CHINESE TRAI^E,^ ijIO 



■which furnifhes them in the greatefl: abun- 

 dance. An extenfive and profitable trade, 

 proportioned to the wants of the inhabi- 

 tants, may confequently be carried on 

 there, when we have acquired juft notions 

 refpedling the principal commodities which 

 it produces. 



Chinese Money, 



THOUGH there are in China rich 

 mines of gold and filver, tiiey are not al- 

 lowed to be opened, for fear, no doubt, of 

 caufing too great a circulation of money. 

 It is under this view of .political and com- 

 mercial intereft, that we ought to confider a 

 prohibitory law, which proceeds, indeed, 

 from the fpirit of the government ; but this 

 reafon, too fubtle to be perceived by the 

 people, is exhibited to them under a more 

 E e 2 engaging 



