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Show 78 POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL of another, provioed they are reafonably cheap and good ; To that the richer one Nation is, the more it has to lpare, and the more it will cer. tainly lay out on the Produce and ManufacDO you tures of its ingenious Neighbour. object to this? Do you envy the Wealth, or repme at the l'rofpcritv of the Nations around you P If you do, confider what is the Conle- S U B J E C T S. a /9 As to the moral and political World, Pro- vidence has lb ordained, that every Nation may increale in Frugality and Induf'try, and conieqiently in Richesale, if they pleale; becaufe it has given a Power to every Nation to make good Laws, and wife Regulations, for their internal Government; And none can jullly blame them on this Account. Should, quence, rviz. that you wifh to keep a Shop, but hope to have only Beggars for your Cullomers. LASTLY, the good Providence of God has for Example, the Polar, or the Tartar: grow further ordained, that a Multiplication of In- prefer Employment to Sloth, Liberty to Slavery, habitants in every Country {hould be the bell Means of procuring Fertility to the Ground, and of Knowledge and Ability to the Tiller of and Trade and Nlanu ac‘tures to Theft and Robbery -, it : Hence it follows, that an Increafe of Numbers, far from being a Reafon for going to War in order to thin them, or for fending them out to People in remote Defarts, operates both as an exciting Caufe to the Hufband man to increale his ({uantity, in Proportion to the Demand at Market; and all‘o enables him to raife more plentiful Crops, by the Variety and Plenty of thole rich l\"ltlllul‘(38, which the Concour‘ie of weary of their pl‘fillint wretcned Syl‘tems, and relolve upon a better Conltitiition , lhould they " The Wealth of this Nation -~ that amazing Wealth, which has been lb profuli‘ly fquandered away in the two lalt general and devouring Wars, is principally owing to the wife Regulations of that able Miniiler, Sir ROBERT WALPOLE. Jullice to his Character and Gratitude to his Memory, demand this Tribute of Acknowledgement to be paid him when dead, which was 1harnefully denied him while alive. Sm' again/0mm; commmm dale: .4551! And the Time is now come when his very Atlvt‘l'llil‘it's frankly con- fefs, That this Plan of Commerce was manly and rational; that hi: Endeavours to prevent an infatuated People from quarrelling with their belt Cultomcrs, were truly patriotictd; People, their l"lot‘ies, Cattle, €995. €395. produce: And it is remarkable, that very populous Countries are much leis {tibjeét to Dearth or ilaniines than any other.--So much as to thole Stores of Providence, which are laid up in the natural W'orld, and gracioully intended for the Ulc 0f Mankind. AS and that his very Crime: were more owing to the Extreniities to which he was driven by his implacable Enemies, than to any Malignity of his own. W'hen he came into Admi- niflration, he found the Err/311]}; Book ofRates almoll as bad as any in Europe; but he left i: the very bell. And were you to compare what he did for promoting general Trade, (and much more he would have done, licd it not been for the |