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Show (68) (' 69 ) jinn-nun have. no r(greater Reafon to complain. than the ling/0720f this Dilproportion ; and as to the actual Duty required, ofthem, they mull flill confidcr tliciizlclvr::s as favoured, not opprelfetl, when they reflect that upon the cheapeft of theft: Linens, tliole on which the Duty is moi'c bur- thenlome, the old .‘Subfirly is but about Three Shillings, and Nine-«pence Three Farthings Upon a. Hundred and Twenty Ells, which is all. that they are now to pay, and halfof which they paid before; while the feveral Impoils paid by the Zing/.971 for their Confumption upon the fame (Luandty of the fame Linen amounts to about One l'ound, One Shilling, and Four-pence, Three Farthing, which is a greater I)ilpi‘0por'w tion of Burthen, than their difl'erent Situations at d Circumliances require. Should there, hon/ever, be any Amer-5mm {o unrealonable, lo rail), as on this Account to en- gage in the Eltablilhment of Linen h'lan ufaetories there, and fuppofing: a Contrariety be- tween the lnterells of Great [him/Tn and its ($010- nies, anter- to lupport the one, to the prejudice of the other; they can {till proceed in their Attempt no further than the Mother Country will allow: I do not mean to tugged prohibitory Laws ; but Laws to which no zimcrz'rmz could form an Ob~~ i cannot believe,) that the additional halt Sublidy will turn the Scale, and enable any Perlon there, tho' he were to pay for the Spinning of the Flax, to make Linen cheaper than it can be bought, which is the mod that can be apprehended; it will always h in the l'owcrof Great Britain to l‘einll‘ate il‘hinltgs where they were, and if the addititmal Duty has canted an (iteration, the taking 01? that Duty mull nceef- farily refi'ore the imported Linens to their former Price,whieh is lower than AmericaM-anufae- . turers can afford them for; waile on the other Hand, 2. Bounty upon A/rzarz'rmz Flax, imported into Great Britain, will give the firmly/z Manufacturer a Hill further Ad vantage over tired/newton, and enable hinieven to purchale his Materials Cheaper. Thus by eating the Colonies of a Tax on their Confumption, and by givinglelneourage- ment to their Produce, b iii which the Mother Country ought upon all Oceahons to do, as far as the Exigencies of State will allow, Great Britain has it in her Power to dilzippoint my Iiltablilhments of this Kind that are centrary to the general Good ; and however individuals may be alfefled, the general Allentblics in their relflpeéliive Provinces will never upon rnnture De~ jettion, would efl'ec‘tually thwart all their linden-v liberation ,liupport the i'roleeution or Defigns, which have a direct '1' Ll)(l(‘l:Cy to hurt the Menu- yours. it has been already oblerved, that the only Circumltance which enables the Planterto manu facture linens cheaper than he can buy them when imported from hence, is becaule he does tivation in the Colonies, and to ltlliri the Navi- rot pa," 301‘ the. Spinning ; this was the Cale under the Duty of half the old Subfidy : Should it tor the Lillie of ,Mgument be fuppo lcd, (Lily liiétoriesof the Mother Country, to cheek Cul~ gation of both. _ ' The whole Obieflion, however, aggiunf't the additional Duty on Linens, applies to the troarfsr Kinds, upon which alone a Burthen in :tlelflo inconfiderable, can be felt at all: .1 K .2 the |