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Show (5t) and all retribna‘ole perfons be fatisfied, that they do in, There is however no time to be loft. It may be too late to prepare, as it were, in the day of battle, and at the moment when our difficulties prcfs {trongly upon us. But this is of itfelf a very wide field, and one of the greatel't of conftderations, nor is it my immediate ftabjcét. But the meafures now carrying on will not effefl it or any thingt wards it. No furrounding dan- gers or difficulties area good reafon for running down a precipice ; our fate can but lead us thither at lafr. However no other end cau‘happen to us from the way, which we are now in, if we perfevere and proceed m it. This feems to he a fl'l‘ffiClSDt anfwer to the point before us, However I will not fo turn my back on this queftion, as not freely and frankly to propofe, what, 1 truii, will at leaft be more effectual for our purpofe, as well as more eaiily carried into execution, than what we are now driving at. I mean to do almoft direc'ily the contrary of what we are about, hat is to give a greater liberty and latitude of trade both to Ireland and to America, to America including our Weft India iflands. That is my propofttion. V'Ve are the feat and center of government. rfhis is our firength. This is our advantage, This is what we are to prefervc. While we retain this, ah the money, riches, (ssi places poffeffed abroad by Englifhmen, and numberlefs other caufes,will contribute to, and effect it. The ifland of Jamaica, and our other iflands in the Weft Indies, what money, and commodities equivalent to money, have they fent to England, could the whole be added together? Had they in the time acquired ten times as much, it would all have run the fame road. The climate would have driven the pofl‘eflors from thence, While the feat of empire would have invited them hi- ther. Do not we fee the very proprietaries of our northern colonies, livingr in England as private gentle- men, and have not we fometimes known them voting in minorities of our Lower Houfe oflegiflature, while they might have been aimed as Princes or Rings in their own govern ments? Were it in the next month to rain over the different parts of Ireland a million of money, how long does any one imagine it would be, before at leaft nine hundred thoufand pounds of it would find its way into England? Have we lately Wanted very fufftcicnt proofs, that there remains no abundance of cafh in that kingdom ? I will not repeat, what has been faid of North America ; but they have by their paper~money invented the very contrt: ‘vance of the world, ior fending to us every ounce of their goid and ftlver, did we but know when to be content. Look at the city of London; they neither and treafure of the more dif‘tant and dependant parts of our empire cannot fail to flow in upon us. We have nothing to do with little jealouftcs about this trade or that manufaéiure ; it is the proper bufinefs of the rich plant, 'nor ‘do they fow, nor do they 1‘C21P,.j,Ct boiomon, or hit jerufalem, Were not in all their glory, to fpend their money, and of the poor to earn it ; the The money of our whole empire is remitted thither, flare as the blood runs to the heart. Our great body pol,tic is preferred and nourif‘ned, by the ‘dilpcrfton uncl circulation of it again from thence. T 1123 IS the con {hint and never tailing courf: of things. Bus ‘ may well, without neddling in it, leave Them to fertle the means of that matter with one another. .The end of all trades and manufaétttres muil. refit wrth us, while we continue the feat of dominion. it is the necefiitry confcquence of giving the tone and the law. Ambition, pleafure, fufnion, buftnefs, cu- riohty, education, trade, and commerce, polls and places " ricn and great, like that capital .Of our dominions. cafe is much more fitting, if we take Great iirttam 22* fell, whereof London is only a part. That would re- tain a conliderable {hare of what it t‘eceives,_CIii 1301 the interefi ofonr debt carry it cut, as fad as it comes \ 'I .‘lnr |
