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God, depend on the union, and on the number 

 of its inhabitants, and its happinefs on their 

 VIRTUE. " 



that country may be rendered really and permanently ferviceable 

 to government and the community, would be, to regulate its 

 commerce by a general prohibition of all manufactures, of what- 

 ever denomination, that interfere with thofe of Great Britain ; while 

 the ruw materials, and other articles, the natural produce of Alia, 

 as indigo, iilk, ialtperre, i'piccs, drugs, tea, and diamonds, would 

 flill enable the company to carry on a refpedable, lure, and pro- 

 fitable trade, and to reftore their credit and their honour, without 

 prejudice to India, or their native country. 



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