70 On the Importance of 
taking of any sugar islands from the enemy, 
as an event that must overstock the market 
of sugar. 
Some consolations, of a commercial nature, 
mentioned by Mr. Spence, are greatly under- 
rated by the reviewer. When the large 
manufacturing establishments by which the 
foreign market was supplied are reduced, a 
part of them is acknowledged to be retained. 
That part is not sufficiently proved to be con- 
temptible, because in a comparative point of 
view, we may attach to it the epithet puny. It 
serves the purposes of our own consumption, 
and it gives employment to a part of the 
labouring population. Nor when establish- 
ments altogether new are formed at home to 
supply us with articles which we formerly 
procured at a lower rate from abroad, ought 
their awkwardness and the inferiority of their 
' produce to be treated with unqualified con- 
tempt : especially when we consider, that lately 
the general impression was, that the loss of 
foreign commerce brought along with it the 
ruin of every commercial and manufacturing 
establishment ; and that no ability could exist 
of forming any new establishment, even the 
most insignificant. The inferiority of the 
article may imply no sacrifice which is not 
compensated by the advantages. which the 
