text:  Now without pretending on the present occasion to make up and offer an approximate estimate of the proportion of army expenditure charged against the colonies by Mr Cobden which should be set down either to political account as arising from the possession and maintenance of outposts necessary for defensive or defensively aggressive purposes in case of or for the prevention of foreign war or for the protection and encouragement of foreign trade in which a right large portion of the military expenditure for Jamaica Nova Scotia the Bahamas Bermuda &c