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Show (56/) '(57) faftory of Linen, the Encouragement given to the Importation of it will COntribute to ano- ther great End, which I {hall preferrtly have oecafion to explain more fully, when the Dot Luxuries of the Rich, but which all the R64 fearches of Invention, and all the Refources of Finance, could not find Means to keep 08'" from upon Linen, with which it is connected, will, together with the Other Duties which it has been thought expedient to in'ipofe, be particu‘ of them are not meet Expedients for a prelent larly confidered. The Circumilanccs of the Times, the Necei: lities of this Country, and the Abilities or the- the COntumption of the Poor; and great Part lixigency, but are entailed upon our Pollerity perhaps to dittant Generations. The whole of this Vail; Revenue is railed in (9755;51'5'ril‘n5a, and is paid by the Inhabitants; of Gift/[KBrz'mZm excepting luch Duties :13 are levied or retained up- Colonies, concur in requiring an A'mcrirmz Revenue; GrmtBritairz lireined to the utmolt of on Exportation to foreign Countries, or to the Colonies, and which atter all Dam-bet‘lts and her Strength, links under the lixertion, and Bounties are allowed, make but; a lrnall Propor- will hardly recover by Roll alone, without the Aid of Remedy: her funded Debt increafed by 65,061,960}. 7:. rod. for the Expences oi" the tion of the whole; and even thci‘e, tho' pro- duced on the Coniumption of others, are Hill a Tait War, amounts now, the 1,000,000]. Civil Lift Debt being included, to the enormous Sum the Colonies in Nari/z zlzizerz'w, near two Million of Err/ilk Subjects, an opulent, commer- cial, thriving people, and who have been en~ of 130,586,9681. n5, 0%. upon which 4,716,681]. 45. I ii. Interefi is annually paid : her unfunded Debt at the End of the War was no leis than 9,061,416,]. I 15. 9d. of which 2,464.,51‘7L 135. rod. is this Year paid off, and 3,483,553]. 15. tod. 15 for the prclent charged upon the Sinking Fund -, but the whole mutt be paid, before that Fund can be applied to the Di‘minution of the funded Debt: her Pence Eilablilhmcnt is at the fame Time increafed by the Neceflity of keeping an Army in America, of augmenting herb‘leet,and ofproviding for the manyhlxpences of her additional Dominions. 1 he whole Annual Revenue that is necefiitry to anfwer all theft: Burthen upon the Trade ofGrmt Britain; while abled by the Patronage of their Mother Coun- try to extend their Trade and their Cultivation over that fertile Continent, fupported by her "health, protected by her Power, and bleiied with her Laws, contribute to the national Expence by Taxes retired there, no more than {even or eight Hundred Pounds per Am. and the Colonies in the IVtfl-Indies, where, tho' their Num- bers are let's, their Riches are greater, have remitted no more than eleven or twelve Hundred Pounds per flmz. to England: The whole Re~ mittance from all the Colonies at an Average of thirty Years has not amounted to [900! a year, Demands, amounts to near 3,000,000]. and is and to make it fiill more ridiculous, the tilla- railed by many, and tome of them burthenlome ‘blifhment of Officers necefiary to collect this 19001. amounts to 7600!. par flamm. Iher: 'l‘axes, which are impolbd, not only upon the Luxu Les |