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Show < 3'3" ‘- < ‘uflmiwnwi 3;}, a. A‘u min-111mm" Hl-"I I'lllllll W53 66 ADDRESS AND APPEAL To Other Articles brought Coaf't-wife; alfo to .Wines, Brandies, Rum, Sugars, Fruits, Oils, Sac. &c. imported from Abroad: likewife t0Timber of various Kinds for building or repairing, allo for making a Variety of Houlhold‘ Goods; to Iron, Hemp, Linen Cloth, and other Commodities, efpecially thol‘e of the bulky Kind: Now here I alk, Is it pofiible to con~ ceive, that, were this Group of Manufacturers to take Flight, like a Swarm of Bees, and fettl'e in fome of the Towns or Provinces of Nari-71America, they either would, or could employ as many 15$in 1 Seamen in their new Situations, as they do at prefent in their old ones? And can any Man be f0 ablurd as to maintain fucha Paradox? [Remember I limit the Matter to Engliflz Seamen only; for as to Americans, let their Number be what it may, Great-Britain; never was advantaged by them. Not 'to men- THE LANDED INTEREST. 67 I will therefore take, this Point relating to Sailors for granted; [at leall 'till the contrary lhall be ,proved,] and then it will follow, that Brill/12 or Iriflz Emigrations are to be confidered as being very unfavourable to the lncreale of Eng!i/Iz Sailors, as well as of Engli zManufaéturers; and that the Lois and Detriment to the Mother-Country are very great in both Refpeéts. BUT here a Difficulty of another Kind, and from a different (Luar-ter, will probably arife. It is this z-Granting that Emigrations are bad Things in all Refpeéts g-granting that they tend ,to diminilh the Number of your Sailors, as well as of your Manufacturers; yet how can you prevent this Evil? And what Remedy do you propole for curing the People of that Madnefs which has feized them for Emigrations 3-1 anlwer :-Even the Remedy which hath been f0 often, and all along propofed, A Total Separalion f om Nari/z-flmerz'm. For moll certain it is, 't'i0n, that leveral of the zi'merz'can Provinces that as foon as fuch a Separation {hall take have difputed, or rather denied, long before the Place, a Refidence in the Colonies will be no 'prel-ent Dillurbances began, the Right of prefi: longer a delirable Situation. ing‘ Sailors for the Navy; though it is well knOwn, that this is the only Method whereby a Navy can be manned ;, and though that emi- more probable, that many of thofe who are al- nent Whig, that upright, learned, and truly‘patriotic Lawyer [Judge FOSTER] hath demon- indeed we begin to find this Obfervation not‘a llratively proved in his Law‘Tracls this Right "to be as legally and confiitutionally vefied'in the Crown, as any Right whatever.] I Nay, it is much ready lEttled there, will with to .fly away, than that others fhould covet to go to them. And little verified at prefent, a confiderable Re-emigration (ifI may ufe the Term) having already taken Place. In fhort, when the EngZi/iz Government ] 2 |