text:  As there is much misapprehension and many exaggerations afloat respecting the special participation of Great Britain in the contraband trade of Spain its extraordinary amount and the interest assumed therefrom which would result exclusively from and therefore induces the urgency for an equitable reform of the tariff of Spain we shall briefly take occasion to show the real extent of the British share in that illicit trade so far as under the principal heads charged; and having exhibited that part of the case in its true or approximately true light we shall also prove that it is as it should be the primary interest of this country to regain its due proportion in the regular trade with Spain and which can only be regained by legitimate intercourse founded on a reciprocal and therefore identical combination of interests