322 



Miserable as is the idea conveyed hv the 

 preceding table of the trade of Hhio, there 

 are yet f-ome other circurastances behind which 

 complete the picture. Scanty as the imports 

 are, the most valuable are the European wool- 

 len, linen, and cotton goods, yet these are the 

 very iiems from which Holland derives no di- 

 rect profit. The manufaclures thus consumed 

 belong to her rival of England, and she there- 

 fore merely enjoys the customs which are levi- 

 ed on their importation. With an unworthy 

 jealousy, she has attempted to exclude these 

 articles from her market, by the imposition of 

 exorbitant, which had not even the plea of being 

 prolcctiiig, * duties, as hho brought no similar 

 goods of her own thither. By thus stifling her 

 Etiglis^h trade, she drove merchants to more hos- 

 pitable shores, thus acting against her own inter* 

 estsby inducing A stagnation of trade, and com- 

 pelling her subjects to purchase at dearer foreign 

 markets, 



** Restrictions upon the intercourse with a 

 particular country, which is supposed to liave a 

 balance against us, are unreasonable, even sup- 

 posing the general principle to be souiid. For, 

 if we get commodities cheaper from that nation, 

 and sell ours to it with greater advantage, the 

 balance will, on the wiiole, be more in our favor 

 than if we carried on the same transactions with 



* AltK'itgH tbe rt^JU of iri> '■■■•y dtitie!) is imdcttuibk, p4>* 



Jitical teconumt't* ore aurfiil (tf the messure. The ajj- 



parciii betiffinlc lived ) < - n certain udTanta^jc, imlc- 



EenJt'iit of fkill, for re in the humo market, 



lit t tit natural ri'»tili ■ . . -.vtaUlu amJlBbor of Indi vi- 



in Iflvor of inar(> lucimUvii odca, 'hw measiir* U therefore clliadvaB- 

 tAgvobii to tlic iDdiv1ihi£kl, '4ud ctiiurvtjut^utJy to the coDUUtioity wbicli b 

 comjxttcd of luillvidaals In ihn u^npaxe. 



