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Show l6) (7) tipally depends on the Number of its Inhabitants; that of aPlantation in the lllands arifes from the Richnefs of its Commodities: We rely on the former chiefly for the Conformation of our Manufactures: We expect more from the Produce of the latter, for our own Con- ihmption and for Exportation : This Dillirflion is {o firic‘tly true, that tho' the Supply required by the Inhabitants of the lVefl-LG'z'er is in value much beyond that which is necelhary to the fliizerz'rnns in Proportion to their Nun'ibers , yet, that Wealth, that Luxury, and thole Circum-= ilances of Climate, which incline them to EX- travagance, at the lame 'l'ime induce them to prefer the finer Productions of other Countries, to the coarfe Commmodities of our own; for the Manufactures of Great Britain are good, rich, and folid, but not delicate; {trong with out Grace ~, and rather fubitantial than elegant: To the plain, the indufirious and frugal Repub-= llC'dl] of America, who is content with the Ne» ceilltries of Life, thefe are welcome, becaule the Earnings of Induliry; thole of the Iflands are the Improvements of Wealth: To an A- merionn therefore a numerous Family is Subltance, buta my: Indian mutt depend entirely upon his Capital : He cannot labour himfelf; he can acquire nothing but by Purchafe and EX~ pence. From this Dill‘erence of Circuml'tances it is evident, that the Object of Government with ref} eft to the Acquilitions in North Anew-ion, fhould be to tempt Inhabitants thither, and to encourage Population, and with refpeét to the ceded Iflands, to enforce the fpeedy Culture and Improvement of Spots productive of {uch valu~ able Commodities, but {lill requiring a confiderable Expence to mile and manage thofe Comc modities. Lands therefore Ihould be granted on eal‘y Terms of Settlement in the one; but fold under llriét Conditions of Cultivation in the other. Agreeably to thefe Principles, the. Governors ceptable to the If/"z'lJndz'nm, who think them» reives intitled to buperliuities, and whole ari~ of fflneoee, Eafl Florida and [Vefl Hoe-inn, (we are told by his Majef‘ty's Proclamation of the 7th of OeTiolzer,) are authorized, To grant Lane-2'5 upon foe/o forms, and under free}; nzoderafe floor-Reilly, Services, and A'ev'enott'ler{xenon/5, as lirocratical Opulence enables them to demand have neon appointed nnrz'feo‘i/ed in M75 other Colonies, the Producls of the Enfl-Indier, and otherCounm tries, more fimilar in Climate, in Tulle, and {in Manners, to their own. ‘We are therefore nndzender fuel; ol/zer Conditions as flan/l appear neeej/EZU and expedient for [be advantage of the Gran- teer, and the Zirzprooeiizent ane' Sol/lenient of the [aid Colonies. The Experience of a Century has fuggel'ted this Mode of Settlement; under they are uleful: but they are not equally ac- for the molt part only Merchants to the one, and fell to them what we ourfelves purchafe; hut we are both Merchants and Mztnufaéturers to the other. The Returns too from each of theie Countries, are as dillerent as their De« the lame or limil'ar Terms to thefe, the whole ttzazids; 'l‘he l'rodu is of the Continent are Tenure propolEd in this PIOCldllfldLlOD.‘ 1ND the turtaer Continent of xfineriea has been peopled, and near two Million of Subjects now hold by the |