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merchants, which, to the populace here, would be a 
grateful retaliation upon them, for running. with so 
much zeal, immediately after the war, to engrofs our 
trade by acredit that would make us still subser- 
-vient and dependent on Britain. The Americans at 
large, with to break as far as pofsible their con- 
‘nections with your country, lest they fhould hereaf. 
ter prove dangerous tous. They, therefore, rather 
enjoy the distrefses of the Britifh trade, than pity the 
merchants; in the hope that their lofses, making 
them more cautious, and, in particular, determining 
them to renounce their credit, which is so pernicious 
to us, we may stand upon a more equal footing with 
respect to all the nations of Europe. These, I be- 
lieve, are the sentiments most prevalent in America, 
out of afew trading towns; and they sufficiently 
discover whrat safety there is in trusting our mer- 
chants, or what regard will be paid here to any com- 
plaints of difhonesty that may disturb the Exchange 
or coffee houses of London. 
You inguire, ‘*‘ Whether any manufactures could 
be introduced here by emigrants ? whether there is 
any hope that the materials of this country could 
be wrought in it for an export trade?” 
In addition to what has been already suggested, it 
will pérhaps be a sufficient answer to these ques- 
tions, to inform you, that a common day-labourer 
earfs his two-thirds of a Spanifh milled dollar per 
day. While this is the case, we can never manu- 
facture so cheaply as we can import. Our manu- 
factories, therefore, must, of necefsity, be very ine . 
considerable. The state of the lands in this coun- 
try produces this eflect; and the same cause must 
