or prosecuted within three months after the fact committed, and not 4 Geo. 4, afterwards, c. 80. lascars, § 34. If any Asiatic sailor, lascar, or native of any of the territories, coun- Distressed tries, islands, or places, within the limits of the charter of the company, having been brought to the United Kingdom on board any vessel not being a ship of war in the service of His Majesty, shall be found within the United Kingdom in distress for want of food, clothing, or other necessaries, it shall be lawful for the company to supply necessary and reasonable relief to such persons, and to maintain them until they shall be sent on board some ship bound for some place within the limits aforesaid; and also to advance the money necessary to procure such persons proper and sufficient passage to their homes or places from which they were brought; and all such sums as the company shall pay for or on account of such relief or maintenance, or passage home, shall constitute and become a joint and several debt due to the company from the commander or owners of such ship, on board whereof such persons shall have been brought into the United Kingdom, and shall be recoverable as so much money paid for the use of such owners in any of the courts of the United Kingdom, or in the East Indies, if the owner shall reside there, in which actions or suits for the recovery of debts may be sued or prosecuted; and in all actions and suits, where the said company shall recover, they shall be entitled to receive full costs of suit. JAPANESE ISLANDS. PRINCIPAL PORTS.-Niphon (Island), Nangasaki, Ximo, Xicoso (Islands). Japan, though among the very first countries in Asia with which we have opened a trade, has been for nearly two centuries hermetically sealed against us. It abounds in commercial wealth; and the establishment of an intercourse with it would be in the highest degree desirable, with a view to a more extended consumption of our manufactures. From numerous inquiries I have made of persons who have been resident in that country, I have learnt that its people are most desirous of the renewal of a trade with England, but that the government still remains jealous and adverse to it. The re-establishment of our commercial connexion with that mysterious country will be a work of great delicacy and difficulty. Letter to the Right Hon. Charles Grant, President of the Board of Controul, by Charles Majoribanks, Esq. M.P., 1833. NEW SOUTH WALES. PRINCIPAL PORTS.-Port Jackson, Sydney. The Sydney Government have published a document, by which it appears that the amount of the entered value of imports and exports at the Custom-house, Sydney, from the 1st of January to the 31st of March, 1833, inclusive, was Total imports Deduct produce of the fisheries Trade with New Zealand Exports : To the fisheries To other places £154,841 £48,305 51,274 £103,567 3,572 3,174 125,384 £132,130 Making an excess of 28,5631. in favour of the exports of one quarter. VAN DIEMEN'S LAND. PRINCIPAL PORTS.-Hobart Town, Port Dalrymple. SOUTH SEA ISLANDS. PRINCIPAL PORTS.-Friendly Islands, Huhaheine (Island of), Marquesas (Islands), New Britain, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, New Ireland (Islands), Otaheite, Owhyhee (Islands of), Queen Charlotte's Island, Sandwich Islands, Society Islands, Solomon's Island. PART VII. AFRICA. EGYPT. PORTS ON THE MEDITERRANEAN. PRINCIPAL PORT.-Alexandria. TRIPOLI, BARBARY AND MOROCCO. PRINCIPAL PORTS.-Algiers, Fez, Medea, Mogadore, Sallee, Susa, Tripoli SENEGAL AND THE COAST from Morocco to the River PRINCIPAL PORTS.-Cape Verde, Goree, Portendic, Senegal. SIERRA LEONE AND THE COAST from the River PRINCIPAL PORTS.-De Loss (Isles), Rio Grande, Sierra Leone, St. Mary. PRINCIPAL PORTS.-Point de Galle, St. Andrew's Bay. CAPE COAST CASTLE, AND THE GOLD COAST from Cape Apollonia to the Rio Volta, PRINCIPAL PORTS.-Acra, Anamaboe, Cape Coast Castle, Commendo, Dix cove, Elmina, Mingo, Succonde, St. George. COAST FROM RIO VOLTA TO CAPE OF GOOD PRINCIPAL PORTS.-Annobon (Island of), Angola, Bonny, Calabar, Camaroon, Fernando Po (Island), Gaboon, Prince's Island, St. Thomas's Island. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. PRINCIPAL PORTS.-Algoa Bay, Cape of Good Hope, Saldanha Bay. For the purposes of this act (a) the Cape of Good Hope and the 3 & 4 W. 4. territories and dependencies thereof shall be deemed to be within the limits of the East India Company's charter. c. 56. Limits of charter, 9 c. 59. In all trade with the British possessions in America, the Cape of 3 & 4 W. 4, Good Hope, and the territories and dependencies thereof, shall be deemed to be within the limits of the East India Company's charter. Limits, § 50. It shall be lawful for the shipper of any Wine, the produce of the Cape of Good Hope or of its dependencies, which is to be exported wine, § 85. from thence, to go before the chief officer of customs, and make and (a) Granting Duties of Customs. Р Certificate of c. 59. 