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Show 46 [G. P.] .Pafiz‘iam 1‘0 be Examined. with the workmen while producing thofe manna faéiures: fince there are many expediting and facilitating methods of working, not generally known; and ‘Il'rangers to the manufaé‘tures, though they know pretty well the expence of raifing wheat, are unacquainted with thofe fhort methods of working, and thence being apt to fuppoie morelabour employed in the manufactures than there really is, are more eafily impoted on in their value, Po/z'tz'om to be Examined. 4.7 quered neighbours. This is robficry.-The fecond by commerce, which is, generally chewing-The third by agriculture, the only my} way; wherein man receives a real increafe of the feed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle wrought by the hand of God in his favour, as areward for his innocent life, and his virtuous mduflry. and induced to allow more for them than they are honeftly worth. 11. Thus the advantage of having manufactures in a country, does not confii't, as B. F. April 4, i769. is commonly fuppofed, in their highly advancing the value of rough materials, of which they are formed; fince, though fix-pennyworth of flax may be worth twenty thillings when worked into lace, yet the very caufe of its being worth twenty {billings is, that, befides the flax, it has colt nineteen {billings and fixpence in {ubfiitence to the manufacturer. But the advan- tage of manufactures is, that under their fhape proviiions may be more eafily carried to a foreign market; and by their means our traders may more eafily cheat ftrangers. Few, where it is not made, arejudges of the value of lace. The importer may demand forty, and perhaps get thirty {billings for that which colt him but twenty. 12. Finally, there feem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The firft is by war, as the Romsz did, in plundering their con- quered POLITICAL |
