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have in the Pacific. To this may be added the fishing in 

 both seas, and the markets of the four quarters of the 

 globe. Such would be the field for commercial enterprize, 

 and incalculable would be the produce of it, when support- 

 ed by the operations of that credit and capital which Great- 

 Britain so pre-eminently possesses. Then would this 

 country begin to be remunerated for the expenses it has 

 sustained in discovering and surveying the coast of the Pa- 

 cific Ocean, which is at present left to American adven- 

 turers, who, without regularity or capital, or the desire 

 of conciliating future confidence, look altogether to the in- 

 terest of the moment. They, therefore, collect all the 

 skins they can procure, and m any manner that suits them, 

 and having exchanged them at Canton for the produce of 

 China, return to their own country. Such adventurers, 

 and many of them, as I have been informed, have been 

 very successful, would instantly disappear from before a 

 well-regulated trade. 



It would be very unbecoming in me to suppose for a 

 moment, that the East-India Company would hesitate to 

 allow those privileges to their fellow-subjects which are 

 permitted to foreigners, in a trade that is so much out of 

 the line of their own commerce, and therefore cannot be 

 injurious to it. 



Many political reasons, which it is not necessary here to 

 enumerate, must present themselves to the mind of every 

 man acquainted with the enlarged system and capacities of 

 British commerce, in support of the measure which I have 

 very briefly suggested, as promising the most important 

 advantages to the trade of the united kingdoms. 



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