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privations, and inconveniences of this kind, for a time, or even in per- 

 petuit}'. Suppofc, for inftance, that a foreign ftate fliould prohibit all 

 the mannfaftures, of the ftate in queftion, may not the meafures of prohi- 

 bition, and protefting duties, be wifely, and fuccefsfully employed, to bring 

 fucha ftate to reafon, through the very medium ofher felfiflinefs, and force 

 her to recall her illiberal reftriftions. Suppofe, again, that a neighbouring 

 ftate, wealthy, flourifliing in manufaftures, ftiould determine to get pofTefli- 

 on of the entire market for the confumption of a country, even at the price 

 of a temporary facrifice of profit, and pour in its manufaftin-es, at an un- 

 der rate until it compleatly overwhelms the native fabricks. This is a com- 

 mon proceeding with trading nations. And, how is this mode of commercial 

 aggreflion to be reCfted, or counterafted ? — Surely, by the means, of boun- 

 ties, and protefling duties alone, which may enable the native manufac- 

 tures to ftand their ground, againft the inroad of foreign fabricks. 



It is to be confidered, alfo, what may be the difadvantages, or inconve- 

 niences, refulting to a poor ftate, which has no commodity, or manufaiflure 

 ■which it can give, ki exchange, for the imported manufafture ; from the 

 conftant drain of fpecie, which muft be occafioned, by the free influx of 

 foreign' manufaftures ; how calamitous fuch a fituation may become, ap- 

 pears, from the fearful poverty of Spain, and Portugal; though thefe 

 countries are the owners of the richeft mines in the world. The Spaniards, 

 and Portiiguefe, can import woollen manufaftures from England, of a better 

 quality, and on cheaper terms, than they can produce them at home ; yet, 

 it might be found policy, to give a bounty on the produftions of the home- 

 manufaftures, and to confine the people to the ufe of them ; or, at leaft, to 

 give them a preference, in the home market, by the force of protecting du- 

 ties. Human nature is naturally fluggifti, and mert ; it requires, at firft, 

 the application of fome external force, to give it an impetus, and diredion ; 

 but, when it is once fct in motion, it gains ftrength, and a(flivity, as it 

 goes on, in its courfe ; and will proceed, by its own acquired momentum, 

 without requiring the application of any additional impulfe. Thus, in a coun- 

 try, which poflTeffes, in herfelf the ground work, and means, of having flourifli- 

 ing manufaftures, fuch as pofleiling provifions, and other neccflfaries, labour, 



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