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Show Compargon of Great Britain and 38o own government {hould be diminifhed.--In that corrupted nation, no man is afhamed of being con- cerned in lucrative Government joér, in which [A: D.T.] America as to Credit, in 1777. 381 5. Refpec'hng profpeéts ofgreater future ability Brrtazn has none fuch. Her iflands are circum: {cubed by the ocean; and excepting a few parks the public money is egregioufly mifapplied and or forefls, {he has no new land to cultivate and fquandered, the treafury pillaged, and more numerous and heavy taxes accumulated; to the cannot therefore extend her improvements. , Her numbers too, infiead of increafing from increafed fubfiftence; are continually diminifhing from growmg luxury, and the increafing difliculties of great oppreflion of the people. But the profpeét of a greater number of fuch jobs by a war is an maintaining families, which of courfe difcourages inducement with many to cry out for war upon all occafions, and to oppofe every propofition of peace. Hence the conftant increafe of the national ple to affift 1n paying her debts, and that dimi- debt, and the abfolute improbability of its ever mfhed number will be poorer.-Anzerzca, on the being difcharged. 4.. Refpeéting the amount and certainty of in« a vaft territory yet to be cultivated ; which being come, and jolz'dz'ty officurz'ty ; the whole Thirteen cultivated, continually increafe in value with the States of America are engaged for the payment of mereafe of people; And the people, who double early marriages. Thus {he will have fewer peo- contrary, has befides her lands already cultivated every debt contracted by the congrefs; and the themlelves by a natural propagation every twenty debt to be contracted by the prefent war, is the five years, will double yet fatter, by the acceflion only debt they will have to pay; all, or nearly all offlrangerr, as long as lands are to be had for the former debts of particular colonies being al- new families; So that every twenty years, there Will ‘be a double number of inhabitants obliged ready difcharged. Whereas Eng/and will have to pay, not only the enormous debt this war muff occafion, but all their vaft preceding debt, or the interef't of itg-and while America is enriching itfelf by prizes made upon the Britifh commerce, more than it ever did by any commerce of its own, under the rettraints of a Britifh monopoly; Britain is growing poorer by the lofs of that monopoly, and the diminution of its revenues; and of courfc lefs able to difcharge the prefent indifcreet increafe of its expences. to difcharge the public debts; and thofe inhabi- tants being more Opulent, may pay their {hares Wlth greater cafe. 6. Refpeéting prudence in general affairs, and the advantages to be expected from the loan defired ; theAmerican: are cultivators of land ; thofe engaged in fiflaery and commerce are few, compared w1th the others. They have ever conducted their feveral governments with wifdom, avoiding wars, and vain expenfive projects; delightingvonly In their peaceable occupations, which mutt, con- 5. Re- fidering', |