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I have inserted the prospectus in this number, as com 
taining the proper reasons for undertaking it, and the plan 
on which I mean (if I can) to conduct it* To the pros- 
pectus as ' originally published, I have made some addi- 
tional observations in favour of a system of home manufac- 
ture. i have done so, on purpose that I may express my 
dissent from the doctrines contained in a work, greatly 
praised and recommended in the American review for 
October 1812, viz. An inquiry into the various systems of 
political economy , their advantages arid disadvantages , and 
the theory most favourable to national wealthy ^Charles 
GAnilh, Advocate . Translated from the French by 
D. B oiLEAU, author of an introduction to Political Eco 
nomy . New- York* Bradford and I sketp, P-hiLd-.-iphia. 
The means of encreasing national wealth, the impor- 
tance of foreign trade, the necessity of attending to the ba- 
lance of trade, and the excess of export above import, and 
much fact and reasoning relating to this subject, will be 
found in the writings of Dr. Davenant, Mr* Gee, Sir Joskth 
Child, &c» about the time of King William and Queen 
Ami; and many facts and arguments are adduced by 
these writers well worth notice in the present day. Indeed 
I much wish a collection were made and republished of 
