.... .... ....... ........ .... for Medicine for Tax Account for Provisions.. for for a Hogshead Salt Fish for Provisions.. To T. Tomlinson and Co.... for fresh Beef Account To Robert Stone........... for fresh Fish To Anthony G. Storer...... for Lumber To Archibald Galbraith..... for To John Edwards.... To Thomas Hill... To Theodore Stone To Alexander Rose. To John Tack. To John Edwards To Westmoreland Work-house To J. M'Lachlan To Thomas Hill.... for his Account for Lumber Ditto . for Pasturage Account for for his Cooper's Account. for his Law Ditto for Fees of a Negro for 281b. Shot.. for his Account 16 4 4 43 15 O O 3 I 8! 36 12 10 75 3 9 33 13 4 for Hire of Coopers... 50 27 4 10 148 18 To Midgham Estate To John Fox To Nicholas Robson for White Pine Boards Salt Fish.. for Staves and Heading To Commission on£6,467 15 0 Amount of Sugar and Rum 130 171 16 3 15 O at 6 per cent on.. •£.6,594 0 0Amounts to .... 395 12 10 To David Ewart, for his Salary in lieu of Commission for managing said Estate... To Cash paid, Postage, Stamps, and sundry Expences during the Year... in Account Current with David Ewart. Shipments, with Ships' and Masters' Names. -Cr. ...... ..... 192 00 £6,467 15 d. 9 19 11 18 13 3 8 15 72 6 12 6 13 I 8 Sept. 1. By John Edwards, for Hire of Francisco, .... I O O 5 5 O By sundry Cattle fattening, their Value is estimated for the present at By E. J. Ricketts, Esq. for Balance ...... 115 17 111 120 O O 2,219 4 10 2,455 291 Jovis, 16o die Julii, 1807. JOHN INGLIS, Efq. called in, and examined. WHAT are your means of information with respect to the com Mr. mercial state of the Weft India colonies?—I have been a good many Inglis years connected as a merchant with the Weft India colonies, and in terested as a planter, and also as a merchant trading with the provinces of Quebec, and with the United States of America. What is the firm of your houfe?-Inglis, Ellice, and Company. In the cafe of the fufpenfion of a direct intercourfe with the North American States, do you conceive there would be means of obviating the inconveniences likely to refult to the British colonies from the interruption of that intercourfe?-Flour and falted provifions can certainly be fupplied from Great Britain and Ireland, excepting in some extraordinary cafe, and from the British colonies in North America, in fufficient quantity to fupply the Weft_India Islands; fish can be fupplied from Newfoundland and the Bay of Fundy; and I would ftate to the committee as a reafon for my opinion, as far as regards the article of fish, that what is called Weft India fish, taken and cured by British subjects, has been carried to Boston and other places, and from thence transported to the West India Inlands in American veffels, and that traffic has been attended with this difadvantage, that it has induced British seamen and fishermen to quit their employment in Newfoundland, and in the Bay of Fundy, and to enter into the American service; this was proved to a committee of the privy council: I have at prefent information, that there is fifh in the market of Jamaica, which has been carried from Newfoundland and Nova Scotia more than can be fold. There certainly will be more difficulty in fupplying the articles of lumber, because they are chiefly imported from the United States at present; but there is no doubt that Canada and Nova Scotia could fupply a very great proportion of what would be required, provided there was a regular trade for the article, fo as to encourage the people there to bend their minds to procure it. Have you any precife idea of the extent of the confumption required for the Weft India colonies?-No; I have not. Can you ftate the extent of the fupply of fish and flour, which could be obtained from the British North American colonies?—Yes, I can; there have been exported from Canada about 30,000 barrels of flour, and 800,000 bushels of wheat, in one year, and the culture of wheat and manufacture of flour in Canada is increafing very much; fish could be procured in any quantity that can be required. Do you know the extent of the supply of rice and corn which can be obtained from the British North American colonies?-No rice; and corn is not at prefent cultivated to any great extent, but it can be cultivated to any extent in Upper Canada; but there has been no market for it hitherto. Do you know the extent of the confumption of lumber in the British Weft Indian colonies?-No, I do not fo as to name it. Mr. From what part of the British North American colonies could you obtain the white oak lumber for puncheon ftaves?-From Canada, and I will add to that, that the commiffioners of the victualling this week, contracted for the supply of white oak ftaves from Canada inftead of Dantzic. To what amount could that fupply be furnished ?—To any extent with proper encouragement. What is the nature of the encouragement which you conceive would be proper encouragement?-A monopoly of the Weft India market, and due protection to the trade by means of convoys. Can fish be cured and carried from Newfoundland and the Bay of Fundy to the Weft Indies, at as cheap a rate and of as good a quality as fish can be fent from the United States?--I have no doubt of that, certainly of a superior quality and at as moderate a price. Can fish be cured and carried from Newfoundland and the Bay of Fundy to the Weít Indies, at as cheap a rate and of as good a quality as fifh can be fent from Great Britain?-Yes, herrings and mackarel have heretofore been carried to the Weft Indies from the Bay of Fundy, at a cheaper rate than from Great Britain. Are there any impediments and difficulties attending the navigation from the Bay of Fundy?--Yes, upon fome occafions it is frozen up for two or three months in the winter, and in Canada for fix months; but we find no difficulty in making our fupplies from Canada to this country, because we time our navigation. I think that that circumftance would not obftruct the trade if it was once regularly established. Can you form any precife idea of the comparative prices at which thefe articles could be fupplied from the United States, and from the British North American colonies?-Flour, falted provifions, and fish, can be fupplied at much about the fame prices; lumber will be fomewhat dearer, but it is of a much better quality; the farther north you go, oak timber is of a better quality. In this market the Quebec staves bear a higher price than American staves. Can you ftate at how much a thousand hogfhead and puncheon ftaves can now be fupplied from the British North American colonies?-The value of hogshead ftaves at Quebec at prefent I take to be from 12. to 15%. per thousand; at what price they might be delivered in the Weft Indies I cannot state. Can you inform the committee in what way a supply of these articles was obtained during the American war?-Flour and salted provifions were chiefly exported from Great Britain and Ireland, and fish from Newfoundland; lumber was exported by America to the neutral islands, and from thence carried to the British iflands, and frequently taken in prizes; some forts of lumber were occasionally exported from Great Britain, particularly pine timber. Upon what do you ground your affertion, that a fufficient supply of lumber could be obtained from the North American colonies?Because there are inexhaustible forefts of timber in the provinces of Canada. Are there fuch facilities of manufacturing those articles, and tranfporting them from the place of their growth to the place of confumption, as to infure a fufficient fupply being always furnished without confiderable increase of price? There is fufficient water |