a Bounty, to encourage the Exportation of Corn . 437 
The linen manufacture comes the neared to 
the woollen : and the weaver of the latter, might 
foon be brought to weave the former. But here 
you are under a fimilar dilemma: for not a 
piece could be made in Great Britain without 
great lofs, if foreign linens were not fubjeCt to 
cuftoms, almoft equal to a prohibition. The 
linens of Silefia, Pomerania, Saxony , Poland, Ruffia , 
Flanders, and Holland, pay cuftoms from eighteen 
to thirty, and upwards, per cent.; and thofe of 
France are prohibited. If you turn to the filk 
manufacture, you are there protected and encou¬ 
raged by fimilar means. French filks are abfo- 
lutely prohibited : thofe of Italy pay too heavy 
a duty to be worn in common : the Eajl Indian 
are prohibited under very fevere penalties. 
Were it not for very heavy duties, and pro¬ 
hibitions, not a piece of any of thefe goods could 
be made here. 
Where then, {hall we find employment for fo 
many millions of people, who, upon the fcheme 
of a free trade and open ports, would be deprived 
of their ufual means of fubfifience ? Our manu¬ 
factures of lace are upon the fame footing: 
black and blond filk laces are prohibited : thread 
lace pays a duty, upon low goods, of four or 
five hundred per cent. The fmall wares of 
Harlem are under the fame predicament. Fil- 
letings, tapes, bobbins, threads of all kinds 
and denominations, pay duties from twenty to 
F f 3 thirty 
