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It has already been endeavoured to be shown, that the 

 British Western interests admit of full and complete pro- 

 tection, consistently with the extension of the demand 

 upon Asia for Tropical supplies j — the questions of quality 

 and price only, therefore, remain to be noticed. 



Saltpetre, pepper, indigo, rice, cotton wool, sugar, 

 coffee and tobacco, are the chief of the bulky Tropical 

 productions. 



Saltpetre and pepper are not the subject of competition 

 between the West and the East, the first being entirely, 

 and the second almost exclusively, derived from the East. ■ 

 LidigOj which was formerly derived, with trifling excep- 

 tion, from Foreign Colonies in the West, has been culti- 

 vated under the fostering hand of the East India Company, 

 and more recently by individual enterprize, with great 

 success in the British dominions in India, and the Foreign 

 indigo of the West, is, in consequence, nearly supplanted 

 by the British indigo of the East. The rice of the East is 

 incomparably superior in quality to the rice of the West 

 (Carolina) ; the condition in which the East India rice is 

 brought to market checks its consumption, but notwith- 

 standing this great impediment to its introduction into 

 general use, the consumptionof East India rice in England, 

 on the continent of Europe, and in the West Indies, ren- 

 ders it a considerable object of commerce, and the better 

 quality (more nutritious) and lower price, assisted by the 

 improving condition in which it is brought to market, can- 

 not fail to obtain for it, gradually, a decided preference 

 over the rice of the West. The cotton wool of India, 

 which when burdened with high freight and charges, 

 was not an object of attention to the merchant or manu- 

 facturer, is now an object of the first importance in the 

 trade and manufactures of the country. The con- 



