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Show Truth as the Standard of Right and Wrong, of ble an indifputa or Fallhood: For it is :1 Fact. 6. MANY of the Dealers in Exports and Imports, and feveral of the Traders in the Colonies, ws mad, Fact, that this Country is as much Ne ryidden now, as ever it was Pope are too often found to be aflifiant in promoting the Cry for every new War; and, when War . fathers. ds 5. THE Jobbers and Contractors of all Kin towards a Peace. and News-r ys of our Fore- mad, and Fried ridden, in the Da Armies ;--~ and of all Degrees for our Fleets and is undertaken, in preventing any Overtures to- You do not fathom the Depth of this Policy ; you are not capable to compre- hend it. Alas! it is but too eafily explained; Dethe Clerks and Pay-Mailers in the feveral r partments belonging to War -,---and every othe and when explained, but too well proved from Experience. The general Interef't of Trade, and Agent, who has the fingering of the public Mbney, may be laid to confiitute a diltinct the Interef‘t of particular Traders, are very diltinél: Things; nay, are very often quite op- polite to each other. The lnteref't of general Brood of Vultures, who prey upon their own It Trade arifes from general lnduftry -, and, there- would be endlefs to recount the various Arts and Stratagems by which this Tribe of Devourers have amalled to themfelves al'tonilhing Riches, fore can only be promoted by the Arts of Peace: But the Misfortune is, that during a Peace the Prices of Goods feldom fluétuate, and there are from very {lender Beginnings, through the few or no Opportunities of getting fuddenly Continuance and Extent of the War: Confequently, as long as any Profpeét could remain of fqueezing fornewhat more out of the Pockets rich. A War, on the contrary, unfettles all Things, and opens a wide Field for Speculation ; therefore a lucky Hit, or the Engroffing a Commodity, when there is but little at Market,---a rich Capture,---or a Smuggling, l {hould rather fay a traiterous, Intercourfe with the Enemy, Species, and fatten upon Human Gore. of an exhaufied, but infatuated People; f0 long the flmm'ccm War hoop would be the Cry of thefe inhuman Savages; and f0 long would fometimes by Bribes to Governors and Officers, they l'tart and invent Objeétions to every PYO'. pofition that could be made for the refioring and fometimes through Other Channels .,, or perhaps the Hopes of coming in for a Share in Peace,---becaufe Government Bills would yet bear fome Price in the Alley, and Omm'um and Strip. would {till fell at Market. 6, MANY a lucrative Job, or a public Contract: Thefe, and many fuch like notable Expedients are che- rifhed by the Warmth of War, like Plants in a L 2 Hot- '3‘I - H'U'IJh: ti AU‘MLAJ. ‘3 all. "x291 l"!!_g¢yg 1' [ 83 l [ 32 l |