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Show 208 POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL fome Sorts of Sillts,--~fome Sorts of Paper, Gunpowder, and perhaps other Articles, can be purchafed at certain European Markets on cheaper Terms than they can in England: And therefore it follows, that we lhould certainly 'Iofe thefe Branches of Commerce by a Separation, even fuppoling that we could retain the red. Indeed even this doth not follow; becgufe we have loll: them already, as for as it was the Entered; ox"- ihe Colonies, that we fhould lole them. And if any Man can doubt of this7 let him but conl‘l "tr, that the Lumber and the Pro vihon. Ifeliwels, which are continually running down from Baffled, Rhoda [flaw], New-Tort, P/zi/arz'a/p/Iia, Charles-Town, m. &C. to Martim'co, and the other Frame/z Illands, bring Home in Return not on]? Sugars and Molalfes, but alfo Frcmw Wines, Silks, Gold and Silver Lace, and in lhort every other Article, in which they can find a profitable Account : Moreover thole Ships which fail to En/iatia and Cur/45m, trade with the Dutch, and confequently with all the SUBJECTS. 209 tage in thefe Rel‘pec‘ts? The Cultom-hotde Officers, perhaps, you may lay, willhinder them. But alas l the Cultom-houl'e Officers of North/Imerim, if they were ten Times more numerous, and ten Times more uncorrupt than they are, could not poliibly guard a tenth Part of the Coalt. In {hort thele Things are f0 very notorious that they cannot be dil'puted; and therefore were the whole Trade of Nari/z- A/merz'ca to be divided into two Branches, (viz. the Voluntary, rel‘ulting from a free ChoiCe of the flmericam themltlves purliling their own Intereli, and the Involuntary, in Conl-equence 0f compul/bry A€ts of the Britt/h l'zirlianient;--- this latter would appear f0 very {mall and incon- fiderable, as hardly to delerve a Name in an El'timate of national Commerce. THE 2d Objeétion againl't giving up the Colonies is, thit luch :1 Mealure w uld greatly decreafe our Shipping and Navigation, and con- lcquently diminilh the Breed ot'S-ttilors. But this Objection has been fully obviated already: as the Ships which fieer South of Cape-Fiiziflerre, what do they do ?---Doubtlefs, they purchale For if we {hall not lole our Trade, 3t lead in any important Degree, even with the Northern it Colonies (and molt probably we {hall CnCl'Ck‘llC' whatever Commodities they find it theirlntcrelt that net- with other Countries) then it follows, to purchafe, and carry them Home to Narflzflme‘riw. Indeed what lhould hinder them from of Advan36mg agreeably to their own Ideas [age ther the (luantity of Shipping, nor the Breed North of Europe, on the fame Principle. And inm0f Sailors, can {offer any confident": nution: So that this Suppolition is merely O a |
