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Show u 'i ' 5 -' therefore it follows, that we fhould certainly and ten Times more uncorrupt than they are, could not pollibly guard a tenth Part of the loie thefe Branches of Commerce by a Separation, even fupp‘ofing that we could retain the Coafi. reit. therefore, were the whole Trade of Nari/zAmerica to be divided into two Branches, viz. Indeed even this doth not follow; becaufc We have loft them already, as far as it was the 1 In fhort thefe Things are fo very no- torious that they cannot be difputed; and lnterel't of the Colonies, that we lhould left them. And if any Man can doubt of this, let him but confider, that the Lumber, and Pro- the Voluntary, refulting from a free Choice of vifion-Vellels, which are continually running down from Zia/£072, Rlzacle-[flaml, New-York, Philadelphia, Charla-Town, 8.:c. &c. to Martim'co, and the other Franc/z Iflands, bring Home in return not only Sugars and Molalles, bUt allo Franc/z ‘Nines, Silks, Gold and Silver Lace, quence of compulfory Acts of the Brill/7n Parliament-,---this latter would appear fo very {mall and inconfiderable, as hardly to deferve and in lhort every other Article, in which they creafe our Shipping and Navigation, and con- can find a profitable Account : lVloreoverthoie fequently diminifh the Breed of Sailors. But this Objeétion has been fully obviated already: Ships, which fail to Err/tam; and Gamma, trade with the Dart/z, and confequently with all the North of Europe, on the fame Principle. And as the Ships which fieer South of Cape-Eniflfi'f, what do they do ?---Doubtlefs, they purchafe whatever Commodities they find it their lnterefi: to purchafe, and carry them Home to Nari/Iflmerir'a. Indeed what {hould hinder them from acting Of the flmerimm themfelves, purfuing their own Interefi, and the Involuntary, in Confe- a Name in an Ef'timate of national Commerce. THE 2d Objeé‘tion againfi giving up the Co; lonies is, that fuch aMeafure would greatly de- For if we [hall not lofe our Trade, at leaft in any important Degree, even with the northern Colonies (and molt probably we {hall encreafe it with other Countries) then it follows, that nei- ther the @antity of Shipping, nor the Breed 0f Sailors, can fuller any confiderable DimiCc nution g 1/316. 'v 'i v may :Uu But alas! the Cultom-houfe Officers of Nari/z- flmerz'ra, if they were ten Times more numerous, \ The Cuf'tom-houfe LA in rage in thefe Refpeéts P Officers, perhaps, you may fay, will hinder them. -A [ 201' ] afting agreeably to their own Ideas of AdvanJ WW was- - [ zoo ] BUT, fays the Objeélor, you allow, that Gold and Silver Lace,---that Wines and Brandies,~.. fome Sorts of Silks,---fome Sorts of Paper, Gunpowder, and perhaps other Articles, can be ptirchaled at certain Europe" Markets on cheaper Terms than they can in Eizglaml : And |