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Show [ 16 ] [ I7 ] lE-idlers, Pimps, and Gamel'ters. As to the Fe" male Sex, it is no difficult Matter to forefee, what would be the Fate of the younger, the more verty, as the Spaniards and Portugucfi are at prefent. Nay, when their Mines, or their former Refources of Gold and Silver, came to fail them, fprightly, and pleafing Part among them. In lhort, the whole People would take a new Turn -, and while Agriculture, and the ordinary men chanic Trades became fliameful-iy neglected, the Profeffions which fubfill: by procuring they would really be in a much worfe -, and their Condition would then approach the nearei't Amufements and Diverfions, and exhibiting ACCORDING to this Syfiem of Reafoning, the Allurements and Temptations, would be amazingly increafed,-~-and indeed for a Time en- riched; f0 that from being a Nation of Bees producing Honey, they would become a Nation Expedition in the late * Spam/72 War againll: Cart/mgma mutt have been ill-judged in every of Drones to eat it up. In fuch aCafe, certain it is, that their induftrious Neighbours would of any Thing we can now conceive, to that of Baron and Vaffal in Poland and Hungary, or to Planter and Slave in the Weft-Indies. Particular; for if the End in View had been only to open a Market for Britzfl; Manufactures, this End was anfwered, as far as an liq/tile flirt/10d could have anfwered a commercial End, foon drain them of this Q\uantity of Specie, ---and not only drain them, lo far as to reduce them to a Level with the poor Country, but by taking the Forts at the Mouth of the Haven ; and therefore the Attempt ought not to have been pufhed any farther :---But if the Defign alfo fink. them into the lowei‘t State of abject was to defiroy the Fortifications round Cartha- 130verty. Perhaps indeed fome few of the Inhabitants, being naturally Milers, and forefeeing gemz, and to give up the Town to t.he;Piunder the general Poverty that was coming upon the to have refiored it to its former Owners at the Country, would make the more ample Provi- Conclufion of the Waritfer fureiy itiquulcl have fion for themfelves ; and, by feeding the Vices, been the very Height of~Madnefs in us to have been at the EXpence of keeping it)---this was an End by no Means worthy of national At- and adminil‘tering to the Follies and Extrava- gancres of others, would amafs and engrofs great Ellates. Therefore when fuch a Nation of the Soldiers, and then to have deferted, or tention, and not at all adequate to the Blood came to awake out or this gilded Dream, it would find itfelf to be much in the fame Cir- c'inil'tances or pretended Wealth, but real Po». ve rty, " The Reader is defired to bear in Mind, that this Traé‘t was written in the Year 17 5 8, juft after the Spring/,6 War. C and |
