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X. WHETHER a depraved and vicious People will work as cheap, or as well, as thofe that are fober and virtuous? Whether our Trade to foreign Parts doth not fuffer upon this Account? And whether more Goods might not be exported, if we worked either cheaper or better than we now do? Whether therefore our National Vices are not in this View also another Caufe of the want of Employment?

XI. IN controverted Points of Commerce (where there are Petitions and Counter-Petitions, where Merchants and Traders in their Applications to Parliament affert direct Contradictions) is there not an eafy natural Way of discovering the general and national Intereft, viz. Which Scheme tends to find a conftant Employ for most Hands at Home, and to export moft Labour Abroad? And whether the Answer to this Question ought not always to decide the Controverfy?

XII. WHETHER the keeping out of fober, frugal, and induftrious Foreigners, will create more Employment at Home, or be a Means of exporting greater Quantities of Manufactures Abroad?

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Other fuppofed Caufes of the want of Employment propofed and confidered.

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HETHER it is poffible in the Na

ture of Things, for ALL Trades and Profeffions to be over-stocked? And whether, if you were to remove any proportional Number from each Calling, the Remainder would not have the fame Grounds of Complaint they had before?

II. WHETHER, in fact, any Tradesman thinks there are too many of other Occupa tions to become bis CUSTOMERS;-tho' narrow, felfish Views lead him to wish there were fewer of his own Trade?

III. * If a particular Trade is at any Time over-stocked, will not the Difeafe cure itfelf? That is, Will not fome Perfons take to other Trades,

SOME Trades muft ever be fluctuating according to the Changes of Drefs, and the Caprice of Fafhions; and therefore, for the most Part, will either have too many, or too few Hands belonging to them. In fuch Circumftances, many Perfons belonging to the Trade which is deferted by the Mode, will want Employment: But who can urge this as an Argument against a Naturalization Bill? And would not the fame Thing happen, if there were but a Tenth of the People in England which now are? And do not all Towns thinly inhabited experience this?

LIKEWISE

Trades, and fewer young People be bred up to that which is least profitable? And Whether any other Remedy but this, is not, in fact, the curing one, tranfient Disorder, by bringing on many which are dangerous and will grow inveterate?

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IV. IF we have a confiderable Number of Hands now unemployed, for the want of a Demand for their Labour, Which would be the right Policy, To drive out fome of the prefent? Or admit more Confumers?

V. SUPPOSE the Expulfion of one half of the People of all Denominations in Great Britain, Would this be a Means of procuring more Work for them that remained? Or would not five Millions more of People increase all Employments and Confumptions one half?

VI. WHETHER Sir Jofiah Child did not call it a VULGAR ERROR to fay, We have more Hands than we can employ? Whether he was a Judge of Trade? And Whether it is not an infallible Maxim, That one Man's Labour creates Employment for another?

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LIKEWISE a long and general National Mourning is another Cause, why there must be a great Demand for one Species of Goods, and none at all for another.But Accidents of this Nature are not to be prevented; and the fame Thing might have happened in France, or in any other Country, without any Relation to the Number of People in that Country.

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The Plea, "Let us first find Employment for "these Foreigners before we invite them over," confidered and examined.

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HETHER a Naturalization Bill ever did, or can pafs in any Country upon fuch a Plan? And Whether this Reasoning would be admitted in any other Cafe?

II. IF Vacancies are firft to be found out in fome particular Trades, and kept unfilled, before the Foreigners are permitted to come over, What Kind of Trades are they to be? And What Customers can wait fo long?

III. ARE not young People bound Apprentices every Day to Bakers, Butchers, Taylors, &c? Do they know of any Vacancies before they fet up? Or is it poffible, if a Perfon wants to buy Bread, Meat, or Cloaths, he can ftay till the Apprentices are out of their Time, and have set up for themselves?

IV. WHAT Vacancies are there now in Holland? And yet if forty thousand Foreigners were to offer to fettle there, Would they not be all accepted? V. WHETHER

V. WHETHER the Quantity of Labour, or the Means of Employment, are not in Proportion to the Number of Inhabitants? Whether therefore, if there were but ten thousand People in this Ifland, Many of those would not want Employ? And Whether indeed, upon fuch a Suppofition, the People would not be in the fame Cafe with the wild Indians of America?

VI. If there were but ten thousand Inhabi tants, and most of those in want of a proper and regular Employ, Would this be a good Reason why no Foreigners fhould be called in? -Or if this want of Employment for the Natives is a fufficient Reafon against the Admiffion of Foreigners, doth it not hold equally conclufive against permitting more Children to be born, till those who are already born are all provided with Employments?

VII. How different from this is our own Policy with Regard to our Plantations, where the Value of Numbers of People is justly regarded?

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