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Show 182 [A: B. T.] Tbe Colam'e: ufeful to G. Britain. I 83 fuperior to that between England and all the Weft CANADA PAMPHLET. lofs of the manufactures ofToledo, Segovia,.Sala- manca, Medina del campo, 56c. The revocation of the edit? oszzm‘cr, communicated, to all the Proteitant parts of Europe, the paper, filk, and other valuable manufactures of France; almoft peculiar at that time to that country, and till then in vain attempted elfewhere.-To be convinced that it 15 not foil and climate, or even freedom from taxes, that determines the refidence of manufaéturers, we need only turn our eyes on Holland; where a multitude of manufactures are {till carried on (per- haps more than on the fame extent of territory any where in Europe) and fold on terms upon which they cannot be had in any other part of the world-And this too is true of thofe growl/Jr, which, by their nature and the labour required to raife them, come the nearef‘t to manufactures. As to the common-place objection to the North American fettlements, that they are in tbe fame climate, and their produce flag/Elma a: filial. ngng- India iflands put together i. If I have been fuccefsful in proving that a confiderable commerce may and will Iiibfift between us and our future mof‘t inland fettlements in North America, notwithf'canding their diftance ,- I have more than half proved no otber z'mwzvem'mcy will arflé from their dif'tance. Many men in fuch a country, muf't "know," mutt " think," and mutt " care" about the country they chiefly trade with. The juridical and other connections of govern- ment are yet a falter hold than even commercial ties, and fpread directly and indirectly far and wide. Bufinefs to be [elicited and caufes depending, create a great intercourfe even where private property is not divided in difl‘erent countries ;-yet this divifion will always fubfift, where dif- ferent countries are ruled by the fame government. Where a man has landed property both in the mother country and a province, he will almoft always live in the mother country : This, though Much-in the firft place it is not true; it 18 particularly not {0 of the Countries now likely to be there were no trade, is fingly a fuflicient gain. It added to our fettlements; and of our pretent colonies, the products, lumber, tobacco, rice, and annually to its abfentees in England : The balance indigo, great articles of commerce, do not Inter- equal to this. is faid, that Ireland pays near a million fterling of trade from Spain, or even Portugal, is fcarcely fere with the produéts of England :---in the next Let it not be laid we have 720 aé/Evztee: from place, a man muft lrnow very little of the trade of the world, who does not know, that the greater North America. There are many, to the writer's knowledge ;---and if there are at prefent but few part of it is carried on between countries whofe Of them that diftinguifh themfelves here by great climate differs very little. Even the trade between the different parts of thefe Britifh iflands, isgrea'tly I [But why may not a difference of rirmmflmzm produce a trade, as well as a difference of climate .P-C/z'mate "felt has its efl‘eét only by/ecuring this difference of circumflances. E.] ' lupcrlor expence, |