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Americans have so successfully carried on, but might open^ 
a new source for colonial produce, especially for its wines, 
which, with a little more attention and management in the 
manufacture, might be made to supersede those of Madeira^, 
that are now consumed there to a very considerable amount, 
notwithstanding their enormous prices, which limit their 
consQmption to the higher ranks of the islanders. Good 
Cape Madeira might be delivered, at any of the West 
India islands, at less than one-fourth of the expence of r^al 
Madeira. 
A new branch of trade might also be opened between the 
Cape and New South Wales, the latter supplying the former 
with coals, of which they have lately discovered abundant 
mines, in exchange for wine, cattle, butter, and articles of 
clothing. 
If, however, the East India Company, after making the 
experiment, should find it injurious to its interests to con- 
tinue the Cape as an emporium for Indian produce ; it will 
always be in its power to reduce it to the same state in which 
it remained whilst in the hands of the Dutch ; to clog it as 
much as possible with duties and difficulties, sufficient to 
deter all ships, except their own, from trading to it ; and, 
in short, to allow them no other commerce than the purchase 
of provisions in exchange for bills or hard mone3^ It will 
always be at their discretion to admit or to send away all 
foreign adventurers. By the existing laws of the colony, no 
person can reside there, but by special licence ; and the 
Governor is authorised to send away whomsoever he may be 
