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and valuable interests must give wa^' to less expensive 

 systems of management. 



Having then these advantages, if the market of consump- 

 tion do not accord an adequate price to the British Western 

 planter, it is evident either that the production exceeds the 

 demand, or that the costs of production, as in the instance 

 of British corn, are too heavy to be recovered at market. 



Without attempting any nice definition in this respect, 

 it is clear that the reduction of the revenue system of the 

 United Kingdom is an object anxiously to be desired by 

 the West-India planter. Upon the substitution of a low 

 for a high revenue system he depends ; — 



For the extension of market by the increase and improved 

 condition of' the people of the United Kingdom. 



For the extension of market by lowering the duties on 

 his productions. 



For the reduction of the cost of the extensive supplies 

 for which he is compelled to resort to the United King- 

 dom. 



For the reduction of the costs of Navigation, and other 

 charges of transit. 



With these powerful assistances, the British Western 

 Tropical dependencies, notwithstanding the superior com- 

 parative means of the Eastern planter, would promise to be 

 a continued source of individual prosperity and of national 

 power. Wilhotit such assistances, tlie depression of the 

 British Western Tropical agriculture must be expected to 

 add to and to aggravate the national distress resullin" from 

 the state of th(; agriculture of the British Isles. 



The British Western Tropical dependencies being how- 

 ever supposed to be thus lelieved, and their interests se- 

 cured by the only means which appear calculated to 

 relieve and secure them, nuniely, 



