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Show [ 62 i when impelled by the Urgei‘icy of Dillrcls, nor lo eal‘y to call them back to their old Manner of Life, and divert them from new Purfuits expe- [63 ] Colonies, which enabled them to keep up their rienced to be profitable, and pi'tm‘afiiec of fire hag/1' Stratify (retrain/X3 Opprrflim, as lbrne teem to ap. En'ehcnd. ~ Credit with Great-Britain, by applying the Balance they gained againf't Foreigners, is now to lettered with Difiicblties, as to be almolt prohibited. In order therefore to reduce the Balance againlt them upon the Trade between the Colonies and Grad- It is not contended that the Colonies ought to Brz'mifl, this Trade mull be contracted, lo as to be indulged in a general Liberty of Exporting all the Advantages they might do, and what Ad- bring the Scales to an Equilibrium, or a Debt will be incurred that cannot be paid 03‘, which will diftrels the Creditor as well as the Debtor, by the lnlblvency of the latter. The Income alto of vantages might they not make, ifunder no Checks? the Colonies which, was before invefied in their and Im sorting every 'I hing in what Manner the pleale; but, linee they are hindered from making They have a good Plea againlt all Rigour and Se- Trade, will be diminilhed in Proportion to the verity, not ablolutely necefiiu‘y, Manufactures con‘ie dearer, and not lb good in Produce of the Stampilltc‘t, and therefore the Amount of that Produce mul't be drawn out, Quality to America, as t‘ormerly, is a very general Complaint 3 and what Etiecl; it may have, lhould which will create a further Reduction of the Trade. That Britt/J they Still grow dearer and worle in (Luality, or the Colonies be rendered leis able to continue them, is a Confideration which concerns Great-Brilm' u, at leall as much as the Colonies. An lncreale of Price, and falling in the Goodnels of Qtality, is the ultra} unto ofMonopolies; there is no Danger Iconfeis that I am one of thole who do not perceive the Policy in laying Difficulties and Obllrué‘tions upon the gainful Trade of the Colonies with Foreigners, or that it even makes any real of Foreigners taking Ad outage of this Circumfi‘ance in Aixzcrim, whatever they may do in other Countries; but the lndultry it may give Rife to in I)ill°erence to the Eng/M) Nation, whether the Merchants who carry it on with Commodities GT‘Efll-Bi‘ifflifl will not purchale, refide in Pbi/zzdtfl phi/z, jVHZti-fiizrl', or BOflOll, London, Briflol, . 01‘ Awaits" when otherCircumltances concur, is not Liverpool, when the Balance gained by the diaztrzcrm difficult to be imam. Merchant in the Purluit of that Trade centers in Gram-Britain, and is applied to the Dil‘ch‘arge of It mull be acknowledged, that the Balance of Trade between Great-Britain and her Colo nies, is conlitlerably againl‘t the latter, and that no Gold or Silver Mines have yet been dilbovered in the old zla'zerz'cznz Settlements, or among the Treafwes or the new Acquifitions. How then is this Ba- lance to be tlil‘charged? The former Trade ofthe Co- a Debt contracted by the Confumption ol‘ Emir/f9 Manufactures in the Colonies, and in this to the Support of the national Expence. If in Confequence of the Obl‘truc‘tio‘ns, or Re. gulations as they are called, of their Lornmerce, and the Impolition of Taxes upon their Properties, the Colonies fliould only be driven tofoh~ erre |