230 A TREATISE ON THE CONNECTION OF 



carried, are so disproportionate, or of so small a value, 

 when compared with the freight 1 capital employed in 

 shipping ; consequently there is no trade which employs 

 so many seamen in proportion to the value of the car- 

 goes. Profitable or judicious branches of trade should by 

 every means be encouraged, especially those in which 

 the persons employed are the protectors and defenders 

 of their country. 



No person, who has the prosperity and defence of this 

 Country at heart, but must wish, that that trade should 

 be increased which promotes ends so truly to be desired. 

 It must be obvious that such objects are rot to be at- 

 tained by laying duties on an article when water-borne, 

 of which the carriage by sea should as much as possible 

 be promoted. 



To what further extent the coasting coal trade might 

 be carried, is not an easy matter .at -present to predict; 

 it is capable not only of being increased to a very great 

 degree, by taking off the present duties, but may be in- 

 creased in a much greater degree, by the extended 



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