434 Mr- Wimpey on the Impropriety of allowing 
fituation, or natural productions of the fame. 
The genuine and mofi: warrantable policy of 
any country is, to accommodate fuch advantages 
to the good, the well-being, and profperity of 
its people. Indeed, general policy renders it 
necefiary, to put every (late upon an equal foot¬ 
ing with its neighbours j for it would be deemed 
weaknefs or madnefs, to neglect local advan¬ 
tages, when every ftate, and every individual 
around us, were availing themfelves to the 
utmoft of their power, to profit by them. 
5. If the exportation of raw materials is fo 
impolitic a meafure; how much more fo is it, 
to encourage the manufactures of other nations, 
when they ftand in competition with our own, 
and have a direCt tendency to fupplant us in 
our market at home, and in the confumption of 
our own manufactures, though infinitely better 
accommodated to the uncertain climate of 
Great Britain? This is moft unpatriotic, and, 
to the laft degree, culpable. 
Now, fheep’s wool is one of thofe peculiar 
local blefiings, with which Great Britain and 
Ireland are favoured, beyond any other part of 
Europe. Its quality is fuch, that every ounce 
of it is capable of being wrought into ufeful 
clothing of fome kind, which, it feems, is a 
rare and fingular cafe. The value of wool, 
when wrought into cloth, upon an average, is 
reckoned to be in the proportion of, five or fix to 
one- 
