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Show l i .,_ .: India Market for this kind of Provifions has 0. to it again, and annually to raife large Qtanti- ver an European. its Growrh, will be a great Encouragement to tics ; the Renewal of the Bounty will be a pro. bable means of procuring from thence in Courfe of Time fufficient for our whole Confumption, 4 A; . (55) a Staple Commodity of two of our Colonies: tho‘ it amount at a Medium of the laft Ten i And the meafure is adopted, not upon Specula- Years, to more than 300,000!. per Annmn. tion, but on a certainty: We have no EXperi- raife f0 confiderable an Article of Naval Stare: within ourfelves; to fhake of? our Dependancc for a precarious Supply upon other Countries, who by fome unCXpeé‘ted fluctuation in politi- cal Connections, may become adverfe to thefe Kingdoms, and will then be able to difappoint To allow therefore of its im- mediate Exportation thither from the places of A V ‘W""""'"‘*mcr‘m§-, (54) ment to make; we are only to acce- t of an Invitation, and a new Branch of Cummerce is ob- tained: an Improvement will at the fame time be made in the American Revenue, for the Aft of the laft Seffions which grants the liberty of Exporting Rice from South-Carolina and Georgia to any part of America to the Seutbward of tlzofe Previneer, retains the half Subfidy, which an mounts to about Seven-pence upon eVery Hun- To us in a Time of Crifis, or even to occalion the Dil'trefs which they will not relieve; to wreit in lhort out of the hands of other States, be they ever fo friendly, fuch an undue Influence over dred VW‘ight of Rice thus exported, and is all our Operations, is a great object to a Mari- the fame Duty as is paid upon that which is carried directly to the Southward of Cape Finifterre, or being brought to Great Britain, is Eteported frOm hence to any other Country. time Power: And to procure f0 extcnfive a. Branch of Trade; is equally interefiing to a Commercial People: But when fuch an ACqui~ Other Commodities, the Produce of the. Co- grudge to the Colonies the greater {hare of it 3 lOnies. but of [fill greater and more extenfive She does not tenacioufly adhere to her own Interefis alone: On the contrary, the freely gives up the Revenue arifing from the Importation of Importance, both to the Colonies and to Great Britain, have this Year received that Encou= ragement, they flood f0 much in need of, and fition is in view, Great Britain does not morofely Foreign Hemp: And liberally grants out of {o richly deferved: The Bounties upon Hemp her other Revenues the Bounties of Eight Pound: and Flax, which were given firlt by 3 8e 4. per Ton for Seven Team, ofSix Pound: per Tan for Ann. c. 10. and continued by feveral other Acts, had been of late Years quered to drop, and the the next Seven Years, and of Four Pound: for anather Term of Seven Tear: more, on Hemp 1mported from America. The fame Bounties on Ad: by which they were lalt given, was expired : The Culture of Hemp did not fucceed : Hardly any was Imported; and the Bounty being never the like Quantities of Flax imported from thence, are, to far as that alfo is a Naval Store, called for, fell into Oblivion ; but the encreafe founded upon the fame Principles; but confide- of the Colonies having enabltd them to attend rinv Fla as the rinci a1 Material in the Mann. (0 a x P P ' factory |