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such
a
new
course indicates
entire,
feature in British
British policy
which has hitherto regulated it's prohibitions by a regard to its
own
presumed
in
territory and a regard
to those of its neighbours.
The Committee need hardly
point out that
all business is at present
stand in
articles affected by the Irritation,
and especially
in the important
article of Saltpetre. Some of the articles will suffer incontestable deterioration in quality by being kept on hand through a protracted period of suspense;
others (Saltpetre included)
will be subject to a heavy loss
in
weight by gradual wastage. The case is therefore
one which
calls for a prompt remedy. The injury inflicted upon
the Colony
is most serious not only in immediate loss to individuals but also by marring its character
as
a free port to which it owes all its prosperity and which it now appears may
at any
moment
be invalidated by a Government
decree
It is by
no
means
an
improbable consequence of this innovation that much business in these articles
as well as
those