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Show {903] E 209 ] they might have Eltates for norhin g, and be" be another great Saving; come Gentlemen for ever; whereas, if they remained at Home, they had nothing to expeé‘t beyond the Condition of a wretched Journeyman, or a {mall laborious Farmer. than 200,00'01. a Year: And it is very re-.markable, that the Goods imported from give Premiums to the Colonies for felling there was neither Tax, nor Tithe, nor Landlord's Rent to be paid. This was enough: It took with Thoufands: And this he might Goods to us,‘:wthich would not have been {old at all any where elfe. However, when the ‘prefent-'*Bounties fhall eeafe, We may fafely engage to (lo-But at the fame Time, he ought to have told them (as Bifhop Ber/clay in his ueries jullly oblbrves) their confidentat would be right to give them again, or not; andive {hall'rhave lt'totally in our Power That tenfavour a Man may polfefis twenty Miles fquare in this glorious Country, and yet not be able to get a Dinner. . 2dly. Another great Advantage to be (l6rived from a Separation is, that we {hall then fave between 3 and 400,000]. a Year; by being diltharged from the Payment of any civil or military Ellablifhment belonging to the Coloniesz~For which generous Benefaétion we receive at prefent no other Return than lnveé‘tives and Reproaches. 3dly. The ceafing of the Payment 0f Bounties on certain Colony Produétions will be our Leifure, whether it that Countrymol'c, which will fliew the greatef't Favour to us, 1 and to our Manufaétures; ‘ V ' ' " 4thly. WHiIN we are no longer. conneéted with the Colonies by the- imaginary Tie Of: an Identity. of ' Government, then our Merchant-Expdrters :and Manufaéturers will have a better Chance of having their Debts paid, than they have at prefentzi'For as Matters now fiand, the Colonifts chufe to harry their ready Cafh to other Nations, , While they are contraé‘ting Debts with their Mother-Country ; with whom they, think they can take greater Liberties: ‘ And pro- ' ‘ ' Dd vided h b the Colonieshin Confequence of 'thefe Boun- ties, could :not have been imported into any other Part of Europe, were there a Liberty to do it; becaufe the Freight and firf't Coil: would have amounted to more than they could be fold for: So that in Faét we "139' vice _ 4Lilli"! L." ll Nay, one of thefe falfe Guides was known to have put out public Advertifements, fome few Years ago, in the North of Ireland, wherein he engaged to carry all, who would follow him, into fuch a glorious Country, where perhaps not lefs- |
