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Show [74] But lelt the Eflimate {hould be obieéled to on account of it's including 20 per Cent for Monopohes, 59°C. I will {late the artificial Value arifing from Taxes, only to be 33 l. 65. 8d. which will hardly be objected to, for being too high. . [ 75 r from foreign Countries; but the liltimrtte is not exceptionable on that Account, for the general Calculation on the advanced Price of [mtg/b Mae nufnclures, is ex remely low.---Severnl of the foreign Commodities receive their Perfection in Bri- The Colonies, it is fuppos'd, take, annually, Manufactures from g f. 2,000,000 Grmt-Briim'n, to the Amount of tain-All of them are enlmnced by the Articles of double Freight, Inlurance, Shipping, Charges, the Merchant lmporter's Comr'niiiion, the Emily/7.1 Tradefinxm's Profit, the Merchant l‘iixporter's Commimon, and Subiidies retained. Ther e they ALefor TAX of pay an ANNU- i" £666,666: 13: 4. it‘ the Colonies were not rell‘rained from direélly importing foreign Commodities, they would, it is prelumed, pay To which mull be added] Freight, Infurance, Commifiion and ShippingCharges, amounting at leafl: lefs for them, even by 50 per Cent. than they do at prefent. to to per Cent. the Halfof] It hath been already obferved, that there are which, as it might be faved > 100,000: 00: 0 by back-freight, 55%. were {hipped from Virginia and Maryland, annually, at an Average, about 90,000 Hogiheads of Tobsc‘ c0, 60,000 ol' which, or upwards, are re-exported the Colonies permitted to from Great-B "train, to foreign Markets, but they import direflZy the Manufactures of foreign Countries, is computed at 4-, What may be the Amount‘ ay to Great-Britain, for the Realons above" CX‘. plained, 31. per I-Ioglhead, i. f. the .Sum'ot 3 1. upon each l-loglheud might be layed 11' the lobacco initht be immediate/y and a'z‘flribztriw/y lent to the from the Rel'trié‘tions, on all the Enumerated Com- relivetm‘e Markets, in Proportion to their De- modities (except Tobacco: md‘nds; and an equal Sum is paid alto to Great- exported from all the Colo- l nies, with Subfidies re-> mined and Duties laid, upon the molt moderate Britain, 150'060: QC: 0 upon the lhme Rule of Computation, 7'. e. that thefe Colonies pay what they might fave, if not rel‘truined. For, though the Eris/ab Manufacturer gets the Tobacco he wants, WlthOUt the double Freight, 556. yet he has the Advantage Computation, may, I {uppole, be Rated at - - j ----v~----------. ~----.~ £916,666: 13: 4 Part of the Commodities fent fro m Great-Britain .. I ‘ \ - A" . . . . ‘ . to the Colonies, is mil Importedinto Gre I al~Brztam from of the Glut, and an Opportunity of buying It. as cheap, as it is fold in Great-Bruno: tor the. foreign. llvlarlmts, before the Charges of double l‘rerghts, 55.. ac incurred, and therefore the ‘l‘lanter gets no more for his Tobacco fold for Home, than that which is leld for Fam'gn Confumption, nnd com lequently 1. 2 |