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gat L., OP air ISCILIAPPT TIP CA OTAIVC-Or
~ sat roovisics (Immix) Aso looirratses or
TIM roams is (coma) TO I ptsrATca tamsiltE
Situ. ?mous AL or TILL cottouLoilir.
By roar official Dots. of yeitoodayl dealt iAso
toforoord of your represeohltsona to tb Supreme
3uotett ocoruit7gmhe iiguty which rimy arise from
• their permitthig English goods to enter this hats
beer. sad cive.precauttooss wltical you say should be
, take% *ha th wary sistsiatil Avoid sot be greeter
••• fAsa fia baffle mattered.
alm. for say part. far from opposing this
immootuivand on the contrary think it very useful,
tasith to statrthe rearms upon which my opinion
is 'minded. in kider, that yin's superior-political and
nonsamweital'inflarmatron may dissipate my etrors,
and that they may not cause the injury ydu appre-
hend.
The lest object of the sat ens the Junto, and.of
every Splutislid. ought to he die formation And saps
items of on army, capable of resisting) the enemy;
Mid you cannot be ignoratit that all the resources
Indic/to fouud use not sufficient fur this great and
jest usecensity. The donations which were islicrod •
duriag the first consternation were very limited even
in thin ni!y and herdlysufficient to,aupply the lirst
wants. Maga personal interest .sad egotism have
raised their limb, and the ordinary coutributions
into scarcely raised. the here ssity increases ; the
wants of the soldiers are still greater; there is asi
gamey to pay theas ; and you who repesseat a
erful body appear ignorant of all this, sad strive to
shut up a source whence supplies may be famished
to the national treasury.
Were this expedient to ehtain ready money
- respects ruinous. I should 'sill Wok that,
a view to save the country, it eat toliel

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are speaking of is general, although
• that the shops all Over Andalusia
are .. ed with them ; and that, besides, every
bile wove', goes about the houses to retail them ;
do your Lordship,. shut your cyet not to ger that
your wives, daughters, and -eves it.0..1-acreartts,
wear nothing else? Nay. that many tors do so.
jour owu Lordships included? So that the op-
position of your Lordships. after all. crimes to this
—that it is au evil, tliat goods of that kind should
mot be smuggled in, but lawfully admitted upon
paying heavy duties. I heartily wish my logic
should prose fallaeintis.
As this opportunity o:Ters, and I am address-
ing you, 1 canuot help piattiii:r a few questions au
tour Lordships, with a wish to be enlightened, and
• get certain doubts cleared up. a kith I cannot
• ye by myself.
I. Although we hare no cotton or flan manufactures to
clothe ourselves with, we miihilated the introftwetion of cont-
inue, mom of which hel.rig to the F..,,rtish, nail admitted
iiisemelotha, which more etelasivel,. belong to the French
easoniereit. Ithy should we nut pursue an opposite coarse,
mow that we are the frienila of the Gower, and the tunplamo
LIM enemies of the laths.
If we IPIICIIAP cottons, Alta, ratter the remind cis..
elmsembre., imen.e"t Ito ezn ealy he siossealed in remit the
Marron's* must fritter clothe oursehes with e.nitrabomd
ticks, which pay an ,tnty, oa go nuked. Ca.., there be, is
either ease. a !metal consomme
t. seine tint we him, many manufactories of woollen
cloth, and the beet in Spats, why do net your Lai
*Sips oppose the mftielnetion of woollen clod's and !env
thiperit ,no do that of eutio..s, of which the,, are scarce,"
sal mama seturi,
4. hi short, s•h). if Of' laViretioll 31113. k against the h..
fat isthidwriins of line: clothe, sitinineti there be, se trees •
er we smaller vmutber, hoer wiamtfattoones is every promisor
Wity are set fureSto prsistbite.i. the cotooirmitiou of
which dem: two that of oars • •hile putter is eacluilcd,
which emo sever he so to wins
The* • are the remain. which iiiittuinced the Su-
premo Junta laud impelf to rulotot th.: measure you

other respects 'minima, I should istill•think that,
with • view to save the country, it ought to be
loptotl ; as in complicated diseases, the moat mor-
tal and dangerous are auendul to, and the others
neglected.
Sole you will say, we ought to be careful that in
applying a specific remedy to cum.fhe mortal dir-
e ise, we do not at the same tilitOiriagen a slow
dmth by the injury alone to die ratue.'7Every wise
physician wilt certainly admit this. '
As you have not been pleased to state what the
evils ate which will arise from the niese.ure objected
to, my little experieuce in these emitters has trot
cabled tat to find other than the following
1. einintoree of Gibraltar will Aaffer, rims &An-
ita tomb will re tower fi4rhair Gs" their nate el'
ernotefiniti poll, in order thin therm, bp masted bean
• Wit ski* the oat% thrwesbowt Aadebage.
- tt. Wier who toot the elneteefestbtoe yob, wbo ere
be-
.nt lliewill beeedeie Odle op 0 OMs :11rOersetiewOr
• ' S. its of lIM Cooknollow Ai* batten* less
mit brae wilt stolollinst•
Tasinteass, wittlerfoppets•cad air eons/tied with
Ildoinatqlf poltfte et rt,.w I but
writ arm Italittot of Ate coati-
miteat the .semigglon.
. rime will bemat seeersessaments male emu
difses- if these lie fewer dolloitore ; sad Amore will lose
avotteett, or west oriole 411 044 kind, whirl prom so
fothewp.
I will leave the irony, which serves to thew
lace if the subordinate advauftes of this mem-
it ire. is °ail tie AIM the oat, siAM haconvtaiesiee
whisk can arise from it.
This is the decay 1 oat manufactures and ems-
mem, in consequence of the ietroductiets of British
eetteus. Nappy Spain, if this assert/oft were not
illusory I venly believe, that it can obtain credit
bet with Nee who hews nothiag of the matter,
and are usable to use their faculty of thinking.
Where are those cotton manutitetonest At Port
St. Meri aid at destroyed lied shat up, be.
tames Miring to the litigh pnee of the iv orkbtauship,
the snide. lure so' dear? that they suit ab illass of
rtrokontes.. lut atidoom, the trade inerdll cen.
mats in purchasing Wiese pieees, as I haste witnessed
it, in the British Manufactories; Monti* them
with had wooden stamps; mad gelling them as ne.
• tonal goods; thus draining, with the bad cud coarse
Roods' the specie of other Peesittees.• And br-
e/les, if, .by adisittitig Alidelnaia
eibtains an abatement of the ditties levied is Eng-
land upon the importation of her own midgets,
must we lose these advantages for the aboveinro.
boned one enjoyed by Catalonia ? It will be added,
that the Co.npeny of the Philippines will stiffer by
it. By no means, if it he wltninistered with skill
tied probity. Its dir.et trade, further favoured by
the insignificancy of the &tits levied upon it, will
prevail over the indirect and handy taxed rota.
merce of the English in China good*. Bat al-
aweigh, in eonsequeniv of your Lordships' avoca-
tion". you should not knots that the introduction of
the goods we are awaking of is general, although
unlawful ; that the shots all over Andalusia
are stocked with them ; and that, tiesides, every