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Show (395 (at) better ; . but I Great Britain. with freedom. man, to know of a State, to and out of our general trade and trafl'ick, North Ain't? confider in all its mealures its own condition and litu- again. \«Vhat edicts thefe‘ things will produce", c'onlil (hiring the prefent {late of our trade, manufafthres; and atthe end of along trial, get the add, that this will probably not be Here I ninlliagain crave leave to write If it is the firll wrldom of a private himlelf; lo rttull it like Nile be that ation. I he {catching into our circumllances neither to the immenle {um above mentioned, be with-held from private people here. This was the traiti‘ of things begun before, and We mull look For‘the like But Whit molt be our cafe, and minnfitc'turers, the condition of our poor at home; fhould we have any wound or tnifldtiei, and that it might not be probed or examined? We'mull eve-r {uppofe our adverlaries to be informed, and not by fhutting our own eyes, pretend to blind other people. 1 {bill therefore, Without {eruple inquire into and the numbers of our people running abrOid, it don't want many words to explain and let forth. They were before very feverely Felt, lor the time that they the Rate of the public, as far as it concerns my lub- Thefe are forne of the difiiculties and tlillrelfes which jeél. The condition of the great llaple manufactures of our country is well known. 'l'hole of the linen and We are, for the fake of a trial of flcill withour colo- makes or mars them. the lilk are in the greatell di'ftrels, and the woollen and linen are now pnblickly handed and contending againit one another. One part of our people is llarving at home on the aims of their parithes, and another run- ning abroad to this very country, that we are contending with. The produce of North America, uled to be -J- «a; .._<~ v... A fican commodities to the fame value, and debts" Will; lalled, and it is apprehended, thatthe prefent lituatioti' of the public is yet more liable to the imprefliohl nies, going to bring on ourfelves‘, and which mull b'é perpetually magnifying and increafing, as long as the unnatural conteli (hall continue; To thefe a former adminil‘tration gavewa'y"; but it is to be lhppofed, that the prefent has, byireturnin;r to the lhock, refilved to be more callons'on the occafion‘, and to leavethe Americans, the merchants, and the manufaéturers to fettle among themfelves their Our people willindeed be lel‘s fent yearly to P2: itain, is reckoned at about four millions matters, as they may. fierling ; the taiattttfafiut'es of Britain and other com- clatnorons about the ears of their betters, if they {hall all run and emigrate out of the kingdom. But there is a circnml'tance not yet mentioned, which Will bid fair to go further, and which may but too probably involve in one common confulion, the nation, the government, and the‘ admznillration itlelf. I mean the danger of a modities returned from hence, at nearly the fame fum; the debts due from people in America to the Britilh merchants here, at about 1"}: millions, or a year and a half of that commerce. I lay, the time pail mutt be our guide with rclpefi to thatto come. Suppofing therefore the Americans to act in this cafe, as they did diforder or failure of the public revenue, the difficulty in that (if the damp 216%; We (hill then have yearly or impollibility to pay the interel‘t of the debt, the until the linal l‘ettl "merit of this allitir, manul'aEturestO the value of. Four millions (telling, left and heaped on the hands of our merchants and mailer manufacturers, navy, the army, the civil lift, and our other xnences; if the prefentcontention that} proceed, and continue. ldelire in explanation of. this, to conlider our prefent income, our out goings and our refources. I or we {hall have workmen and poor people put out of employ, and turned adrilt in that proportion. There Will not enter into any detail thereon ; the particulars will liltett‘il‘e be drawn from our home confutnptiog H1" grofs, will be fudicient for th: pnrpole before us: an. I wil: |
