The Encyclopaedia Britannica, or Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature Volume 10, No. 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 Excerpt: ...French people are taxed for the colonial mo-near the mouth of the Senegal. In the East they have nopoly. The colonies again purchase the articles which the isle of Bourbon, and PondicHbrry, Chandernagore, and they require for their consumption at a higher price than some smaller factories on the mainland of India; and their they could be procured from Great Britain; and they vessels are, like the Americans, admitted to trade with complain that on this account they pay L.625,000 per an-Calcutta, Madras, and other British settlements, on pay-num. Thus both parties suffer. The restrictive system is a ment of moderate dues; but they possess no power of an-source of mutual mischief to the colonies and the mother noying, or even of resisting Britain, in the event of hosti-country; and indirectly also it produces injurious conse-lities. The retention of the Mauritius, at the peace of quences to the general trade of the country. The merchants 1814, deprived them of the great receptacle for their pri-of Paris, Bordeaux, and Marseilles, who are interested in vateers in the East; and in a very different part of the the trade, concur in stating that the impossibility of im-world, the continent of North America, they retain nothing porting bulky articles, such as sugar, from foreign coun-since the cession of Louisiana in 1803. In the seas of tries, interrupts the commerce with India and the Levant. Europe, Corsica is almost the only insular possession of Indigo, silk, spices, &c. the produce of India, are not in-the French. They have no great maritime fortresses, like deed excluded from France; but a vessel cannot be load-Gibraltar or Malta, and no dependencies of the nature of ed with these costly articles, for which there is no suffi-the Ionian islands. cient dema...