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I have taken the great line of leading principles ; will the 

 littlenefs of commercial jealoufy reply in its true fpvrit, that 

 this town will be hurt ; that that manufacture will be loll ; 

 that Manchester will be alarmed ; and that Norwich will 

 have apprehenlions : it is not a queftion for the weavers ot 

 one place and the merchants of another to decide, it is 

 THE EMPIRE that is concerned ; the general intereft de- 

 mands the meafure, and ought to abforb every pitiful confi- 

 deration : but all experience fpeaks only one language even 

 to thefe miftaken individuals : 1 obferved it before, and gave 

 inftances of manufactures linking in the pofleffion of a mono- 

 poly, and thriving from a rivalry ; of markets rifing to in- 

 creafmg induftry ; of the welfare of one country rifing from 

 the profperity of others : truths as univerfal as the world. 

 And (hall we deny the application to a fifter, but dependent 

 kingdom, from whom we have fo many ways of gaining all 

 the advantages of her wealth ? But arguments are little 

 wanted where facts are fo numerous ; to thofe I have already 

 inferted, let me add the following (late of our imports and ex- 

 ports in the Iriili trade. 



TRADE OF GREAT BRITAIN WJTH IRELAND. 



TRADE 



