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and the raw material, or prima of manufaSures, on cheap terms: the 

 people, if they are once roufed from their indolence, and fupinenefs, by the 

 care of the legiflature, and inftigated to exertion, by bounties, and protefting 

 duties, may come to improve their fabricks fo much, not only in quality, but 

 in cheapnefs, that they will, at firft, be able to fupply the home confumption, 

 on fatisfaftory terms, and, in proccfs of time, to contend, with fome prof-- 

 peft of fuccefs, with their manufafturing rivals, in the foreign market. 

 Suppofing, even, that the fyftem of bounties, and protefting duties, con- 

 tinued for fome time, with patience, and perfeverancc, fhould fail of pro- 

 ducing fuch a compleat amelioration, as I have mentioned, in the fituation 

 of a country, with refpeft to its manufaftures, I do not think, that, even 

 then, it is to be abandoned, and condemned, in every cafe, and, all cir- 

 cumftances confidered, as wholly impolitic, and injurious. We fhould con- 

 fider the poffible advantages, which may refult from confining a large por- 

 tion of the expenditure of a country, within its own bofom ;-^from direfting 

 a large portion of the expences of individuals, in a community, to the fup- 

 port of the labouring poor around them, in their own country, inllead of let- 

 ting the money, thus to be expended, pafs out of the country, to fupport 

 the labouring poor of another nation ; while the poor of the ftate in quef- 

 ftion, are confuming away in apathy, and idlenefs ; perhaps, the prey of 

 the moft fqualid famine, and wretchednefs. 



Doftor Smith takes it for granted, that, if the employment of capital were 

 not turned into fome particular channel, by bounties, and protefting duties, 

 trades and manufaflures, finding their own level, (favourite cabaliftic ex- 

 preffions, of his, which have been echoed, and re-echoed j even to fatiety, 

 by thoufands of pretenders to political fcience) would flow in fome other di- 

 reftion, more advantageous to the community. I do not admit the force of 

 his conclufion. It does not follow, of necefllty, from his premifes. On 

 the contrary, it is highly probable, that fuch a country might fall into ruin- 

 ous defpondency, and incurable apathy ; and refign herfelf tamely to the 

 mercy of foreign manufafturers, who may fupply her wants, on their own 

 terms. We have feen an inftance of this, as I have faid, in the prefent la- 

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