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These considerations appear to the Author, to be quite 

 sufficient to allay theapprehensionof the continuance of any 

 portion of the Public Debt, beyond a period of time such 

 as may be considered rather in the nature of recommenda- 

 tion than objection to the Author's views, since, al- 

 though great immediate relief would be experienced, the 

 advantage of time would be obtained for the progressive 

 completion of the measure. 



APPENDIX E. (p. 28.) 



The Eastern Tropical dependencies are strongly dis- 

 tinguished from the Western Tropical dependencies of the 

 Empire. 



The cultivation of the Western dependencies is limited 

 by the prevention of the further importation of laborers 

 from the continent of Africa, and the laborers who are 

 actually employed, are slaves of considerable price, and 

 whose maintenance is very expensive. 



The Eastern dependencies are cultivated, chiefly, by 

 native free subjects, unlimited in number, of the most fru- 

 gal habits, and who submit to labor at the lowest rate of 

 compensation. 



The excellence and great value of Tropical productions; 

 the general demand for, and vast consumption of these 

 productions, especially in Europe ; the great extent, ferti- 

 lity and variety of the British Tropical Eastern dependen- 

 cies ; the ingenuity and industry of the inhabitants, the 

 remarkably cheap rate of labor, the great bulk of their 

 productions, and their maritime distance, concur to raider 



