text:  Instead of supplying her own wants with Tropical produce and next nearly all Europe as she formerly did it is the fact that in some of the most important articles she has barely sufficient to supply her own wants; while the whole of her colonial possessions east west north and south are at this moment supplied with--and as regards the article of sugar are consuming--foreign slave produce brought direct or refined in bond exported and sold in the colonies at a rate as cheap if not really cheaper than British muscovado the produce of these colonies