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Projekt	Dansk Vestindien
Arkivskaber	Generalguvernementet
Arkivserie	Kopibog for skrivelser til kongen
Indhold	1826 - 1833

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Main text	should have declared for the Federation, this means for Paez. Bermudez is in Barcelona, where they are said not to be satisfied with him, and a part of his troops are said to have deserted. Even his military Musk. But in Carraccas they are said to have denied submitting to the Federation. Some claim that Bolivar is in Bogota and that Paezes step is only a preparation to choose Bolivar as President for life. Others, however, claim that he is still in Peru. The rumour that the Colombian war brig Pichincha brought to St. Thomas stating that Bolivar and 15000 men were at Maracaibo, appears not to be confirmed. This year a pamphlet was published in North America called: The Claims of the United States on Denmark. I wouldn't have mentioned this pamphlet which contains as many insults, as inaccuracies, if I hadn't been told that it had made a considerable impression on some of the leading members of the Congress and the Government in Washington, and if it wasn't a kind of invitation to the American Government to seize your Majesty's West Indian possessions and deny paying the Sound dues. The English and Americans get light and port dues which probably are more considerable than the tax that is demanded in the Sound. Therefore I consider it my duty to recommend for wiser consideration, whether it should be found expedient to change the name of the Sound Dues into Light and Port Dues. I fear that the spirit of time will soon seek pretext in the expression Sound Dues, in order to deny to pay it and that trouble both for this reason and for others, will come from America first. I most humbly ask your forgiveness for daring to touch a matter that doesn't concern me, except that it is mentioned together with the threat against the West Indian islands. During the last week we have had bearable showers, which didn't fall all over, but still beneficial to the places that got them, which is especially the north side of the country. Most humbly B.

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Date	11-10-1826
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Main text	In the margin it says: Orgnl: with Capitn: Carreio Brig Findlay over Hamburg Dupl: with Capitn: Juul. ------ Most gracious King! We have lately had a number of good showers, which unfortunately haven't fallen over the entire country, but which have been of much benefit, where they have fallen. Your Majesty please forgive me for repeating my request for more liberalization of the sugar trade. One of the restrictions that is highly inconvenient is that a ship which doesn't come directly from Copenhagen cannot take in cargo, until those coming directly have taken theirs. Besides the loss it might have caused the Copenhagen merchants who have earlier ordered their ships from other places to get sugar, that these ships must wait here and feed and pay the crew, its also hard for the planters to be forced to send their sugar with a bad ship or a captain they don't trust, when there are others they trust more. A Copenhagen ship, the brig Christian August, Captain Petersen this year completely dropped sugar transportation for this reason. I admit, however, that the captain also is to blame, for when a moment occurred where no direct ships were in Frederiksted, I offered permission on my responsibility to take in cargo there. I even talked to planters to get him a cargo there, but the captain preferred to go to St. Thomas. In the spring I had hoped that our crop would have been between 30 and 40000 casks of sugar. Unfortunately it has become much poorer. At the end of last month we had only shipped 23072 casks of sugar. But nevertheless, and although the Royal Chamber of Customs' effort have encouraged several Copenhagen merchants to send us ships destined for other expeditions, and though some ships have made two trips to this place this year we have a considerable part of the sugar left and no ships to load it. The planters have lost much, because the sugar shrinks a great deal when it lies for a long time in this climate. But your Majesty's

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