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<HEAD>AN ANSWER TO M^R^. CARY's Reply, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>MR. <HI>Cary</HI> &s;ays, That the People of <HI>England</HI> wants Work; and therefore he is for prohibiting <HI>Indian Silks</HI> and <HI>Callicoes:</HI> Which is to rai&s;e a Tax on the Subject to maintain them.</P>
<P>Certainly no man that knows the &s;tate of <HI>England</HI> would ever u&s;e &s;uch an Argument; for, it is but too apparent we want not Work, but People, having Work enough to employ double the number of Hands. Let us but con&s;ider how much the <HI>Hol|landers</HI> gain by their Fi&s;hing-Trade in our Seas, and what the Value is of the &s;everal Goods imported into, and &s;pent in <HI>England,</HI> which might by Diligence (not Prohibitions) be produced and manufactur'd here; tho&s;e two Articles, tho' others may be added, are &s;uf|ficient to &s;hew, that we <HI>do not</HI> want Work in <HI>England,</HI> but rather People, and Laws to oblige them to work.</P>
<P>He is likewi&s;e for Confining the Trade of <HI>England</HI> barely to Exchanging of Commodities, therefore would have no <HI>Ea&s;t-India</HI> Goods wore, becau&s;e they are not the Returns of our Product and Manufactury, but of Mony: Whereas in truth the <HI>Ea&s;t-India</HI> Company hath &s;ent out, &s;ince <HI>October</HI> 1693, near Three hundred and Fifty thou&s;and Pounds in Engli&s;h Pro|ducts. Yet, &s;uppo&s;ing his Po&s;ition were true, I affirm, That it is the Intere&s;t of <HI>England</HI> to &s;end their Product and Manufactury to the be&s;t Market, and from thence to bring &s;uch Commodities as they cannot purcha&s;e cheaper any where el&s;e&punc; which they ought to lay out where they may buy cheape&s;t; and by this natural Circulation the Nation will be enrich'd; but, That we &s;hall be oblig'd to take Commodities in exchange for ours, tho' never &s;o dear, is a Doctrin that no Merchant, or any Nation that under&s;tands their Intere&s;t, will hear|ken to.</P>
<P>But he adds, <HI>That if we do not take Their Manufacturies, they will not take Ours:</HI> Therefore he is for encouraging <HI>German Linnens,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> We &s;end to <HI>Germany,</HI> Leather, Tin, Lead, Copprice, Woolen, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and a great many other Goods of our Plantations, with which they cannot be &s;upplied any where el&s;e cheaper. We do likewi&s;e take of them what is fit for our purpo&s;e. Now, if we take le&s;s of their <HI>Linnens,</HI> the ballance mu&s;t be paid us in <HI>Mony,</HI> and that Mony ought to be laid out to the be&s;t advantage. Now, if <HI>Callicoes</HI> be three times cheaper than <HI>Linnens,</HI> as he allows, the Que&s;tion is, Whether we had better &s;end one third of that Mony to <HI>India</HI> to buy <HI>Callicoes,</HI> or take it out in <HI>Linnens</HI> from <HI>Germany,</HI> at treble the price.</P>
<P>As to the Laws in force, which put a Re&s;traint upon Trade, I will not pretend to meddle, leaving it to tho&s;e who may more properly do it; I humbly conceive they are of the &s;ame nature with the Act for prohibiting <HI>Iri&s;h Cattel,</HI> which Mr. <HI>Cary</HI> is &s;o much again&s;t.</P>
<P>I think the Example of the <HI>Dutch</HI> ought to be follow'd, &s;ince that by their Trade and Policy, of a <HI>Po<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">r Di&s;tre&s;&s;ed</HI> People, they are become the <HI>High</HI> and <HI>Mighty</HI> of the World, in le&s;s than a Hundred Years, and that under the great Di&s;advantage of a very chargable Country. Indeed their Method of Trade is far different from that of Mr. <HI>Cary</HI>'s, they have Lands and Manufacturies in proportion to the bigne&s;s of their Country, yet they do not think it the Intere&s;t of the Freeholder to curb Trade, knowing that the only way to rai&s;e the Price of Lands and other E&s;tates, is by a Free Trade, which encrea&s;es Wealth and People.</P>
<P>A Free Trade makes all manner of Commodities cheap; the cheapne&s;s of Commodi|ties impowers our People to work cheaper; the cheapne&s;s of Work encourages a Foreign Trade; and a Foreign Trade brings Wealth and People, and that alone rai&s;es the Price of Lands and Hou&s;es.</P>
<P>On the contrary, Prohibitions make Cloathing and every thing el&s;e dear; &s;o that the People cannot live without they have a proportionable price for their Labour. And I conceive Prohibitions to be a principal Rea&s;on why we cannot Trade &s;o cheap as our Neigh|bours do.</P>
<P>Our Author concludes with his Method of making the <HI>Ea&s;t-India</HI> Trade profitable to the Kingdom, <HI>viz.</HI> by bringing <HI>Cotton</HI> and other Commodities, which being bulky, will employ more Shipping. That is in effect to &s;ay, We &s;hall bring to <HI>England</HI> Materials to be manu|factur'd which will &s;tand us in a great deal more than the Goods now do ready manufactur'd. This is the way he propo&s;es to enrich the Nation. I mu&s;t confe&s;s it is of a Piece with the re&s;t of his Di&s;cour&s;e upon this Subject; it will employ the Poor to Weave and Spin, and that is what he aims at right or wrong, not having a due Con&s;ideration whether the Nation gets by it, or not.</P>
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