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ber of buyers, and regularity and certainty of demand. It is of the 

 utmoft advantage, to the profperity of a nianufafture, that the manu- 

 fafturer fliould have a certain place, to which he may convey, and 

 wherein he may depofit his goods, in full aflurance of finding a pur- 

 chafer ; it is of the greatefl: confequence to the buyers, to be affured, 

 that there is a market, to which they may refort, for the different 

 fabrics, which they require, to furnifli their (hops and warehoufes, with- 

 out any fear of a difappointment. The manufafturer is encouraged, by the 

 certainty of purchafers, to fabricate goods, in greater quantity. The 

 purchafers are encouraged, by the quantity of manufaftures, to refort to 

 the market, in greater numbers. Thefe eflabliflied markets are beneficial 

 to the raanufafturc, in another refpeft : they render the work of regu- 

 lation and infpeftion more eafy, they facilitate the deteftion of all 

 frauds; and tend to eftablifh a fairnefs in dealing, that infpires the 

 purchafer with confidence. And nothing is fo favourable to a com- 

 mercial intercourfe, and to the profperous circulation and improvement 

 of a manufafture, depending on it, as this confidence, and good faith, 

 fubfifting between the buyer and feller. 



It is true, fome writers have declared themfelves unfriendly to the 

 general extenfion of the linen manufafture. It has been faid, no great 

 or populous country ever thrived, by a fingle manufacture, i^oung has 

 declared, " that, were he proprietor of an eftate, in the fouth of Ire- 

 land, he would as foon introduce peftilence and famine, as the linen 

 manufafture, as carried on, at prefent, in the north of Ireland." Be- 

 caufe, indeed, the exigence of the manufa(flure, in its prefent flate, 

 contributes to the divifion of land, into fmall farms, which, as he pre- 

 tends, introduces bad modes of farming. But furely the encreafes of 

 that, which, in its prefent extent is acknowledged to be the chief fource 

 of the profperity of the country, cannot be injurious. The manufac- 

 ture can never be faid, to be overflocked, with hands, or to draw to 

 itfelf too much of the capital of the country ; while an cafy vent is 

 found, for the fabrics, which it produces. Indeed, when the linens 



