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 The merchants of Dominica were then numerous, and were enabled to make regular yearly remittances, of coniderable value, to their correpondents in England; and the planters of the country were furnihed with the means of carrying on the ettlement of their plantations with vigour.

Soon after the commencement of hotilities in America, and directly on the adoption of meaures by the Americans by way of reprial, the trade of Dominica to and with America was finally ended, and drew with it the los of that, with the foreign Wst India ilands.

This total ruin of trade was attended with erious conequences, fatal to the welfare of this iland in particular, as being then only in a tate of infancy with repect to its ettlement; and it has never ince been able to recover its former flourihing ituation: for the merchants, trademen, and others, having no ale