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Show CANADA PAMPHLEI. expence, it is owing to the mediocrity of fortune 18+ among the inhabitants of the Northern co oniles; and aimorc: equal divifion of landed property, t 1:111 in the \Veit India iflands, to that there are as yet but few large ef'rates. But if thofe who have fuch ef'tates, refide upon and take care of them then; felves, are they worfe fubJeEts than they won. be if they lived idly in England P-Eireat meritis affumed for the gentlemen of the \V‘cftlndifis t' on the fcore of their refiding and {pending LJCII‘ money in England. I would not deprecrate tlhat merit ; it is confiderable ; for'they mlght, if t iiy pleafed, {pend their money in France: but t e difference between their fpendlng 1t here and at home, is not {0 great. What do they {pend it in When they are here, but the produce and manu- faétures of this country ;- and would they not do the fame if they were at home 3‘ Is it of any grelat importance to the Englilh *1- farmer, whether tie Welt India gentleman comes to London andgats his beef, pork, and tongues, freth; or has t 1em brought to him in the Weft Indies falted. w 1ether he eats his Englifh cheefe and butter, or; drinks his Englifh ale, at London or in Barbadoes. Is the clothier's, or the mercer s, or the cutler s, or the toyman's profit lefs, for their goods being worn and confumed by the fame perfons refiding on the other tide of the ocean? Would not the profits of the merchant and manner be rather greater, and fome addition made to our navrgaRemarks, p. 47, 4.8, &c. . ' f [Whetheri our author meaned the Englifh or Irifh farmer, Baby] fame. the and one eventually perhaps, he thought them 1 » [A: B. T.] 7726 00102226: ufeful to G. Britain. I 85 tion, {hips and feamen P-If the North American gentleman Rays in his own country, and lives there in that degree ofluxury and expence with regard to the ufe of Britilh manufaétures, that his fortune entitles him to,- may not his exam ple (from the imitation of fuperiors, {0 natur al to mankind) fpread the ufe of thofe manufaétures among hundreds of families around him; and occafion a much greater demand for them, than it would do if he fliould remove and live in Lond on .9 --However this may be, if in our Views of im- mediate advantage, it feems preferable that the gentlemen of large fortunes in North America fhould refide much in England ,- it is what may furely be expeéted, as fafi: as fuch fortunes are ac- quired there. Their having " colleges of their " own for the education of their youth," will not prevent it : A little knowledge and learning acquired, increafes the appetite for more, and will make the converfation of the learned on this fide the water more {trongly defired. Ireland has its univerlity likewife; yet this does not prevent the immenfe pecuniary benefit we receive from that kingdom. And there will always be in the conveniencies of life, the politenefs, the pleafures, the magnificence of the reigning country, many other attraétions befides thofe of learning, to draw men of {ubflance there, where they can, (apparently at leaft) have the belt bargain of happinefs for their money. Our trade [a t/Je W's/f India Mama's is undoubtedly a valuable one : but whatever is the amount. B b 0 |