Excerpt from Relief for West-Indian Distress, Shewing the Inefficiency of Protecting Duties on East-India Sugar, and Pointing Out Other Modes of Certain ReliefWith respect to the first, and by very far the most important, the two 1nterests are in no degree Opposed to each other, on the contrary, the East Indians participate in the advantage, in so far as it tends to' increase the price of fine sugar, but against them both is directly Opposed the interest of the country at large. This tax on the country has no support whatever on the ground of right, nor canit be defended as according with sound policy or common' sense.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.