twenty to twenty-three dollars a month, and 

 are to be hired at every port : the expence 

 is very high equal to eighty- one pounds 

 and six pence per year for each sailor. I 

 can prove, from my own knowledge, that 

 there is nothing wanted or used in Ameri- 

 ca that the English manufacture^ but they 

 will send there cheaper than the Americans 

 can make it, even to a gun-flint. The. 

 Americans boast of their combination with 

 other maritime nations to form a respecta- 

 ble naval force : but foreign powers have 

 business enough of their own to mind. 

 Besides, what have those allies to sell that 

 America wants to buy ; or, on the contrary, 

 what has the latter to sell that tkose pow- 

 ers stand in need of ? Little or nothing : 

 therefore, they have little or no interest in 

 the association : consequently, the Ameri- 

 cans have not much to expect from them. 

 Mr. Cooper before mentioned, in his 

 publication pointing out the many advan- 

 tages to emigrants, thought to make him* 

 self of importance, and acquire the esteem 



