242 POPULATION IN "n. AMERICA. Oc\. 26, 



to produce our expulfion ; and the prefent attempt to 

 force upon them a kind of ariftocracy can ferve no pur- 

 pofe but to extinguifh the laft fpark of their attach- 

 ment. 



It has beeft faid, that this government cofts Britain 

 an annual expence of 6oo,oool. We raife no revenue 

 from the country, r.nd it would be much wifer to fave 

 this expence by leaving the inhabitants to fight and le- 

 ^giflate for themfelves. The lofs of fuch an important 

 patronage would give a fevere probe to the niafs of 

 minifterial corruption. Perhaps, it might diminifli 

 by ten or twelve votes, a hireling majority in parliament -, 

 and even in this view alone it is an objeft of confe- 

 quence to Britain. The lofs of Nova Scotia mull fol- 

 low the revolt of Canada 5 and we fhall be fortunate 

 in cafting off an expenfive and ufelefs appendage to our 

 rickety dominions. If thefe people want our manufac- 

 tures, they will buy them. The United States are as 

 much cui» cultomers as they ever were *. And as to 

 the fifneries at Newfoundland, we have, on the fliores 

 of Scotland, an abundant field for the exercife of our 

 utmoil; induftry. On this head, Sir, I warmly, with 

 your perniiflion, beg leave to recommend to the pub- 

 lic your own book on the prefent fiate of the He- 

 brides and the weltern coafts of Scotlandf . The reader 

 will there fee with aftonifliment, that half a million of 

 people are fiiackled m idlencfs, and confequent beggary 

 by the tyrannical mode of exafting fait duties, whiles 

 the tax itfelf is fo utterly infignlficant, that it has never 

 yet once refunded the bjire expence of coUcftion. In 



• France, irwasfaid, wouMobtain to herfclf, all the trade to Ame- 

 rica. Sfliipsfrom New York, were cleared out to France in the year 

 1789. And io8 tx) Britain. Can a more fatisfaftory refutation of that; 

 wild hypotheiis be given, fee vol. Iv. p. 



+ This gentleman, and every other pcrfon is at full liberty to ufe my 

 writings, as he niiglit do thofe of ethers, whether it be to refute, or to 

 ccrrobcratc the obl'ervatioiis that there oturr. £ait. 



