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Show 164. CANADA PAMPHLET. [A: B. T.] War z'zzAmer. notfor Colonies alone . 165 by the conquefts of this war, or can refult from confirming them by the peace, but what they mutt enjoy in common with the rei‘c of the Britifh peo- le; with this evident drawback from their {hare of thefe advantages, that they will neceflarily leffen, or at leaft prevent the increafe of the value of what makes the principal part oftheir private pro- perty [theirlandj.-A people fpread through the whole traét of country on this fide the Milliflippi, and fecured by Canada in our hands, would probably for fome centuries find employment in agri- culture; and thereby free us at home efieé‘tually from our fears of American manufactures-Unprejudiced men well know that all. the penal andprohibitory laws that ever were thought on, will not be fuflicient to prevent manufactures in a country whofe inhabitants furpafs the number that can fubfift by the huibandry of it. That this will be the cafe in America foon, if our people remain con- fined within the mountains, and almol'c as {con fliould it be unfafe for them to live beyond, though the country be ceded to us; no man acquainted with political and commercial hiftory can doubt. Manufactures are founded in poverty : It is the multitude of poor without land in a country, and who mutt work for others at low wages or {tarve ; that enables undertakers to carryon a manufacture, and alford it cheap enough to prevent the importation of the fame kind from abroad, and to bear the expence of its own exportation.-But no man who can have a piece of land of his own, fufficient by his labour to fubfifl: his family in plenty, is poor .3 enough enough to be a manufacturer, and work for a ter. Hence, while there is land enough in Amermafica for our people, there can never be manufact ures to any amount or value. It is a {triking obfer vation ofa very (la/E pm 1", that the natural livelihood of the thin inhabitants of a foref'c country is hunt ing; that of a greater number, pafturage; that of a middling population, agriculture; and that of the greateft, manufactures; which laft mutt fubfif 'c the bulk of the people in a full country, or they mull: be fubfif'red by charity, or perifh.-The exte nded population, therefore, that is molt advantao eous to Great Britain, will be beft effected, becau feb only effectually fecured, by our pofleflion of Canada. So far as the éez'ng of our prefent colonies in North America is concerned, I think indee d with the Remarker, that theFrench there are not " an " enemy to 59 apprebma'ed '* ;"-but the expre f- fiona IS too vague to be applicable to the prefe nt, or indeed to any other cafe. Algiers, Tuni s and Tripoli, unequal as they are to this nation in powe r and numbers of people, are enemies to be {till apprehended; and the Highlanders of Scotland have been {0 for many ages, by the greateil princ es of Scotland and Britain. The wild lrifh were able to give a great deal of difturbance even to ueen Elizabeth, and colt her more blood and treaf ure than her war with Spain.---Canada in the hand s of France has always {tinted the growth of our co1‘ .[This I believe is meant for Dr. Adam Smith, Who feems not at this tune to have printed any of his politic al pieces. 13-] 3 Remarks, p. 27. lonies |
