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Show SERIESOFANSWERSqe POPULAR OBJECTIONS. Saintfoin, Cabbages, Carrots, and other artificial beg Leave to give it a dil'tinél; Confideration. I obferve then, that were a permanent, not a temporary Law to pafs for the Admillion of Live- @ Provender and (italics -,~-« provided we were allowed to import good Stores of Oats, Peale, g and Beans from Ireland at all Times and Seafons. Stock from every Country (which in Reafon And as the Culture of thefe Articles, as a Spring and good Policy ought always to be done), then Crop, would belt fuit the moif't Climate of [re- we might import vafl Quantities of Pigs and land -, fo alfo would the Culture of Wheat and Poultry from France and Flanders, and young Cattle from almolt every. Port in Germany, Denmark, and the Baltic. Nay, I have been Barley be better adapted to the drier Soil of "‘ H .a England. In the next Place, let it be further obferved, that all the Surplus (after our own afi'ured by a Foreigner of Dilliné‘tion, who fpoke r‘ i Confumption) whether of the Growth ofGreat- from his own Knowledge, that a good Cow may :i A".‘ H, li "‘i Britain or Ireland, would be ready on the Spot be bought in Hungary always for lefs than ten for Exportation to our Sugar Colonies. Not. to mention that our Live-Stock of every Kind, and particularly of fat Cattle, might be greatly Droves of Hungarian young Cattle might be brought to, and purchafed at Hamanrglz, were u i . i ‘l l ‘y l . llll ‘lllnllllllnlhlll Shillings, and'frequently for five: And that encreafed by this additional "(Luantity of Food a conl'tant Intercourfe, and a ready Market and Nourifhment. So that we might foon be enabled to fupply our Sugar Colonies, and all ellablifhed, for about 203. or at molt 30s. per Head. our Out-Settlements, with molt of the Necell'a- Freight and Port Charges, Rifk, Lollies, Pro- ries of Life in great Abundance. But, alas! we have hitherto been fo bewitelzed with the fit, and Infurance: And then the Englzflz Far- Notion, that we could never favour dear flmeriea too much, that we have Ifacrificed to that Idol every Opportunity of improving the Trade and Navigation of Great-Brila-z'n and Ireland. ANSWER 5. THE Cafe of encreafing our O‘uantity of Live-Stock is of fuch Importance to Shipping and Navigation, as well as to all the other Branches of Commerce, thatI mufi: beg Allow therefore about 205. more for mer on the Ealtern Shores of England might flock his Grounds at a much leis Expence than he doth at prefent: The Confequence of which (like Water finding its Level) would foon be felt in the (Wefiern, and more dillant Parts. And the Difference between the original Price of fuch young Cattle abroad, compared with their Value, when grown to Maturity, and fat-1 tened here at Home, would be jult lo much clear Gains to the Landed-Intercfl or this King; ‘ ~ dom. |