Not a flag was hauled down across the Caribbean this day, nor a single port battle queued or repelled. The cannon, it seems, took a holiday — though the counting-houses worked double shifts to compensate. France emerges as the day's chief beneficiary of peace, her fifty-four ports yielding a tidy 1,849,026 reales, with NSCN alone shepherding nineteen of those harbours to a princely 919,502. Great Britain follows at a respectable remove, ACDC drawing the bulk of her 1.3 million through ten ports, while LVTN tends seven more in quieter fashion. Spain, possessed of the largest dominion at seventy-two ports, manages a more modest 951,687 — KP doing the lion's share of the Iberian arithmetic from nine holdings, and LOUP collecting a singularly handsome 282,753 from but a single French quay. Whether this universal restraint denotes prudence, exhaustion, or merely the careful sharpening of knives behind closed shutters, your Editor declines to speculate. The ledgers are full; the powder kegs, for now, remain dry.