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ship. I can foresee that on the eastern 
and western coasts settlers from England 
will be established, and the natives treated 
with more humanity and policy than what 
they have hitherto experienced. If by any 
chance the West-India islands should be 
lost to them, or any natural convulsion 
of the seasons render them for a certain 
time unproductive, the British settlements 
in Africa might amply supply the de- 
ficiency, and their markets of rum and su- 
gar be universally supported. Corn, fruits of 
all kinds, skins of various denominations, 
ivory, tortoise-shell, ostrich feathers, and 
many other articles, that would give their 
trade a wonderful augmentation, might be 
all had from these parts. 
The advantages arising from the pos- 
session of the Cape, and those which might 
be derived from colonizing the southern 
part of the African continent, are fully 
understood at this time by the English 
and French governments*'. This was clearly 
* Captain Stout's address io Mr. Adams was sent to 
the president, shortly after the negotiation for a peace, 
carrying on at Paris, by Lord Malmsbury and De la 
Croix, were terminated. 
