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fupply their own colonies and the Weft India iflands, to the 
prejudice of the lales of the Britifh Eaft India Company. 
It will refult, from thefe confiderations, that the Eaft India 
Company, upon the fame plan, could fupply their emporium at 
the Cape witii the produce and manufadures of Great Britain to 
any amount, and at fo cheap a rate as to underfell any other na- 
tion. That the Americans, finding no- longer a market at the 
Cape for their lumber cargoes, would confine their export trade 
to articles of peltry and ginfeng, which they might be induced 
to bring to the emporium in exchange for teas, nankeen cloth, 
and muflins, at a moderate advance price, fuch as would not 
make it worth their while to proceed to India and China. That 
other foreign nations, trading to this emporium, might be ac- 
commodated there with Britifh goods and manufactures, nearly 
on the fame terms as in London, to make up an aflbrted cargo.- 
That a very extenfive trade might be opened with the coaft of 
Brazil and the ports of South America, both in Indian commo- 
dities and articles of the growth and manufadure of Great Bri- 
tain ; thofe ports, on that continent, belonging to Portugal 
being now fupplied through Lifbon at an enormous high rate 
and thofe of Spain, frequently without any fupply at all, but 
what they receive from Englifti whalers and others in a clandef- 
tine manner. 
The amount of European and Indian goods (the latter chiefly 
prize articles) exported from the Cape in the laft four years, ge- 
nerally in Portugueze ihips by Englifh adventurers, or in Englifh 
whalers, for the coaft of Brazil, the Weft India iflands, and Mo- 
zambique^ 
