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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B140226.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<HEAD><HI>AN ANSWER TO THE Eleven QUERIES</HI> Humbly tender'd, Relating to the <HI>BILL</HI> for prohibiting the Wear|ing of <HI>Ea&s;t-India</HI> Silks, and Printed and Dyed Callicoes.</HEAD>
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<CELL>QUERIES.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>ANSWERS.</HI></CELL>
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<CELL>I. <HI>WHY &s;hould</HI> Ea&s;t-India <HI>Silks and Bengalls be prohibited, which to the Nation are three times as cheap as</HI> Dutch, French, <HI>and</HI> Italian <HI>Silks?</HI></CELL>
<CELL>I. THE Cheaper they are, the more damage they do to our own Growth and Manu|factures, and therefore the more <HI>nece&s;&s;ary</HI> and <HI>rea&s;onable</HI> to be prohibited.</CELL>
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<CELL>II. <HI>Why</HI> Ea&s;t-India <HI>Silks, Bengalls and Printed Callicoes, that pay five times the Freight, and Twenty</HI> per Cent. <HI>more Cu&s;tom, than</HI> Dutch <HI>and</HI> Italian <HI>Silks?</HI></CELL>
<CELL>II. The difference in Cu&s;tom is not true in Fact; and their great Freight will not recompence the Da|mage the Nation receives by wearing them in&s;tead of its own Manufactures.</CELL>
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<CELL>III. <HI>Why</HI> Per&s;ia <HI>Silks purcha&s;ed with</HI> Eng|li&s;h <HI>Cloth and Stuffs, more then</HI> Dutch, French, <HI>and</HI> Italian <HI>Silks bought with our Money?</HI></CELL>
<CELL>III. <HI>Per&s;ia</HI> Silks (&s;o called) are made in the <HI>Bay</HI> of <HI>Bengall,</HI> and bought with Money: <HI>Dutch, French</HI> and <HI>Italians</HI> are almo&s;t all beat out by our own Silks.</CELL>
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<CELL>IV. <HI>Why &s;hould painted Callicoes from</HI> India <HI>be prohibited, when we mu&s;t in their Room print</HI> Dutch, French, Scotch, <HI>or</HI> German <HI>Linnens, which will co&s;t the Nation three times the price?</HI></CELL>
<CELL>IV. Becau&s;e <HI>Floured, Strip't</HI> and <HI>Printed</HI> Wea&s;tead and half-Silk Stuffs are now worn, (and with <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> or <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Linnen may be worn) and &s;upply all the u&s;es of Callicoes, and not <HI>Dutch</HI> Linnens, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></CELL>
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<CELL>V. <HI>Why &s;hould we enrich our Neighbours by Prohibiting</HI> Ea&s;t-India <HI>Silks, and wearing of theirs, when at one time or other, they may imploy the Co&s;ts of tho&s;e Silks again&s;t us?</HI></CELL>
<CELL>V. This Kingdom (and not our Neighbours) will receive great Advantage, and be inricht thereby, and by that means the better able to &s;upport and defend our &s;elves, both at home and abroad.</CELL>
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<CELL>VI. <HI>Why &s;hould we interrupt that Trade, which not only affords us the cheape&s;t Commodi|ties in the World, but likewi&s;e encourages the building large Ships, which in Ca&s;es of Nece&s;&s;i|ty may be u&s;eful for the defence of this Kingdom?</HI></CELL>
<CELL>VI. The fir&s;t part is an&s;wered already in the An&s;wer to the fir&s;t Query; and as to the Shipping, it may in a great mea&s;ure be imployed in bringing over Raw Silk and other Commodities which may be Manufactu|red here, and turn to good account to the Nation.</CELL>
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<CELL>VII. <HI>What advantage will it be to</HI> England, <HI>that her Manufactures (whether at low or high price) are con&s;umed within it &s;elf, the Na|tion being thereby never the Richer?</HI></CELL>
<CELL>VII. This Nation will be the richer by con&s;uming its own Manufactures, then it will be by con&s;uming Forreign, purcha&s;ed with out Money, though at very cheap rates.</CELL>
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<CELL>VIII. <HI>Why &s;hould we Rai&s;e up &s;ome Arti&s;ts to oppre&s;s others? For if Spinning and Weaving be</HI> Engli&s;h <HI>Manufactures, &s;o is Dying, Calendring, Stiffning, Glazing and Printing?</HI></CELL>
<CELL>VIII. That the Printers, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> are very incon&s;iderable in number to the Spin&s;ters and Weavers, and &s;ome of them now are, and the re&s;t may as well be imployed in printing our own, as <HI>India</HI> Manufactures.</CELL>
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<CELL>IX. <HI>Why &s;hould we prohibit the wearing</HI> Ea&s;t-India <HI>Manufactures, which are &s;o cheap, to encourage the wearing our own which are much dearer, and yet give liberty to Export them into other Countreys, where they will have the &s;ame effect upon ours there?</HI></CELL>
<CELL>IX. Our own Manufactures are cheaper to the Nation than <HI>Ea&s;t-India</HI> Manufactures are or can be; and as to the damage they will do us in other Countreys, we are &s;en&s;ible of it, but cannot prevent it; (for if we will not carry them thither, other Nations will); and there|fore the more need to hinder it at home.</CELL>
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<CELL>X. <HI>What encouragement will it be to bring hither tho&s;e far fetch'd Commodities, when we have no vent for them at Home, but mu&s;t &s;end them to be blown upon in a Forreign Mar|ket?</HI></CELL>
<CELL>X. As much as formerly; when that Trade was in a flouri&s;hing Condition, Then three parts in four was Exported, as appears by their printed Books; the <HI>Bill</HI> takes away but part of the home Con&s;umpti|on, which may be &s;upplied by Raw Silks,<HI>&amp;c.</HI></CELL>
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<CELL>XI. <HI>Why &s;hould we Cut off this profitable Trade from the</HI> Engli&s;h, <HI>and let the</HI> Dutch, French, Sweeds <HI>and</HI> Scotch <HI>run away with it? For Trade like the Sea, never lo&s;eth ground in any one place, but &s;he gains it in another, and if checked or re&s;trained, take its flight, and carries its Ble&s;&s;ings to more Ho&s;pitable Coun|tries.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>XI. If this Trade be profitable, it is only &s;o to &s;ome private Per&s;ons, and not to the Nation; &s;o bet|ter lo&s;t than kept. But by this, neither <HI>Dutch, French, Swedes</HI> or <HI>Scotch</HI> can be benefitted; &s;o that the Trade loo&s;ing Ground, it will be no more than thus, the <HI>Ea&s;t-India</HI> Company will lo&s;e &s;ome part of their Trade in Manufactured Goods, and the Nation be great Gain|ers thereby.</CELL>
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<P>An ANSWER TO THE QUERIES <HI>Relating to the</HI> BILL <HI>for Re&s;train|ing</HI> Ea&s;t-India <HI>wrought Silks,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>in</HI> England.</P>
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