xx PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE. 



reftridions, which it laid upon their hitherto open 

 .trade with the Levant, France, Spain, Portugal, 

 the Baltic, Holland, and the Dutch plantations. 

 They could not conceive how the commerce of 

 Scotland would pofTibly be advanced by fuch mea- 

 fures, unlefs it could be proved that commerce, 

 like the camomile, the more it is opprefled, the 

 more luxuriant it grows. They confidered the 

 privileges of trading to the Englifh plantations in 

 America, as a precarious, and at heft a nugatory 

 equivalent for the concefTions, both private and na- 

 tional, which they had made *. Almoft every ar- 

 ticle of the treaty produced a proteft, and the moft 

 inflammatory diiputes in the Scottifti parliament. 

 <c What ! faid the Duke of Hamilton, fhall we in 

 half an hour give up what our forefathers main- 

 tained with their lives and fortunes for many ages ? 

 Are here none of the defendants of thofe worthy 

 patriots, who defended the liberty of their country 

 againft all invaders? Where are the DouglafTes and 



* At this time, and long after, the Englifh trade with the Ame- 

 rican and Weft India colonies bore no proportion to the expence 

 of keeping and defending them. 



In 1706, the amount of the exports was thus : 



To Hudfon's Bay - - - . 958 



New England - - 575 



New York - - - 3i>88 



Penfylvania - II 37 



Virginia and Maryland - - 58,015 



Carolina ... 4,001 



Exports to America - - 162,649 



165,999 

 60,629 

 18,895 



9'47* 



To Jamaica 

 Barbadoes 



Antigua * 



Nevis 

 Montferrat 

 St. Chriftopher's 



Exports to the Weft-Indies 

 Sum total to America and the Weft-Indies 429, 287 



