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Show [ 4'2 ] l. 43 ]5 Trade of the whole World, and beggar all the rcl‘t, that it tmintainsjuft the contrary : Became Turn and peculiar Genius of one People pre- it follows, from my Syftem, that every Nation, poor as well as rich, may improve them: Condi- tion if they pieafe. The poorer Nation, for Example, may adopt the good P0l1ce,---the Abolition of Monopolies and exclufive Companics, and feveral ufeful Regulations of its richer neighbouring State: All thefe' it may adopt without Expeme, at the fame Time that it may avoid their Errors or Mif'takes, for Errors there will be, more or lefs, in all human Inl'titutions. Moreover, tho' the poorer Nation cannot rival the Manufaétures of a richer one at a third Place, or in a foreign Market, where the Goods and Merchandize of both are flip. pofed to be admifiible on the fame Footing, yet it may, and ought, by Means of judicious Taxes, to difcourage the too great or exceflivc Confumption of alien Manufactures, and efpecially Liquors, within its own Territories ; and as this likewife may be done without Ex- ferably to thofe of another, which no Elation can deprive another of, unlefs by Violence and Conquef‘t -, and therefore, thefe being out of the Qieltion, the necelTary Confequence is, that the poor Country is left at Liberty to cultivate all thefe natural and local Advantages, as far as it can. Nay, I obferve further, that the very fuperior Riches of a neighbouring State may contribute greatly to the carrying of fuch a Plan into Execution : And here I do not mean merely to fay, that the Manufacturers and Merchant Adventurers of the poorer Country may avail themfelves of the Wealth of a richer by barrowing Money, at a low lntereft, to be employed in Trade; tho' by the bye, that is no fmall Benefit : But what I lay the chief Strefs on at prefent is, that a tic/t Nag/zoom is more [21786: to decome [t good Cog/tamer than a poor 0726; and confequently, that the Traders of the poorer Country will find a better Market, and a more ge- neral Demand for their peat/tar Produélions, peme, nay, to the great Advantage of the whether of Art or Nature, by lVleans of the Revenue, it therefore follows, that the poorer Nation may get forwards in many Refpeéts without being obftruoted by the rich one. To fuperior Wealth and great Confumptions of which Confideration we fhould not forget to themlelves. Moreover, vice oorfzt, I affirm on the other Hand, that even the rich Country will be benefited in its Turn, by this Acceflion of add, that there are certain Zoo/z] Advantages refulting either from the Climate, the Soil, the Produétions, the Situation, or even the natural. Turn their richer Neighbours, than they could pof- fibly have had, were the latter equally poor with Wealth flowing into the poor one. F 2 For when the |
