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My Lords and Gentlemen , T hough the Author of the ensuing Tract may be below your Notice, as an Individual, yet the Subject he treats upon, highly deserves your most serious Attention. In the present unhappy Disputes between the Parent-State and the Colonies, he undertakes to point out, what Measures the Landed-Interest of Great-Britain and Ireland ought to pursue in future, for the Sake of themselves and their Posterity. And if what he has to offer, should, after a due Examination, be found to

According to the above State of the Account, the Sum Total of the Value of the Exports to Holland and Germany alone, during a Period of nine Years, exceeded that to all the [present revolted] Provinces of North America , by no less than 10,234,103 l. 7 s. 7 d. which is more than ONE-THIRD of the Whole. And yet this very Period was more favourable to American Exports than any other: 1st. Because during this Period, there was the greatest Emigration from Europe to America , and particularly from H

As we have been hitherto comparing the Value of the Exports to the twelve malcontent Provinces of North-America , with the Value of the Exports to Holland and Germany ; let us in the next Place consider also the Nature of the North-American Imports , if compared with those of other Countries. Now all Imports may be divided into two Classes, viz. Raw Materials for the Employment of our own People, and taxable Objects for the Purposes of raising a Revenue. In regard to the first of these,—if we sh

The Case of Emigrations from Germany and Holland , hath been in Part considered already: But as the continual Emigrations from Great-Britain and Ireland (which I will always consider as one Country) have something more particularly prejudicial in their Nature, if compared with others, I hope the Reader will not think it lost Time, if I give them in this Place a distinct Consideration. A Set of Labourers, or Tradesmen resided lately in Great-Britain , or Ireland ; and earned their Bread by the Sw

Prejudices and Prepossessions are stubborn Things in all Cases; but in none more peculiarly obstinate, than in relinquishing detached Parts of an unwieldy, extended Empire; there not being, I believe, a single Instance in all History, of any Nation surrendering a distant Province voluntarily, and of free Choice, notwithstanding it was greatly their Interest to have done it. The English in particular have given remarkable Proofs of their Unwillingness. For tho’ it was undeniably their Interest to

Parties for overturning the present Constitution, and for setting up something in its Stead, for which we have not yet a Name. 1st. The Idle and Dissolute among the common People are for throwing the present System into Anarchy and Confusion. They have ardently wished these many Years, for some Kind of levelling Scheme whereby they might enrich themselves at the Cost of their Masters, and rob and plunder with Impunity. If Mr. Wilkes , or any other modern Patriot can lead them into this Path of G