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a decrease appears of £.5,447,000: and if with the first years of the peace, a decrease of £.1,752,000.
The profits have been chiefly in the crown colonies, where legislation under the Abolition Act has been within your own control.
Jamaica has gained nothing, as appears by the following calculation.
| 1st. | 1832 | 71,570 | tons, at £. | 27 15 | per ton. |
| 1833 | 62,850 | 29 13 | — | ||
| 1834 | 62,810 | 29 8 | — | ||
| 3 ) 197,230 | 3) | 86 16 | |||
| Average | 65,776 | tons, at £. | 28 18 | ||
| Average gross price | £.1,874,000. | ||||
| 2d. | 1835 | 57,430 | tons, at £. | 33 10 | per ton. |
| 1836 | 52,700 | 40 17 | — | ||
| 1837 | 44,200 | 34 12 | — | ||
| 3 ) 154,330 | 3) | 108 19 | |||
| Average | 51,400 | tons, at £. | 36 6 | ||
| Average gross price | £.1,865,880. | ||||
I regret to say that Antigua is also a loser, under the operation, however, wholly or partially, of natural causes, since 1834.
| 183 | 7,160 | tons. | 1835 | 8,730 | tons. | |
| 1833 | 6,480 | — | 1836 | 6,770 | — | |
| 1834 | 12,850 | — | 1837 | 3,600 | — | |
| 3) 26,490 | 3) 19,100 | |||||
| Average | 8,830 | tons. | Average | 6,360 | ||
| Value | £,251,655 | Value | £.230,868 |
