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Show SUBJECTS; 96 97 POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL and this they underl'tand. they very frankly difcover the bale and dilingenitous r‘rtiECes of other Men. And the Author of thefe Sheets owes much of his lntelligenre to ieveral Gentlemen of this Profeflion, who were Eye and Ear Xhlitnelies of the Facts re, lated. ' But to excite that Man (whom perhaps they have long called their Enemy) to greater Indufiry and Sobriety, to confider him as a Cuf'tomer to them, and themfelves as Cufiomers to him, f0 that the richer both are, the better it may be for each other; and, in fhort, to BUT after all, What'have l been doing? and promote a mutual Trade to mutual Benefit: how can I hope for Profelytes by this Kind of Writing ?---lt is true, in regard to the Points attempted to be proved, Ihave certainly proved that, "Neither Princes nor People can be " Gainers by the molt fuccefsful VVars:-" Trade in particular will make its Way to the Country where Goods are manu‘ac'tured the bell and cheapelt:---But con- quering Nations neither manufacture well nor cheap:---And confequently mutt fink in Trade in Proportion as they extend in This is a Kind of Reafoning, as unintelligi- ble to their Comprehenfions, as the Antipodes themfelves. SOME few perhaps, a very few indeed, may be {truck with the Force of thefe Truths, and yield their Minds to Conviction -, "Ptflibly in a long Co'urle of Time their Numbers may encreafe ;---and pofiély, at laft, the Tide may turn ;1---fo that our Pofierity may regard the prefent Madnefs of going to War for the Sake of Trade, Riches, or Do- " Conquefi." Thefe Things are now incon~ tel‘tibly clear, if any Thing ever was in. But, alas! Who will thank me for fuch Lefi'ons as thefe? The {even ClafTes of Men j‘ut't enumerated certainly will not; and as to the Mob, the blood-thirfiy Mob, no Arguments, and no Demonl'trations whatever, can perfuade them to withdraw their Veneration from their grim Idol, the God Cf Slaughter. On the contrary, to knock a Man on the Head is to take from him his All at once, This is a compendious Way, and. minion, with the fame Eye of Afionifhment and Pity, that we do the Madnefs of our Forefathers in fighting under the Banner of the peaceful Crofs to recover the Holy Land. p This firange Phrenzy raged throughout all Orders and Degrees of Men for feveral Centuries; and was cured at lalt more by the dear~bought Experience of repeated LofTes and continual Dilappointments, than by any Regood Effects which cool Reafon and Heé‘tion, G , p . _\_\\\‘l\|)l\|3l |