thereof provided always, that nothing herein contained shall extend to any spirits imported in glass bottles in square-rigged ships as part of the cargo thereof, nor to any spirits being really intended for the consumption of the seamen and passengers during their voyage, and not being more in quantity than is necessary for that purpose. - § 95. Not to extend to Vessels of 10 Tons supplying Island of Sark, having Licence so to do. - Nothing herein contained shall subject to forfeiture or seizure, under any of the provisions of this act, any boat not exceeding the burden of 10 tons for having on board at any one time any foreign spirits of the quantity of 10 gallons or under, such boat having a licence from the proper officer of customs at either of the islands of Guernsey or Jersey for the purpose of being employed in carrying commodities for the supply of the said island of Sark, which licence such officer of customs is hereby required to grant, without taking any fee or reward for the same: provided also, that every such boat having on board at any one time any greater quantity of spirits than 10 galions, unless such greater quantity of spirits shall be in casks or packages of the size and content herein-before required, shall be forfeited. — § 96. Penalty on Persons found on board Vessels liable to Forfeiture within 1 League of Guernsey, &c.— Every person who shall be found or discovered to have been on board any vessel or boat liable to forfeiture under any act relating to the revenue of customs, for being found within 1 league of the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, or Sark, having on board or in any manner attached or affixed thereto, or conveying or having conveyed in any manner, such goods or other things as subject such vessel or boat to forfeiture, or who shall be found or discovered to have been on board any vessel or boat from which any part of the cargo shall have been thrown overboard during chase, or staved or destroyed, shall forfeit the sum of 100%. — § 97. Re-exportation of British Coals in Foreign Ships. — It shall not be lawful for any person to re-export from any of H. M.'s possessions abroad to any foreign place in any foreign ship any coals the produce of the U. K., except upon payment of the duty to which such coals would be liable upon exportation from the U. K. to such foreign place; and no such coals shall be so shipped at any such possessions to be exported to any British place until the exporter or the master of the exporting vessel have given bond, with one sufficient surety, in double the value of the coals, that such coals shall not be landed at any foreign place. - § 98. Penalty for using Documents counterfeited or falsified.—If any person shall, in any of H. M.'s possessions abroad, counterfeit or falsify, or wilfully use when counterfeited or falsified, any entry, warrant, cocket, transire, or other document for the unlading, lading, entering, reporting, or clearing any ship or vessel, or for the landing, shipping, or removing of any goods, stores, baggage, or article whatever, or shall by any false statement procure any writing or document to be made for any such purposes, or shall falsely make any oath or affirmation required by this act, or shall forge or counterfeit a certificate of the said oath or affirmation, or shall publish such certificate knowing the same to be so forged or counterfeited, every person so offending shall for every such offence forfeit the sum of 2007.; and such penalty shall and may be prosecuted, sued for, and recovered in like manner and by such ways and means as any penalty may be prosecuted, sued for, and recovered under the provisions and directions of this act. - $99. 2 & 3 W. 4. c. 78. not repealed by any Act passed in Third and Fourth Years of King William the Fourth. -Nothing contained in any act passed in the 3rd and 4th years of the reign of H. M. William 4. or in the present session of parliament, did or doth repeal, abrogate, annul, or alter the act 2 & 3 Will. 4. c. 78. or any part thereof, or any of the provisions therein contained; but from and out of the net proceeds of all duties levied from year to year within the said colony of Newfoundland by any act of the said lastmentioned session of parliament, or any act thereafter passed or to be passed, such deduction shall be annually inade as in the said recited act is mentioned; and the sum of money so from year to year to be deducted shall be applied from time to time in such manner, and for such purposes, and under such authority as in the said recited act is particularly mentioned and set forth. -§ 100. Privileges to Military and Naval Officers settling in the Colouies.1. The colonies in which military and naval officers are allowed privilege; in the acquisition of public lands are the following: 1st. The Australian Settlements, consisting of New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, South Australia, Western Austraila, and New Zealand; 2d. Ceylon; 3d. Nova Scotia and Cape Breton, the only province in North America where privileges are still allowed. 2. In the different Australian settlements, and in Ceylon, land is disposed of by sale only; but officers purchasing and are allowed a remission of the purchase money, according to the undermentioned scale: Field officers, of 25 years' service and upwards, in the Subalterns, under 7 years' standing, are not entitled to any remission in the purchase of land. Regimental staff officers, and medical officers of the army and navy, are allowed the benefit of this rule. In Nova Scotia and Cape Breton, allotments of land are granted to officers on the following scale and conditions, viz.: 3. Officers of the army or navy, proposing to proceed to the colonies, in order to take advantage of this indulgence, should provide themselves with certificates from the office of the Commander-in-Chief, or of the Lords Commissioners of he Admiralty, or of the Master General of the Ordnance, showing that their emigration has been sanctioned, and stating exactly their rank and length of service. No document from the office of the Secretary of State is necessary. 