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it is known to be impossible, and whoever
has attended to the statute for hiring
Servants, must have observed that
when com is dear theSe candidates for
employment are many, and when it is
cheap they are lew ; nor is it difficult
to assign the reason, for wheat corn is
cheap they can gain by the labour of
threedaysas much as will maintain them
in idlcateSs six, but when it is dear, they
must engage for Such labour as will employ
them the wlicsle week, or Suffer the
want as the necessaries of life— And
the experience of the masters in the
woollen manufactory universally confirms
the truth us this observation.
Upon the whole therefore, l think, as
corn exported is paid Sor in money, and
thereby extracts a large quantity Srom
foreign nations, and the exportation
employs a vast numberofSailors, which
will be ready on any urgent occasion to
insist our royal navy> that the land-owners,
merchants, farmers, ship artists, &c.
should petition our prudent and wise
legislature, not only that the bounty
may be continued, but that it may for
the suture be punctually paid ; because
the irregularity as the payment produces
great loss to the farmer, for the
merchant will deduct near io per cent.
lsaat as the prices of corn as he must give
the fame discount out of his debentures
Sor prompt payment.
The Llse and Beign of Vine. William
Ill. continued Srom p (43 1 .)
'^'N this critical juncture nothing was^
^ more ceonSoicuous than the wisdom
and conduct of the Prince of Orange
D'sy -a ore visible than the fatal Security
of ^ing Stmes and his popish council.
For his Highoess, notwithstanding the
fdliciratiuons receivld from England,
back'd by several protestant Princes, to
prevent the toral ruin as England, on
which that of all Europe inevitably depended,
he engaged the States to make
ex'raordinarv preparations towards the
fitting out asafleet, and to take seve-
ral foreign regiments into their Service.
In the mean time he Secured Such alliances
in Germany, as might not only
countenance his undertaking, but at the
Same time cut off King James Srom all
foreign succours. To deprive him of
the assistance of sipain and of the house
of Austria, and of France also, the
Prince of Orange causld the Dutch to
enter, and enter'd himself into the
league of Augsburg against France, thereby
to bring all the forces of the confederates
upon that monarch, and keep
him in play, in cafe he should attempt
to cross his intended expedition, hy
turning his arms against Hohand. Gn
the other hand, he represented to she
houfe of Austria the ambitious designs
of the French King, and how easily he
might make himself universal monarch,
if he were supported by that crown,
which for these five hundred years past
had held the balance of Europe ; adding,
that 'twas not the advancement of she
Romish religion which the King of
France had in view, but rather the aggrandizing
of his eneroaching power ;
since at the fame time that he persecuted
his protestant Subjests, and favour 'd the
growth of popery in England, he countenanced
Count Tekeli, and had madtta
Secret alliance with the Turks. The
Emperor and the Kang as Spain were
too clearsighted not to enter into thcSe
reasons ; and the rather, hecause the
endeavours of their minsters to bring
King James into the Gorman leag^
against France had prov'd ineffectual.
/among the rest, Don Pcdeo de Ronqudo,
the Spanish ambassador, made use ot
the most prevailing arguments he cousl
think of to engage ham to break wish
France; assuring him, that nothing
could endear him more to his protestant
Subjects, nor more powerfully incline his
parliament to grant eaSe to the Rosnae
catholicks; but his majesty was already
So strongly united with France, that
be answered the Spanish ambassador very
unsatisfactorily. The courts ol Vienna
and Aladeld Saw the tendency oS
this answer, which diSposld both ^
Emperor and bis Catholic hlajesly ^
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