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insulation of our interests secures to the 
country. Even this change in the direction 
of industry, has in itself a chance of securing 
some permanent advantages. Foreign ma- 
nufactures may, in some instances, owe their 
advantages to their previous establishment. 
The removal of a manufacture to another 
local situation, is, in general, a process too 
tedious and expensive to be prudently under- 
taken by private individuals. This circum- 
stance often prevents the establishment of 
manufactures which might ultimately prove 
beneficial. On this principle, it is probable 
that manufactures might, in a case of neces- 
sity, be introduced, in which no individuals 
would otherwise have had the hardiness to 
engage. Qur exclusion from the foreign 
market, would thus ultimately add to our per- 
manent domestic resources. But it is most 
important of all. to recollect, that such 
establishments will exactly suffice to give 
employment to that part of the labouring 
population which the reduction of our former 
manufacturing establishments throws idle. 
The merits of this whole question, and of 
some others closely.connected with it,, deserve 
a more full discussion than has yet been given 
to them. When we have been, emancipated 
from the slavery of unfounded apprehensions, 
