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Show POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL SUBJECTS. will again become. poor -,>« perhaps fo poor as conflantly)---and fewer fiill are fuppofed to re. to be little better than Hungary or Poland: But if by a Courfe of regular and nniverfnl Indzg/lry, tainwhat is gotten. ACCORDING to this State of the Cafe, it feemg evidently to follow, That the Provilions and Manufaétures of fuch a Countrv would bear a mod enormous Price, while this Flufh ofMoney 22 the fame Means, which obtained the Wealth at firlt, will, z'fpmfited, certainly preferve it, and even add thereto: 80 that England need not entertain any Jealoufy againlt the Improvements and Manufactures of Srotldnd;--and on the other Hand, Scotland without hurting England, 23 'lafted -, and that for the two following Realons: Ill. A People enrithed by liich improper Mea is as thefe, would not know the real Value willlikewife increafe in Trade, and be benefited both by its Example, and its Riches. of Money, but would give any Price that was BUT as thefe are only general Afl'ertions, let us now endeavour to fupport them by an In» being the only Evidence which they could pro- duction of particular Cafes. afked; their fuperior holly and Extravagance duce of their fuperior Riches. 2diy. At the fame Time that l'rovifions and Manufactures would bear fuch an excellive Price, the Quan- tity thereof railed or made within the Kingdom CASE I. would be lefs than ever; inalmuch as the Cart, and the l'low, the Anvil, the Wheel, and NGLflND has acquired 20,ooo,oool. of Specie in the Way of National Idleneflr, ‘vz'z. Either by Difcoveries of very rich Mines of Gold and Silver,~--or by fuccefsful Priva- teering and making Captures of Hate Ships, ---or by the Trade of Jewels, and vending them to foreign Nations for val'c Sums of Money. --or, in lhort, by any other conceivable Method, wherein (univerfal lndultry and Ap- plication being out of the Qiel'tion) very few Hanan, Were employed in getting this Mafs of Wealth (and they only by Pits and Starts, not conl'cantly) the Loom, would certainly be laid alide for thefe quicker and eaiier Arts of getting rich, and becoming line utntlemen and Ladies, becaufe ail i'erfbn ~, whether male or female, would endeavour to put themii-ives in Fortniie'_, 'w ay, and hope to catch as mum as they could Of this golden Show/er. Hence the Number of Coaches, Roll-(Shades, an". all other ehcles of l'leafure, would prodigioully increale; while the utual Sets of Farmer's Carts and W »ggons preportionably decreafed: The Sons of . twer Tradeimen and Labourers would be converted B 4. into .miiiim V ,_b--'>__ |