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Government has no idea of the ability which is 

 now directing French intrigues in one of the richest 

 countries upon the face of the earth, and which 

 can yield within its own limits every valuable pro- 

 duct of the temperate and torrid zone ; in that coun- 

 try, to the northern limits of which the gold 

 searching expeditions of Mahomed Allee, successful 

 beyond all European knowledge, have and are 

 continuing daily to add to his treasury, whilst to 

 the south, the spices and rich wares of the market 

 of Zanzibar are now competing with the similar 

 productions of our East Indian possessions. Our 

 Government will see, too late, the Phoenician 

 empire again established in the north of Africa, 

 supplied by its own inland provinces, with all those 

 luxuries, for which, at present, Europe is dependent 

 upon our possessions in Asia. At the same time, 

 the Americans are successfully nursing on the 

 Eastern coast a rival market, where their vessels 

 can be supplied almost upon their own terms, with 

 those products which, until the last twenty years, 

 were only to be obtained in English or Dutch 

 settlements in the East Indies. The policy of the 

 talented Zaid Zaid, Imaum of Muscat and of 

 Zanzibar, towards us is apparently the most 

 friendly; but it is notorious, that in every 

 indirect manner he can, he favours more highly 

 the interests of the United States. 



Walderheros returning from market, brought a 

 large bag of cotton, around which the girls all 



