The merchants of Dominica were then numerous, and were enabled to make regular yearly remittances, of conſiderable value, to their correſpondents in England; and the planters of the country were furniſhed with the means of carrying on the ſettlement of their plantations with vigour.
Soon after the commencement of hoſtilities in America, and directly on the adoption of meaſures by the Americans by way of repriſal, the trade of Dominica to and with America was finally ended, and drew with it the loſs of that, with the foreign Wſst India iſlands.
This total ruin of trade was attended with ſerious conſequences, fatal to the welfare of this iſland in particular, as being then only in a ſtate of infancy with reſpect to its ſettlement; and it has never ſince been able to recover its former flouriſhing ſituation: for the merchants, tradeſmen, and others, having no
