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India trade, has been encreafed within fifty 

 years paft, as alfo that long fince our India- 

 men have equalPd the middle fize of our 

 men of war — And again, whatever wife 

 laws we owe to our Ancejlors^ that there 

 never was fo much as an intended encou- 

 raging one, fince our Edw. III^ to preferve 

 an affluence of this tutelar plant of Great 

 Britain and its dominions— As to the fha- 

 dow of a penal law, made by Henry Vllly 

 and perhaps meant to fuch purpofes y it 

 feems to have been ill concerted at firft ^ and 

 to be fure has been ineffedhial ^ and for good 

 reafons may poflibly hereafter, be fhewn to 

 have been unjuft — At leaft is thought fo 

 n*ow by many, fince the circumftances of 

 the cafe are fo very much altered fince his 

 time— 



But again my bufinefs at prefent being 

 only to open the caufe 5 I fhall omit defcant- 

 ing on either parliamentary fcheme of that 

 kind, till I find myfelf readier and more pre- 

 pared to enter on moft of the arguments 

 pro and con, about the article of woodgrub- 

 bing; and only here on that cafe put the 

 queftion — ^What would any new reftraining 

 ftatute, to the like import, avail ? whereby 



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