Mittens, &c. Whereby great Numbers C H A P. of poor, but induftrious Families, now IV. ftarving in the North and Weft of England, will be comfortably maintained, and enabled to pay their Rents, as well as rear their Children, and qualify them for fome Branch or other of this Trade. Whereas, they are at this Inftant, at a lofs how to feed them, or what to do with them To bring them up in Idlenefs, does not fuit the Temper of the English: To teach them a declining Trade, affords very little Profpect of Success: And in these Countries, they are not able to teach them any other, having been educated univerfally in one or other Branch of it. Wherefore, fome have been almost tempted to put in execution Dean Swift's Scheme for providing for their Children. But by the Conquest of Cape Breton, there arifes a Demand for all Kinds of Woollen Goods, fufficient to cloath and keep warm 30000, at least, additional Subjects, concerned in the Fishery. And how many will be required to inhabit the Island, and to garrison the Fortifications, I leave others to compute: But be they more, or be they lefs, they must likewise be cloathed,

and

CHA P. and add to the Demand for our Woollen Manufactures.

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ber, Sail

Building ma- THE building, and employing of 564 my more Ships. additional Ships, will prove the MainteConfumption nance of feveral Thousands of Families. of Iren, Tim- What a Confumption must this make of Timber, Iron, Sail-Cloth Cordage, and other Materials? How many poor People must live by the Manufacture of thefe feveral Articles; for fome of which there will be a repeated Demand every Voyage?

Cloth, and
Cordage.

Letter from the London

Courant.

WE fhall fhew hereafter, when we come to treat of the Affairs of Canada, that each of thefe Advantages may, and and must be greatly improved by encrea fing our Commerce and Intercourse with the Indians and Savages, who have hitherto dealt with the French for many Commodities, which they will now find it difficult to furnish them withal.

I SHALL close this Chapter with a Paragraph or two, out of the London Courant of September the 4th, 1745. Wherein after speaking of the Conqueft of Cape Breton, he fays; "The next

Step

Step to be taken in order to make CM A P. "our Conqueft lafting, fecure, and IV. "valuable, is to drive the French from " Canada ; which may now with great "Eafe be effected. That done; they "would have no Pretence for coming in" to those Seas; and the Fishing Coast "would be left entirely to ourselves, from "the Bank of Newfoundland, to the South"ermoft Part of Georgia; which reaches

near five hundred Leagues, Bays ex"cepted; and includes the Cod, Her

ring, and Mackarel, two Seasons, with "Whale and Salmon Fishing. Befides, "if Canada, fhould come into our hands, "all the Fur-Trade falls in, of Course, "This would be a Means of living in

perpetual Amity with all the Tribes of Indians; and greatly distress the French Sugar Colonies, by preventing them "from Neceffaries; fuch as Provifions, "Lumber, &c. which are sent in great " Quantities from hence. This would "alfo infallibly put a Stop to their Build

ing any more Ships there; either for "the King's or the Merchants Service ;

and hinder many Mafts and other Na

CHAP. "val Stores from being sent from thence "to France, for the Future.

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"THE feveral Articles, laft mention"ed, added to the great Increase of our "Trade from thefe Acquifitions, would "be infinitely more valuable to US, than "either Mexico or Peru: efpecially, if "we confider, how many thousand Hands "will be employed, how many Families "will be maintained, how many large "Fortunes will be acquired, and how "much our Navigation will be aug«mented hereby.

"THE Increase of our Fishery alone, (if no further Advantages were to arise " from the taking of Cape Breton) is suf"ficient to recommend the Preservation of "it, to our Care and Confideration: As it " will, in a fhort fpace of time, prove a "certain Method to improve our Com"merce; to enlarge our Navigation; to

ftrengthen our Navy; and thereby, to "fecure our own Coafts, from all pretending Invaders."

ONE Paragraph more. I cannot help inferting, which is taken from His Majesty's

jefty's Speech to his Parliament on the CHA P. 14th of January, 1748.

IV.

The great Advantages which we have Extract of « received from our Naval Strength, in Speech to his His Majefty's protecting the Commerce of my Subjects, Parliament. "and intercepting and diftreffing that of "our Enemies, have been happily experien"ced by the former, and feverely felt by "the latter. I am, therefore, determined "to be particularly attentive to this im"portant Service; and to have fuch a "Fleet at Sea, early in the Spring, as may "be fufficient to defend our felves, and effectually to annoy our Enemies,

So Gracious a Declaration of so Glo- Effects of rious a Resolution, cannot but warmly af- that Speech. fect the Heart of every true Briton, and Well-wisher to his Country. The proper, and moft natural Protection and Defence of these Kingdoms, and the Dominions fubject to the British Crown, are (beyond a Doubt) to be fought, and found in a fufficient Fleet; which may answer all the Purposes of protecting our Coafts, and Dominions; of fecuring our own Trade; and of annoying and diQ fturbing,