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tliroiisli the United Kingdom to foreign 

 countries. 



The high revenue system affects the agricultural 

 and native interests of Canada, Nova Scotia, and 

 New Brunswick ; — 



By repressing and lowering the extent and 

 condition of the population of the British Isles. 



By the additional cost of the extensive supplies 

 derived by these countries from Great Britain. 



By the additional expense of navigation, and 

 charges in British ports. 



And although similar causes do not at present 

 operate to much extent in regard to the Cape of 

 Good Hope, and New Holland, the objections 

 arising from the high revenue system are the same 

 in kind, in respect of these colonies. 



The extension of the privilege of direct commu- 

 nication between the British dependencies in the 

 other parts of the World, as well as from the British 

 Ports in Asia, would tend to the increase of demand 

 upon the agriculture of those dependencies; but 

 whether such an extension of privilege be in any 

 and vvhat degree expedient, is a question involving 

 many and various considerations, and must be de- 

 termined, in each particular instance, by a careful 

 examination in detail, and being of inferior import- 

 ance, will not now be discussed. 



