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Show 172 CANADA PAMPHLET. ceed, as long as there remains any ,pleafimt fertile countrv within their reach. And if we even {up- pofe them confined by the waters of the Milliflippi wel‘nvard, and by thofe of St. Laurence and the lakes to the northward; yet fiill we {hall leave them room enough to increafe even in the manner of fettling now praétifed there, till they amount to perhaps a hundred millions of fouls. This muf't take fome centuries to fulfil : And in the memz time, this nation mull: neceflarily fupply them with the manufactures they confume; beWmlltnKA 4‘ m lewmfl li W, ' 1' N , ‘4 it ‘l . caufe the new fettlers will be employed in agri- culture; and the new fettlements will to conti- nually draw of the {pare hands from the old, that our prefent colonies will not, during the period we have mentioned, find themfelves in a. condition to manufacture even for their own inhabitants, to any confiderable degree; much lefs for thofe Who are fettling behind them. - Thus our trade mutt, till that country becomes as fully peopled asEngland, (that is for centuries to come,) be continually increafing, and with it our naval power; becaufe the ocean is between us and them, and our {hips and feamen mull: in- creafe as that trade increafes.---The human body and the political differ in this; that the firfl; is limited by nature to a certain fiature, which, when attained, it cannot, ordinarily, exceed; the other, by better government and more prudent police, as well as by change of manners and other circumf'rances, often takes frefh {tarts of growth, after being long at a Rand; and may add tenfold q .- to [Az B.T.] T/Je Calm/er ufeful to G. Britain. 17g to the dimenfions it had for ages been confined to. The mother being of full Pasture, is in a few years equalled by a growing daughter: but in the cafe of a mother country and her colonies, it is quite different. The growth of the children tends to increafe the growth of the mother, and fo the difference and fuperiority is longer preferved. .- Were the inhabitants of this ifland limited to their prefent number by any thing in nature, or by unchangeable ci'rcumftances, the equality of popu-~ lation/ between the two countries might indeed fooner come to pafs : but fure experience in thofe parts of the ifland where manufactures have been introduced, teaches us; that people increafe and multiply in proportion as the means and facility of gaining a lit/elihood increafe; and that this ifland, if they could be employed, is capable offiipport~ ing ten times its prefent number of people-In proportion therefore, as the» demand increafes for the manufaé‘ture's of Britain,by the increafe‘ofpeo‘ ple in her colonies, the number of her people at home Willin'creafe; and with them, the [trength as Well as the wealth of the nation. For fittisfaétion in this point let the reader compare in his mind the number and force of our prefent fleets, with our fleet in Qleen-Elizabeth's time 9*, before we had colonies. Let him compare the ancient,with the prefent fiate of our towns and ports on or near our weflern coal}, (Manchef'ter, Liverpool, Kendal, Lancafter, ~Glafg0w, and the countries round them,) that'trade with and manufacture for our ii 'f‘iViz, to fail, "none ofincre than to guns. . colonies, |