. The history of America, : from its discovery by Columbus to the conclusion of the late war. : With an appendix, containing an account of the rise and progress of the present unhappy contest between Great Britain and her colonies. . egociation, remonftrances, and by open force, to prevent theEnglifh from eltablifhing themfclves in that part of the American continent •,but after ftruggling againft it for more than a century, the difaflers of Iaft warextorted from the court of Madrid a reluctant confent to tolerate this colony offoreigners in the heart of its dominions *: In confequence of that
. The history of America, : from its discovery by Columbus to the conclusion of the late war. : With an appendix, containing an account of the rise and progress of the present unhappy contest between Great Britain and her colonies. . egociation, remonftrances, and by open force, to prevent theEnglifh from eltablifhing themfclves in that part of the American continent •,but after ftruggling againft it for more than a century, the difaflers of Iaft warextorted from the court of Madrid a reluctant confent to tolerate this colony offoreigners in the heart of its dominions *: In confequence of that humiliating concefTion, the logwood cutters are au-thorifed to profecute their labours, without fear or interruption, from HanoverBay, on the eait fide of Yucatan, to the bottom of the Bay of Honduras, in-cluding about fifty leagues of the fhore. They do not, however, form any re-gular colonv, any more than their predecefibrs, the Buccaneers. But as no , not even among robbers, can fubfift without fome kind of compact, thelegwood cutters have agreed to certain regulations among themlelves; and theyelect a chief, with the name of king, to fee that thofe regulations are oblervtd, * Treaty cf Paris, Art. xviii. though. THE HISTORY OF AMERICA. 389 though they pay little regard to his authority. Like mod elective fovereigns, he CHA. a mere mock-monarch, and the greaceft diforders prevail among his unruly fub- *—-~v—-»>jedts. The Englifh government is therefore obliged to fend judges, occafionally,from Jamaica to Yucatan; and the commander of the kings frigate, whobrings the commiffions, takes care to fee that they have their complete execu-tion *. The quantity of wood annually furnifbed by this fettlement has been com-puted at twenty thoufand tons, a very confiderable export; but the trade is faidto have declined of late years, and fince it obtained a legal fandtion. The caufeof this decline is thus explained. The logwood produced on the weft coaft of Yu-cat
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