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citement by vvhicli the circulation of 

 money is quickened. 

 Luxuries, by prompting activity, through 

 the desire of possession, and conse- 

 quently, by again quickening circulation. 

 In like manner, a Foreign country ^ by develop- 

 ing its proper resources, becomes better enabled to 

 supply and to purchase of Great Britain, and the 

 latter country has, consequently, an interest in the 

 prosperity of the Foreign country. 



It does not however follow that it is eligible for 

 Great Britain to trade with a Foreign country at 

 the expense or sacrifice of her natural resources. 

 A crisis may indeed be too readily supposed, 

 which may render it doubtful whether such a 

 Foreign trade be, or be not, the least in the choice 

 of evils ; but the existence of such a crisis must be 

 admitted to be evidence of the depression of native 

 industry, and consequently of the national wealth 

 and power being affected at the source. Such 

 a foreign trade may be submitted to as a tempo- 

 rary expedient, but the consideration of its ten- 

 dency must lead to an anxious solicitude to relieve 

 the native industry. 



Under the actual circumstances of the United 

 Kingdom, relief of the native industry may appear 

 to be presented in either of two opposite modes. 



