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conjunction with Scotland could more effectually ruin the Commerce and Navigation of England, ^more it is in than what the power of France. Not only Scotland and Ireland are daily gaining a part of England's Trade, but her plantations in American, particularly in the Corn Trade, and if the Northern Colonies are not prevented from advancing in those branches which shall interfere with Great Britain and Ireland, these Colonies must in time prove detrimental instead of beneficial to their Mother Country. To restore the second policy let England Scotland and Ireland as much as possible by wise regulations endeavour that the produce of their lands and manufactures interfere as little as possible with each other, unless for their own domestic sustenance and support; let the British Plantations follow the same maxims; but event hese general principles must have limits for no trading nation can maintain an intercourse of commerce with others if it expects to sell all, and to purchase no commodities in return;