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but, there is no danger of their being abandoned, or of the public 

 wanting the neceffaries, or conveniences, which they can fupply. There 

 will always be found willing and felf-devoted victims of avarice, who 

 will be tempted, by the profpeft of gain, from conftant employment, 

 luperior wages, or the monopoly of a manufafturc difagreeable or for- 

 midable to the generality. We always find perfons ready to volunteer 

 on the forlorn hope of manufaftures and induftry ; and to undertake 

 the mod loathfome and dangerous talks for hire. The painter's colic, 

 or the paralytic attacks, that threaten gilders, do not deter numbers 

 of people from purfuing thofe walks of induftry. All that can be ex- 

 pefted from the legiflature, with reference to noxious and offenfive, 

 but neceffary manufaftures, is, if poffible, to devife, and to eftablifli by 

 law, certain methods, and precautions for rendering the procefs, and 

 different operations in them lefs injurious to the individuals, who carry 

 them on, and lefs offenfive to the community. Should that be 

 impoffible, the mifchief and danger attending thefe noxious trades fliould 

 be confined and rellrifted, as much as poffible ; and care fliould be 

 ■taken, that thofe only, who gain, fliould be annoyed and endangered 

 by them. This may be effefted, by confining the manufaftories of 

 them to lonely fituations, far from the vicinity of large towns. 



Sect. 4. 



Maniifadures confidered luith refped to the political Circumjlances, the 

 domejlic Habits, and foreign relations of the Country. 



When we come to conCder manufadures, with refpeft to moral caufes, 

 of their profperity and decline, or political motives, that fliould guide 

 a legiflator, in the giving a preference to one manufaflure over another, 

 — we mufl attend to the population of a country, — its capital,— the 



primum. 



