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Show 6 [G.P.] Tnoudnrs‘ on THE for numbers ; who are thereby enabled to marry and raife families. If the nation be deprived of any branch of trade, and no new employment is found for her people occupied in that branch, it will foon be deprived of lb many people. qffooa'. 4.. Laj} Suppofe a nation has a fiihery, which not only employs great numbers, but makes the food and fubfii'tence of the people cheaper: if another nation becomes matter of the feas, and prevents the fifhery, the people will diminifh in proportion as the lofs of employ, and dearnefs of provifion, make it more difficult to fubfif't a family. 5. Bad government and {Iflcm‘e properly. People not only leave fuch a country, and, fettling abroad, incorporate with other nations, lofe their native language, and become foreigners; but the induf'try of thofe that remain being diicouraged, the quantity of fubfifience in the country is leffened, and the fupport of a family becomes more difficult. So heavy taxes tend to diminifh a people. 6. The introdufiimz qf'fla'vw. The negroes brought into the Englifh fugar-iflands, have greatly diminifhed the Whites there; the poor are by this means deprived of employment, while a few families acquire vaft eftates, which they {pend on .foreign luxuries ; and educating their children in the habit of thofe luxuries, the fame income is PEOPLING or COUNTRIES. 7 are broken, and the deaths among them are more than the births; {0 that a continual fupply is needed from Africa. The northern colonies having few flaves, increafe in whites. Slaves ‘alfo pejorate the families that ufe them; the white children become proud, difgufted with labour, and being educated in idlenefs, are ren- dered unfit to get a living by induf'try. 14. Hence the prince that acquires new territory, if he finds it vacant, or removes the natives to give his own people room ;--the legiflator that makes effectual laws for promoting of trade, increafing employment, improvingland by more or better tillage, providing more food by fifheries, fecuring property, Gib-and the man that invents new trades, arts, or manufaétures, or new im- provements in hufbandry; may be properly called Me Fat/Jen oft/Jez'r nation, as they are the caufe of the generation of multitudes, by the encourage.- ment they adord to marriage. 15. As to privileges granted to the married, (fuch as thejut trim/z [xi/Jerorzmz among the Rama/2r] they may haften the filling of a country that has been thinned by war or pettilence, or that has otherwife vacant territory; but cannot increafe a people beyond the means provided for their tub,- maintained one hundred. The whites who have flaves, not labouring, are enfeebled, and there- fifience. 16. Foreign luxuries and needlefs manufactures, imported and ufed in a nation, do, by the fame teaibning, increafe the people of the nation that fore not to generally prolific; the flaves being furnilhes them, and dimiuiIh the people of the worked too hard, and ill fed, their confiitutions nation that ufes them.---Laws, therefore, that are prevent needed for the fupport of one, that might have |
