GENERAL REVIEW 



through all the branches of trade, commerce, and 

 manufactures, and to all the claffes of men by whom 

 thofe branches are carried on, who are more or lefs 

 affeded by extenfive regular fifheries, fuch inquiries 

 "would lead to a field of endlefs calculation, and 

 boundlefs advantages to the community. 



Let us,forinftance, fuppofe, that 100,000 feamen 

 were fully employed in fifheries, whofe annual pro- 

 duce, after deducting the value of fait and cafks, re- 

 alized a clear profit of 1,500,000!.; fuch accumu- 

 lating wealth would place many thoufand indivi- 

 duals in comfortable circumftances, and enrich 

 others; confequently the benefits of the fifheries 

 would extend to the population and increafe of vil- 

 lages, towns, and even the capitals of the two unit- 

 ed kingdoms, thereby augmenting the national pro- 

 perty, the revenues of the ilate, and of corporations ; 

 giving bufinefs and employment to the brickmaker, 

 the iron and timber merchants, dealers in oil and 

 colours, paper-makers and ftainers, bricklayers, 

 maibns, carpenters, painters, glaziers, blackfmiths, 

 labourers, &c. From thefe we might proceed to 

 the numerous claffes engaged in the various kinds of 

 houfehold furniture, confiflingof manufactured ma- 

 hogany, filver, fteel, iron, copper, tin, china, glafs ; 

 of filks, cottons, linens, prints, and other arti- 

 cles, well known to every reputable houfe-keeper. 

 From the expenditures on furniture, we might 

 proceed to the articles of elegant drefs manu- 

 factured at home; the confumption of provifions, 

 malt liquors, and cyder, the produce of thefe king- 

 doms ; of fugar, rum, and other articles, from our 

 Weft India iilands ; of wines, brandy, and fruits, 

 had in exchange for our fifh. Placing thefe, and a 

 thoufand other particulars, to the credit of the fifhe- 

 ries, and taking alfo into the account, that, by the 

 national exertion, towards which the fifheries, even 

 in their diftreffed ftate, contributed very confidera- 

 bly, we broke the ilrength of the moft formidable 



confederacy 



