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This table flands in need of no remarks : it fpeaks 
loud enough of itfelf, that cur people increafe in a • 
very rapid manner. All I (hall take the liberty of 
observing from it is, that all the regiflers I have 
looked over feem to relent the wretched policy of 
King Charles II. who fubmitted himfelf and king- 
dom too much to a powerful neighbour : and that 
our civil war had no efredt upon our numbers, in 
comparifon to our foreign wars. 
I trull, that the very ingenious author of the poli- 
tico-arithmetical letters, I have all along had my eye 
upon, will take no offence, if I recommend an article 
or two advanced by him to be reconfidered > which, 
if purfued, might perhaps induce fome fmall errors 
in government. 
The firft is, That all ways to increafe our people 
would be for the public welfare, even the naturalize- 
ing of foreigners : whereas, if I remember right, all 
political writers lay it down as a maxim, that num- 
bers of people without employment are a burden 
and difeafe to the body politic j and where there is 
full employment, there the people multiply of courfe. 
So that we Ihould not meafure the happinefs of the 
nation by the number of mouths, but by the number 
of hands. Nay, if we were to import a quantity of 
foreigners, we muft immediately re-export them, as 
we actually did in the cafe of the Palatines and Saltz- 
burghers. Indeed, I cannot deny, but that if the 
new-comers were to bring new trades with them,, 
they would be welcome : tho’ I apprehend it is not 
an eafy matter to find out many new manufactures.- 
I can at prefent think of nothing but the cambrick- 
bufinefs'i 
