Amount brought forward £. 2,050,000
Woollens, linens, India and Scotch muslins, iron
ware, and other articles, the growth and manufacture
of Great Britain and her.colonies, exported
to Portugal - - - 1,550,000
Balance against England £. 500,000
And if we suppose that of the 84,000 pipes of wine exported
from Portugal and Madeira 60,000 only pay duties
and excise in Great Britain, which is making an ample allowance
for the colonies, the sum raised as revenue at 501.
per pipe, which is less than it actually is, will amount to
3,000,0001. sterling.
Admitting then that Portugal may eventually share the
same fate as Spain, this source of commerce will necessarily
be dried u p ; and it may be asked, in what new channels will
it then flow ? Would the whole Brazils, if even in our possession,
take in manufactures and produce an equivalent for
what we should lose by the loss of our trade with Portugal,
and afford us return cargoes of equal value, and which would
contribute an equal sum to the revenue of the state ? In
their present condition, I have no hesitation in saying, they
certainly would not; but, at the same time, I have little
doubt that by removing the obstacles that have impeded cultivation,
abolishing monopolies, reducing the impolitic duties
on exports, and opening a communication by good roads
between the principal ports and the interior settlements, they
would not only in a few years consume more than Portugal
T H E B R A Z I L S . *3*
now takes from us
s u p p l i e s sent out to them in | | g g j | g | g j ¡ g l I g g
encouragement might be produced
modities, wh I P \ ^ . revenue be any great sufferer,
to any extent. U more than made up by the
The defied m d u r of Prance, would still
wines of Poituga E d a d the m0re readily since no
find then way mto England g j g | ^
nfher nation would taKe ineui
Commerce^ channels^thMifferent degrees of
direct course, but it r £ ^ reservoir which is
a passage, an ,nation which .commands the rsssssw *—
' Spa” amplef , alne2se,“ i3 S ’ ' t debahrred fraom thne mean st hoet
„.her, ot a« their goid
procuring the: « be t r u e , what I have heard asserted, that
a n d silver. I t may W A . roll th e “ streets of
eight hundred Loudon built g E | j i g , hid>
Mexico, but i t i a also true « ^ are poscd to
I said to go naked f o r » an , of
contain, m a, * ^ JC jo g | g „1 the value
clothing- O u r South > intended to double