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Show CANAD-APAMPHLET. [A1 B.T.} C‘o/om'er not dangerous to G.Br[toz'/z. 191 owing to this; that the people haVing by thelir iinto d‘uftry mended their Cir‘eumfiances, are enab ee fuinibetter s, clothe indulge themfelves in finer ture, and a more fgeneral ufe of all our manufac. than hereto ore. North in goods IUFICDS no, the occafion forEnglifh ufe and have to ation inclin America, and the much come, to ages for be muf't and is, them, greater than the ability of the people to pay for them; they mutt therefore, as they now do, deny themfelves many things theywouldotherw-ife chute to have, or increafe their induf'try to. obtain them. for exportation, they cannot fupply their home 190 --And thus, if they {hould at any time manufacNew ' -dil; lllllllfi" l H z,_ H: "if; ture fome coarfe article, which on account of its bulk or fome other circumflanc'e,‘ cannot to well be brought to them from Britain; it only enables them the better to pay for finer goods, ll that ot/Jerrwyé they could not indulge themtelves in : So that the exports thither are not diminifhed demand; and it is well known that fonie thoufaiid dozens are fent thither yearly from London, Brifu to], and Liverpool, and fold there cheaper than the inhabitants can make them of equal goodiiels. --In fact, the colonies are to little fuited for ethi- blifhing of manufactures, that they are continually lofing the few branches they accidentally gain. The working brafiers, cutlers, and pewterers, as well as hatters, who have happened to go over from time to time and fettle in the colonies; gra- dually drop the working part of their bufinefs, and import their refpeétive goods from England, whence they can have them cheaper and better than they can make them. They continue their {hops indeed, in the fame way of dealing ; but become fillerr of brafiery, cutlery, pewter, hats, 85c. brought from England, inltead of being maker: of thofe goods. by fuch manufacture, but rather increafed.-The fingle article of manufaéture in thefe colonies men- tioned by theRemarker, is batsmade in New-England. It is true there have been, ever fince the firft fettlement of that country, a few batters there ; drawn thither probably at firfl: by the flierlity of getting beaver, while the woods were but little cleared, and therewas plentyofthofe animals. The cafe is greatly altered now. The beaver {kins are not now to be had in New-England, but from very remote places and at great prices. The trade is accordingly declining there; f0 that, far from being able to make hats in any quantlfty or 5. [T/Jeflmericaiz colonies not dangerous in tlm'r flature to Great Britain] Thus much as to the apprehenfion of our colonies becoming ufelefs to us. I {hall next confider the other fuppofition, that their growth may ren- der them dangerour.---Of this, I own, I have not the leaft conception, when I confider that we have already fourteen fipamte governmonz‘r on the maritime wait of the continent; and if we extend our fettlements,fhall probably have as many more behind them on the inland fide. Thofe we now have, are not only under different governors, but have different |