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division of America, and the facilities of intercourse with 

 the East, do not appear to admit of protection being 

 extended to the Western colonies. Except the market 

 of the parent State and its dependencies (if any) demand- 

 ing Tropical supplies, the whole world is a market for the 

 competition of the Eastern and Western planter; and in this 

 contest it is evident, that with t/te advantage of European 

 instruction, superadded to his other advantages, the Eastern 

 planter must predominate. 



The assurance of this result rests chiefly upon the low 

 rate of Eastern labor, and which is not counterpoised by 

 the greater maritime distance of India, from the great 

 market of Europe. If a pound of cotton wool cost 3d. 

 or Ad. in India, in Carolina Qd. or 9^. ; the addition of 

 one penny per pound to the cost of the East India' cotton 

 wool, on account of the greater distance, will not prevent a 

 decided preference for the Indian production. Upon this 

 scale, or any approximation to it, the Western planter 

 must yield the market to the productions of India, unless 

 the superior qualittj of the Western production should 

 compensate for the higher price. 



The British Asiatic planter, who occupies the more fruit- 

 ful, as well as the more extensive Tropical countries of the 

 East, can only be considered to have been in European con- 

 nexion in respect of rice^ cotlon-wool and sugar, since the 

 reduction of the East India Company's chartered rights, in 

 the year 1814. The previous heavy freight, charges and 

 delay, held in severe check the importation of these pro- 

 ductions. The progress which has been made since that 

 period, in the introduction of these commodities into the 

 market of Europe, already presses with great effect, and 



' Supposing a halfpenny per pound freight from Carolina an<l 

 \\d. per pound from India. 



