1771.] T0 HUMPHRY MARSHALL. 



London, April 22d, 1771 . 

 Sir: 



I duly received your favours of the 4th of Oct . and the I 

 of November. It gave me pleasure to ! tho' the mer< ; 



had departed from their agreement of non-importation, the B] ' 

 industry and frugality was likely to continue among the pi 



I am obliged to you for your concern on my account. The 

 you mention, gave great offence here; but that was not ati 

 with the immediate ill consequences to my interest, that - to 



have been hoped for by those that sent copies of them hither. 



If our country people would well consider, that all they save in 

 refusing to purchase foreign gewgaws, and in making their own 

 apparel, being apply'd to the improvement of their plantations, 

 would render those more profitable, as yielding a greater produce, 

 I should hope they would persist resolutely in their present com- 

 mendable industry and frugality. And there is still a farther con- 

 sideration. The Colonies that produce provisions grow very fast : 

 but of the countries that take off those provisions, some do not 

 increase at all, as the European nations, and others, as the Wi 

 India colonies, not in the same proportion. So that, th the, 



demand at present may be sufficient, it cannot long continue 

 Every manufacturer encouraged in our country, makes pan of a 

 market for provisions within ourselves, and saves so much mon 

 to the country, as must otherwise be exported to pay for the 

 manufactures he supplies. Here, in England, it is well known a 

 understood, that wherever a manufacture is established, which em- 

 ploys a number of hands, it raises the value of lands in the t 

 bouring country all around it, partly by the greater demand in 

 at hand for the produce of the land, and partly from the plenty of 

 money drawn, by the manufacturers, to that part of the coi 

 It seems, therefore, the interest of all our farmers,. and owners of 

 land, to encourage our young manufactures, in preference to foreign 

 ones imported among us from distant countries. 



I am much obliged by your kind present of curious seeds. They 



were welcome gifts to some of my friends. I send you, herewith, 



some of the new Barley lately introduced into this country, and 



now highly spoken of. I wish it may be found of use with us. 



I was the more pleased to see, in your letter, the improvement 



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