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plainly indicates the further consequences of this distressing 

 competition to the Western planter, if not adequately 

 protected by the parent State. 



The Spanish Western colonies and the Brazils, have 

 not the advantage of adequate markets for the sale of their 

 produce in the European States with which they are, 

 respectively, immediately connected ; and the Southern 

 division of the United States of America, notwithstanding 

 the increasing population of these States, depend, for a 

 market, chiefly upon Foreign countries ; and are, conse- 

 quently, exposed to the risk of severe check in their agri- 

 culture. 



The French, Dutch, Danish and Swedish Western 

 colonies, are, probably, sufficiently protected by the mar- 

 kets of their respective countries. 



The British Western colonies have the advantage of 

 the great market of the British Isles, and the market of the 

 British Northern dependencies. These are close markets, 

 nearly, for the chief productions of these colonies. In 

 addition, the markets of the continent of Europe demand 

 supplies of British Western colonial produce ;' but those 

 markets being freely supplied with IVopical productions, 

 by connected colonies, by the Eastern British dependen- 

 cies and by Foreign countries, reliance cannot safely be 

 placed, by the British Western planter, upon the European 

 continental markets. It is clear that the British West 

 India planter can only safely and assuredly calculate upon 

 the markets of the British Isles and of the British North 

 American dependencies. The British Government com- 

 mands no other markets, and by an act of power only 

 can the Western planter be protected even in those markets. 

 Upon a principle of broad and open competition his great 

 ' Chiefly sugar refined in Great Britain. 



