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, in a national point of view, to what extent the advantages, which, during the war, Great Britain derived from London being the depot of many thousand tons of wines, destined for the Indian and other markets; and by the carrying trade of those wines which her shipping then enjoyed, might be restored to the country, by the successful cultivation of the vine in New South Wales. Its first effects would be, that the ships which go out with convicts and emigrants would obtain a freight home; or, instead of going in ballast to seek a return cargo in India, might carry thither a cargo of wines. From this it would result, that government might obtain ships for the transportation of convicts at a cheaper rate, and that emigrants might obtain a cheaper passage with equal profit to the ship owners.

It were superfluous to go about to prove, that an extensive and profitable investment for capital, and employment for labour, would increase the resources of the colony, and consequently its intercourse with Great Britain;—that, in its altered circumstances, it would present a more extended, and increasing, market for her manufactures;—and that the bond of union, between the colony and the