Jyja EMIGRATIONS FROM SCOTLAND. 0<S. 5, 



grations are going on at the prefent moment is well 

 Icnown. — Were wc pofiefled of our boafted philanthror 

 phy, would we not feel that the people mull be unhap- 

 py before they tould once think of adopting fuch vio- 

 lent meafures ? — Could we then behold it without en-r 

 deavouring to difcover the caufe of this uneafmefs, and 



trying to alleviate it ? ^That the flrength of 



every nation, both ia refpe<Sl to furniihing men for the 

 operations of war, and in affording a revenue at all 

 times, depends upon the number of our people, cannot 

 be denied : — If then \ve were politically wife could we 

 fee the vital fources of internal vigour fappcd at its very 

 foundation, without attempting to difcover a cure for 

 this mortal difcafe, and applying it ?- — That manufac- 

 tures require hands for carrying them forward and that 

 the wages to be given muft be augmented, as the num- 

 bers for carrying on thefe operations diminilh, every one 

 knows — rhat this fcarcity of hands mud both retard 

 the operations, and enhance the price, are felf-evident 

 propbfitions. — Were we therefore flcilful manufactur 

 rers we would be fenfible of the evils that this deranged 

 ceconomy is about to bring upon us, and would there- 

 fore exert every polfible power to prevent it. — As mer- 

 chants, was our knowledge as great as we are willing 

 to afiume to ourfelves, would we npt perceive, that by 

 diminifliing the operators, and enhancing rhe price of 

 goods, the export trade muft be retarded \ — and by tak- 

 ing from the number of confumers, the import trade 

 muft be decrealed ? — From this plain indudlion then, I 

 am forced tn conclude, that were our merchants, and 

 manufacturers, and politicians, really poflelTed of that 

 knowledge, and Ilcill, and wifdom, with which we idly 

 compliment them, or were cur people at large endow- 

 ed with that philanthropy we boaft of, all thefe orders 

 of men would unite with one voice in deprecating the 

 evil with which this nation is threatened, and in trying 

 to difcover the caufes of it ; that a fpeedy and efleclual 

 remedy may be applied to it. — While, therefore, v.'C 

 fit ftill and quietly behold thefe things, without beftir- 



