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Show {b _ «hams-x42- < "My" my"; (45") (4'4) Preference, no Privilege, no Exemption is all:- tied to with f0 much difcernment and care; the lnterclls of the Mother Country and thole of lowed to any, not even to Great Britain, when her particular Interefl's feem incompatible with the Colonies have been blended with f0 much (kill; and their Union has been l'trengthened by this greater Syfiem : She. has frequently engaged in the Defence of her molt dillnnt Dominions, with more alacrity than the Provinces themfelves that were immediately. attacked: Her Debts {0 many Bonds of Conneftion, Obligation and have been accumulated by the Protection {he has afi'orded her Colonies in times of War; her Advantage; that every good Subjeét, whether in Europe or in flmtrim, mull will) {UCCCBrS and filabiiity to lv'leahires, fo wifely, lo impartially adapted to the Benefit of all: Peace, in Bounties and numberlefs other E10. pences for their Encouragement and Support: '1 he Alteration made in the'Duty upon Beaver Skins is one of tliefl: l‘vlea‘fures, and one that is of great Conleqnence to a very valuable Article of ‘thei‘irrm Pruduce, and to a coniiderable She has even che 'liCLl her own Cultivation for Branch of Brz'lgfi h'lanufiufture : That Commo- the Advancement oftheirs, as in the inl'tance of. dity is abl‘olutely neceifary: to the making of fine Tobacco, which becaule it is afiaple Commodity of fome of the Colonies, is prohibited to be railed in this Country, except in {mail (Luanda-ties, and for particular purpofes. But the Principles are great, the Policy is right, upon which this conduct is founded : The prevalence of the-1e Principles at prefent is the illul'trious Che-racteril'tic of the Times: No period of our Hillery c-in within the fame cornpafs boal‘t of f0 Huts; no other Material can lupply the want of 7?; find as the Animal is not to be found in Revenues have been freely applied in times of air; : part of the Vi orltl butf‘forflz .41.!zeritc, the Rein?" Me z: of "hadn't: 1 (if; given usthe entire 2,.1. it. The ficquilition has been madr inf? :7; i. _.:iblv for the prekrvation ofthe My or Hats, which had been long de- clining), stint would perhaps in a few Years have many Mealirres, with regard to the Colonies, been totally loll as an article of Exportation: For our Neighbours can generally underwork founded upon Knowledge, formed with judg- us; and if they can be fitrnillied with the raw ment, and executed with Vigour, as have dillim Materials Upon the fame Terms, Will always be able to under-{Ell us : Yet the Duty upon Beaver guii‘lied the beginning of his Maieity's Reign) The glorious Peace that ufhered it in fo aul‘pici» mid}; to his People, is a heap of Concefllons forced from our Enemies, in favour of the Bri- i‘QC'z Plantations. The Tranquility it‘procurcd us- was laid on in {rich a manner, that they were fupplied with the N uterial thro' Great Erwin/5n, at a cheaper Rate than we could retain it ror our i'ias been employed in improvrng the Advanta- own Confumption: Seven-pence was. impofeil upon every Skin imported from zImcrim, and n ges both or our new and our lormer l'olli'flions; 11sz Drawback off‘our-pence was allowed upon .in the prol‘ecution of which great Work, the: true Principles of Commerce have bee: utten- portation: Thofe that were uled here were hi" did G a this |