text: " Let us take the number of troops so employed at 2600 which will not be far from the mark the corresponding home reserve of which will be 1300 more and we then arrive with the help of Mr Cobden's arithmetic and starting from his own fixed datum of total charge at a sum in round numbers of L265 000 army expenditure for the three penal colonies; the more considerable proportion of which must at least be set down as arising indirectly from foreign trade and certainly far the least from colonial so far as chargeable upon either