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Show 94 SUBJECTS. POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL are added to our Empire, whofe Produce is the very fame with theirs. Yet, what Elegance of Life, or what Ingredient for Manufafl'ure, is therebv become the cheaper? And which of all thefe Things can be purchafed at a lower Rate, at prefent than before the War ?---Not one can be named. On the contrary, the Man of landed Preperty can tell but too circuinftantially, that Taxes are rifen higher than ever, --that the Interei‘t of Money is greater-,‘uthat every additional Load of National Debt is a new Mortgage on his exhaul'ted and impoveriihed Ellate; 95 Itat}! and Hgméztrg/z, or any other Market where they can buy them cheapefl, without regarding the Interei‘t of the Mother-Country, when found to be repugnant to their own. All thefe Things, Ifay, the EfigZi/lz Manufacturer both fees and feels: And is not this enougl ? Or mui't he carry his Complaifance {till farther, and never be a Friend to Peace 'till it be- comes the Interefi of the Trader to befriend it likewife? Surely, furely, this is rather too much to be expected. In one Word, and to re- turn to the Point from which we fet out, the In- ---and that, if he happens to be a Member of Parliament, he runs the Rifque of being bought out of his Family Borough, by fome upfiart terefi ofthe Trader, and the Intereft ofthe King- Gambler, Jobber, or Contraétor. THE Eng/2]}; Manufacturer, likewife, both Courfe of Trade, which would bring Ruin and fees and feels, that every foreign Material, of Ufe in his Trade is grown much dearer,~that all Hands are become extremely fcarce,---their dom, are two very diltinét Things; becaufe the one may, and often doth, get rich by that Defolation on the other. 7. THE Land and Sea Officers are, of courfe, the invariable Advocates for War. Indeed it is Wages prodigioufly raifed,~-the Goods, of courfe, badly and fcandaloufly manufactured,"- their Trade, their Bread, and the fure Way to get Promotion; therefore no other Language can be expedited from them: And yet, to do and yet cannot be afforded at the fame Price as them Juf'tice, of all the Adverfaries of Peace, heretofore,---that, therefore, the Sale of Englz'j/z Manufactures has greatly decreafed in foreign Countries fince the Commencement of War; ---and what is worfe than all, that our own C0- they are the faireft and moit open in their Proceedings; they ufe no Art or Colouring, and as you know their Motive, you mul't allow for it accordingly. Nay, whether from a Principle lonies, for whofe Sakes the War was faid to be Of Honour natural to their Profeflion, or from undertaken, do buy Goods in Holinnd, in what other Caufe I know not; but f0 it is, that ' Ila/[)9 ‘ they E\l\\‘lWl\I\‘ Vi ;. |