Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843Various
General
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843
Various
England -- Periodicals; Scotland -- Periodicals
maintenance of foreign trade, just in or about the same degree as the
charges for Gibraltar.
Gibraltar, army estimate, £.410,000
Malta, Ionian Islands, 640,000
New South Wales, Van Dieman's Land, Norfolk Island, 265,000
St Helena, 70,000
Singapore, Penang, &c., 80,000
Honduras, 50,000
Sierra Leone, Cape Coast, &c., 35,000
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£1,550,000
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Deducting this amount from Mr Cobden's colonial
estimates of 4,500,000
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£2,950,000
This discount of about 35 per cent at one "fell swoop" from an audaciously
mendacious account-current, would be deemed sufficiently liberal if
dealing with other than the "measureless liars" of the League; it is far,
however, from the whole sum which will be charged upon, and proved against
them, on occasion hereafter when the general question shall be progressed
with. The rogues that fleeced the simple stripling, Lord Huntingtower, out
of 95 per cent for his bills, were not, as shall be proved, more
unscrupulous cheats and abusers of individual, than the League are of
public faith.
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