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Show 214 POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL : 'S 'U B J E C T 'S- i l Multitudes from the North of Scotland, and more elpecially from the North of Ireland, enough; and therefore let US now llafien briefly to point our the i Mamfo/dfldt'antager attendant onfitc/z a Scheme. 215 .were far from being the molt indigent, or the ,leaf't capable of fublil'ting in their own Country. AND ill, A Disjunction from the Northern Colonies would eHeEtually put a Stop to our prel'ent Emigrations. By the Laws of the Land it is made a capital Offence to inveigle Artificers and Mechanics to leave the Kingdom. But this Law is unhappily fuperleded at prefent as tar as the Colonies are concerned. No; it was not Poverty or Necelfity which compelled, but Ambition which enticed, them For after they to forlake their native Soil. began to tal'te the Sweets of Indul'try, and to partake of the Comforts of Life, then they became a valuable Prey for tliele Harpies. In lhort, fuch Therefore when they come to be difmembered were the Perfons to whom thefe Seducers principally applied); becaufe they found that they had gotten fome llttle US, it Win Operate as firongly againfi from them, Wi thfir Kidnapperr, as againll Othem Subl'tance together worth devouring. ~ \ while. to obferve, worth . ~ It may h Itemigra Am: the that nts, bewho lately failed in luch - 'lhey therefore told them many plaufible StOI‘lC'S--~ . 1 7 ' that if they would emigrat e to ltfgrf/g -flm€rl[fl , Mul- . E 0th in HufIo. Larger Capitals than ulllal ‘imffigyfipirtation and 4. The 'ulViflg ofDrawbacks, or the Return of Duties on lllt ' x}. irration of fuch Goods as were to have paid a Duty, it med and confirmed at Home. 5. I ‘ Repeal , - of Taxes , ' on raw Materials formerly laid ' comin' into the Kingdom. See 8. G. I. C. 15. 6. 'l 11-: Repeal of Taxes formerly laid on our own Manufaclorts, when exported. See ditto. 7. The Im rovements in various Engines, with new Inventions anh-7 Dilcoveries for the Abridgement of Labour. ' _8t Better Communications ellablilhed throughout the 5 " ngdom by Means of Turnpike Roads and Canals, and , plundering, and llarving {hf} mutiny this, for which [3". "1 Eng/2]}; Language had not a. , the :peedy Conveyance of Letters to every great Town and the Eafl-Ixm'z‘er.-‘A SPECIES l"N 111;: note; 3‘. iCC of Manufacture, by Means of Improvements In -' he t'olt-Ulfice. « » and Improvements in Agriculture . 9g 'iuppy Dilcovenes and in the mechanic Arts. 10. Larger bandry and Manufactures; a 0 1 V .Exportation 0f ({Oo‘ls. t ther would ran», thelc3Thm ogc Now all . L0" V . 1 g s Co-operatlng 'lhin . whether it. had def any Country "C" and flou" ing,articul£lr would have lonies or not ; Andtlus Lountry t Pa much greIIDJ‘ Defound the happy hfleéls or firm "it Counter-Aided by our gree than it now doth, Wfire t FAY an: ruinous and expenLuxury, 0Ur Gambling, Emir-""1"" by that ill-gotten, five Wars, our C010"Y'Jizimsyua ndobtinqd by robbing" and ill-{pent W'calth', Whlcil W4): defchClel‘s'Naures U' Word Naéaémg, . O4 a until it adopted the '7 thev1 |