OF SCOTLAND. 93 



Scotland conftdered as a commercial Nation, and its 

 great Importance to England in that View. Some 

 Propofals for a more liberal Syftem of Polity rela- 

 lative to Scotland \ with conjectural Eftimates of the 

 beneficial Conferences which would flow therefrom, 

 to the whole I/land. 



It hath been obferved, that a fpirit of induflry,, 

 trade, and rural improvements, began to revive in 

 Scotland about the year 1726, in confequence of 

 the American commerce carried on from Glafgow, 

 and fome falutary, though incomplete meafures 

 of government reipedling the linen manufactures, 

 and the weftern fifheries, by which the whole king- 

 dom was more or lefs benefited. Since that time, 

 more cfpecially from the year 1750, the demand in 

 Scotland for Englifh manufactures, and various 

 foreign articles through the channel of London, as 

 filk, drugs, tea, and India goods, gradually in- 

 creafed, till the fatal commencement of the Ame- 

 rican war in 1775, wnen the annual value of 

 Englifh exports to Scotland had amounted to 

 . 2,000,000 



The ready money fpent by the Scots ^ 



nobility and gentry redding in Eng- > 500,000 



land. . J 



Ditto, by traders, and other perfons,! 



in their periodical journies to Lon- | 



don 5 alfo in remittances to ! 



boarding fchools, academies, and | 



for a variety of other pur- 



pofes 



. 2,600,000 



In 1696, was eftablifhed in England, the office 

 of infpector-general of the value of exports and im- 

 ports to, and from, all pans of the- world ; and in 



