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Show ~A Tie London Merchant: Or, other in Situation, C.uftoms and Religion ; promoting Arts, Induftry, Peace and } lenty ; by mutual Benefits diffohYig mutual Love from Pole to o!e. Tr. Something of this I have confider'd, and hope by your Aififtance, to extend m y Thoughts much farther. I have obkrv'd thofe Bountries where Trade is promoted andencourag'd, do not make Difcoveries to deftroy, but to improve Mankind ; by Lore and Friendfhip, to tame the fierce, and polifh the moft favage ; to teach them the Advantage of honeft Traffick, by taking from then, with their o w n Confent, their uielefs Superfluities, giving them in Return, what from their Ignorance in manual Arts, their Situation, or fome other Accident, they ftand in need of. Thcr. 'Tis juftly obferv'd. T h e populous Haft, lux-uriant, abounds with glittering Gems, bright Pearls, aromatick Spices, and Health-reftormg Drugs: The late found Weftern World's rich Earth, glows with un-number'd Veins of Gold and Silver Ore. On every Cli. mate, and on every Country, Heaven has beftow'd fome Good peculiar to itfelf It is the induftrious Merchant's Bufinefs to collect the various Bleffings of each Soil and Cliimte, and, with the Product of the whole, to enrich his native County. Well ! I have examin'd your Accounts; they are not only juft as / have always found them bat regularly kept, and fairly enter'd. • * >- I commend your Diligence. Method in Bufinefs is the fureft guide. H e w h o negleds it, frequently Humbles, and always wanders perplex'd, uncertain, and in Danger. Are Barnwell's Accounts ready for m y Ihfpection ? IK docs not ufe to be the laft on thefe Occafions. Tr. Upon receiving your Orders he retir'd, I thought jnConfufion. If you pleafe I'll go and haften him. I hope he has not been guilty of any liegledt. Thor. 1 a m n o w going to the Exchange ; let himknov. at m y Return, I expecf to find him ready. [EM* Enter Maria with a Book, fits and reads. H o w forcible is Truth ? T h e weakeft Mind, infpif with Love ol that, and c o l l e d within itfelf, JJ» Indifference beholds the united Force of Earth and He oppoW The H'fjlory of George Barnwell. 27 CRpofing: Such Souls are raifed above the Senfe of Pain, orfe fupported, that they,regard it not. T r * Martyr chiefly purchafes his Heaven ; fmall are his Sufferings, great is his Reward : Not fo the Wretch, w h o combats Love with Duty ; when the Mind, weakened and dif-folv'd by the Soft Paffion, feeble and hopelefs, oppofes its own Defire. What is an Hour, a Day, a Year, of Fain, to a whole Life if Tortures, fuch as thefe I Enter Trueman. Tr. 0, Barnwell!- • O, m y Friend h o w art thou fallen ? Ma. Ha! Barnwell' What of him? Speak, fay what of Barmv-ll. Tr. Tis to be conceal\1: I've N e w s to tell of him that will afflict your generous Father, yourfelf, and all who knew him. Ma. Defend us Heaven ! Tr. I cannot fpeak it. See there. [ Gives a Letter, Maria reads* Trueman, Know my Abfence will furpr'ze my honoured Mafter\ and your J elf-, ardthemor-, when 'you ft: all under ft and^ that the Reafon of my wrbdrawing, is my ha: tng emh z-sled Part of tie Cajh with which I w: intruded- A fur this'tis needle fs to inform you that I miaul ne-jer to return again'. Though this might bavo been known, ly w mi nine my Accounts ;yet to prevent that rmmceffary Trouble, and V$$S& ***** * «> R- *& George Barnwell. he^elhtt^ h-Yr ,V he *°M be guilty of what qual to m Y S MWlthd,' !*** ™y bonder e, he praftued ; ne£!"wJ* f™**' anJ * ^ thought generous M&^~?m°° at *«y«*. an open unaffccled and engaging. l *": hw Manners eafy> TrS. He Z fenT^ yT mi8ht ** W with •very Heart that I t f ^ °' *»1 %*> ^udjoyof Tn 1 |