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Show 44 SUBJECTS. POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL 45- and ufed with Sobriety, and according to good Morals, will promote f'till greater Indul'trv, and {hall turn the Paflion of private Self-Love into go on, for any Thing that appears to the contrary, fiill accumulating; ii) that every Aug- the Channel of public Good. Indeed Fleets and Armies may be necefIary, where the mentation of fuch Money is a Proof of a preceding Increaie of Induftry: Whereas an Aug. Merchant and Manufacturer are in Danger of mentation of Money by fuch Means as decrea ri'e ‘Induftry, is a national Curfe---not a Bleffi n . Goods to Market; but Fleets and Armies can never render thofe Goods the dreamer; and confequently cannot poflibly encreafe the Number of their Culiowers; {uppoiing luch Cuf- And therefore, tho' the Accounts of fuch a Nation may look fair to the Eyes of a Merchant fuch judicious Taxes and wife Regulations, as being robbed 0r plundered in carrying their or Tradefman, who (keeping their own :Book s tomers have the Liberty of trading wherever by Pounds, Shillings, and Pence) fupp ofe, that they pleaie, and to the bef't Advantage. all muft be right, when they fee at the Foot of you {hould continue t'hele Armaments, in order the Account, a large Balance of Pounds, bhillings, and Pence, in the Nation's Favo ur; yet to [top up the Ports of other Nations, and de- the able Statefman, and judicious Patriot, who are to keep the public Accountsby quit e diffe- But if prive them of the Benefit of a free Trade, what will be the Contequence of this wife Manoeuvre? Plainly this -,---That while you are getting One rent Columns,~--by Men, Women, and' Children Shilling, you are {pending Ten; while you are employed, or not employed,---will rega rd this employing a few in a Courie of regular lndultry, you are fupporting Thoufands in Habits of Idle,.. Tumour of Wealth as a dangerous Dileafe, not as a natural and healthy Growth. In one Word, the .only pofiible Means of preventing a Rival Nation from running away with your Trade, Is to prevent your own People from being more. idle and vicious than they are; and by inipiring them with the contrary good Q13? llthS : So that the only ,War, which can be attended with Succefs in that Refp eEt, is a War againit Vice and Idlenefs ; a War, Whofe Forces mutt confilt off-not Fleets and Armies,---bu t ' i i' fuch nets, and at the fame Time involving the Na‘ tion in fuch i'mmenfe Expences as mul‘t, ifper- fified in, inevitably prove its Ruin.--~Grant, therefore, that during a War, a ‘.‘.";it crowned with uninterrupted Succefs (for no other can avail) grant, I fay, that in tome Articles you enjoy an lncreafe of Trade, at what Expence is this lncreale obtained, and how long is it to Lift? Moreover, that Contiguences will arife when the War is at an End, and other Ports are u aluminiu77.3,. -: unlu- o uni |