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Show l 16 ] [I7] two periods, within this century E-and this is matter for meditation. But this 18 not all. Examine my fecond account. _ See'how the export trade to the Colonies alone. in 1772 flood in the other point of View, that 18, as compared to the whole trade of England in 1704. The whole export trade of England, including that to the Colonies, £6,509,000 1111704, - - -_- - - _ Export to the Colonies alone, in 1772, - - 6,024,000 Difference, twelfth part; it is now (as a part of Sixteen Millions) confiderably more than a third of the whole. This is the relative prOportion of the importance of the Colonies at thefe two periods : and all reafoning concerning our mode of treating them mul'r have this proportion as its bafis; or it is a reafoning weak, rotten, and {ophifiicaL Mr. Speaker, I cannot prevail on myfelf to hurry over this great confideration. It is good for us to be here. We {land where we have an immenfe View of what is, and what is pal'r. Clouds indeed, and darlriieis, tell upon the future. 485,000 Let us however, before We delbend from this noble eminence, reflect that this growth of our na- The trade with America alone is now within lefs than 500,000 I. of being equal to what this tional profperity has happened within the {hart period of the life of man. It has happened within Sixty-eight years. There are thofe alive whofe memory might touch the two extremities. For infiance, my Lord Bathurft might remember all great commercial nation, England, carried on at the beginning of this century With the whole world! If 1 had taken the largeft year of thofe on vour table, it would rather have exceeded. But: it will he laid, is not this American trade an unnatural protuberance, that has drawn the juices from the red of the body? The reverfe. It is the very food that has nourilhed every other part into its prefent magnitude. Our general trade has been greatly augmented; and augmented more or lefs in almoll: every part to which it ever ex- tended; hut with this material diference; that of the Six Millions which in the beginning of the century confiituted the whole mafs of our export commerce, the Colony trade was but one twelfth the flages of the progrefs. He was in 1704 of an age, at leaft to be made to comprehend fuch things. He was then old enough afia parenium jam legere, ez‘ Qua: fit poteriz‘ cogmfcere virtm-Suppofe, Sir, that the angel of this aufpicious youth, forefeeing the many Virtues, which made him one of the mofl: amiable, as he is one of the molt fortunate men of his age, had opened to him in vifion, that, when, in the fourth generation, the third Prince of the Houfe of Brunf- wick had fat Twelve years on the throne of that nation, which (by the happy ifihe of C moderate |