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fums up the whole, in the following mufical 

 language. 



" But great and happy as we are, there is much 

 room left for thofe whom it may concern td make 

 the attempt of making us greater and happier : 

 and we fincerely pray to God that all parties may 

 be difpoied to do this, not by facriftcing public 

 confidence to private animofity ; the (lability of 

 government, to felfifh or ambitious druggies for 

 power ; not by indulging a proud propenfity to 

 embrace the firft favourable opportunity of regain- 

 ing our glory, as it is called, by the renewal of 

 war ; not by profecuting unjull views of commer- 

 cial monopoly, or territorial conqueft, in diftant 

 countries - t * but by taking the moil prudent mea- 



fures 



* " I wifh," fays the Bifhop, " I could confider our acquifi* 

 tions in Alia as compenfating our loffes in America ; but they 

 have been obtained, I fear, by unjuft force, and on that account 

 I cannot think that they will be ufefnl to us. It requires little 

 political fagacity to foretell, that the natives will pay their tri* 

 bute with reluctance ; that it \vill be expended in the maintenance 

 of the (landing army by which it mull bs collected ; that our 

 enemies in Europe, jealous of the refources which we mail {land 

 a chance of deriving from Alia, will endeavour to counteract all 

 our projects of intereft and ambition, and to make that country 

 another America to this nation. " 



The Eaft India company hath ever been obnoxious to the people 

 of this kingdom ; infomuch, that in the reign of king William, 

 petitions were prefented from various parts of the country for its 

 fliflblution. The houfe of commons alfo addrefled the king to 

 the fame purpofe; but, fays a hiilorian of that period, " thole 

 xv ho had been the moll warm in detecting abufes fuddenly cooled ; 

 and the proiecution of the affair began to languiih. '* 



The abufes of the company's lervants in latter times are well 

 known, but llill ir is contended, 



1. " That the India trade is a valuable nurfery for fenmen. " 

 To mis proportion it hath already been obfcrved, that thele very 

 diflant and iultry voyages are the deftroyers of that clafs of men. 



2. " The trade to India is tha grand channel of Englifli com- 

 merce, and will enrich the kingdom by the magnitude of its ex- 

 ports and imports. " The exports to India, till we became pof- 

 icfled of the territorial revenue of that country, conliited chiefly 



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