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great in, and so bound up with, the result, that 

 the necessity for this would strike him at once. 

 For always supposing Jones to be a practical 

 man he would comprehend, that if he looked on this 

 portion of his business as secondary, and left it to 

 be worked out, in a hap-hazard manner, by persons 

 fully occupied with other duties, who had not more- 

 over the special knowledge necessary for rightly 

 understanding it, the whole of his borrowed capital 

 would, very likely, be exhausted in undertakings 

 which, under such circumstances, it could hardly be 

 expected, would turn out otherwise than expensive 

 failures, barren of results. 



It often happens, however, that great landed pro- 

 prietors are not fond of entering into mercantile 

 or business speculations ; sometimes from a mistaken 

 notion that such transactions are unbecoming the 

 dignity of high personages. Now Jones, being one 

 of a mercantile people, would not, probably, have 

 any scruples, on this score, about turning a penny 

 for his own or his peoples ' advantage, provided he 

 could do so honestly. And it is a very singular 

 fact that in those quarters where his nation is 

 so much sneered at on this account, we find 

 the most august personages in the land violat- 

 ing the very principle they profess to uphold. 

 Thus, no one can travel very far over the conti- 

 nent of Europe, without running against Royal 

 Manufactures of all sorts manufactories for 



