With regard to our pofTeffions in the Eaft 

 and Weft Indies, as well as in Africa, it can- 

 not be made to appear, that they are of any 

 real benefit to the nation. Its population is cer- 

 tainly not increafed by them; but, on the con~ 

 trary, very much diminiflied. The unhealthi- 

 nefs of the ifland of Jamaica and the continent 

 of Africa, has procured them the name of the 

 graves of Englifhmen, nor is the continent of 

 Afia much better in this refpedl ; not to men- 

 tion the immenfe fums expended for the pro- 

 tedlion of the colonies, and the total annihi- 

 lation of morality among thofe who go to the 

 Eaft Indies in order to make their fortunes ; 

 as well as the immenfe fums of gold and fil- 

 ver fent to the Eaft Indies to purchafe goods 

 which we might eafily be without. 



Schemes of foreign commerce and coloni- 

 zation, however, feem to be fo great favou- 

 rites of the Britifh government, that no expe- 

 rience of paft ill fuccefs, nor profpecft of fu- 

 ture expence, feem to be fufficient to deter 



them from purfuing the fame definitive 

 plans. 



The frozen regions of Nova Scotia have coft 

 immenfe fums, never to be repaid by any 

 thing that country can produce ; and which, 



perhaps, 