3 & 4 W. 4, sign an affidavit before him that such wine was really and bond fide the produce of the Cape of Good Hope or of its dependencies; and such officer is hereby authorised and required to administer such affidavit, and 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. 3 & 4 W. 4. c. 85, § 112. 3 & 4 W. 4, c. 59, Footing of § 49. A report made of the export of colonial produce during the months of July, August, and September, 1833, shows that the value of articles forwarded to Great Britain amounted to 23,2157.; to St. Helena, 1,6147.; to the Mauritius, 3,2997.; to the East Indies, 7907.; to South America, 6,0171.; to New South Wales, 1,8127.; to the Island of Ascension, 1427.; amounting in the whole to 36,8891: besides which, goods not of colonial produce, were exported to Great Britain to the value of 4,4037.; to St. Helena, 370l., to the Mauritius, 4547.; to South America, 1,1097.; to New South Wales, 1591.; and to the Island of Ascension, 331.; making a total of 6,5287.; so that the whole of the exports of the Cape for three months show a total of 43,4177., or at the rate of about 173,000l. per annum. EASTERN COAST from the Colonial Territory of the Cape of Good Hope to the Straits of Bab-el-Mandel. PRINCIPAL PORTS.-Delagoa Bay, Mozambique. AFRICAN PORTS ON THE RED SEA. PRINCIPAL PORTS.-Cosseir, Massuah, Souakim, Suez. CAPE VERDE ISLANDS, PRINCIPAL PORTS.-Bravo, Bonavista (Islands of), Fuego (Island), Mayo (Island), St. Antonio, St. Jago, St. Lucia, St. Nicholas, St. Vincent (Islands of). ST. HELENA. The Island of Saint Helena, and all forts, factories, public edifices, and hereditaments whatsoever in the said island, and all stores and property thereon fit or used for the service of the government thereof, shall be vested in His Majesty; and the said island shall be governed by such orders as His Majesty in council shall from time to time issue in that behalf. MADAGASCAR. PRINCIPAL PORTS.-Fort Dauphin, Foul Point. ISLE OF BOURBON. PRINCIPAL PORTS.-St. Denis, St. Paul. MAURITIUS. PRINCIPAL PORTS.-Sechelle Islands, Port Louis. All goods, the growth, produce, or manufacture of the Island of Mauritius, and all goods, which having been imported into the said West Indies, island shall be imported thence into any part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or into any possessions of His Majesty, shall be liable, upon such importation into the United Kingdom or into any such possessions respectively, to the payment of the same duties, and shall be subject to the same regulations as the like goods, being of the growth, produce or manufacture of His Majesty's islands in the West Indies, or having been imported into and exported from any of the said islands, and imported from the same into the said United 3 & 4 W. 4, Kingdom or into any such possessions respectively, would on such im- c. 59. portation be liable to the payment of or would be subject unto; and upon the exportation of any goods from the United Kingdom to the Island of Mauritius, such goods shall be liable to the same duties, and shall be entitled to the like drawbacks respectively as would or ought by law to be charged or allowed upon the like goods from the United Kingdom to any of His Majesty's islands in the West Indies; and all goods which shall be imported into or exported from the Island of Mauritius from or to any place whatever, other than the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, shall, upon such importation or exportation respectively, be liable to the payment of the same duties, and shall be subject to the same regulations, so far as any such regulations can or may be applied, as the like goods would be liable to the payment of or would be subject to upon importation or exportation into or from any of His Majesty's islands in the West Indies; and all ships whatever which shall arrive at or depart from the Island of Mauritius shall be liable to the payment of the same duties and shall be subject to the same regulations as such ships would be liable to the payment of or would be subject to if arriving at or departing from any of His Majesty's islands in the West Indies. For the purposes of this act (a), the Island of Mauritius shall be 3 & 4 W. 4. deemed to be one of His Majesty's sugar colonies, and placed upon the c. 56, § 9. same footing, in all respects, as His Majesty's islands in the West Indies. (a) Granting Duties of Customs. |