4. Officers on half-pay, residing in the colony where they propose to settle, are admitted to the privileges of military & naval settlers, without referring to this country for testimonials, provided they can satisfy the governor that there is no objection to their being allowed the indulgence, and that the statement of their rank and length of service is accurate; and provided, if they belong to the navy, that they produce their letter of leave of absence from the Admiralty. 5. Military chaplains, commissariat officers, and officers of any of the civil departments of the army: pursers, chaplains, midshipmen, warrant officers of every description, and officers of any of the civil departments of the navy, are not allowed any privileges in respect of land. Although members of these classes may have been admitted formerly, and under different circumstances, they are now excluded. Mates of the roya navy rank with ensigns in the army, and mates of three years standing, with lieutenants in the army, and are entitled respectively to corresponding privileges in the acquisition of lands. 6. Gentlemen who have ceased to belong to H. M.'s service are not allowed the advantages to which they were entitled while in the army or navy. This rule, however, is not to affect officers who desire to quit the service, for the express puryo-e of settling in the colonies: it is only required, that when they resign their commissions, they should apply for a certificate fom the Commander in-Chief, or from the Lot is of the Ad1miralty, or from the Master General of the Ordinance, that they do so with a view of emigrating, and such certificate, if prouced to the governor of any of the colonies before-mentioned within 1 year from its late, but not otherwise, will be a sufficient warrant for allowing the bearer the same advan. tages as officers who are still in H. M.'s service. 7. An actual residence of 2 years in the colony must be proved before the titles can be granted, except in cases in which death may have occurred before the expiration of that period. Connection of the Planter and Home Merchant. Mode of transacting Business in England. The mode of transacting West India business is as follows:- A sugar planter forms a connection with a mercantile house in London, Bristol, Liverpool, or Glasgow; stipulates for an advance of money on their part; grants them a mortgage on his estate; and binds himself to send them annually his crop, allowing them the full rate of mercantile commissions. These commissions are 2 per cent. on the amount of sugar sold, and of plantation stores sent out; along with per cent. on all insurances effected. During the war, when prices were high, the amount of those commissions was large; but, like other high charges, the result has, in nine cases in ten, been to the injury of those who received them; they led the merchants to undertake too much, and to make too large advances to the planters, for the sake of obtaining their business. At that time it was usual to allow a permanent loan at the rate of 3,000l. for the assured consignment of 100 hogsheads of sugar; but that ratio was very often exceeded by the planter, the 3,000l. becoming 4,000l., 5,000/., 6,000Z., and, in very many cases, still more, in consequence of unforeseen wants and too sanguine calculations on his part. Persons resident in the West Indies are almost always bare of capital, and for obvious reasons. A climate of such extreme heat, and a state of society possessing so few attractions to persons of education, offer no inducement to men of substance in Europe to go thither. Those who do go, must trust to their personal exertion and the support of others; and when, after a continued residence in the West Indies, they have made some progress in acquiring a competency, and have become accustomed to the climate, they hardly ever consider themselves as settled there for life; their wish and hope is, to carry their acquisitions so far as to be enabled to pass the remainder of their days comfortably at home. The readiest means, in the view of the planter, of accomplishing this, is the extension of his undertakings; which he can do only by borrowing money. Hence a continued demand on his mercantile correspondents at home for fresh advances: the consuming effect of heavy commissions, and of the interest on borrowed money, is, or rather was, overlooked in his ardent speculations. But when prices unfortunately fall, he finds himself 10,000l. or 20,000l. in debt, with a reduced income. The merchants at home become equally embarrassed, because the case of one is the case of three fourths of their correspondents; and the capital of the merchants, large as it may be, is absorbed and placed beyond their control. The mortgages they hold are of value only in an ultimate sense: to foreclose them, and to take possession of the estates, is, in general, a very hazardous course. Such has been for a number of years the state of our West India trade. Perhaps it is impossible to point out any means of effectual relief: our planters must not build expectations on such doubtful, or rather improbable, events as the stoppage of distillation from malt, or an insurrection or emancipation of the negroes in rival countries, such as Cuba or Brazil. Of a bounty on exportation it is idle to speak: so that their only rational and substantial ground of hope seems to be in a further reduction of the duties on sugar, coffee, and rum; and a farther reduction of the duties on imports, with the abolition of the remaining restrictions on their trade. The sale of West India articles takes place through the medium of produce brokers, who in London reside chiefly in Mincing Lane and Tower Street. Samples of sugar and rum are on show in their respective sale rooms during four days of the week, viz. