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Show (89) l ‘58 l had wandered thither to enjoy their civil and rethe Duties are very low, the Articles on Wilicll ligious Liberties, which they were deprived of'at they are laid are numerous, and comprehend all home. The Dil'traftions of this Countryhad indeed increaleo' their Numbers, but they were that hat" been the Subjefts of a contrnhgrml Trade, with [hole Puts of Europe which the Colonies are not allowed to trade to. The brinm ing thefe to a regular Entry and Account, will be the Means of detecting.)r and of preventing? the illicit Proceedings that have hitherto A; pie: vailed -, and not only l‘upport and encourage thBritt/72 Manufae‘tures, but maintain and im~ prove the Commerce and Navigation, both of itill l‘cparate, weak, neceflitous, and truly in" Great Britain and her Colonies, tho' the Mr- gration and the lixpence occaiioned by l‘up- porting th; in ; for Colonies are only Settlements made in dittant Parts of the World, for the Irrproven‘ient of Trade; but if they were allowed chandize fhould be the Produce of neither, In other Countries Cultoz'n-l'ioufi: Duties are for the mol‘t Part, little more than a Branch ofthe‘ Revenue: In the Coloriies they are a political Regulation, and enforce the Obiervanceofthoie wile Laws to which the great lncreale of our Trade aid naval Power are p'incipallv owing; The Aim of their: Laws is to Confine theifim‘apaiiis Commerce of the Colonies to the Mother Coun~ try: to provide that their molt valuable Cornn'iodities lhall be exported either to Great [firimmor {ant Colonies, hurled by perpetual Supplies from the I'vi‘orher Country, expoled to every leiazard, firilained with Difficulty, and only be~ ginning to give hopes that they might hereafter be what they now are. Upon this Profpeét the Aft of Navigation form'd their Dependance into Connection, and gave a Sanction to the Einiv to transfer the Benefits of their Commerce to any other Country than that from which they. came, they would deliroy the very l'tirpoies 0t tl eir hittzblii'liment: and it is but an equitable Return for the Accommodation which has been rovided lor them, and the lflmoluments they have received, that they, the Subjects liill of the fame Country, i'hould continue to 3an as they Inuit have afted, had they continued its Inhabi- to I‘S'I'z'zzfl‘Plantations; and to fecure the Navi- gation we ,;z Exports and imports to rants; and that their Produce and their Con- Bing/h 5].}; anti firiigflh Subjefis only. i t is the furnption lhould be for the Benefit of that I‘olicy Noon to prohibit al foreign 'lrade ., :‘tntations: it has been the Policy or this aimoli as; far back as we have had girléthlgnge; gluils'fiudmg, the tirlt and . i e. , ' 1.. C ion being nearly to-r-cva with their l‘ixrll‘ence as a People; beiore thi‘z' Time the lively/z or the U'irjf-an'z'es were but Country, in Preference to any other. No Nation would tolerate Colonies upon any Other Adventurers, and - the Inhabitants ot‘ Nari/.3 i7,v;,,i,:\., ‘H, A H < ~ mama, \mc but u,., tew unphappy 7‘ r ugitn‘es, who had Conditions: it would be hoiliicring theml‘elves to be exhauficd, impoverifhedaand weakened, in lupport of al'eople, who might divert their Corn merce to the Advantage of another, perhaps at" a Rival, «and the Mother Country would be ruined |
