* GENERAL VIEW OF 



encourage arts, and new branches of manufacture ; 

 facilitate inland carriage, extend the fifheries, and 

 raife a new world of thriving populous villages. 

 Harbours may be deepened or enlarged, royal 

 dock-yards conftructed in the moft eligible fitua- 

 tions, and fhip-building encouraged around the 

 whole ifland. 



The hitherto neglected metropolis may be im- 

 proved, and ornamented with magnificent edifices, 

 fo as to become the admiration of mankind, and to 

 draw hither the wealthy, and the curious, from all 

 parts of Europe, as to the centre of arts, commerce, 

 and fplendour, 



We may adopt a compendious and faving mode 

 of collecting the revenue, to the mutual advantage 

 of government and the community ; befides the 

 fuppreftion of that national evil, fmuggling ; a 

 practice which the whole navy of England would in 

 vain attempt to prevent. We may appropriate a 

 pven fum for reducing the national debt ; or adopt, 

 for that purpofe, feme of the plans propofed by Dr. 

 Price, whofe writings on this fubject ought, to be 

 read by all thofe who have any regard for the fafety t 

 of their country, its commerce, and dependencies. 

 Thefe, feem to be fome of the moft necefiary ob- 

 jects of attention ; but if improvements were ex- 

 tended to a revifal of the whole fyflem of national 

 polity, fo as to model, qualify, and bring down 

 ail the confcituent parts, to cafes and circumflances 

 now exifling; the objects will be found fo nume- 

 rous and important, that it would require the abili- 

 ties, and political knowledge, of a Sheffield, an 

 Eden, and a Tucker, to bring them into publics 

 view. 



With this ifland is lodged the active, invigorating 

 force, that gives, or ought to give, fecurity and 

 protection to all the diflant branches throughout the 

 wide expanfe of empire. Proportioned, therefore, 



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