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Show M. i-"HfiE-‘1W'7Wi A" - ADDRESS AND APPEAL To Tm. LANDED INTEREST. SwagGEES/gm 55 for Example, Iron, Hemp, Flax and Flax-Seed, Linen-Yarn, Skins and Furrs, Afhes, Tallow, II. Hair, Bridles, &c. &C. ;---Can it be pretended, with any Appearance of Truth, that the Im- is. REMARK 2" S we have been hitherto comparing the Value of the Export; to the twelve mal- Value of the Exports to Holland and Germany; ther) from Nort/z-flmerz'm, will bear any Com- parifon with th-ofe from 132115752; .? And yet, to the Shame and Dilgrace of an enlightened com- let us in the next Place confider alto the Nature mercial State, feveral of thefe raw Materials are of the NOVI/b/{iflé'l‘flfll'l Imports, if compared with thofe of other Countries. taxed, if imported from Rufla, in order to cre- ronteizt Provinces of Ncrtli-xfmerim, with the "mutuality/war \‘l'l'l'll-HI'Jlllllll Wk . ‘ ports of thefe Articles (taking one with ano- ate a Monopoly to North-America : And others, Now all Imports may be divided into two when imported from A'mrrim, are not only al- ClalTes, viz. Raw Materials for the Employ~ ment of our own People, and taxable Objects lowed to be entered Duty-free, which is juil: for the Purpofes of raifing 3 Revenue. IN regard to the firll of thefe,~--it‘ we {hould caft our Eyes on the Imports from " Rufia only, will any one be f0 hardy as to maintain, that the Imports from North-America are at all on a Par with them, in any Refpeft whatever? Timber, for enough; but alto have enjoyed for many Years the Benefit of large and muniticent Bounties given by the Parliament of Great-Britai72.-- Given? To whom? To our non-reprefented Colonies: For it feems they will condefcend to receive Bounties from us, tho' not reprefented, notwithl'tanding they make this very Circumllance a Plea or Pretence againl't bearing * A few lhallow, half-lighted Politicians have objected than to import Gold and Silver; beeaufp'e there cannot be to the Trade with Rl/fla, becaiife the Balance, according {0 many Hands employed in the man-utafturing of theie Metals, as in the working up of Timber, Iron, Hemp, to their narrow Ideas, is viflbly againi't us. But what Ba- lance do they mean P-Not the Balance ofI/zduflry, for that is plainly in our Favour; or, in other Words, we export more manufaflured Goods to Rifla, tlian'we receive from it. And as to the Balance of Money, they ought to have known, that it is much more beneficial to an induftrious, commer- cial Country to import Raw-Materials (ff it warm 11]?) t an Flax, &c. Sec, to their rej'peétive Ufes. It 15 zimazmg, how little thefe {elf-evident Principles‘have been underflood, or at leail attended to by commerCial Writers of fome Note and Character, and particularly by JOSIAH GEE‘; according to whole Doctrine of the Balance of Trade, this Nation hath not been worth a fingle Shilling for almolt thefe 100 Years. any |