9 8 on the balance of trade, and exchanges. jfafi. li^^ 

 of exchange is very high, must avoid to purchase 

 goods from the other, because of the enormous price 

 they come at. Thus are the manufactures of the un- 

 favourably situated country encouraged, while those 

 of the nation, which glories in its present advantage, 

 are proportionally discouraged. In consequence of 

 this increased demand on the one hand, and the dimi- 

 nifhed demand on the other, it is easy to see, that in a 

 very fliort time, if government does not thwart the 

 course of nature by some absurd regulations, that all 

 will soon come to rights, and the course of exchange 

 resume its natural balance. For some centuries past, 

 Europe has been attempting, by means of commercial 

 treaties, and other similar loise measures, to thwart 

 the course of nature : But this cannot be done. We 

 hope the time is at hand, when sober sense, instead of 

 monopolizing principles, fliall direct the commercial 

 legislations of Europe. 



A. A. L. 



SCETCH OF THE LIFE OF 



JOHN, EARL OF MARK. 



[Continued from p. 46.] 



V^oncerning the part taken by the earl of Marr with 

 Angus, Glencairn, Gowrie, and the other friends of 

 Morton, to revenge his condemnation and death, and 

 in the banifhment of Lennox, in consequence of pof- 

 sefsing the kings person at Ruthven,! (hall forbear to ex- 

 patiate, as belonging rather to history than to biography.- 

 Marr, together with Angus, and the other afsociates 

 in the seizure of tlie king at Ruthven, were attainted 

 by the parliament, on tlie 2 2d of August 1584. 



