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for home consumption, in 1825, was 
10,766,112 lbs,, and in 1831 it had in¬ 
creased to 22,740,627 lbs, yielding a nett 
revenue of 583,751£. 
The rapid increase in the consumption 
from 1825 to 1832 must not, however, be 
wholly ascribed to the reduction of the 
duty. This, no doubt, had the greatest 
influence ; hut a good deal is also owing 
to the low price of coffee from 1824 to 1830; 
and also to the great reduction during the 
same period in the price of low brown sugar 
(fully 1 |d. per pound), a cheap and abundant 
supply of which is so indispensable to the ex¬ 
tensive use of coffee. 
These statements, which are principally 
deduced from the accompanying account, 
Tvo. II. includes the United Kingdom, 
and is brought clown to 1844. The most 
remarkable features in this account are 
the reduction of the duty on coffee from 
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the East Indies and Ceylon to the same 
level as that on coffee from the West 
Indies, and the farther reduction of the 
duty on coffee from British possessions in 
1842 to 4|d. per lb. The equalisation of 
the duty on East and West India coffee 
had become indispensable after the rapid 
decline in the supplies from the West Indies 
consequent to the emancipation of the slaves; 
for, as foreign coffee is burdened with a high 
discriminating duty, the price of British cof¬ 
fee must otherwise have risen to such a 
height as materially to interfere with the 
