ii6 PRESENT STATE 



fures at home, to heal our divifions, and amend 

 our morals i for the ftrength, foreign and domeftic, 

 of every nation upon earth, mud ultimately, under 



God, 



of fpecie for the purpofe of completing the inveftments or cargoes 

 feat from thence to England. 



The following periodical flatements of the value of goods ex- 

 ported thither iince the commencement of the preient century, 

 compared with our exports to Holland, Germany, and Spain, are 

 extracted from Sir Charles Whitworth's Commercial tables ; viz, 

 we exported in 



The exports to Portiigal ufed formerly to treble thofe to India; 

 and Flanders hath of late equalled, if not exceeded, the whole 

 eaitern commerce. Thus our imercourfe with feveral kingdoms 

 of Europe is incomparably iuperior to that of India, and without 

 any expence to government. 



3. " ThcEail India trade produces a confiderable revenue, and 

 is coniequently a great fupport to the ftate. " This is the charm, 

 which hath long influenced the Britifh councils, and from which 

 we may partly trace the difmemberment of our empire, and the 

 preient embarrafled lituation of the kingdom. It is well known 

 that the cargoes of tea fent to America with a view to ferve the 

 India company, and clogged with a duty of three pence per pound, 

 renewed thofe commotions which terminated in the lois of that 

 empire. For this alib, we permit the company to pour into theie 

 kingdoms whole cargoes of muilins, callicoes, dimities, fhawls, 

 nankeen, china ware, and other. Aliatic manufactures, to the great 

 injury of our merchants and traders* and by which 200,000 work- 

 ing people are deprived of their natural right. It hath alfo been 

 alledged by many, that the heavy excifes laid, time after time, 

 upon Britifh printed cottons, and linens, originate in Leaden-halt 

 ftreet. 



Admitting this to be a groundlefs furmife, it is, however, be- 

 yond a doubt, that our Oriental connections have, in : a general 

 riew, proved extremely prejudicial to the honour and intereir. of 

 this nation. Arid it would feeiu r that the only meant whereby 



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