4^3 Mr. Wimpey on the Impropriety of allowing 
thirty per cent, and fome much more; and, 
notwithftanding all this, the Englijh manufacturer 
is often puzzled to fell goods in our market at 
home, upon terms equally low with the foreign 
manufacturer. 
From hence it is eafy to fee, that the laws of 
this country, refpecting commerce, are abfo- 
lutely nec.eflary to its very exiftence. Repeal 
the laws, open the ports, and invite all the 
world to a free correfpondence with you, and 
you, at one ftroke, deprive .millions of people 
of the means of fubfiftence. What will you do 
with them then? Maintain them you cannot: 
for the whole income of the lands bears but a 
fmall proportion to the amount of the produce 
of their labour. The plain anfwer is—Many 
would be hanged, more would be ftarved, and 
many more would emigrate into other countries, 
as they did formerly into this, in hopes of 
employment. 
The grazier, by this time too, would begin 
to feel the effeCts of his error: for having no 
market to go to, but France, with his wool, 
and that being glutted, it is more than probable, 
he would fall fliort of the price he now fo much 
complains of at home. For wool, and corn, 
and all commodities whatever, are fubject to, 
and governed by the fame law. Every man, 
and every date, that is in want of any articles 
whatever, are ready to buy at a fair pi ice: but 
the 
