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tional character and public utility, and I attend very assidu- 
ously the discussion of the Chamber in order to inform my- 
self, by the light which is often there thrown upon objects 
of the greatest interest. I listened with extreme impatience 
to the discussion of the law relative to the tariff, because I 
foresaw that sugar would certainly be the grand war horse, 
against which, the lances of the strongest combatants* would 
be broken. All that I could there collect which amounted to 
demonstration, is that France consumes one hundred mil- 
lions pounds of sugar; that our colonies produced in 1821, © 
forty-four millions kilogrammes, and that the surplus is 
drawn from foreign countries. This consumption proves 
that of the whole of Europe must exceed six hundred mil- 
lions of pounds of sugar annually, and that in adding to 
this the value of the rum made from the molasses of this 
same sugar, it results that the new world, raises for this sin- 
gle object, an annual impost of six hundred millions of francs 
upon ancient Europe. Disgusted”at not hearing in this sol- 
emn discussion a single word relative to the richest discov- 
ery of the age, the fabrication of European sugar, | opened 
the eighth number of Annales Europeenns, and I there found 
a statement which demonstrates with mathematical evi- 
dence, Ist. that the sugar of beets, is made with the same 
facility as bread. 2d. That this sugar may be easily ob- 
tained, of a quality superior to that of the finest American 
sugars. 3d. That France may not only fabricate enough 
for its own consumption, but that it might dispose of per- 
haps a hundred millions to its neighbours. 4th. That this 
would be the means of employing very happily more than 
a million of poor persons, of producing a harvest upon many 
millions of acres left unemployed, of fattening annually a 
hundred thousand cattle ; in short, of realizing new treas- 
ures in favour of France, and of producing a great extension 
of comforts in every class of the nation. ‘ 
I could say much more upon this important subject, as 
well as upon many others of the same kind, but if you have 
the goodness to admit this letter into your Journal, I shall 
make it a duty to add something hereafter. 
24, Statistics of Egypt.—Every traveller in Egypt attri- 
butes to the Vice Roy, all the qualities of a statesman. 
(*In the MS. competents.) 
