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Show - w J" SERIES OF ANSWERS TO dom. Moreover refpefting the Commercial, let it be obferved, that the Hides, the Horns, the Hair, the Hoofs, nay the very Bones would be (to many additional Raw-Materials for future Manufactures After this, it is needlefs to add, that all thefe Circumfiances neceflhrily [Lud to encreafe Shipping and Navigation. ANSWER 6. NEVERTHLLass I will here fuppofe, [contrary to all Reafon, and every De» gree of Probability,] that after a Separation, Great- Britain will fuffer fome fmall Diminution in the number of its Sailors: Still, even on this Suppofition, improbable as it is, it doth by no Means follow, that we {hall have fewer Ships, or fewer Sailors, than we have at prefent, OBJ'ECTION X. ‘ TOULD it not be better to continue fome Kind of Union with the Colonies at " any Rate, rather than to throw them entirely off? Suppofe both Parts of the Britifli Nation, the European and the {fnzerz'rnn were to remain united under one, and the fame Prince, but to act as dillinét and feparate States, independent of each other in all other Refpeéts °, Would not even this be more defirabl'e' than a total Separation 3' for the Defence of our central Territories, Great-Britain and Ireland. On the contrary, when we fhall have a lefs extended Coaft to guard by almoi‘t 1500 Miles [and this CoaflL actually at Home, in the very Centre of our Empire, inl'tead of being 3090 Miles dif'tant from it] it is evident to common Senfe, that we thall be better able to defend our Channel and narrow Seas with too Sail, great and fmall, than we could have been, to have defended both our own, and the diltant Coafls of flmerim, with 150 Sail. So much as to the comparative State of the Increafe, or Decreafe of Brili/n Sailors, in Cafe aSeparation fhould take Place. QBJECTION ANSWER I. As this Scheme of Independency refpeé‘ting the Parliament, but not refpecting the King was, the favourite Topic or the Con: grefs 'till of late (when they entirely threw .Ofi the Mafk, and entered into open Rebellion againl't both); and as the fame Notion hath been advanced over and over by tl‘rn‘ Advocares here at Home, who have quoted the Cafe of the Electorate of Hanover, as an Example, and lllultration -, I {hall therefore examine this Matter with more Attention than it would otherwife have delerved, ' HERE |