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Show 120 POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL SUBJECTS. 121 allowed, being obliged to buy yours at your own Price; or elfe to pay fuch a Duty for the where vafl (Luantities are now railing. Tobacco of other Countries, as mutt amount another Inflance :«VVhy {hall not I be permit- to a Prohibition. ted to buy outwhich Indigo, f0 {hall I not Nay, in order to favour your "Plantations, I am not permitted to plant this Herb on my own Eftate, though the Soil fhould be ever f0 proper for it. Again, the fame Choice, and the fame Alternative are allowed to you, and denied to me, in regard to Rice; with this additional Advantage, that in many Refpeéts you need not bring it into England at all, unlefs you are f0 minded. And what will you lay in Relation to Hemp? The Parliament now gives you a Bounty of 8]. per Ton for exporting your Hemp from Nari/2A/nzerz'cn; but will allow me nothing for growing it here in Eng/and; nay, will tax me very fe- VCrCly for f'tt‘hing it from any other Country; though it be an Article mol't elTentially necefl fary tor all the Purpofes of Shipping and Navia gation. Moreover in refpeel: to the Culture of Raw Silk, you have an immenfe Parliamentary Premium, for that purpofe; and you receive further lilncouragements from our Society for Arts and Seances, which is continually adding frelh R awards: ~-But lean receive no Encouragement either from the one, or from the other, to beas in, Expences at full: letting out; though mol‘t undenial'lly the white Mulberry-Trees can thrive as well on my Grounds as they can in Switzer: Switzerland, Brnndenénrg/z, Denmark, or Sweden, Take Pitch, Tar, and Turpentine,~withI cannOt put my Ships to Sea ;-and ufeful in many Manufaétures -,-~-why be permitted to purchafe thefe Ar- ticles wherever Ican, the belt in their Kind, and on the belt Terms ?- No, l {hali not; for though they are all Raw Materials, which therefore ought to have been imported Duty free, yet I am rel‘trained by an heavy Duty, almofi equal to a Prohibition, from purchaling them any where, but from yOL :---Whereas you on the contrary are paid a Bounty for felling thefe very Articles, at the only Market, in which you could fell them to Advantage, viz. the Eng/z]1*. MUCH more might have been faid on this Subject; and the like Obfervations might have been extended to the Sugar Colonies: ButI forbear. For indeed enough has been faid already (and, as it expoies our Partiality and Infatuation a little feverely, perhaps too much) -in order to prove to the World, that of allPeo- ple upon Earth, you have the lead Realon to/ complain. "‘ Thole who have not the Statutes at large, may {66 the Things here referred to, and many others at the like Sort, m Crone/16's or Saxéy's Book of Rates. BUT \\l l\‘l m1 |