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with the mother country. On the other hand, the 
Americans, being annually indebted to Great Bri¬ 
tain for manufactures, in a larger sum than their 
returns of tobacco, indigo, rice, and naval stores, 
were sufficient to discharge, made up •'he deficien¬ 
cy, in a great degree, by means of their circuitous 
trade in the West Indies, foreign as well as Bri¬ 
tish ; and were thus enabled to extend their deal¬ 
ings with Great Britain. Thus the effect was just 
as advantageous to her, as if the sugar planter him¬ 
self had been the purchaser to the same amount, 
instead of the American.* 
Such having been the nature, necessity, and ad¬ 
vantage of this commercial intercourse, there was 
certainly every reason to expect that, on the ter¬ 
mination of hostilities, the system which had una¬ 
voidably been interrupted and disarranged during the 
war, would revive as of course, and be re-establish¬ 
ed under every possible encouragement. Accord- 
* Dr. John Campbell in his treatise, intituled. Candid and impar¬ 
tial Considerations on the Sugar Trade , (1763), has considered this 
subject in the same light, and expressed himself as follows: “ As the 
inhabitants of the Sugar Colonies are continual purchasers from such 
as are settled upon the continent of America, the amount of their 
purchases constitutes a balance from them in favour of those of whom 
they purchase. But on the other hand, the inhabitants of the north¬ 
ern colonies drawing large and constant supplies of commodities 
and manufactures from hence, we, for the same reason, have a like 
balance in our favour against them. It is evident, therefore, that by 
their transfering the balance due to them in satisfaction of that 
which is dire from them to us, the whole accumulated profits ultimate¬ 
ly centre with the inhabitants of Great Britain.” 
