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keep their ground against the same commodiiies 

 from other nations, whicli imposed no such diuy/' 



This principle appears to have been reversed 

 by the Outtlu for, at this period, (1822), the 

 duties on all goods impoHt'd into Rhio from Java, 

 or Madura, were remitted, provided the papers 

 of the vessel shewed that she had not touched at 

 any iutermediate port, whilst the tj/mrt duty on 

 gambier, the -staple of that settlemeii t, vva?? exact- 

 ly doubled, being rendered 10 per ccn.t* At the 

 same time, in order to compensate for the imagi- 

 nary kiss sustained by lb e remission of duty on 

 the Javan imports, the tax upon foreicni woollen, 

 linen, and*coiton^ goods was raised to 15 per cent, 

 if imported under the Netherlands flag, and to 

 24 per cent, if under foreign colors. 



This latter import received a further extemion 

 on the 19th March 1824 by a duty of 25 per cent 

 being levied oo thes^e articles, if manufactured in, 

 and imported direct from, any country to the 

 east of the Cape of Good Ilope, and 35 per cent 

 if only imported from the same quarter, witliout 

 reference to the flag under which they were 

 brought to the Dutch colonies. 



In 1822, aUo, the duties upon the export of 

 black pepper were abolished, and a decree pass- 

 ed that, being the growth oflihio, it should be 

 considered an indigenous production, and farmed 

 out annually. This regulation would have had 

 a beneficial eflPect, had it embraced gambler, the 

 principal product, upon whose prosperity tliat of 

 thfe other hung. But, in 1826, when the Dutch 

 saw the impolicy of an export duty on gambier, 

 and consequently rescinded it, such an extrava- 



