An Essay on the Advantages and Disadvantages Which Respectively Attend France and Great Britain, with Regard to Trade. with Some Proposals for Removi

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. 1756. Excerpt: ... likewise no scandal for younger brothers of the most antient families to be bred up to trade and business. VIII. We enjoy a singular advantage by our vast colonies on the continent of America. From Newfoundland to Georgia, is an immense country; where all the inhabitants do use more or less of the growth of their mother country; and England again receives the produce and growth of theirs. This is a mutual benefit, and still improveable. IX. The Vsiand of Jamaica has some advantages over any of the French islands on account of its situation, to carry on a beneficial trade with the Spanish main; thqsweets of which have been so sufficiently felt during the late war, as to need no further illustration. And this island is capable of great improvements in, many other respects. X. The very wants of Great Britain, in one respect, might be turned into a singular advantage over the French irr another. It is certain, France cannot carry on a trade to most countries with thatadvantage to the country it trades with, as the English can. -.. For example; the English can trade with the Spaniards to mutual advantage: rf the English export cloth and stusfs to Spain, they can take oftTruits, oil and wine, by way of barter. Whereas the French can make no use of these commodities, having so much of their own growth both to use, and to spare. A consideration of this nature, well timed, and strongly urged, might have a good effect upon rhc Spanish court, to induce them to favour the English commerce, and discountenance the French. It is owing to the successful application of Sir Paul Me' thuen on this very head, when envoy to the court of Portugal, that the English at this day enjoy the whole trade of Portugal, and1 that the French, in a manner, are excluded. XI. The low intere...