forced enlargements of their market as this, 

 they be encouraged to persevere in their pre- 

 sent growth, the evil will receive hut a slight 

 palliation ; and at the end of any given period 

 of suspension of the distillery, the colonists will 

 require the continuance of the same violent ex* 

 pedient, as much as they do now, perhaps more. 

 We are further told in the Report, of the ad- 

 vantage derived from the colonies to the ship- 

 ping and revenue. As to the shipping, it has 

 probably partaken a little of the over-trade of 

 its employers, and the allowing it again to find 

 its own level, will do the country no seri- 

 ous injury. As to the revenue paid on su- 

 gars, it is equally plain, that if we force that 

 commodity by encouragement, we tax our- 

 selves to enable it to pay this revenue ; or, in 

 other words, pay it ourselves in the most ex- 

 pensive form. As already said, however, I 

 am not now opposing the granting of assistance 

 to the colonists as a general measure. 



II. But if such assistance is to be granted, it 

 should surely be in a way the least unjust to- 

 wards any particular class of the community, 

 and the least injurious to the whole. The pro- 

 jected mode of relief) by the suspension of dis- 

 tilleries, is objectionable on both these grounds. 



