no PRESENT STATE 



The imports frorrn 



England, as they 



flood before the >. 2,000,000 In 1834*4,060,00^ 



American war, 



nearly * 



Rents, &c. fpent^j 



in England by l. 600,000 ditto i, 000,000 



Scotfmen J 



Whereas 1 0,000, oool. the accumulated amount of 

 the above-ftated 200,000!. exclufive of intereft, for a 

 period of fifty years, would be exhaufted in twelve 

 months, if expended agreeably to the old iyftem, in de- 

 ftrudive war. Such would be the oppofite effects in the 

 operation of the fame fpecific fum, circulating within 

 our own ifland, upon the arts of peace ; or lavifhed 

 amongft diltant regions, in the profecution of ima- 

 ginary glory, external dominion, and fallacious 

 channels of commercial monopoly. 



Unhappily, the prelent fituation of government, 

 and that deftructive body, the India company, afford 

 no flattering profpecl: that any arguments tending 

 to the abridgment of the national finances will pro- 

 duce the defired effect. A deduction of facts ; a 

 ftatement of pofitive grievances, and the expedi- 

 ency of redreffing them, however, excite the atten- 

 tion of fome readers towards a people, whofe life is 

 one continued ftruggle, and whofe patience is nearly 

 exhaufted. 



Suppofing, therefore, that government fbould not 

 be inclined to delegate the internal affairs of Scot- 



* This fuppofition is flrongly fupported by a comparative view 

 of the exports to Scotland, between the years 1697, and the union 

 jn 1707, which upon an average, amounted only to . 65,345 an- 

 nually. From this it appears that the exports between 1707 and 

 1775, h ave increafed thirty-fold. And, it may be iuppoied that 

 the money fpent by Scottifh nobility and gentry reiiding in Eng- 

 land, within the fame period, hath increafed in the proportion of 

 five to one. 



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