200 ohsefvalioiis on the rait /awf. April '^, 



Salt from Liverpool, at next to no duty, and coals to manu- 

 facture it, so that they can afford to sell that salt more 

 than three hundred /ler cent, cheaper than Britilh salt can be 

 sold ; by which means they fre enabled to carry on a smug" 

 gling trade in salt to Britain to the amount of more than a 

 hundred thousand pounds a-year. And their tanneries, and 

 other manufactures in which salt is used, have an advantage 

 over ours to astonishing degree, i must therefore once more 

 repeat it, that the minister who can take the trouble of inves"' 

 tigating this very important subject, and seriously try to re- 

 move the evils to which these impolitic laws have given 

 birth, deserves a very high degree of applause, and merits 

 the countenance of every honest man in the kingdom, ia 

 forwarding any rational plan for renaoving such ruinous 

 abuses. When he therefore has digested his plan for this 

 important reform, and (hall bring it forward, it isto be wilhed 

 that the unprejudiced part of the nation will be quite unani- 

 mous in his support in this instance, and fhow, for once that 

 the great body of the people can be brought to approve a 

 measure that is dictated by common sense and beneficence. 

 If they do this it may be marked, however, as an sera itl 

 the Jiistory of mankind j for I do not recollect if a similar 

 instance can be produced in the annals of past ages ; 

 it Is In regard to war and predatory expeditions, alone, 

 that the suffrages of the people have been hitherto unanimous. 



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 this miscellany. 



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