PREFACE. xv 



Nor is it only in the lofs of vaft ter- 

 ritories that we ieel the direful effects 

 of the monopolizing fpirit, 1 he 

 greater! part of the national d^bt is 

 owing to the two laft wars, which coft 

 us one hundred millions fterling, and 

 arofe from mercantile caufes : that of 

 1740 was a war for the protection of 

 Englilli fmugglers: and that of 1756, 

 fprung from an apprehenfion that the 

 French would divide the American 

 market with our traders: the prefent, 

 which may be as expenlive before it is 

 finifhed as either of the former, was 

 owing to a determination to fecure the 

 market we had gained. But all the 

 wars are for markets or fmnggling, or 

 trade or manufacture.- That vaft debt 

 which debilitates the kingdom, thole 

 taxes we pay for having loft rhirteen 

 provinces and the hazard we now run 

 of loiing or ruining Ireland, are all 

 owing to the former predilection of our 

 government for the trad;ng fyftem. 



I fhould go much beyond the line of 

 truth to declare, that trade and manu- 



iacture 



