27 8 Moderation in Expence indifpenfibly necejfary. 
inftances, and I take the saving in the article of tea to be one 
of thofe inftances. I have calculated our expence in tea to 
amount to three millions: if we gained, that is saved one 
million annually, by leaving off this drug, it would be a fum 
of fuch vaft importance, its accumulation, in twenty or thirty 
years, intereft upon intereft, which is the way of reckoning in 
this cafe, might be fufficient to turn the courfe of the moft 
expenfive and dangerous war. Adieu. I am yours, &c. 
LETTER XVI. 
To the fa 7 ne . 
Madam, 
W HATEVER notions may be fondly entertained, we 
mu ft always keep this in view, that it is the induftry 
and labor of the poor which fupport a ftate. Our corn, our 
manufadures, and the produce of our mines, muft be sold in 
large portions to foreigners, or the miner, hufbandman, ma- 
nufacturer, and mechanic, will not find fufficient employment; 
nor will the ftate enjoy the fame degree of ftrength and power, 
as are now derived from that labor and induftry. But the pro- 
duce of thefe muft not be given away, nor exchanged for 
dirt, or what is the fame, for tea. By the force of induftry, 
and our native produds, we might be a happy people; but we 
could not be great with regard to that part of life which de- 
pends on fuch produce of other countries as contribute fo large 
a fhare to that elegance and refinement which we admire. But 
tea is consumed; it does not add to the show of the table; 
it does not adminifter in any one refped even to grandeur. 
If 
