text:  Twenty-six millions of Germans have been arrayed under a commercial league which by levying duties practically varying from thirty to fifty though nominally only ten _per cent_ effectually excludes British manufactures; and after twenty years' experience our exports are only a few hundred thousands a year and our exports of cotton manufactures _only a few hundreds a year_ to the whole States of Northern Europe in favour of whom the navigation laws were swept away and an irreparable wound inflicted on British maritime interests and in whose wants Mr Huskisson anticipated a vast market for our manufacturing industry and an ample compensation for the diminution of our shipping interest