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Show ( A ) l I3 l another Fund of Wealth in their Fif‘neriee,‘ which will attract Inhabitants withom; Num- {more Profperity has? ber, and furnilh the Means of Stlbfil‘tttnce t0- :e have already feen, A Refident Filhery will always overpower railhd a COnipz-rtitior for Grants of Lands there .2 And the general l3:pe€tarion which this Compe~ one that is carried on from a Distance: The tition proves, wil' halten the Evert it preliztgest People concerned in it can begi n to Filh as foon as the Seafon permits, and will therefore be the Care however mail: be taken to remove all Obo flrué'tions whzth may ante from Regulations firll at Market; and the Merchants who fend Ships thither from Great Britain, may freight that were eftablilheti utntime, when thele Coun- alL their lfefi‘els outwards, and be lure of a vent: for their Car-goes, in the Colonies near to the Filheries. By this Advantage they will be enabled to difpofe of the Return at a cheaper Ratethan the French, '.'l10 have no {nth Colonies to take of? their outwtrdbounrl Cargo: For the Profit of the Brita/l: will be equal to that of the Franc/i Merchant Upon the whole Voyage, tho" it ihould be leis open the l'ilh -, the. abl‘olute EXclufion therefore of any rem}; Settlement from. that part of the \Vorld, (for I cannot call Mguelorz and St. Pierre Settlements) will make inch. 21 difference between the lrilhcries of the two Rival Nations, that (firm Britain mull, with refperft to lupplying other Countries, enjoy al« molt a l‘flrmopoly: And the necefl‘ary Confequence will he the Population of all thofe Coafls, tries were not at CCI‘iti'll‘ZplfitiUn : One of thefe was the Duty ripen Whale-fins, which is now taken all" by It"; of Parliament; another miles from the Aft of 17 Car. 2. C. 7. f. 6. which Wifely prohibits the Importation of any Europe- (m Commodities into the Plantations, unlefs they have been lucfen ttrd {hipped in Britain: But in that Aft irielr'is an Exception of Salt, for the lliifheries of New Eng/and and Newfozmi/mzd, upon which the prence and Delay of bringing the Salt they coninme thro" this Country, would have men :1 heavy Bnrthen. The Indulgence of carrying it directly from Europe has been fince extended to New Yer/1c and Pezzfylvmzifl, by £3 CEO. I. c. 5, and by 3 GM. 2. c.12, and among the Renlbns for granting it, which are recited in the Pream les to both thole ACTS, the Encouragement thereby given to the Fil‘neries of where a Trade {0 beneficial and encreafing' is thole Colonies, will, it is faid, he lit-{lily beneficial eltablilhed. Add to the Cod li‘ilhery that of 201/: t0 the Iii/méz'rzzrzz‘r of 1/1: find Colander, mid to Whales, which under the Encouragement given 15/273 Trade of Great Britain, and mania the [aid to itduring the hill Seflions of Parliament, will. Inhabitants 1‘0 purrimjé more of 1/16 Britilh Manu~ immediately become a confiderable Branch of fafizzrcs for their (/32, than they are at prtfwt 4516 Commerce (as I lh'all have occafion to Ihew more at large hereafter-fl and there can be no doubt that in a few Years all thefi: Coafi's will he flonrifhing Colonies : The l'r‘olpeet of their fixture to do. The fame Realoning iii-rely applies with greater force to our unfettled new Acquifitions ; and therefore the Legiflature have had the precaution by an net of the hill Seflions, to provide that Came/n and the Ad litions to Newformfland IN L 2 and |