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Show (56) in. (57) This is the iflue and the drain, which prevents us from perceiving ourfelves more enriched and replenilhed' from the val-t quantity of treafure perpetually arriving to us from many parts. This may perhaps be the reafon, why We are leis fenfible, lefs attentive, and perhaps fometimes leis grateful, 011 the occalion. But that is all our own fault, our own doing. We have none to thank for it but ourfelves. We ought not, on that account, to ei'teem thefe lupplies the leis, for bad we not them, it Would be much worfe with us. Nothing could follow but our lail deccafe and diliolution, as a Rate. 'l‘hefe mnli and will take place, whenever the others will f'top. However thefe things don't require much reafoniug. we have the World before us for an example. Such are every where the effects between the center and other parts of'a govern: ment, although perhaps in no cafe more {0 than in How happy would it be, if all the circn‘mftances of the other plan..would in the fame manner anl‘wer and play intothe hands of each other l When will men he contented to do others no more mifchief, than what will turn to their own benefit ? States and l‘vli-r nifiers will have advanced, no mean way innpolicy as Well as in morality, when they {hall once hare learned to confine all their evil towards others, within that cir- cle. It is the very perverfenefs of folly, to fuppofe, that men can fervc thetnlelves only by opprefling Others. But here, on the contrary, the hand of nature it~lelf works with us. , Freedom of trade is our foundation; no Wonder then that lo many bleflings coincide together. There is open before us, arich and Wide field ; we have only to enter and reap the harvefi, which is ripe and plentiful. This propofai that of Great Britain, on account of certain circums- refls therefore on three points; to'wit, that it will flances and caufes attending that empire, bring a greater influx of ,trealure into our outward which are that this mull enrich the center of em- particularly {trited toprodnce them. This is our point, domznions; if we are but fenfible of our true interel‘t; let us but pire; Which cannot thereliore, likewife but increafe preferve this our great and facred prerogative, the other benefits and advantages will of courlhe follow, even while we are afleep. its revenue. Thele are lh‘ort, propofitions, and no way perplexed. Let themgbe well examined. All falls to the ground, which has been {aid on the {ub- I {hall ufe no words thprore that this arrangement jea, if any one of them be f‘al‘le crimiiialten; hut Will bring a greater influx of treaiure to thofe, to ihould they, on the contrary, be all of them molt cvr- whofe liberty of trade it, {hall extend. The perfon' the molt prejudiced, or the moit ihort lighted in the cafe, will not dilpute that with me. I wrllventure to prefume on that point. This will therefore attach to us our dependencies, at the fame time, that it enriches us ourfelv'es. It will ltrengthen and {alien the bond and union between us. It will confirm our fuperiority, while it increafes the fruits of it. It will bring us more fpoils and profits than conquel‘t, although it will operate by love and affection. It will require neither eets or armies, to enforce it ; we need fear no revolts, no defections, or confederacics on the account of it. How dent, molt certain, and indil‘putahle, let any man, and the greatell: in truli, the moll conlider,-~howhe can anfwer tolreland, to the Lolonies, to his Country at home, to his King himfelf, in the concern of his revenue, and his exchequer, the refufing his attention. and aflifiance toameai‘ure, {o veryprac'licable, and at the fame time {0 univerfally beneficial and lalutary. This is the more, and much more neceflary, on‘ac. rountof the prefent condition of ireland. The late enquiry concerning their linen manufacture, the public hiflory of their eniigrations, and the flare of their credit at the beginning of their prefent beiiion of: Parliament, have made that fufiiciently known. 7 1 H than |