1760l Essays 41 
are not all of them always favorable to the commerce 
of Britain; yet it is a well-known fact, that our manu- 
factures find their way even into the heart of Ger- 
many. 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 con- 
sumer, 
If these nations, over whom we can have no gov- 
ernment, 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, notwithstand- 
ing the remoteness of their situation from the sea, 
how much less likely is it that the settlers in Amer- 
ica, 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