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and in what country has France been attempting to abuse it? Do
we feel, have we lately felt, in the Levant or elsewhere, any
want of influence? Have we not met with any hindrance,
then, from selling what we had to sell, from buying what we
wanted to buy, except in the way of fair and peaceable competition?
– Are the French never to be permitted to buy
anything but of us? How are they to buy any thing
of us without being allowed to get anything to pay
for it with? – Is it so sure a thing that the French
will never have here any proofs of troops in their armies,
any money in their treasures, any resentment of injuries
in their bosoms, and that they will always lie still to
be trampled upon by the present Administration, and the
present Administration! Trumpeter? If, to keep them from
starving, we can prevail upon our generosity to indulge
than in a small pittance of trade any where, can we
find a more proper field for indulgence to which
they are twice as near as we are? Is not that superior
vicinity sufficient to account for whatever superiority
their trade their has ever ours, without recurring
to the unsupported supposition of superiority of influence?
Can the sum total of any our own trade, at any period
be extended beyond the limits which the quantity
of our capital at that period have set to it? Can
the sum total of the grade of France be prevented
from assuming the extension which the quantity of her
capital allows of? Is is to be taken for granted without
proof, and against manifest probability, that a trade
for which we have farther to go than the French
have, must be more profitable than others for which
we have not so far to go as they have? Can the wisdom
of grasping at any particular branch of trade be shown any
otherwise than by showing that in it that trade the
gains

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	009	Main Headings
Folio number	089	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c17
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	3390
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