a Bounty , to encourage the Exportation of Corn: 433 
enable me to point out the inevitable ruin, 
that muft attend the fyftem of eftablilhing free 
ports, for the importation and exportation of 
all kinds of commodities without reftridtion. 
I will beg leave to premile a few proportions 
relative to this fubjedt, the certainty of which, 
I perfuade myfelf, will not be difputed. 
1. If the labour and induftry of a people are 
the fources of the riches they pofiefs, thefe fources 
muft dry up or abate, in proportion as the peo¬ 
ple want employment. 
2. Both the land, and labour of England are 
very high, in comparifon with thofe of almoft any 
other country in Europe; confequently, fuch 
countries can under-fell England , ceteris paribus , 
both in corn and manufadtures, in any market 
in the world. 
3. The produce of the earth, in its natural 
ftate, and raw materials of all kinds, have their 
value exceedingly increafed, by the fkill and 
labour bellowed upon them, in converting 
them into goods and wares, often in the pro¬ 
portion of, from five to twenty for one, and 
fometimes a great deal more: therefore, where 
there are people to be employed, and fuch goods 
and wares can be vended with advantage, ic 
is extremely bad policy, to fuffer the raw mate¬ 
rials to be exported, on any pretence whatfoever. 
4. Moft countries have fome advantages pe¬ 
culiar to them, arifing from the foil, climate, 
Vol. I. F f fituation. 
