Of Trade in general: Of the
Trade of England: Of Huf-
bandry, Feeding, Tillage,
Corn, Fruit, Fish, Minerals,
Trees, Manufactures, Sheep-
Wool, Cotton-Wool, Hemp
and Flax: Glafs, Earthen-
Ware, Silk, Distilling: The
great Advantages of a univer-
fal National Bank demonftra-
ted: Sugar-baking, Tobacco,
Tanning, Clock-Work, Pa-
per Mills, Powder - Mills:
Method to improve our Manu-
factures, by imploying the
Poor : Of Courts of Mer-

chants, Silver Coin: An effec-
tual Method to prevent the
Running of Wool: Of our
Trade to the East and Weft-
Indies, Africa, the Plantations,
Iceland, the Canaries, Spain,
Portugal,Turkey, Italy, Holland,
Hamburgh, Poland, Ruffia,
Sweden, Denmark, and Nor-
way, France, South-Sea, &c.
What foreign Trades are pro-
fitable, and what not, An
Effay on National Credit, and
the Irish Linnen Manufacture,
&c. &c. &c.

Wrote at the Request of several Members of Parliament.
And now Published for univerfal Benefit.

By JOHN CARY, Efq;

MERCHANT of BRISTOL.

LONDON:

Printed for T. OSBORNE in Gray's-Inn.
MDCCXLV.

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16773

то

The Right Honourable

Spencer Compton, Efq;

SPEAKER.

And to the Honourable the

KNIGHTS,

CITIZEN NS,

and BURGESSES, of this Prefent Parliament of GreatBritain, Affembled.

May it Please your Honours,

HE First Edition of this

T

little. Tract, Relating to

Trade, the Poor, &c. was Humbly Dedicated

to his Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, when Governor of the South

A 2

South-Sea Company, which I then thought, as I still do, might be of Service to the Nation, by alluring the Heir to the Crowm, into an Early liking of Trade, and Setting before him the Advantages that Accrue from it, with the Methods whereby it may be Improved; and therefore I Contracted it into a narrow Compass to Encourage bis Reading it.

THIS Second Edition, whereto I bave added fome fure and practicable Methods, for Discharging the Public Debts of the Nation, with moft Eafe to the People, I humbly Present to this Honourable House ; If it may be Usefull in your Debates, I fhall think my felf very Happy.

"TIS the Ballance of our Trade, that Supplies us with Bullion; if That be in our Favour, it brings it to

us,

us, if otherwife, it must be carried

away.

THIS Ballance is fupported by our Manufactures, which keep our People at Work, and enable them to Maintain themfelves by their own Labour, who must elfe ftand fill, and become a Charge on our Lands; and therefore I humbly conceive it to be our Intereft, First, to encourage their being worn at Home, and then to give a Preference to fuch Things, as are Purchafed for them Abroad, rather than to thofe, which are bought for Bullion; and if our Trade was well regulated, we fhou'd foon become the Richest, and confequently the Greatest, People in Europe.

i bave made fome Effay at fuch Methods, as I doubt not, being Improved by your Wifdoms, and firength-

ned