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Total, 10,705,757

COFFEE--1842.

lbs. lbs.
West Indies, 9,186,555 Java, 134,842,715
East Indies, 18,206,448 Brazils, 135,000,800
---------- Cuba, 33,589,325
Total, 27,393,003 Venezuela, 34,000,000
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Total, 337,432,840

COTTON--1840.

lbs. lbs.
West Indies, 427,529 United States, 790,479,275
East Indies, 77,015,917 Java, 165,504,800
To China from do., 60,000,000 Brazils, 25,222,828
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Total, 137,443,446 Total, 981,206,903

The above figures require only to be glanced at, to learn the increased
wealth and productions of foreign nations, in comparison with the
portion which England has in the trade and value of such articles, now
become absolutely necessary for the manufactures, the luxuries, and the
necessaries of life amongst the civilized nations of the world.

In the enormous property and traffic thus created in foreign
possessions, by the continuance and extension of the slave trade,
British merchants and manufacturers are interested in the cause of their
lawful trade to a great extent. The remainder is divided amongst the
great civilized nations of the world, maintaining in each very
extensive, very wealthy, very powerful, and, as opposed to Great
Britain, very formidable commercial and political rival interests.

Further, it is the very extensive and profitable markets which the
above-mentioned yearly creation of property gives to the manufacturers
of foreign countries, that have raised foreign manufactures to their
present importance, and which enables these, in numerous instances, to
oppose and to rival our own.

The odds, therefore, in agricultural and commercial capital and
interest, and consequently in political power and influence, arrayed
against the British Tropical possessions are very fearful--SIX TO ONE.

This is a most serious but correct state of things. Alarming as it is to
contemplate, still it must be looked at, and looked at with firmness;
for even ye