68 TIMEHRI. 
for the plant rises almost spontaneously in every negro 
garden, The tobacco of Varinas, a prevince on the River 
Orinoco, and that of Cuba (both growing in widely distant 
latitudes, throughout which from North to South our colo- 
nies lie) have long been considered superior in their re- 
spective qualities to those of the United States. At the 
Indian Mission of Siparia in Trinidad, the Aborigines 
have immemorially been in the habit of growing and 
manufaéturing for their own usea quality fit for segars, of 
so high a flavour, that those who profess to be judges assert 
that they require only to be known to be held in equai 
estimation with those of the Havana. By every rule of 
analogy, therefore, we have a right to conclude that our 
West India Colonies are capable of producing every 
variety of tobacco of the most approved quality. 
Upon a review, therefore, of the whole subjeét, I beg 
respe€tfully to express to his Lordship my opinion, that 
the removal of every description of duty, or public 
charge, upon the exportation of cotton or tobacco from 
our colonies, would enable the British planter to grow 
these articles on equal terms with the people of the 
Southern States of the American Union . and that their 
cultivation may be carried on advantageously by the aid 
of emigrants from thence, which, at the expiration of 
some period of time, may become a valuable branch of 
colonial trade; but that no riper growth and extension 
of these produ€tions, or successful competition with 
foreigners in the European supply, can be expeéted, 
unless a temporary bounty in their favour is granted by 
Government, sufficient in amount to induce capitalists to 
take such an interest in their cultivation as may render 
it immediately both profitable and popular. 
