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riches, and there would then be a proportion- 
able greater demand for English manufac¬ 
tures; a still greater trade would also be car¬ 
ried on then between Canada and the C est In¬ 
dies than at .present, to 'die great advantage of 
b th countries * ; a circumstance that would 
give employment to a greater number of Bri¬ 
tish ships: as Canada also increased in wealth, 
it would be enabled to defray the expences of 
its own government, which at present fall so 
heavily upon the people of Great Britain: 
neither is there reason to imagine that Canada, 
if allowed to attain such a state of prosperity, 
would be ready to disunite herself from Great 
Britain, supposing that Great Britain should 
remain as powerful as at present, and that Ca¬ 
nada continued to be governed with mildness 
and wisdom; for she need but turn towards the 
United States, to be convinced that the great 
mass of her people are in the possession of as 
* All those articles of American produce in demand in 
the West Indies may be had on much better terms in Ca¬ 
nada than in the United States, and if the Canadian mer¬ 
chants had sufficient capitals to enable them to trade thither 
largely, there can hardly be a doubt but that the people of 
the British West Indian isles would draw their supplies 
from Canada rather than from any other part of America„ 
The few cargoes at present sent from Quebec, always com¬ 
mand a preference in the West Indian markets over those 
sent from any part of the United States, 
