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Show (61) (60) that the Goods imported annually from Grettf the the Bufinefs they were bred to, but as (con as they get enough to enable them to fettle a Piece Sum of1,4.00,0001. and that one Third of ofLand, (which they foon may, when they can thele are foreign Goods re-exported from hence, make a very low Duty upon fo great a Confumption, no contemptible Object; but befides earn Three Shillings and Six pence per die»:,) they find farming the more agreeable and more advantageous En'iployment: they turn to it thefe, it is commonly iiippofed that foreign Goods to the Amount of 700,000]. are annuall themfelves, and train their Children to that on- fmuggled into the Colonies, and lhould the Re‘ gulations, I {hall prefently mention, to have are engaged in it on the firf‘t Opportunity that offers. and dependant upori fortuitous Circum- been made for the Prevention ofall illicit Trade, have the Effect that is to be wilhed, to bring the {tanCes tor Exiiience, can never be confidered Britain into Arizerim, amount in Value to ly. A lvlanuihélzory thus delerted by thofe who nel thro' Great Britain, in which Cafe the whole as flourilhing and ellablilhed: Nor is there any l'rofpeé‘t of its being otherwife; for the EXtent and Fertility oi the Country is f0 valtly difpro- Subfidy would be retained on them alfo, which portion-ate to the Number or Inhabitants, that now yield norhing, then the Amount of this good Lands are in molt of the Colonies an ealy Duty upon all, will really be confiderable. Acquifition, to [hole that will clear them, and where El'rates may thus be railed by meet Til- greater Part of thefe too in the regular Chan~ Among the Goods that are the Subjefls of this Tax are the foreign Linens, which thereby become lefs merchantable for this Trade, than the Brit/5,. -, on the other hand, a rival Manu- factory is apprehended in America itlelf, and in: haneing the Price of Linens, exported from hence, will, it is laid, be a Means ofencourageing it. For myfelf, I own I am under no fuch Apprehenfions, and the Facts that are alledged to lbpport that Opinion, feem to me to prove the contrary. Great Quantities of Linen it is true are made there already; but then the. Manufaélory is almoft confined to Pea/flowed, and there the Weaving Part of it is carried on entirely by the Germans, who tranfport them» faves thither in great Numbers every Year, and carry their Myllery with them. For a prerfcm Subliliance on their Arrival, they follow the lage, all 'l‘emptations to Manufactures are wanting; Men who can depend upon their lnduf'try alone, will not have recourl‘e to Arts for Sublillance ; and a Father, who can enable his Son to provide for himl'elf, by taking up a Piece of uncleared Land for him, as foon as he is onge to manage it, and till then has his Afiil'tance in cultivating that, which he himfell had cleared in his Youth, will think Money and Time both thrown away in teaching him a Bufinefs not f0 good as his own, and by which it will appear to him that his Child is prematurely taken out of his Family. He really can with lefs Expence let him up in a Farm than in a Trade, and he knows that a Farmer who cultivates improve- able Land for his own Advantage, is in a better Situation than a Manufacturer: It is jufl: the I 7. ' Dif~ |