xx PREFACE. 

 commerce with America, and the whole 

 houfe of Bour- on. Upon a moderate 

 computation, France, Spain, and Bri- 

 tain, will each of them fpend enough ia 

 it to improve three or four provinces 

 to the higheft pitch of cultivation ; which 

 inftead of flaughtering three or four 

 hundred thoufand men, and leaving 

 thrice that number of widows and 01- 

 phans, would render a greater number 

 of families happy for life, and leave a 

 rich and increafing legacy of eafe and 

 plenty to their pofterity : and all the 

 {laughter, ruin, poverty and deftrucrion, 

 that is thus brought on the human fpe- 

 cies, is for the lake of commerce. 



It was the commercial iyftem that 

 founded thofe colonies — commercial 

 profits reared them — commercial avarice 

 monopolized them — and commercial 

 ignorance now wars to recover the pof- 

 feffion of what isnotintrinfically worth 

 the powder and ball that are fliot away 

 in the quarrel. The fame baneful com- 

 mercial genius influences France and 

 Spain to exhauft their revenues,, ruin 



their 



