n4 PRESENT STATE 



fere fo much with the fifheries carried on from the 

 coafts of Great Britain and Ireland, 



" TJie fifh from New-England, and the country 

 adjacent, cannot be put in competition with the her- 

 rings fent in great quantities from Scotland and 

 Ireland ; nor fhould any regulation be made likely 

 to affect this nurfery for feamen, which may be 

 greatly increajed with proper attention. 



" If any thing like policy is preferved in this 



nation, we fhall have fhip-building in every port 



and creek of Britain and Ireland, by the encoiirage- 



, went which we ought to give every fjhery, and t& 



every art connected with navigation. 



" Nothing can be more impolitic, at leaft in a 

 commercial nation, than a fondnefs for foreign- 

 dominions, and a propenfity to encourage diftant 

 colonization, rather than to promote domeftic in- 

 duftry and population at home. The internal trade 

 of Great Britain is much greater than its external 

 commerce. The beft cuftomers of the manufac- 

 turers of Britain are the people of Britain. 



cc Europe has been long wild and extravagant in 

 looking towards America for every thing^ fortu- 

 nately for France, {he failed there^ but in her pur- 

 fuits loll more glory than flic had attained elfewhere 

 during a century. Spain has been impoverished, 

 and is much- reduced below what fbe was before ihe 

 fuffered from her American delufions. England 

 furvives ; -and it is to be hoped will furvive her 

 American misfortunes ; that flie will learn wifdom 

 from what has happened; and that Hie will no 

 longer fquander her riches hecdlefsly at a diftance, 

 and out of her reach. Britain may have the good 

 fortune to fee her ffoeries furpafs ihcfe of the reft of 

 the Worldy and to raife Jive feamen of the left and 

 hardieft kind for one Jhe does now. " 



The Bifhop of Landaff having, in his icrrnon be- 

 fore the houfe of lords, put? the moft favourable 

 conftruction upon the prefcnt flate of public affairs, 



fums 



