Abstract of the actual Disbursements of the several Commissaries upon Foreign Stations, charged in the Army Extraordinaries for the year ending December 25, 1821, and paid by Great Britain, exclusive of the Revenues collected in the several Colonies, and other Expenses voted in the Army and Ordinary Estimates for that 1. Canada 2. Nova Scotia and New Brunswick 3. Newfoundland year. £. 8. d. 397,629 14 41 6. Windward and Leeward Islands and Colonies. 321,480 8 102 THE ROYAL FORESTS. From the Crown Land Commissioners' Fourth Report. The whole quantity of forest land now belonging to the Crown, either in fee or subject to the rights of common, is 122,622 acres: and although the different measures taken with regard to each forest have been noticed in former reports, we think it will be convenient here to bring together, in one statement, the present extent and state of all that property; showing what has been acquired for the growth of timber; and what further quantity may probably be obtained for the same purpose. The particulars are as follow, viz.- New Forest Acres in each Acres enclosed for the Dean Forest FRANCE-PECUNIARY INDEMNITY. An Account of the Sums received from France, in respect of the Pecuniary Indemnity payable under the Convention No. 5, of the 15th of November, 1815; and of the appropriation thereof : The total sum received by his Majesty's Government, in pursuance of this Convention, and of the several arrangements subsequently inade, was 125,228,482f. 42c., which, at the exchange of 25f. 29c., the average rate of remittance to this country, was By interest, &c. upon the money received beyond the account paid by way of discount upon anticipated payments, commission upon negotiations, &c. £. s. d. 4,951,699 11 78 -71,473 4 9 5,023,172 16 41 By payment on account of proportions of the pe- Paid the Chevalier Canova, for removing works Paid as prize-money to the army By the expenses of the office of the Commis- By amount paid for the use of the army in By payments in respect of fortifications in the pur 500,000 0 0 By payment on account of supplies 1821, By amount paid M. de Ladebat, in satisfaction of By amount by M. Martin, towards the indemnification of proprietors of property at St. Domingo, for the sequestration of their property during the occupation of that island by the British forces By amount paid the French East India Com- By amount granted to Lord Beresford, and the nation 15,634 19 3 99,331 4 7 3,400 0 0 60,000 0 0 22,733 19 81 1,000 0 0 138,231 0 2 COMMERCE WITH SPANISH Foreign Office, Oct. 17, 1823. Sir, I am directed by Mr. Secretary Canning to acquaint you, in reference to your application for protection to the trade of his Majesty's subjects with the provinces of Spanish America, that his Majesty's Government have de termined to send out, forthwith, Consular Agents to the several ports and places in those provinces, in which, as they have learned from the best inquiry, British interests are at present most extensively concerned. I subjoin a list of these ports and places. I am, Sir, your most obedient humble servant, JOSEPH PLANTA. Mexico. Consul-gen. Consul Ditto Consul-gen. Consul Ditto Ditto Ditto Maracaybo Monte Video Consul-gen. Vice-cons. Consul BRAZILS-PORTUGAL. [From Papers ordered to be printed by Parliament.] Henry Hayne, Esq. to Lord Clanwilliamı. Rio de Janeiro, Aug. 21, 1822. My Lord I beg, herewith annexed, to transmit to your lordship a list of the ships which have arrived at this port with slaves on board, for the purpose of traffic, from the 1st of April to the 30th of June last, in the same form as the list of the three preceding months, which I had the honour of forwarding to your lordship. The number imported this year compared to the corresponding six months last year, is no less than an increase of six thousand five hundred and thirty-six. A partial increase may be accounted for by the arrival of three vessels from Bahia, which, not finding a good market there, (owing, I presume, to the disturbed state of that city,) This balance is liable to the payment of a further sum, on account of the subsidiary force of Brunswick; as also of a further sum, as indemnification to the proprietors of property in St. Domingo, the amount of which cannot at present be accurately ascertained. Whitehall, Treasury Chambers, June 25, 1823. J. C. HERRIES. came came to this port, where their cargoes met with a ready sale, and fetched a higher price than those usually imported, owing to their being of a better race, doubtless from the North of the Equator, which is readily ascertained by their marks and language: however, they were entered at the Custom House at Bahia as coming from Molembo. (Signed) HENRY HAYNE. Slaves imported at Rio Janeiro, (April to June, 1822.) [The following, although not of recent date, has been giveu, in the present state of West India affairs, to show the view the Colonists take of their relation with Great Britain.] To the King's Most Excellent Ma jesty in Council. "The humble Petition and Memorial of the Assembly of Jamaica: "Most Gracious Sovereign,We your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Assembly of Jamaica, having taken into our consideration the present critical state Arrived. |