division of the globe, would keep in constant employ suf- 

 ficient shipping and seamen to render the nation, which 

 should convey to market a large proportion of the whole, 

 a great maritime power. The same commodities, if 

 derived wholly from the Eastern division of the globe, 

 would keep in as constant employ an increase of shipping 

 and seamen, extending to double, or nearly double, the quan- 

 tity and number ; and in this vieu', the advantage of the em- 

 ployment is commensurate with the increase of distance. 



Are then Foreign nations to be supplied with these Tro- 

 pical Productions from the Western or from the Eastern 

 divisions of the globe ? 



Are they to be supplied through the medium of the 

 British or Foreign flag ? 



Are they to be supplied by means of the labor of slaves 

 employed on the soil of other countries, or by means of 

 the labor of native, free, British subjects, employed on 

 British territory ? 



Two things being premised, the conclusion is direct and 

 unavoidable. 



Provided the British Western interests be fully pro- 

 tected, and provided these commodities can be delivered 

 at market oi equal (juality and VLi equal price, the duty and 

 the policy of Cireat Britain cannot be mistaken. By sup- 

 plying and conveying Tropical productions from her own 

 dominions in the East, she obtain"; for her own .subject, 

 the preference of employment in the production of 

 the commodity rc(jnircd ; she prevents a Foreign demand 

 for slave labor, and she displaces one Foreign ship by the 

 substitution of two British ships. Two cargoes of cotton 

 or other produce may be conveyed to Europe from the 

 West, in the time which would be required to convey one 

 such cargo from the East. 



