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Show 282 Cath‘Mi'j/Ew qf Grmz‘ Brz'teziiz mid litlcring the extent of their uncultivated territory, find them employment ftill for ages. Vv'hcrcas ling/mini, ever unquict, ambitious, avariciour, 'idcnt, and quarrcllonie, is half of the time :cd in war; always at an expcnce infinitely gt iter than the advantage to be obtained by it, if 111cccfsful. Thus they made war againll Spain in 1739, for a claim of about 95,0001. (fcarce a. groat for each individual of the nation) and fpent forty millions {tcriing in the war, and the lives of fifty thoufand men; and finally made peace without obtaining iatisfaétion for the fum claimed. Indeed, there is fcarce a nation in Europe, againil: which the has not madewar on fome frivolous pre- text or other; and thereby imprudently accumulated a debt that has brought her on the verge of [Az D.T.] America as to Credit, in 1777. 383 enough, to repay any debt which {he may contract to accomplifli it. 7. Refpeéting cbaraflt'r in the 50m]! [am/mm! qf debt: ; The punctuality with which Ailn'rz'm has difcharged her public debts, was Ihewn under the firf't head-And the general good difpofition of the people to fuch punctuality, has been mani- fefted in their faithful payment of private debts to England, fince the commencement of this war. --There were not wanting fome politicians [in America,] who propofed flopping t/mz‘ payment, until peace fhould be reflored; alleging that in the ufual courfe of commerce, and of the credit given, there was always adebt exifting equal to the trade of eighteen months: That the trade bankruptcy.--But the molt indifcreet of all her amounting to five millions Iterliug per annum, wars, is the pretient againl't America; with which {he might, for ages, have preferved her profitable the debt muPt be feven millions and an half; that this fum paid to the Britifh merchants, would operate to prevent that dif'trefs, intended to be brought upon Britain, by our {toppage of commerce with her: For the merchants receiving connection, only by a juf't and equitable conduct. She is now aeting like a mad fliopkeeper, who, by beating thofe that pafs his doors, attempts to make America this money, and no orders with itfor farther (up;- cannot fubmit to fuch treatment, without being firPt ruined; and being ruined, her cuitom will be worth nothing. England, to effect this, is plies, would either lay it out in the public funds; or in employing manufacturers, to accumulate goods, for a future hungry market in America, upon an expeéted accommodation; by which means the funds would be kept up, and the manu- them come in, and be his cuftomers. increafmg her debt, and irretrievably ruining herfelf.--Ameriaz, on the other hand, aims only to efiablifli her liberty, and that freedom of com- facturers prevented from murmuring. merce which will be advantageous to all Europe ; And by abolifhing that monopoly which {he 1a- ibis it was alleged, that injuries from Vminiflcers fliould not be rcvenged on merchants; that the boured under, the will profit infinitely more than enough. made in confidence of good faith; that there ought But agazifl credit was in confequence of private contracts, to |