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Show 21,6 POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL S U B J E C T s. they might have Ellates for nothing, and be, come Gentlemen for ever; whereas if they 217 be another great Saving, perhaps not lefs than 200,0001. a Year: And is very re- remained at Home, they had nothing to ex- markable, that pect beyond the Condition of a wretched the Colonies in Coni‘equence of thefe Boun- Journeyman, or a fmall laborious Farmer. Nay, one of thefe falfe Guides was known to have put out public Advertifements, fome few Years ago, in the North of Ireland, wherein he engaged to carry all, who would follow him, into fuch a glorious Country, where there was neither Tax, nor Tithe, nor Land- lord's Rent to be paid. This was enough: It took with Thoulands: And this he might fafely engage to do.--~---But at the fame Time he ought to have told them (as Bifhop Ber/{7616} in his Qieries juf'tly obferves) That a Man may pofTefs twenty Miles fquare in this glorious Country, and yet not be able to get a Dinner. 2dly. ANOTHER great Advantage to be derived from a Separation is, that we fhall then fave between 3 and 400,000}. a Year, by being difcharged from the Payment of any civil or military Eilablilhment belonging to the Colonies:-~»For which generous Benefaé‘tion we receive at prefent no other Return than lnvec - tives and Reproaches. 3dly. THE ceafing of the Payment of Bounties on certain Colony Produftions will be the Goods imported from ties, could n0t have been imported into any other Part of Europe, were there 3. Liberty to do it; becaule the Freight and firft Col‘t would have could be amounted fold for: to more So than they that in Faét we give Premiums to the Colonies for felling Goods to us, which would not have been fold at all any where elle. However, when {he pteient Bounties Illull ceale, we may then contitler, at our Leilure, whether it would be right to give them again, or not; and we lhall have it totally in our Power to favour that Country moll, which will {hew the greateit Favour to us, and to our Ma- nufactures. 4thly. VVHEN we are no longer connee‘led with the Colonies by the imaginary Tie of an lndentity of Government, then our Merchant txPorters and lvlanufiitlurers will have a better Chance of having their Debts paid, than they have at prel'ent: For as Matters now lland, the Colonills chufe to carry their ready Cafh to other Nations, while they are contracting Debts with their MotherCountry; with whom they think Lhey can take greater Liberties: And provided |