| Average of the five years ending 1807—last of the slave trade, | £3,852,624 |
| Average of the five years ending 1815—date of the Registry Act, | 3,588,903 |
| Average of the five years ending 1823—date of Canning's Resolution, | 3,192,637 |
| Average of the five years ending 1833—last five of slavery, | 2,791,478 |
| Average of the five years ending 1843—first five of freedom, | 1,213,284 |
"The House of Assembly, from whose memorial to the government (June 1847) we borrow these facts, makes the following remarks on this instructive table:—
"'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 effects 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.'"
[5] Exports To British West India Colonies:—
| 1827, | £3,583,222 | 1840, | 3,574,970 |
| 1828, | 3,289,704 | 1841, | 2,504,004 |
| 1829, | 3,612,085 | 1842, | 2,591,425 |
—Porter's Parl. Tables, xii, 114.
[6] Buxton on the Slave Trade, 172.
[7] For a few days during the panic consequent on the Mutiny at the Nore, the 3 per cents were at 45, but they soon rose and ranged from 55 to 58. The interest of money never exceeded 5 per cent., and indeed it could not, as the usury laws were then in operation. The issue of one pound notes in sufficient numbers by the Bank of England, after February 1797, soon relieved the distress, extinguished the panic, and brought us triumphantly through the war. The following are the rates of interest and amount of bullion in the Bank of England for thirty years past, which shows how little low interest has to do with the plentiful stores of the precious metals:—
| Bullion. | Rate of Discount. | ||
| 1815.—28th | February | £2,037,000 | Five per cent. |
| 1816.—29th | February | 4,641,000 | Five per cent. |
| 1820.—29th | February | 4,911,000 | Five per cent. |
| 1826.—28th | February | 2,460,000 | Five per cent. |
| 1832.—29th | February | 5,293,000 | Four per cent. |
| 1837.—28th | February | 4,077,000 | Five per cent. |
| 1839.— | October | 2,522,000 | Six per cent. |
| 1840.—25th | February | 4,311,000 | Five per cent. |
| 1847.—13th | November | 9,258,520 | Eight per cent. min. |
The rate of eight per cent. has not been charged by the Bank of England before for upwards of a century and a quarter.