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folation confirmed — Charlevoix*s account of Las wafiis w 'rk. reduces the number 

 dellroyed to fifteen Millions^ — But no reafou to believe that Las Cafas H-..ui:l w Jliiig. 

 ly aver a falfehood. — Phis proved by che charitter of h^m given by Charlevoix ; — 

 m.iy have exHgt;erated as to the iiuiiibers deflroyed by the Spaniar^b, bu; tiOi as to 

 the number of the human race at that tioie. — Charlevoix, by ihe account he has 

 given of tiR del^rudlion made by the Spaniards* in one Ifl^nd iho vs ih^it he hiS fallen 

 much llir.rt ot the num^erb deltroyed by th m in the whole — l''urther accounts g'v«rn 

 by Charifvoix. — Of the Depopulation of America by the Spa.. >.;ds, — md ihe :. U 

 tie:^ they cxtrc fed upon the Indians,— One horrible inltance of tucrir cru it) of 

 which L.iS Cafas »vas an eye witnefs —The Lidians put the .. leaves to death to -i n.! 

 th^-'le truciiie*-.— rhe Spaniards, having depopulatec! Hiip.: lola in this way, bro ;?ht 

 otUt.T Indiatis mto it, of whom they made (laves. — Tl)py realon ot vhe S aniard' d'C- 

 troying, in America, i'o many more than any other Conquerors we read of in liif. 

 tory was, that their motive was avarice^ the mo:t cruel and infatiable of all paflions. 

 — Tnere can be no doubc, therefore, of the truth of what our Scripture tells us, 

 That the Love of Money is the root of all evil. — It makes Civilifed Men more bar- 

 barous than any Savages. — The Spaniards employed above 80,000 Indians to work 

 in their Mines. — They faid they were no better than Brutes, and that they could 

 not make Ghrillians of them. — The avarice of the Spaniards made them forre the 

 Indians to dive for Pearls— which confumed prodigious numbers of them. — Difeafes 

 which the Spaniards introduced among them, luch as the fmall-pox, alfo deitroyed 

 great numbers of them. — All thefe things confidered. Las Cafas has not fo much 

 exceeded the truth as Charlevoix has fallen Ihort of it. — Rejfons why the Author 

 has infilled fo much upon this dclblation of the Earth by the Spaniards. — Other ex- 

 amples of War produced oy Money — kW Wars, fince the Peace of Utrecht, in 

 which Britain was engagc;d, derived from that fource. — The American War in par- 

 ticular; — which was more deftruclivc of Men and Money than any other War on 

 record. — Computation of the lofs ol Men and th'.- expence of Mor.ey occafioned by 

 it. — War fliould be avoided in a Trading and Manufafluring Nation fuch as Britain. 

 — Great praife of our Minift^r, that W. is at pains to avoid War by preparing for it j 

 —two examples given of this — The prefent War a necefiary W-r, being defenfivej 

 in which v.'e have every thin^ at 'lake rl'.at is valuable - It is the common caufe o( 

 Europe, in which, if we had not joined with other Powers, our conduft would have 

 been both diflionourable and impolitic. p, ro, 



C H A P IL 



Wealth Is to be acquired by Tride and Manuf;i<Stures,~Our Tnde wonderfully cr.ten- 

 five, as it is carrieJ on all over the World. — The lofs of I^Ten by fuch a Trade muft 



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