OF SCOTLAND. 



d, this kingdom would have had at prefent dou- 

 ble the quantity of cultivated lands, and double 

 the number of ufeful inhabitants. " 



Dean Tucker. cc Suffice it to obferve, that the 

 wars of Europe for thefe 200 years laft pad, by the 

 confeflion of all parties, have really ended in the 

 advantage of none, but to the manifeft detriment of 

 them all : fuffice it further to remark, that had each 

 of the contending powers employed their fubjects 

 in cultivating and improving fuch lands as were 

 clear of all difputed titles, inftead of aiming at 

 more extended pofleflions, they had confulted both 

 their own and their people's greatnefs, much more 

 efficacioufly than all the victories of a Csefar, or 

 an Alexander. " 



The Dean, after enumerating the true principles 

 and real caufes of our increafe of trade fmce the re- 

 volution, proceeds thus : " Now all thefe things 

 co-operating together would render any country 

 rich and flourifhing, whether it had colonies or 

 not : and this country in particular would have 

 found the happy effects of them to a much greater 

 degree than it now doth, were they not counter- 

 acted by our luxury, our gambling, our frequent 

 ruinous and expensive wars, our colony-drains, 

 and by that ill-gotten, and ill-fpent wealth, which 

 was obtained by robbing, plundering, and (larving 

 the poor defencelefs natives of the Eaft-Indies. 

 A fpecies of villainy this, for which the Englifh 

 language had not a name, 'till it adopted the word 

 v.abobing" 



Lord Sheffield. cc Fifheries, coafting trade, and 

 northern voyages, produce hardy and intrepid fea- 

 men $ African and Indian voyages deflroy many, 

 and debilitate more. 



" It fhould never be the policy of England to 

 give a particular encouragement to fedentary fifh- 

 cries, at the diftanct of 3000 miles, as they inter- 



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