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Show :02 [A2 B.T.] CANADA PAMPHaL-‘r. France, (which is morally impoflible in a country ufed to them) the other 200,0001. will {till b'e ipent in France, in the education of their children would maé/c m to export 300,000 I. 2'72 jitgzm. and fupport ofthemfelves; or elfe be laid up there, where they will always think their home to be. Befides this confumption of Britifh manufactures, 772qu i! faid of the émej/it eve/ball laaoefmm tbe fituation quuada/oupe; and we are told of a trade to the Caraccasand Spanifh Main.-In What refpeét Guadaloupe is better fituated for this increafe of Englifhconfumption might f'top unit of it here,-to whofe profit is this to redound? To the profit of the French inhabitants of the illand: except a {mall part that {hould fall to the {hare of theEnglifh purchafers, but whofe whole purchafemoney mutt firft be added to the wealth and circulation of France. I grant, however, much of this 300,000 I. would be expended in Britifh manu- l a :l' Q ‘ i L l H l i . nilmflmi, ~ vp. I , fm_ "i-Mkfiiy hm" ‘: V wr jg" W'Frrw Wm :W V ‘ 203 vernment, and fuch I am fure are not worth recal- lin . gut {hould we keep Guadaloupe, we .are told it Admit it to be true, though perhaps the amazing H‘ szdaloupe overvalued. factures. Perhaps, too, a few of theland-owners of Guadaloupe might dwell and fpend their for- trade than Jamaica, or even any of our other iflands, I am ata lofs to guefs. I believe it to be not [0 well fltuated for that of the windward coaft, as Tobago and St. Lucia; which in this, as well as "other refpeé‘ts, would be more valuable pof- tunes in Britain, (though probably much fewer feflionS, and which, I doubt not, the peace Will than of the inhabitants of North America.) I admit the adVantage arifing to us from thefe circumflances, (as far as they go) in the cafe of Guadaloupe, as well as in that of our other Well: {ecure‘rto u‘s. Nor is it nearly {0 well fituated for that of the reft of the Spanifh Main as Jamaica.- India fettlements.-Yet even this confumption is little better than that of an allied nation would be, who {hould take our manufactures and fupply us with fugar, and put us to no great expence in A‘s 'to the greater fafety of our trade by the 130(fefiion of Guadaloupe; experience has convinced Us,"that inreducing a fingle ill-and, or even more, we {top the privateering buliiiefs but little. Privateersfiill fu'bfil't, in equal if not greater numbers, ‘and carry the veHels into Nlartinico, which before defending the place of growth-but, though it was more convenient to carry intoGuadaloupe. our own colonies expend among us almof't the whole produce of our fugar *9, can we or 0113/4)! we to promife ourfelves this will be the cafe oqua- -Had we all the Caribbees, it is true, they would {in thofe parts be without lhelter. ‘ "Yet‘upon‘ the whole I fuppofe it to be a doubt- lful-point, and well worth conlideration, whether -our obtaining pofTeliiori ofall the Caribbees, would be =rn0re than ‘a temporary benefit; as it would ‘nedefl'arily foon fill the French part of Hifpaniola with D d z ‘ daloupe? One 100,000 I. will fupply them with Britifh manufactures; and fuppofing we can 7 effectually prevent the introduétion of thole 0f "‘ Remarks, p. 47. 1‘ ‘ l‘Lll‘iCE, |