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Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, were, how- ever, in a great measure overlooked or disregarded.

The last war with France drove the French again from the islands of St Pierre and Miquelon, and from the fisheries. At the peace of Amiens, they returned again to these islands; but were scarcely established before the War was renewed, and their vessels and property seized by some of our ships on the Halifax station. This was loudly remonstrated against by the French government.

A combination of events occurred during the late war, which raised the fisheries, particularly those of Newfoundland, to an extraordinary height of pros- perityf‘"

Great Britain possessed, almost exclusively, the fisheries on the banks and shores of Newfoundland, Labrador, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the Gulf of St Lawrence; we enjoyed a monopoly of supplying Spain, Portugal, Madeira, different parts

* In 1814, the exports were——

1,200,000 quintals fish, at 405. - L.2,400,000 20,000 do. core do. at 123. - - 12,000 6,000 tons cod oil, at L32, - 192,000 156,000 seal-skins, at 5s. - - 39,000 4,666 tons seal oil, at L36, - 167,976 2,000 tierces salmon, at L.5, - 10,000 1,685 barrels mackerel, at 305. - 2,527 4,000 casks caplin, sounds, and tongues, ‘ 2,000 2,100 barrels herring, at 25s. - 2,625 Beavers and other furs, - - - 600 Pine timber and planks, - - - 800

400 puncheons berries, - - 2,000