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, from 11 to 1 o'clock; during which time the sugar refiners, wholesale grocers, and other dealers in produce, call in, observe the state of the market, and buy what they require. The term of credit is short; only 1 month for coffee and rum, and 2 months for sugar. Coffee is generally sold by public auction, sugar and rum by private contract. The broker's commission is usually per cent. on the amount; but in the case of coffee, as they guarantee the buyers, their charge amounts to 1 per cent. The brokers have no correspondence or connection with the planters; they are employed by the merchants; and their sales, though for large amounts, being very simple, a brokerage house of consequence generally does the business of a number of merchants. Neither merchant nor broker see, or are in the least under the necessity of secing, the bulky packages containing the different articles of produce of which they effect the sales: all is done by sample; the packages remaining in the bonded warehouse from the time of landing till they are sold; after which they pass to the premises of the refier, wholesale grocer, or whoever may be the purchaser. The allowances made to the buyer in respect of weight, consist, first of the tare, which is the exact weight of the cask; and, in the second place, of a fixed allowance of 5 lbs. per cask in the case of coffee, called trett, and of 2 lbs. per cask on sugar, under the name of draft. (See Account Sales of both, in p. 146.) The shipping of stores from England to the plantations is also a very simple transaction. West India merchants in London, Liverpool, or Bristol, receive from the planters, in the autumn of each year, a list of the articles required for the respective estates: these lists they divide, arrange, and distribute among different wholesale dealers in the course of September and October, with instructions to get them ready to ship in a few weeks. November and December are the chief months for the despatch of outward-bound West Indiamen, as the plantation stores ought, by rights, to arrive about the end of December, or in the course of January. That is a season of activity, and generally of health, in the West Indies; the comparatively cool months of November and December having cleared the air, and the produce of the fields having become ripe and ready to carry. Crop time lasts from January to the end of July, after which the heavy rains put a stop to field work in the islands. Demerara, being so near the line, experiences less difference in the seasons, and it is customary there to continue making sugar all the year round. The arrivals of West Indiamen in England with homeward cargoes begin in April and continue till October; after which, with the exception of occasional vessels from Demerara and Berbice, they cease till the succeeding April. This corresponds with the time of carrying and loading the crops: for it would be quite unadvisable, on the score of health, as well as of the interruptions to work from the heavy rains, to attempt loading vessels in the sugar islands during the autumnal months. The unloading of West Indiamen in London usually takes place at the West India docks; and did so uniformly from the autumn of 1802, when the docks were first opened, till August, 1823, when the dock monopoly expired. The delays in discharging occasionally complained of during the war, arose from two causes; from the vessels arriving in fleets (in consequence of sailing with convoy), and from the imperfections inseparable from a new establishment. The latter have been long remedied; and as to the former, though at particular seasons, and after a change of wind, the vessels still come close on each other, the crowding in the docks is by no means to be compared to that arising from the arrival of a convoy. Cargoes are discharged very speedily, the time seldom exceeding 3 days. The dock dues have also been materially reduced since the peace: and the whole exhibits a striking example of the advantage attendant on transacting a mass of business on one spot; an advantage which can be enjoyed only in great sea-ports, such as London, Liverpool, or Amsterdam. —(See Docks.) The rates of freight during the war were, on sugar from 7s. to 8s. per cwt., and on coffee from 10s. to 11s.; whereas they now amount, the former to 4s. and 4s. 6d., and the latter to 6s. The ship owners complain that these freights leave them very little profit; but in consequence of the speeed with which vessels may now be unloaded and cleared at London, it is probable that the practice of making two voyages in the season will become general. Selection of Sites for Colonial Establishments. Nothing can be more unwise than the plan, if so we may call it, hitherto followed in the selection of places at which to found colonies. The captain of a ship, without any knowledge whatever of the nature of soils or the capacities of a country in an agricultural point of view, falls in after a long cruise with a river or bay, abounding with fish and fresh water, and surrounded with land that looks fertile and is covered with herbage. He