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ful hands, in confequence of which, the fkilful hands will be paralyfed 

 or remain idlej while that pa'rt of the capital of the country, which, 

 paffes through unfkilful hands, will either be diffipated in fmoke, and 

 wholly loft, or fail of producing that return which it would have 

 yielded to the country. Thus, the nation fuftains a total lofs of all 

 that the induftry of the fldlful, now unemployed, might have produced, 

 if they had been employed ; and, with refpea to the capital mifapplied, 

 a lofs, either total, by its being compleatly diffipated ; or partial, by 

 the fmallnefs of the return, which it yields, through injudicious manage- 



ment. 



The famous Earl of Strafford, when chief governor of this country, 

 was aduated, by miftaken ideas, of this kind, refpefting the eftablilh- 

 ment of the linen manufafture in Ireland, which may be called— 



Plant of his hand, and ofFspring of his care. 



He meant to have formed very extenfive eftablifliments, for the purpofe 

 of carrying it on at Naas, on his own account. 



Sir Willia7n Temple propofes, " that a fum of money fhould be kept 

 " ready, in the hands appointed by government, for taking off, at 

 " moderate prices, all fuch pieces of cloth, as fliould be brought in 

 " by any perfons, at certain times, to the chief town of each county. 

 " Such pieces as are fit for fails, to be carried to the (lores of the 

 " navy, all fuch as are fit for the army, to be given to the foldiers, - 

 " in part of their pay. All finer pieces to be fold, and the money 

 " applied to the encreafe of the main ftock."— But this would come 

 to the fame point, of making the government a manufafturer, or, which 

 is nearly tantamount, a faftor, for the manufafturer. As to the fup- 

 ply of the navy, and the army ; it is found, by experience, that all 

 neceflaries, for the one, and the other, can be mo ft conveniently pro- 

 cured, by contrad. 



In Spam, the government has fhown much folicitude, on the fub- 

 jeft of manufaftures ; and endeavoured to promote the interefts of in- 

 duftry. 



