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Show and this they undetf'tand. Bat to excitethat Man (whom perhaps they have long called thor of thefe Sheets owes much of his lntelli- their Enemy) Hence to leveral Gentlemen of this Proiefiion, briety, to confider him as a Cufiomer to (who were Eye and Ear-witnelTes of the Facts re- them, and themfelves as Cul'tomers to him, To that the richer both are, the better it may be for each other; and, in Ihort, to promote a mutual Trade to mutual Benefit: This is a Kind of Reafoning, as unintelligible to their Comprehenfions, as the Antipodes themfelves. lated. BUT after all, What havel been doing? and how canl hope for l'rolelytes by this Kind. of WritingP-It is true, in regard to the Pornts attempted to be proved, [have certainly proved them. " Neither Princes nor People, can be "Gainers by the mol't fuccelisful Wars :--- "Trade in particular, will make its Way. " to the Country where Goods are manu- " factored the belt and cheapel't :~-B.ut con- [Ill-'Illllll :"quering Nations neither manufafture well "nor cheapz-And confequently mul't fink J... v‘ ‘1‘ v-JVI . hi" t , V "V"; l)' " in Trade in Proportion as they extend in "‘ Conquel't.", Thefe Things are now incontel‘tibly clear, if any Thing ever was fo. But, alas! 'Who will thank me for fuch Leflbns as thefe? The feven ClafiE-s of Men jufl: enumerated certainly will not; and as to the Mob, the blood-thirl'cy Mob, no AI"guments, and no Demonf‘trations whatever, can perfuade them to withdraw their Vene- ration from their grim Idol, the God Of Slaughter. to knock a On the contrary, Man on the Head is to take fromhim his All at once. to greater Indufiry and So- SOME few perhaps, a very few indeed, may be {truck with the Force of thefe Truths, and yield their Minds to Conviction: ~P0fib/y in a long Courfe of Time their Numbers may encreafe;---and poflé/y, at laft,' the Tide may turn; to that our Polterity may regard the prefent Madnefs of going to War for the Sake of Trade, Riches, or Do- minion, with the fame Eye of Altonifhment and Pity, that we do the Madnefs of our Forefathers in fighting under the Banner of the peaceful Crofs to recover the Holy Land. This firange Phrenfy raged throughout all Orders and Degrees of Men for feveral Centuries; and was cured at laft more by the "dear-bought Experience of repeated LolTes and continual Difappointments, than by any 800d Ef‘feéts which cool Reafon and ReThis is a compendious Way, and M fleétion v [ 89 J. they very frankly dileover the bale and dilin~ genuous Artilices of other Men. And the Au: ». .154"!th .. alum Al Than. "7.!th th' 'i 1‘ t 88 1 |