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SERIES or ANSWERS TO OBJECTIONS. 47 ing, Ste. 8m. from our own Iflands, from the fl/Ivfguila Shore, or the Spam/A Main, into Great- IX. ILL not a Separation from the Northern Colonies greatly decreale the Number Britain or Ire/and:--Nor will they be permitted 'to carry any of our Manufactures, Salt-Fill], or Provilions, any of our Malt Liquors, Cyder, or any Wines, from Great-Britain or Ireland to the Sugar Colonies, or to any of our Settlements in any Part of the World. of our Seamen ? Judge therefore from to the Ports of Great-Britain and Ireland. But what Proofs are there to be brought of this? this Enumeration of Facts certain and indifputable, on which Side would the naval Balance ‘ preponderate in Cafe ofa Separation. But this is not all; for we have at leafi 150,000 Lamps burning every Winter in Great-Britain and-Ireland, more than we had 60 or 70 Years ago-,and their Number is every Year encreaf- ing. N ow the North-American: ufed to fupply 1 And without fame Proof, why mull the Objec- ins with at leaft one Third, if not one Half of ANSWER 1. BY the Term our Seamen mull- be meant Britiflz Seamen, in Contradil'tinétion ‘" to North-Americans. And then the Objection fuppofes, that a Separation will necelTarily de- creafe the Shipping and Navigation belonging tion be admitted? the Oil [extracted from Fillies] L1de and con- ‘ fumed in thefe Lamps :--All which, together ANSWER 2. THE obvious Reafoning on the Cafe fuggef'ts juf't the contrary. For after a Separation has taken Place, the Act of Navi- gation will operate as effectually againl't the North-flmericam, as againl‘t the French, Hob Ianders, or any other Nation. Confequently they (the Americans) will no longer be per-mitted to be the Carriers of Sugars, Rum, Corton, Coffee, Pimento, Mahogany, Log-' wood, and all other Woods and Articles for dymg, with feveral Articles depending on them, will for the future be fupplied by Britt/11 and 171]]; Sailors. Therefore what a Nurfery is here! How growing and extenfivel And yet how little attended to, 'till the Nort/z-flmerz'ram obliged us, as it were, whether we would or not, to fee our own Intereft! ANSWER 3. OUR former Predileétion for our \Colonies not only canted us to neglefz‘ feveral D 4. Branches ex OBJECTION POPULAR |
