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 advantageous, hould be entirely carried on only by the French inhabitants. This neglect of the Englih is the more remarkable, from the great inconveniences they labour under, from not having a fihery of their own; but though a thing of the kind was attempted by Mr. Beves, a repectable Englih inhabitant, in the time of the French government of the iland, it failed, through the malice of ome of the French inhabitants; and that no other Englihman, ince the return of the country to its former government, has thought it worth while to repeat the trial, is a matter of much urprize.

The preent price of fih in the market of Roeau is as follows, viz.