Average of the five years 95,353 35,505 17,645,602 2,791,478 ending 1833, first five of slavery Average of the five years 42,453 14,185 7,412,498 1,213,284 ending 1843, first five of freedom “Up to 1807, the exports of Jamaica, progressively rose as cultivation was extended. From that date they have been gradually sinking; but we more especially entreat attention to the evidence here adduced of the effect of emancipation, which, in ten years, reduced the annual value of the three principal staples from £2,791,478, to £1,213,284, being in the proportion of seven to sixteen, or equal, at five per cent., to an investment of about thirty-two millions of property annihilated. We believe the history of the world would be in vain searched for any parallel case of oppression, perpetrated by a civilised government upon any section of its own subjects.” In other places the alteration and decline has been even more startling. The following table exhibits the state of exports from British Guiana, at intervals of three years, beginning with 1827, and ending as above with 1843:— Year. Sugar. Rum. Molasses. Cotton. Coffee. Hhds. Puncheons. Casks. Bales. lbs. Dutch. 1827 71,168 22,362 28,226 15,904 8,063,752 1830 69,717 32,939 21,189 5,423 9,502,756 1833 63,415 17,824 44,508 3,699 5,704,482 1836 57,142 24,202 37,088 3,196 4,801,352 1839 38,491 16,070 12,134 1,364 1,583,250 1843 35,738 8,296 24,937 24 1,428,100 And during the whole period of those changes, there was a constantly augmenting consumption in the mother country of all the articles of colonial produce!