APPENDIX A. (P. 11.) 



The consequences of the interruption of demand in 

 markets which the British manufacturer may be accustomed 

 to supply, and of the interruption oj'sujjplies of the mate- 

 rial for manufacture, for which he may be dependent upon 

 Foreign countries, are of a grave and anxious description. 

 The vast establishments by means of which, only, the 

 United Kingdom is enabled to maintain competition in the 

 sale of manufactured goods in Foreign markets, notwith- 

 standing the high revenue system, cannot be suspended or 

 even partially interrupted, without producing considerable 

 inconvenience, loss and misery. The Nation has been re- 

 peatedly cast into a convulsive state, during the last thirty 

 years, by the interruption of Foreign demand for goods of 

 British manufacture, and of Foreign supplies of material 

 for the manufacturer; and the exposure to similar calamities 

 cannot be overlooked in any just estimate of the nature 

 and value of Foreign commercial connexion. Constancy 

 of pursuit in the individual, is essential to the well-being 

 of the community . A trade with a country peculiarly ex- 

 posed to the chances of interruption, cannot therefore be 

 equally desired as a trade w ith a country not subject to the 

 same chances. Upon this principle, a trade with Portugal, 

 th e Brazils, and other parts of South America, is to be sought 

 and cultivated with solicitude, whilst a Trade with some 

 other countries, may be viewed with comparative indiiFer- 

 ence. 



The eflfect of conducting the interchanges of property 

 in British shipping, is the invigoration of the arm upon 

 which the United Kingdom relies for protection and 

 defence. The effect of conducting these interchanges in 

 Foreign shipping, on the contrary, is the creation or invi- 

 goration of an arm, but too probably to be met, under a 



