308 Ballance of Trade with FRANCE. 
ed, fuppofing they would ftill obtain our wool by fome means 
or other ? 
3d. If large fums of our money in gold are not tranfport- 
ed to France ? And il they can trace out how fuch money re- 
turns in the fame quantities ? And tho’ it is faid they melt down 
our coin, whether there are not more guineas in France than 
louis d’ors in England ? 
4th. As many fine ladies, and many who are not fine 
ladies, have knowingly and willingly worn french cambrics, 
notwithstanding they are forbidden by the law : I therefore 
demand, if you cannot distinguish french cambrics and 
lawns from others, as they are fo nearly like our own manu- 
factures, if it would not be much to your honor, and the ad- 
vantage of your country, to decline the ufe of all manufac- 
tures which refemble thofe of french flanders ? — If what I 
was told in cambray, two years fince, be yet true, the confump- 
tion of cambrics in England is as great as ever ; and in 1740 to 
1743, we imported annualiy 67,416 pieces, worth about jT 2 
each. I am fenfible, that unlefs individuals will e'ndevor to 
diftinguifh, or totally refrain from the ufe of thefe manufac- 
tures, nothing can prevent their being run in upon us. But 
if we could eftablifh a fafhion to decline entirely the ufe of 
them, our looms would be employed in making linen, and we 
fhould fave vast fums, which we pay to foreigners for both 
linens and cambrics ; tho’ we muft not amufe ourfelves with 
expectations that the Germans will take woollen manufactures 
of us, unlefs we take fome linens of them. 
