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The obstacle is that the quantity of them that can be produced
upon a given spot of ground at a given expense, is of
not so much value as the commodity on the same spot at
the same expense, of some other produce. The good management
we are bid to expect from the "wisdom of Administration"
consists in the taxing the one part of the
commodity community in order to make a purse to pay another
part for raising a less profitable crop instead of a more
profitable one. The amount of the bounty thus early bestowed
of the tax thus wisely imposed and applied, constitutes
pretty nearly what, according to my calculation would
be the loss by this will measure. "No" says this
harbinger of wisdom, "it is only the from the gain:
[For the saving of the immense sums which we now
pay for hemp, and so forth, would be so much clear
gain."] And true, he says, if the cane and other productions which, by the supposition, would otherwise
have been raised on the same land to a greater
value, would sell for nothing.

Text. Par. 12 & last.

"The system adopted by the present Administration tends
likewise manifestly to lessen, if not intirely to annihilate,
the influence of France in Turkey and Sweden, which may probably be attended with such commercial advantages
to England, with regard to the former power, that the
British trade to the Levant, at present almost superseded
by the French, may regain its pristine importance."

Observations on Par 12.

Why attempt to "annihilate" or by violence even to
"lessen" the influence of France in Sweden, in Turkey, or
any where else? With what hope? With what justice? With what reason? To what use? In what instance
and

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	009	Main Headings
Folio number	088	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c16
Penner		Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1829
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1829
Notes public	bowring, x, 207ff	ID Number	3389
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