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mitted of increase, cither in number or extent, be- 

 cause fresh supphes of capable laborers were for- 

 bidden to the British planter. 



This limitation does not, however, prescribe a li- 

 mit to demand for the produce of Tropical coun- 

 tries ; the disposition to the consumption of sugar, 

 coffee and other Tropical produce, and the ability 

 to purchase such commodities, remained unaffected 

 by the determination of the British Nation, not to 

 extend the cultivation of the British possessions 

 in the West. The demand for Tropical produc- 

 tions, so far from being reduced, is increasing, par- 

 ticularly vvith the increasing population of the two 

 continents of America. 



When this limit to the British employment of 

 slaves, and consequently to British shipping, 

 was imposed, national compensation was again 

 presented in the British Asiatic provinces. 



Those provinces present an inexhaustible re- 

 source for sugar, and, it is presumed, coffee, at 

 prices against which it would be impraclicable to 

 maintain successful competition by means of the 

 labor of slaves.' The Act of the last session, al- 

 ready mentioned, permitting a direct commercial 

 intercourse, in British ships, between the British 

 ports in Asia and the world generally, at length 



' The (lirtcn'Mco in the (jualitif of the products of" the East 

 <iiid West will be iiuticed hereal'tcr. 



