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are not all of them always favorable to the commerce
of Britain; yet it is a well-known fact, that our manufactures
 find their way even into the heart of Germany.
 Ask the great manufacturers and merchants
of the Leeds, Sheffield, Birmingham, Manchester, and
Norwich goods; and they will tell you that some of
them send their riders frequently through France or
Spain, and Italy, and up to Vienna, and back through
the middle and northern parts of Germany, to show
samples of their wares, and collect orders, which
they receive by almost every mail to a vast amount.
Whatever charges arise on the carriage of goods
are added to the value, and all paid by the consumer,

If these nations, over whom we can have no government,
 over whose consumption we can have no
influence but what arises from the cheapness and
goodness of our wares, whose trade, manufactures, or
commercial connexions are not subject to the control
of our laws, as those of our colonies certainly are in
some degree,—I say, if these nations purchase and
consume such quantities of our goods, notwithstanding
 the remoteness of their situation from the sea,
how much less likely is it that the settlers in America,
 who must for ages be employed in agriculture
chiefly, should make cheaper for themselves the
goods our manufacturers at present supply them
with, even if we suppose the carriage five, six, or
seven hundred miles from the sea as difficult and
expensive as the like distance into Germany, whereas
in the latter the natural distances are frequently
doubled by political obstructions— I mean the