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Secondly, That the practice of allowing draw¬ 
backs on their re-export, is dangerous and destructive. 
Thirdly, That the monopoly of supply vested in 
the planters is partial, oppressive, and unjust. 
I shall consider these several positions in the or¬ 
der in which I have placed them. The investiga¬ 
tion of them is necessary to the completion of my 
work, and, with a few general observations, will con¬ 
clude my labours. 
If daily experience did not evince that argument 
has very little effect on the avarice of government, 
and the selfish prejudices of individuals, it might be 
a matter of wonder that the first of these positions 
(in the full extent to which it is carried) should ever 
be seriously repeated, after the clear and unanswer¬ 
able refutation which has been given to it, both in 
parliament and from the press, a thousand times; 
and what is more, by sad experience in a thousand 
instances ! So long, however, as it continues to be 
the language of prejudiced or interested men, it is 
of duties before specified and imposed, excepting rum, which shall be 
imported in ships or vessels not of the United States. 
(t^* Brown or muscovado sugar, not of the British plantations, is 
subject, on its importation into Great Britain, to a duty ofjj.i js. zd. 
and white or clayed sugar of foreign growth to 5 s. 6 d. he cwt; 
East Indian sugar being ranked among the company’s imports as ma¬ 
nufactured goods, pays £.37 1 6s. 3 d. per cent, ad valorem. It is all 
white or clayed sugar. 
