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Show 72 3 ("'73 3 provide themi'elves with the greet-fr Putt Oilllttl?‘ Supply at our jay} India SLLlCSJ Upon all the: both for Apparel and Furniture, are free from the Duty on Callicoes. they buy there, they pay a (ft‘ittirnililon ncl 3. Freight, from which the Brirgfi Merchant is" free, and which perhaps msy be an lfifiUlVleCll‘E for the Duty: If it is not, the Rtmedy is obvious, it is but {pi-ending the lime Impofition or a Part or. it over all Exportarion of run; Goods, and then the Situations of the Dun/z and Brilifly Merchants, with Relpecl to etch other, will again be, jull what they lmve been hitherto. Mullins and White Callicoes, which are nor prohibited, are rated by the Act of the hit Sellions, but in a dillferent Manner, higher than otherLinens; for inl'tead of retaining the additional half Sublidy, a Draw-back of Four" Pounds Fifteen Shillings upon every Hundred Pounds of their gi‘olé Price at the Sale. is retain'cl, upon all that are exported to zfmeriam This is leis by almolt three Fourths than the DUE}r paid by the Conhimeis oi' the. lame Commodities in Britain; yet under that Weight the Manufitélure of printing Calliems has fiourilhed, and we may therefore realbnably expet‘t thzit it will not be oppiefl‘ed by a Bnrtlien compare-r lively fo light 1:170" printel (.‘zillicoes conluniiid in the Color... ,3; eipcciiilly when we conhiler that '1he additional J; .1 actui‘e is not Value they acquire by the Manittaxed, thuli.‘ printed in Eng/am" being COlllll'lltil to be but \‘(hite Callicoes with in the Delcriptitm oi' the Rafts of Parliament that relate to their): and other Linens which have gone thio' the lame .l‘y'lnniiliifitire, and tirhi'h :. i: ' become of {nth general [H733 both The Dilliniftion made in this A8: of Parliament between the French Lawns and Cambriclts, the Err/15 Ixzi'z'izz Callieoes and Mullins which are all high-priced, and other Kinds of. Linen which are in general of a lover Value, will I hopejnllify me in laying, that if a Line could be drawn between the finer 11rd the coarlér LL- nens, which now pals indilitriminiitely under the Denomination of Narrow Genuine, it would probably lie-adopted: if itwere? the Duty up on all Kinds of Linens woul l then. be througlr out compleatly agreeable to the equitable Maxim of laying Taxes in differ .; tions, on the Coniumption oi" l'rooorm ' on that of the Poor: that whilr cies and Refinements of the eh" ; t::1" L‘ntif" the other may with more Chenrnflnx COLlElii)UC"-i out of their l'ittance the Mite tbs}; are, to the Service of the State they" belong; in The lnv habitants of the Hi)? 4., ' "7 "viii; C'QUiI-‘Ilfl‘a whole Luxury, and lmrgzl4 ? is." «pi;- Situa- tion lends them into more ‘txtiuimgance in limb Articles, than prevails 211:: g the inhibitors ot‘ the Continent, will herelore be more leilibly alli‘ctecl by tigefe Duties, in \i'iiiqli the Value is to a certain Degree made the hi«.:2f"_ii‘c oi" tl‘n: Duties -, b ‘t it is right that thrtnighout all the Brfig/Iz Dominiom, the Necelihrics of Lite ilwuld be left bizrthened than the I:‘Lip<;rlli.;;i>C-, and that( all his Frittiel‘ty's Subité‘ts, wncrelcever dilberled, fhould contribute to the PulullCl-L lirr venueJ ' |