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Show 306 POLITICAL AND ‘COMl‘le'i'eCIKeL S remaining Article is Rice: And this, it mutt be acknowledged, would bear a better Price at the Hamizm'g/z or Dixie/'2 Markets than it gene- U B J E C T S. 207 Gin/grow, &c. &c. and then he will foon difcover that excepting Gold and Silver Lace, Wines, and Brandies, lome Sorts of Silk and Linens, and perhaps a little Paper and Gunpowder; I rally doth in England. But as this is only one Article, out of many, it {hould be further confidered, that even the Ships which import Rite mm is become a Kind of a * general Mart into England, generally bring fuch other Pro- for my? other Commodities: And indeed were duce as would not be faleable to Advantage it not fo, how is it conceiveable, that to little 3. Spot as this llland could have made fuch a Figure either in Peace or War, as it hath lately done? How is it polhble, that after having con- 'in other Parts osztrope: So that there is no great Caufe to tear, that we lhould mafia'emh'y lofe the Trade even of this Article, were the lay, excepting thele few Articles, Great Bri- trae‘ted a Debt of. nearly One Hundred and Colonies to be dilinembered from us. Not to mention that all the Coalls of the flfi'aitc‘f'iflilt'flfi Forty Millions, we fhould neverthelefs be able and the South of Europe are already lupplied to make more rapid Progrefl‘es in all Sorts of with Rice from the Colonies, in the fame Manner as if there had been an actual Separation; Improvements, tilt-fill and ornamental, public and private, agricolic and commercial, than any other Nation ever did ?---F:ic‘t it is, that thele Improvements have been made of late Years, and are daily making: And Facts are llubborn Things. BUT, fays the Objfi‘flOl‘, you allow, that Gold and Silver Lace,---that Wines and Branches,"- ~--no Rice-Ship bound to any Place South of .szpe-Zi'z'mflere being at all obliged to .touch at any Port of Great'Brimz'n. So much, therefore, as to the fiaple Exports of the Colonies. LET us now confider their Imporlt. And here one Thing is very clear and certain, That whatever Goods, Merchandize, or Manufactures, the i‘v'lerchants of Great-Britain can fell to the Ytll‘ of Europe, they might fell the fame to the Colonies, if wanted: Becaule it is evident, that the Colonies could not purchale inch Goods at a cheaper Rate at any other Eurapmn Market1 Now, let any one cal't his Eye over the Bills 0t Exports from London, Biz/fol, Lie-67pm], Hull" Glflfgo'w: * I am credibly informed, that it appears by Extraéls from the Cullom-houie Books, that more Eng/fl) Goods are {ent up the two Rivers of Carr/may, the [IE/tr and the E/ée, than up any two Rivers in Nari/)vzli/m‘im. Yet the Narrb-ximerz'cmu and their Partiians are continually upPraiding us, as if we enjoyed no Trade, worth mention- tng, except that with the Colonies. ‘ fomc |