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advife, the Englijh mechanic muff: do as much 
work for three-pence, at leaff, as he now does 
for a fhilling *, and then I aver, he would be 
much better paid, than an ingenious workman now 
is in France. 
But, as I find fome Gentlemen, the mofr re- 
fpetffable in general for their judgment, think 
differently on this fubjeft, I with to give it a 
little further inveftigation. I remember Mon- 
fieur Furgot (who was, at leaft, as refpe< 5 table 
for his humanity as for his penetration, and 
in neither, perhaps, much inferior to any man) 
thought it was a cruel meafure to Ihut the ports, 
and keep back our corn, when fo many pro¬ 
vinces were ftarvin? for want of it. He con- 
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tended, it was a narrow policy, and that gene¬ 
ral happinefs requires, that the ports fnould 
be always open, and commerce left to thofe 
whofe bufinefs it was to purfue it. This, I ob- 
ferve, was trying the queftion by the laws of 
• humanity, and not by the policy of dates; and 
particularly, not by the politics of the court of 
France , in one of the fir ft departments of which 
he, at that time, filled a diftinguifhed place, 
with much honour. 
If the laws of juftice and humanity univerfally 
prevailed, and every man, of whatever country 
or nation, efteemed every other man as his bro¬ 
ther and his friend, if all men had but 
one 
