ADVERTISEMENT. 



To those who are familiar with the doctrines of 

 political economy, the minuteness of illustration 

 and detail, in the following remarks, may appeal- 

 superfluous. But when we consider how important 

 it is, -in a popular government like ours, that the 

 public be possessed of just notions on schemes of 

 national policy ; and, when we see such fundamen- 

 tal and exploded errors advanced on a subject so in- 

 teresting as the present, I am hopeful that they 

 who least require a detailed explanation, will be 

 the most sensible of its utility. 



It will also be found, that the principles which 

 I have endeavoured to establish are of general ap- 

 plication, and may enable us to judge, not merely 

 of the present measure, but of all similar schemes 

 of policy. They indeed involve the most extensive 

 and fundamental doctrines in the science of political 

 economy. 



I likewise hope that some of the facts and rea- 

 sonings which I have advanced, may tend to dissipate 



