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Show l i . p v - a" thereby become the cheaper P and which of all thefe Things can be purchafed at a lower Rate, at prefent than before the War ?---Not one can be named. On the contrary, the Man of landed Property can tell but too circumf'cantially, that Taxes are rifen higher than ever,---that the Interel't of Money is greater ;-- that every ad- ditional Load of National Debt is a new Mort‘ gage on his exhaulted, and impovetifhed Eltate -, ---and that, if he happens to be a Member of Parliament, he runs the Rifque of being bought out of his Family-Borough, by fome upllart ‘ IIIIUII/Hlll ‘,‘ ‘ "",‘"Vi ‘ ..‘ THE Eng/2]}; Manufaéturer, likewife, both fees and feels, that every foreign Material, of .‘fiv‘s... Ufe in his Trade, is grown much dearer,---that all Hands are become extremely fcarce,--otheir J-n . *7'v" , VVV .‘ Gambler, Jobber, or Contractor. Wages prodigioufly raifed,---the Goods, of courfe, badly and fcandaloufly manufactured,"and yet cannot be alforded at the fame Price as heretofore,---that, therefore, the Sale of Englz' z Manufactures has greatly decreafed in foreign Countries fince the Commencement of War; they can buy them cheapefi, without re- garding the Interef't of the Mother-Country, when found to be repugnant to their own. All thefe Things, I fay, the EngZi/lz Manufaélurer bOth fees and feels: And is not this enough? Or mull he carry his Complaifance {till farther, and never be a Friend to Peace 'till it be- comes the lntereft of the Merchant to befriend it likewife ? Surely, furely, this is rather too much to be expected. In one Word, to return to the Point from which we fet out, the Interelt of the Merchant, and the Interel't of the King- dom, are two very dif'tinét Things ; becaufe the one may, and often doth, get rich by the Courfe of Trade, which would bring Ruin and Defolation on the other. 7. THE Land and Sea Officers are, of courfe, the invariable Advocates for War. Indeed it is their Trade, their Bread, and the fure Way to get Promotion; therefore no other Language can be expected from them: And yet, to do them Jul'cice, of all the Adverfaries of Peace, they are the fairel't and molt open in their Proceedings; they ufe no Art of Colouring, and ---and what is worfe than all, that our own CO- as you know their Motive, you muf't allow for it accordingly. Nay, whether from a Principle lonies, for whofe Sakes the War was faid to be Of Honour natural to their Profeflion, or from undertaken, do buy Goods in Holland, in Italy, What other Caufe I know not; but fo it is, that 7 they 55;",33 g 13o." 15-4 3‘ U us .3 alum Al Italy, at Hamburg/z, or any other Market where . [ 87 ] are added to our Empire, whofe Produce is the very fame with theirs. Yet, what Elegance of Life, or what Ingredient for Manufacture, is VB . . ":13, :V ,ft"? 3‘" -‘ .A ,->v-‘ "A, _ .' [ 86 ] |
