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Show [I8] l 19 l derate and healing councils) was to be made it! Fortunate indeed, if he lives to flee nothing that {ball vary the profpeé‘t, and cloud the letting, of his day! '(ireat Britain, he thould lee his ion, Lord Chancellor of England, turn back the current'of here- «Fiéé ary dignity to its fountain, and raile him to an hieher rank of Peerage, whilfi he enriched the family with a new one --.If amidf‘t thefe bright and happy fcenes of domellic honour and prolperity, that angel fhould have drawn up the cur- tain, and unfolded the riling glories of his coun- Excufe me, Sir, if turning from fuch thoughts I relume this comparative View once more. You have {ecu it on a large fcale; look at it on a linall one. I will point out to your atten- trv, and Whilf't he was gazing with admiration tion a particular infiance of it in the fingle proVince of Penlylvania. In the year 1704. that pro- on the then commercial grandeur of England, Vince called for 11,459]. in value of your com- The Genius {hould point out to him a little (peck, modities, fcarce vifible in the mafs of the national intereft, a {mall feminal principle, rather than a formed whole. \Vhat did it demand in i772? Why nearly Fifty times as much; for in that year the body, and {hould tell him - " Young man, export to l'enlylvania was 507,909]. nearly equal " There is Americafiwhich at this day {erves to the export to all the Colonies together in the firfi period. " for little more than to amufe you with flories " of lavage men, and uncouth manners; yet " (hall, before you tafte of death, {hew itl‘elf " equal to the whole of that commerce which " now attracts the envy of the world. VVhat" ever England has been growing to by a prou" grefiive increale of improvement, brought in " by varieties of pCOplC, by luccdlion ofcivilizs " ing conquefis and civilizing lettlements in 'a " {cries of Seventeen Hundred years, you {hall native and foreign. This was the Ichoofe, Sir, to enter into thefe-minute and particular details; becaufe generalities, which in all other cafes are apt to heighten and rail‘e the fubject, have here a tendency to link it. When we {peak of the commerce with our Colonies, fiction lags after truth; invention is unfi'uiti'ul, and imagination cold and barren. "" fee as much added to her by America in the So far, Sir, as to the importance of the obje& " courts of a fingle life!" If this {late of his in the View of its commerce, as concerned in the country had been foretold to him, would it not reguire all the illnguine credulity of youth, and ports, I could thew how many enjoyments the exports from England. IfI were to detail the im- all the fervid glow of enthufiafm, to make him procure, which deceive the burthen of life; how believe it? Fortunate man, he has lived to Ice many materials which invigorate the {prings of 2 it! C 2 national |