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to the evidence of the resources of India for the supply of 

 the European market, can only be determined by more 

 experience : that its introduction will be attempted, under 

 the better commercial principles now in operation, or ex- 

 pected to be brought into operation, cannot admit of 

 doubt ; and the same advantage of cheap labor may be 

 expected to produce results similar to those which are 

 actually experienced in indigo, rice, cotton wool and 

 other productions. 



The British Eastern dominions, although not the exclu- 

 sive, are the principal source or medium of these supplies, 

 and whether the resources of these dominions be contem- 

 plated in reference to the cheap and abundant supply 

 to the manufacturer of the unwrought material, the 

 permanent and steady demand for British artificery and 

 manufactures, the repression of the Foreign employ- 

 ment of slaves, the improvement of the condition of the 

 Asiatic subject, the general increase of civilisation, or the 

 increase of the British marine, separately, or be contem- 

 plated in a connected and combined view of these impor- 

 tant considerations, British India is a subject of deep and 

 impressive interest to the Merchant and Manufacturer, 

 the Philanthropist, the Philosopher and the Statesman. 



