642 ADDRESS TO THE CONVENTION 



kets of Europe and the Weft Indies, in fpecic and 

 goods, to the amount of 750,000!. annual 



4. In fupplying the labouring people with c< 

 and wholclbme food, to the amount of i ,000,000!. 

 annually. 



5. Ingivingemployment to half a million of people 

 of both iexes, and of all ages ; as coopers, blackfmiths, 



<ers, block-makers, painters, hecklers, fpinn^ 

 net-makers, ropc-mak .1-cloth-manufactun 



and fail-makers, tanners, falt-makers and labourers. 



6. As opening inexhauftible fources of wealth 

 am< j)le in both king- 

 doms, thereby contributing to the cxtenfion of ma- 

 nufactures, and the increa 



7. As contributing particularly to the improve- 

 ment of that hitherto loft country, the Highlands 

 of Scotland, and furnifliing 3 or 400,000 people 



h a competency of the necefldries of life, whereby 

 emigrations would ceaie, and a numerous colony of 

 foldiers, ieamen, and fifhers would be foon efta- 

 blifhed. 



8. As raifing the value of natural woods, and 

 confeqmntly barren lands. 



To fum up the whole, as giving vigour to the 

 centre of empire, rendering us lefs dependant on 

 foreign countries and foreign connections, at all 

 times expenfive and precarious. 



Such are the gifts that Heaven hath beftowed 

 upon our fliores, of which ftrangers have hitherto 

 reaped the fruits, as dated in the foregoing hiftory 

 of the fifheries, down to the beginning of the preicnc 



The following particulars will enable you to 

 form fome conclufion refpecting the prefcnt mea- 

 fures of government, for the recovery of that 

 national ftaple. 



The remarks which I had ventured to bring 

 into public view reflecting the fifheries, being 

 generally approved of by the inhabitants of Eng- 

 land 



