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Show [Az D.T.] Cmfl: qf the American re-thipped for America; CXpences amounting, in war-time, at leal't to thirty pounds percent. more. than otherwife they would have been charged with; and all this merely, that a few Portugal merchants in London may gain a commilhon on thofe goods puffing through their hands. [Por- Z‘zzgrz/ merchants, by the by, that can complain loudly of the {mulled hardfhips laid on their trade by foreigners, and yet even in the lattyear could in Eng/(Md) prevailed totally to forbid by an at? oppole with all their influence the giving eale to their fellow-fubjeéts labouring under to hcavy‘an of parliament the ere€ting of flitting-mills, or ileel furnaces in America; that the Americans may be obliged to take all their‘ nails for. their buildint7c , . at ‘ and lteel for their tools, from thele artificers, under the fame difadv;1ntages*. Added oppreflion I) That on a flight complaint of a lew Virgil/2'0 merchants, nine COlOl'llCS had been re{trained from making paper-money, become ab- folutely necefi‘ary to their internal commerce, from _ I" "Wk worm- Dyi‘ozztmtr before 1768, prevailed. to obtain an aft in their own ' remaining that manufacture in Amerl- . ' to oblige the Americans to {and tin";linglantl to l e manulire‘tured, and pinch . "t the hate, loaded with the charges; olia doubl; tranlpottation. In the fame manner have a tow nail-makers, and {till a finaller body of Reel-malt- ers (perhaps there are not halfa dozen ofthw'i- the conf'tant remittance of their gold and filver to Brz‘tzziiz.-But not only the interelt of a particular body of merchants; but the interefl: of any finall body of Britifli tma'gflnm or arz‘yirm, has been found, they fay, to outweigh that of all the King's fubjeds in the colonies.-Tl'1ere cannot be a {tronger natural right than that of a man's making the belt profit he can of the natural produce of his lands, provided he does not thereby hurt the {tate in general. Iron is to be found every Where in America, and the beaver furs are the natural . produce of that country : hats, and nails and [tee], are wanted there as well as here. }t is of no importance to the common welfareot the empire whether a fubjeét of the King's gets his, living with making hats on this, or on that fide of the water. I Yet the batters of England have prevailed " [I lhall here give the reader the note at the end ofthc fourth paragraph olirhe Farmer's terenth letter, (written by Mr. Dir/(mJW-j ( ‘ Many remarkable inllanees might be produced ofthc extram'! (lintu'y inattention \xith "hieh bills ol'great importanre, concerning there colonies, hare pallbd in parliament; \vhichis owing, ‘ :15 it is (quieted, to the bills being brought in, by the perlbns who have point; to carry, to artfully framed, that it is not ealy ‘ for the members in general, in the halls of bulinefa, to difeovcr ‘ their tendency. ‘ The following inrlances thew the truth of this remark. ‘ \Vhen Mr. (;i'2'l.'~l':/il.', in the violence of reformation and in~ an....»-- minn- 240 novarion, fln‘lned the all: (7mg: ill. chap. 15th, for regulating the [fruit-fan; trade, the word " Ireland" was dropt in the clauh: relating to our iron and lumber, {0 that we could tend thelb ti- this to no other part 0"liurope, but to Great Britain. This was to um'ealhnable a rellricfion, and lb contrary to the {1-11 trip of the legillaturc, for many years before, that it is lhl'priting it llroultl not have been taken notice of in the horde. I'lowewr, the bill pilli‘ed into a law. llu: uheu the matter was explained, Lille, re- llrietion '.\‘;1 taken oll'in a lhhli'quent act. ‘ I cannot fay, how long alter the lill\lll§‘:(l1;rl.lllh rcilriftion, r: ‘ l have nor the acts; briti thinkin leli: than ' *r-n month». another atl of parliament tufted. in which ti; u .l i " belt" ‘ " |