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portion of this; trust to the free enterprise and labour of Englishmen; and at no distant day, the country will surmount her present difficulties; the clouds that now obscure the horizon will be dispelled, and the sunshine of prosperity again cheer the shores of Britain.
NOTE.
In recommending a reduction of the expense at present incurred for the suppression of the slave trade, I am anxious to guard against being misunderstood. No expense would be too great if that infamous trade were really suppressed by it; but at present an expense of near 400,000l. per annum is incurred, and without any advantage. "The slave trade," says the last Report of the African Institution, "has increased during the last year; and, notwithstanding the number of prizes taken, it continues to rage with unabated fury." Let us either take efficient measures to stop it, or no longer incur a useless expense.
FINIS.
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