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Show 174. CANADAPAMPHLET.‘ [A2 B. T.] 77% Colonies ufeful to G. Britain. colonies, (not to mention Leeds, Halifax, Sheffield and Birmingham,) and confider what a difference there is in the numbers ofpeople, buildings, ents, and the value of land and of the produce of land ; even if he goes back no farther than is within man's memory. Let him compare t‘hofe countries with ‘others on the fame ifland, where manufactures have not yet extended themfelves;ob1érve the pre- "Nut ‘ mmvvp'w l fent difference, and refleét how much greater our firength may be, (if numbers give firength,) when our manufacturers {hall occupy every part of the illand where they can poflibly be fubfilted. But, fay the objecftors, ‘ there-is a vermin (Ii/l 175 farther from the fea, than the limits of fettlement propofed for America. Germany is full of tradef- men and artifieers of all kinds, and the governments there, are not all of them always favourable to the commerce of Britain; yet it is a well- known fae‘t, that our manufaetures find their way even into the heart of Germany. Ail; the great manufaéturers and merchants of the Leeds, Sheffield, Birmingham, Manchelter, and Norwich goods ; and they will tell you, that fome of them fend theirriders frequently through France orSpain and Italy, up to Vienna, and back through the middle and northern parts of Germany; to {how ‘ z‘tmcgfrw/z 2‘126/2'4, in America, beyond which the famples of their wares and collect orders, which ‘ expence of carriage will put a {top to the {ale and ‘ confumptibn ofyourmanufaétures; and this, with ‘ the difliculty of making returns for them, Will "oblige the inhabitants. to manufaéture for them‘ felves; of courfe, ifyou fuffer your people to ex- ‘ tendtheirfettlements.beyondthat- diftance, your ‘ peeple become ufelefs to you :' Andthis difiance they receive by almoft every mail, to a vaft amount. Whatever charges arife on the carriage of goods, is limited by fome to 200 miles, by others. to the Apalachiah mountains-Not to men on a very plain truth, that no part of a dominion, from. whence a government may on oecafion draw {U131 plies and aids both of men and money, (thought at too greataidif'tance to be fupplied with manna" faE‘tures from, fome other part,) is therefore to be, deemed ufelefs to the whole; lfliall endeavour to flj'owthat thefe imaginary limitsof utility, even i‘r'r‘point of commerce, are much too nari'oxv..r.--. The inland parts of the continent of En'mjfw‘arc ' ' ' ' if farther are added to the value, and all paid by the confumer.--If thefe nations over whom we have no government; over whofe confumption we can have no influence, . but what arifes from the cheapnefs and goodnefs of our wares; whofe trade, manufaétures, or commercial conneétions are not fub- jeét to the controul of our laws, as thofe of our colonies certainly are in fome degree; lfay, if theft: nations purchafe and confume fuch quantities of our goods, notwithftanding the remotenefs‘ of their fituation from the fea; how much 1ch likely is it that the fettlers in America, who mutt for ages be employed in agriculture chiefly, fhould make cheaper for themfelves the goods our manu: faéturers at prefent fupply them with: Even» if we fuppofe the carriage five, fix or {even hundrledl X111 es |
