Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, to the Inhabitants of the Biritish Colonies (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...near two thirds of all our Englifh fhipping; fo that we have more people in England, by reafon of our plantations in America." Idem. Sir Jofiah Child fays, in another part of his work, "that not more than fifty families are maintained in England by the refining of fugar." From whence, and from what Davenant fays, it is plain, that the advantages here faid to be derived from the plantations by England, muft be meant chiefly of the continental colonies. "I fhall fum up my whole remarks on our American colonies, with this obfervation, that as they are a certain annual revenue of feveral millions fterling to their mother country, they ought carefully to be protected, duly encouraged, and every opportunity that prefents, improved for their increafment and advantage, as every one they can poflibly reap, muft at leaft return to us with intereft. Beawes's Lex mere. red. "We may fafely advance, that our trade and navigation are greatly increafed by our colonies, and that they really are a fource of treafure and naval power to this kingdom, fmce they work for us, and their treafure centers here. Before their fettlement, our manufactures were few, and thofe but indifferent; the number of Englifh merchants very fmall, and the whole (hipping of the nation much inferior to what now belongs to the northern colonies only. Thefe are certain fads. But fmce their esftablifhment, our condition has altered for the better, almoft to a degree beyond credibility. Our manufactures are prodigioufly encreafed, chiefly by the demand for them in the plantations, where they at lead take off one half, and fupply us with many valuable commodities for exportation, which is as great an emolument to the mother kingdom, as to the plantations themfelves." Poftleth...