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Show 4 THOUGHTS on [G.P.] THE Peoerc or COUNTRIES. 5 long a journeyman to a trade, but goes among to time, almoft every flave being, from the .na-g thofe new fettlers, and fets up for himfelf, 850. Hence labour is no cheaper now, in Penfylrumzia, ture of flavery, a thief; and compare the whole than it was thirty years ago, though f0 many thoufand labouring people have been imported from Germany and Ireland. amount with the wages of a manufaéturer of iron or wool in England, you will fee that labour is much cheaper there, than it ever can be by ne- groes here-Why then will flmerz'mzz: purchafe The danger, therefore, of theft: colonies Haves? Becaufe flaves may be kept as long as a interfering with their mother country in trades man pleafes, or has occafion for their labour; that depend on labour, manufactures, doc, is too while hired men are continually leaving their maf'ter (often in the midft of his bufinefs) and remote to require the attention of Great Britain. 10. But in proportion to the increafe of the colonies, a valt demand is growing for Britifh manufaétures; a glorious market, wholly in the power of Britain, in which foreigners cannot in..terfere, which will increafe, in a lhort time, even beyond her power of fupplying, though her whole trade {hould be to her colonies * " 9* 12. It is an ill-grounded opinion, that by the 11250211" 0/ fltwer, America may pothbly vie in cheapnefs of manufaétures with Britain. The labour ofllaves can never be fo cheap here, as the labour of working men is in Britain. Any fetting up for themfelves. § ,8. 13. As the increafe of people depends on the encouragement of marriages, the following things mutt diminifh a nation, 1122. I. 7718 [wing €072querm'. For the conquerors will engrofs as many ofiices, and exact as much tribute or profit on the labour of the conquered, as will maintain them in their new el'tablithment; and this diminilhing the fubfiflence of the natives, difcourages their marriages, and to gradually diminifhes them, While the foreigners increafe. 2. Lofl gfferri- z‘ory. Thus the Briton: being driven into Wales, Interefl: of money is in and crowded together in a barren country, infuri- the colonies from 6 to 10 per (6722‘. Slaves, one with another, cot't 3o]. fierlingper head. Reckon ficient to fupport fuch great numbers, diminifhed, then the intereft of the firft purchafe ofa flave, while the Saxons increafed on their abandoned the infurance or rifque on his life, his cloathing and diet, expences in his ticknefs, and lofs of time, lofs by his neglect of bufinefs, (neglect is natural to the man who is not to be benefited lands, till the illand became full ofEnglifh. And, by his own care or diligence) expence of a driver people in Wales. 3. Loft aftrade. Manufactures exported, draw fnbfifience from foreign countrpes one may compute it. to keep him at work, and his pilfering from time ' ' to till the people bore a proportion to the produce; were the Erzglzjb now driven into Wales by fome foreign nation, there would, in a few years, be no more Englifhmen in Britain, than there are now or |
