| Among the leading objects contemplated by the | | | | and compact, as, for instance, the immediate |
| British ministry in this war was the control of the | | | | approaches to the English Channel, the |
| East and West Indies, particularly of the latter, as | | | | preponderance of the fleet alone will determine |
| among the most important sources as well as | | | | the control and the safety of the national |
| markets of British trade. In the present day, the | | | | commerce within its limits; but if it be extensive, |
| value of the West India islands, and of all positions | | | | the distance between centres great, and the |
| in the Caribbean Sea, is chiefly military or | | | | centres themselves weak, the same difficulties |
| maritime; due less to the commerce they | | | | arise that are felt in maintaining order in a large |
| maintain than to their relations, as coaling ports or | | | | and sparsely settled territory on land, as has till |
| fortified stations, to the commercial routes | | | | very lately been the case in our western |
| passing through that region. It is scarcely | | | | Territories. In such circumstances the security of |
| necessary to add that whatever importance of | | | | the traveller depends upon the government |
| this character they now possess will be vastly | | | | putting down nests of lawlessness, and |
| increased when an interoceanic canal is completed. | | | | establishing, at fitting stations, organized forces, |
| During the French revolution, however, the islands | | | | that can by their activity insure reasonable safety |
| had a great commercial value, and about one | | | | in all directions. In the War of the French |
| fourth the total amount of British commerce, | | | | Revolution, it soon, though not immediately, |
| both export and import, was done with them. | | | | became evident, that the British navy could |
| This lucrative trade Great Britain had gathered | | | | everywhere preponderate in force over its |
| into her hands, notwithstanding the fact that | | | | enemy; but it could not be omnipresent. The |
| other nations owned the largest and richest of | | | | Caribbean Sea offered conditions peculiarly |
| the islands, as well as those producing the best | | | | favorable to marauders, licensed or unlicensed; |
| sugar and coffee. The commercial aptitudes of | | | | while its commercial value necessitated the |
| the British people, the superior quality of their | | | | preservation, and, as far as possible, the |
| manufactures, their extensive merchant shipping | | | | monopoly, of so fruitful a source of revenue. The |
| and ingenious trade regulations, conspired to make | | | | presence of hostile cruisers not only inflicted direct |
| it the interest of the foreign colonists to trade | | | | loss, which was measured by their actual |
| with them, even when by so doing the laws of | | | | captures, but, beyond these, caused a great |
| their own governments were defied; and to a | | | | indirect injury by the friction and delays which the |
| great extent the British free ports engrossed the | | | | sense of insecurity always introduces into |
| West Indian trade, as well as that to the adjacent | | | | commercial transactions.The article was produced |
| South and Central American coasts, known as the | | | | by the writer of |
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| one to a state of complete inferiority, that control | | | | dissertation. |
| can be asserted.If the region contested be small | | | | |