fully cultivated. The vicinity of the latter to popu- 

 lous nations, ready to fell their labour at a moderate 

 price, must give to tbem a decided advantage over, at 

 least, slave-employing states in all that relates to mere 

 manual labour. It is well known that attempts bare 

 been made to cultivate the nutmeg and clove in the Pe- 

 ninsula oflnrfia, LVy/ow, \Ue Mmritiut, Bourhonmd 

 the West Indua; hut had success been coumu nsurate 

 w uh expectation, the world would, long ere this, have 

 been aware of it by it* effect inredudog pri< cs far below 

 the scale to which ihey havec\ cr deset- tided. That they 

 should have ever fallen to the average of late \ears may 

 be ascrnVd loatu mptsof planters at tin- Mob.cas to 

 glut the market in order todiMporage competition. 



The Straits planter h:is now passed throng tin: or- 

 deal of experiment, and can build hopes on knovui 

 premise* ; but i.i those parts of the world where the 

 trial n mains to he made, the speculator v, ill pause to 

 calculate the odds of an eight years' stake of time and 

 capital. 



A tew year.- previous to the introduction of the clove-, 

 and uutrneo cm Penan^, some plants bad been obtained 

 by the old French government; a part of whit b mi.iv 

 planted at Bourbon, and the rest were r >nv> >ed to 

 Cayenne which lust [dace is Tree from hurricanes. Tin 

 clove tree lias,* since that period, h< en cultivated at 

 Bourbon, but the produce has ever l>eeu held as second 

 rale to that of Amboyna and I'cuang. The clove 

 succeeded at Cayenne, but the nutmeg- trees failed. 

 The Abbe Ka> nal alluded prohublv to these first u h- n 

 he doci ihed clove trees there which \ khkd from for- 

 \y to fifty pounds of fruit each. 



M. W* t rbatiBnce. a French planter, in his me- 

 moir sent to the British Colonial office in I7*H> states 

 iliat he had then planted out fifteen hundred c 

 plants on his estate ar l>uniiiiicu, which be had raised 



