thofe, who not looking up to heaven, to their own foil and induftry, as does the hulband- man, for their fubfiftence depend for it on cafualties and caprice of cuftomers. De- pendance begets fubfervience and venality, fufFocares the germ of virtue, and pre- pares fit tools for the defigns of ambition.
This, the natural progrefs and confequence of the arts, has fometimes perhaps been retarded by accidental circumftances: but, generally fpeaking, the proportion which the aggregate of the other claiTes of citizens bears in any ftate to that of its hufband- men, is the proportion of its unfound to its healthy parts, and is a good enough baro- meter whereby to meafure its degree of corruption. While we have land to labour then, let us never wifh to fee our citizens occupied at a work-bench, or twirUng a dif- taff. Carpenters, mafons, fmiths, are wanting in hulbandry : but, for the general operations of manufafture, let our work- fhops remain in Europe. It is better to carry provifions and materials to workmen there, than bring them to the provi- fions and materials, and with them their manners and principles. The lofs by the tranfportation of commodities acrofs the Atlantic will be made up in happinefs and permanence of government. The mobs of great cities add juft fo much to the fup- port of pure government, as fores do to the flrength of the human body. It is the manners and fpirit of a people which pre- ferve a republic in vigour. A degeneracy in thefe is a canker which foon eats to the heart of its laws and conftitution.
QUERY XXA NOTICE of the commercial produc- tions particular to the flate, and of thofe objefts which the inhabitants are obliged to get from Europe and from other parts of the world?
Before the prefent war we exported, communibus annis, according to the belt information I can get, nearly as follows: