2 ([2 ICEVIEW. WANSEY OS WOOL. 0&. 



REVIEW. 



fVbol Encouraged rj;ithont Exportation ; or PraBkal Objervatlotij 

 on Wool and the Woollen ManufaBure ; with StriQures on the 

 antient Jiate of it in this Kingdom, &c. By Henry JVanfey, 

 F. A. S. %-vQ. Cadell. 179T. is. 



•In imitation of the cuttle fifh, which, when hard put to it, 

 raifes fuch a cloud about itfelf, that nothing can be clearly 

 feen, many men, when they find themfelves at a'lofs for argu- 

 ments to fupport a party they have undertaken to defend, take 

 care to throw every thing into confufion, mifplace fafts, muti- 

 late quotations, disjoin circumftances that are naturally con- 

 nefted, and conneft others together that have no neceffary re- 

 lation. By this means, they occafion fuch a confufion of ideas,, 

 that no perfon can follow them ; taking care, at the fame time, 

 to make ufe of bold words and ftrong aflcveratlons ; at the 

 end of every period they afiert, that they have proved por- 

 tions which they have not brought a fingle argument to fupport y 

 and, as few people can take the trouble to fel tliofe things to 

 rights that they have confounded, or to reduce that chaos to 

 order, fo as to be able to form a diflinft notion of the whole; 

 thofe who are of the party find no difficulty in perfuading the 

 indolent reader that the reafoning is profound. Thus it hap- 

 pens, that controverfial performances of this kind, are held up- 

 to view by thofe of their own party as imanfwerable, and are 

 applauded as compofitions of fuperior excellence. 



Although it might happen that mankind fell upon this kind 

 of arguing at firfl:, by accident, yet the benefits that may be' 

 derived from it arc fo obvious, that it has, long ago, been re- 

 dilced, in fome meafure, to a fyftem ; efpecially in Parliament. 

 He who difcovers the greateft ingenuity and dexterity in the 

 ufe of this kind of argumentative legerdemain, has the beft 

 chance to rife to honours and emolumerits, as a valuable parti- 

 zan in the arduous war of words. 



It is by no means improbable, thstt our author has fome 

 plan of this nature in contemplation, and that he has em- 

 braced the prefcnt opportunity to difplay the reach of his ta- 

 lents for this fpecies of warfare, as a preparatory ftep to his 

 bf ing introduced into Parliament, in the capacity of an able 



