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they much injured. They have the same 

 resources as they had before, and the 

 same opportunity to get money, by each 

 of their separate trades, and they have only 

 lent the surplus money, they could spare. 

 Just so would it be with the national debt ; 

 the chief part of the lenders of the money 

 funded can live equally as well without it. 

 Then again you frequently observe in your 

 conversation — that England dare not be at 

 peace ; that the nation could not subsist at 

 all, if they were not at war with some 

 foreign power ; for that it is by plundering 

 and robbing on the seas, that they find 

 money to carry on their national affairs, — 

 agriculture, manufactures, &c. In reply 

 to you, Mr. Watson — If England be poor, 

 pray what nation is rich ? It appears very 

 plainly, in this and every other evening's 

 conversation, that England gives credit to 

 all the nations that take her manufactures, 

 and pays either in goods or cash for all she 

 buys. Then the immense riches she holds 

 in London, and the manufacturing towns, 



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