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every thing else in proportion. Cloth (as 

 may be seen in p. 38 1) that can be purchas*. 

 ed for fifteen shillings per yard at Liver- 

 poo!, is sold at Baltimore at forty-five shil- 

 lings, which equals thirty shillings sterling: 

 the making a coat, at Baltimore, costs twen- 

 ty-one shillings, equal to fourteen shillings 

 sterling ; and at Liverpool seven shillings : 

 surely, these ^are severe taxations ! The 

 Americans affirm they can make their own 

 cloth, and carry on manufactories of dif- 

 ferent kinds. I assert they cannot ; they 

 have neither men, money, nor materials, for 

 such purposes. Should they quarrel with 

 England, and have a fleet to raise, whence 

 is the money to come ? British goods 

 pay the taxes at present, or a very great 

 proportion ; but they will not raise a 

 navy : and, although it is supposed that 

 ship-building is cheap in America, the 

 building of ships of war is not ; for 

 live oak is both scarce and costly. 

 Then the sailors, from liberty and equality, 

 are paid, the same as merchantmen, from 