forthwith reports all these circumstances, duly embellished, to the Admiralty, strongly recommending the situation as an admirable one at which to found a colony; and, in nine cases out of ten, this is all the information that is required in taking a step of such infinite importance! No wonder, therefore, that many fine schemes of colonisation should have ended only in loss and disappointment; and that situations which the colonists were taught to look upon as a species of paradise, have proved to be any thing but what they were represented. Botany Bay, though described by Captain Cook as one of the finest places in the world, had to le abandoned by the colonists that were sent out to it; as the country round it, instead of being favourable for cultivation, is a mere sandy swamp. Is it possible to suppose, had the proper inquiries been entered into, that any attempt would have been made to establish a colony in so pestilential a climate as that of Sierra Leone? The colony on Swan River may be adduced as another instance of misplaced or premature confidence in the reports of those who were really without the means of forming a correct estimate of the various circumstances necessary to be attended to in forming a colony. We, therefore, hope than an end may be put to this system, a system which is in no common degree injurious to the public interests and is highly criminal towards those who embark as colonists. The founding of a colony should be looked upon in its true point of view. -as a great national enterprise. It is not an adventure to be intrusted to presumptuous ignorance; but should be maturely weighed, and every circumstance connected with it carefully investigated. Above all, the situation in which it is proposed to found the colony should be minutely surveyed; and its climate, soil, and capacities of production deliberately inquired into by competent persons employed for the purpose. Were this done, government and the public would have the best attainable grounds upon which to proceed; and neither party would have much reason to fear those disappointments, which have hitherto so often followed the exaggerated representations of those to whom the important and difficult task of selecting situations for colonies has been delegated. V. FOREIGN COLONIES. 1. Spanish Colonies. - Spain, whose colonial possessions extended a few years ago from the frontiers of the U. States to the Straits of Magellan, is not, at present, possessed of a foot of ground in the whole American continent. Still, however, her colonial possessions are of great value and importance. In the West Indies, she is mistress of Cuba and Porto Rico;-the former by far the largest and finest of the West India islands; and the latter also a very valuable possession. In the East, Spain is mistress of the Philippine Islands, which, were they in the hands of an enterprising people, would speedily become of very great commercial importance. —(See the articles HAVANNAH, MANILLA, PORTO Rico.) 2. Dutch Colonies. Java is the principal Dutch colonial possession, and it is one of which it is not easy to exaggerate the value and importance. (See BATAVIA.) In the East the Dutch also possess the Moluccas, Bencoolen on the coast of Sumatra, Macassar, and the eastern coast of Celebes, Banda, &c. They have several forts on the Gold Coast in Africa; and in the West Indies, they possess the islands of Curaçao and St. Eustatius, Saba, and part of St. Martin; and on the continent of South America, they are masters of Dutch Surinam. Curaçao and St. Eustatius are naturally barren, but they have been both highly improved. From its being very conveniently situated for maintaining a contraband traffic with the Caraccas ond other districts in South America, Curaçao was formerly a place of great trade, particularly during war. But since the independence of South America, Curaçao has ceased in a great measure to be an entrepôt; the goods destined for the continent being now, for the most part, forwarded direct to the places of their destination. That district of Surinam ceded to the British in 1814, comprising the settlements of Demerara, Berbice, and Essequibo (see ante, p. 332.), formed the most valuable portion of Surinam, or Dutch Guiana. The district which still belongs to the Dutch lies to the south of Berbice. It contains about 38,000 square miles, and a population of about 65,000. It is daily becoming of more value and importance. The exports of sugar may amount to about 25,000,000 lbs., and those of coffee to about 4,000,000 lbs. 3. French Colonies. - Previously to the negro insurrection that broke out in 1792, St. Domingo was by far the most valuable colony in the West Indies. But this disastrous event, having first devastated the island, terminated in the establishment of the independent black republic of Hayti. (See PoRT AU PRINCE.) Having also sold Louisiana to the Americans, and ceded the Mauritius to the English, without making any new acquisitions, the colonial dominions of France are, at this moment, of very limited extent. They consist of Gaudeloupe and Martinique, and the small islands of Marie-Galante and Deseada, in the West Indies; Cayenne, in South America; Senegal and Goree, in Africa; the Isle de Bourbon, in the Eastern Ocean; St. Marie, in Madagascar; and Pondicherry and Chandernagor. with a very small surrounding territory, in the East Indies. The annexed tabular statements show the population, trade, &c. of the French colonies. Account of the Population of the French Colonies, and of their Commerce with France, in 1836. Navigation, 1836. Cleared out. Commerce with France. Population on the 1st Jan. Real Value, 1836. Entered. Colonies. France. |