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Show 746 POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL S Bi'itz'flz Soldiery, let me tell you, is not fo eafily corrupted. The From/r in Europe never found U B J E C T S. 14? and we may appoint an Army of Cuflom-houfc Officers to patrole (after a Manner) two thou, fand Miles by Land. But while we are doing it fo, with all their Gold, or all their Skill for ‘Intrigue and infinuating Addrefs. What then, in the Name of Wonder, have you to tempt for our/elves .9 Not much, I am afraid: For we them with in A'merim, which is thus to over- fliall only make you the more ingenious, the come, at once, all their former Senfe of Duty, all the Tyes of Conl'cience, Loyalty and Ho- more intent, and the more inventive to deceive us. We {hall fharpen your Wits, which are nour ?---Befides my Friend if you really are f0 rich, as to be able to give double Pay to our Troops in a wrong Caufe, do not grudge, let me befeech you, to give one third offlnglc Pay (for we afk no more) in a right one:---And let it not be laid, that you complain of Poverty, and plead an Inability to pay yourjult Debts, at the very Initant that you boalt of the fcandalous Ufe which you intend to make of your Riches. BUT notwithllanding all this, I am not for having Recourfe to Military Operations. For granting, that we fliall be viclorious, {till it is pretty {harp already, to elude our Searches, and to bribe and corrupt our Officers. And after that is done, we may perhaps oblige you to buy the Value of twenty or thirty thoufand Pounds ofBrz'nflz Manufactures, more than you would thefe Things againfl you, what {hall we be doing otherwife have done,---at the Expence oftwo or three hundred thouland Pounds Lois to GreatB'ritain, fpent in Salaries, Wages, Ships, Forts, that is impoflible: ‘or a Shop-keeper will never get the more Cullom by beating his Cultomers: And what is true of aShop-keepef, 13 true of a Shop-keeping Nation. We may 1ndeed vex and plague you, by llationing a great and other incidental Charges. Is this now a gainful Trade, and fit to be encouraged in a commercial Nation, To many Millions in Debt already? And yet this is the bell, which we can expeét by forcing you to trade with us, againl't your Wills, and agaim't your lnterel‘ts? THEREFORE inch :1 Meafure as this being evidently detrimental to the Mother Country, I will now confider the fecond Propofal, viz. to procrallinate your Compulfion.---Bnt what good can that do? And wherein will this Expedient men-d the Mattter? For if Recourfe is to be had atlalt to the Military Power, we had better be- Number of Ships to cruize along your Coafis§ gin with it at firl'c, it being evident to the whole proper to enquire, before we begin, How we are to be bene‘ritted by our Victories? And what Fruits are to refult from making you a con- quered People ?--~Not an Increafe of Tradt; an VVOI'ld |