Bnt'ijb Trade with Turley. 2$y 



French ; but, as long as the Levant Company exifts, who is 

 to undertake it ? Were the trade laid entirely open, it is 

 probable that all kinds of Englifh manufacturers would fend 

 people (called riders) to Turkey to feek for commiflions, as 

 they do to all parts of Europe. This practice, though not 

 very agreeable to Englifh merchants, (which however may 

 not be the cafe in Turkey, as they may find the mediation 

 of merchants neceflary,) would greatly increafe the vent of 

 Englifh commodities, and thefe induftrious people might 

 poiTibly be the means of our regaining the cloth trade. 



The few merchants who are in the true fecret of the 

 Levant trade, can employ in it their whole capital advan- 

 tageoufly, and therefore do not feek for new branches, or 

 how to recove-r old ones which are loft. — This is the great 

 fecret. 



The French do not get their wool cheaper than we do ; 

 the price of labour may be lefs ; but will not fuperior fkiit 

 and induftry, with larger capitals, compenfate this fingle cir- 

 cumftance againft us ? Experience in other articles fhews itj, 

 as in the manufactures of Manchefter, Sheffield, and Bir- 

 mingham. 



It is very worthy of attention, that the French cannot 

 make fo cheap as we can the fame kinds of cloth, which our 

 people bring to the Turkey market; it is not that they can- 

 not make them fo fine, for they make in France much finer 

 cloth than that kind of broad cloth made in England pur- 

 pofely for the Turkey market. There is alfo a coarfe flrong 

 cloth brought to Turkey from England, called lendras: thefe 

 the French cannot make fo cheap neither; nor are their 

 -{balloons fo cheap. In fhort, there is no fort of woollen 

 fluff made in the two countries, of the fame quality, which 

 the. Englifh do not fell cheaper than the French. The fact 

 fecms to be, that the French invented a kind of cloth more 

 proper for the general confumption of Turkey than that 

 which the Englifh had brought thither; and the Edj 

 never attempted to follow their example, but continued car- 

 rying 



