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The first report made to the Parliament, 

 under that statute, was of the first eight 

 years after it was in force ; by which it ap- 

 pears, on a medium of the eight years, 

 that there were imported into England about 

 six hundred thousand bushels of wheat, 

 yearly, more than were exported near 60 

 ship loads. 



Poland and America import no bread. 

 For want of numerous manufacturers and 

 sailors, the most useful consumers of bread 

 who make none, they have not a demand 

 at home for one half of the produce of their 

 lands : they therefore export great quan- 

 tities; America, especially, depending there- 

 on for supplies of clothing and other com- 

 forts : which she might soon, in a great 

 measure, manufacture withinherself. Ought 

 she not, therefore, to prefer it to a depend- 

 ence altogether on foreign countries? 



Somewhat has been said, in public, of 

 manufactories in America ; whether it be 

 Advisable to promote them in this early 

 stage of her political existence, or to de- 



