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Show [ 113 ] allowed, being obliged to buy yours at your own Price; or cite to pay fuch a Duty for the Switzerland, Brandenémg/z, Denmark, or Sweden, where vaf't Qlantities are now railing. Take another Inltance :--- Why [hall notI be permitted to a Prohibition. Nay, in order to favour your Plantations, I am not permitted to which I cannot put my Ships to Sea 5-- and In- plant this Herb on my own Eflate, though digo, fo ufeful in many Manufaé‘tures;---why the Soil {hould be ever f0 proper for it. Again, the fame Choice, and the fame Alternative are allowed to you, and denied to me, in {hall not I be permitted to purchafe thefe Articles wherever I can, the belt in their Kind, and on the belt Terms ?.--No, I 111311 not; for regard to Rice -, with this additional Advantage, though they are all raw Materials, which there- that in many Refpeéts you need not bring it into England at all, unlefs you are fo minded. And what will you Pay in Relation to Hemp ? The Parliament now gives you a Bounty of 81. per it here in England; nay, will tax me very feverely for fetchingit from any other Country; though it be an Article molt effentially neceffary for all the Purpoles of Shipping and Navi- fore ought to have been imported Duty free, yet I am rellrained by an heavy Duty, alm_.-Pt equal to a Prohibition, from purchafing them any where, but from y0t :---Whereas you on the contrary, are paid a Bounty for felling thefe very Articles, at the only Market, in which you could fell them to Advantage, viz. the Engi'i/lz*. MUCH more might have been faid on this Subjeét; and the like Oblervations might have been extended to the Sugar Colonies: ButI gation. forbear. Ton for exporting your Hemp from Narflzflmerz'm -, but will allow me nothing for growing Moreover in reipeét to the Culture of Raw Silk, you have an immenfe Parliamentary Premium for that Purpofe; and you receive further Encouragements from our Society for Arts and Sciences, which is continually adding frelh Rewards :--- But I can receive no Encou- ragement either from the one, or from the other, to bear my Expences at firfi letting out 5 though molt undeniably the white Mulberry-Trees can thrive as well on my Grounds, as they can in Switzer- For indeed enough has been faid al- ready (and as it expofes our Partiality and Infatuation a little feverely, p61 haps too mt1ch)--in order to prove to the World, that of all Peoe ple upon Earth, you have the leaPt Reafon to complain. 1‘ * Thofe who have not the Statutes at large, may fee the Things here referred to, and many others of the like Sort, in Craurbe's or Saxéy's Book of Rates. 3 BUT Hm. . i J. to buy Pitch, Tar, and Turpentine-,---without ‘ Tobacco of other Countries, as mull amount "'1'"th dimmii'vefiibir Egfiiiu / ' [ 112 ] L'lirurl |