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Show 46 POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL are open P (for litrely itcannot be intended that ‘ a trading Nation is to fight for ever,) and when Peace is made, what new Duties, what addi. tional Taxes are to be impofed for defraying both Principal and Intereit of the Charges of fuch a War ?-- How are they to be levied ?--- Who is to bear them ?---And will you by this Means be better able to render your Goods cheaper at a foreign Market than heretofore P--A plain Anlwer t0 thefe Qlefiions would unravel the whole Matter, and bring Mankind to a right Ufe of their Senfes. HE only Set of Objeétions, as far i as they have come to my Know- ledge, which have been hitherto made to the Principles and hen.» My foninns laid down and illuftiated in theMfeiegoing 'Ileatife, are the following- 1ft. THAT according to this Hypothefis, Improvements, lndufi‘ry, and Riches, may be advanced and increalbd ad iilfiiziz‘zmz; which is a Pofition too extravagant to be admitted. 2dly. THAT in Coniequence ofthis accumu- lating Scheme, one Nation might engrols the Trade of the whole VVOl‘ld, and beggar every other State or Kingdom -, which Opinion is not only c0nt1ad1§cd by Fat} and Fxpei1enee wt 18 alfo contraiy to my own Si ilem of Com- merce, wherein I {liongly declaie againit Mo- nOpoly and Exclufion of every Kind. 3dly. ‘1‘."ll)lllllil ' |