242 on manufactures and agriculture. Dec. 12. 
where such aduty as at present is.payable on to-« 
bacco is kept up, being about six times jts value. 
Experience would, however, determine these things. 
¢ TRADER Potitical. 
ON THE COMPARATIVE INFLUENCE OF AGRICULTURE 
AND MANUFACTURES UPON THE MORALS AND HAP 
PINESS OF A PEOPLE, AND THE IMPROVEMENT AND 
STABILITY OF STATES. 
Paper second. 
Continued from p. 214. 
Iu the former paper on this subject it has been 
fhown, that the prosperity of a country which re- 
sults chiefly from manufactures, though it extends 
its influence to agriculture, and seems to promote it, 
in as far as it tends to raise the price of land, and to 
make the farmer more wealthy zn the mean time ; yet 
that in reality it stops the progrefs of rural im. 
provements, and actually tends to diminith the to- 
tal amount of human sustenance produced in the 
country. 
In this way it must happen, that in 2 manufac. 
turing country, which can have easy accefs to other 
countries for the transportable articles of sustenance, 
recourse must of necefsity be had to these countries 
.for those articles, without attempting to make suf- 
ficient efforts for producing in its own territories 
the food that is necefsary for sustaining its own 
people. 
