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London, England, 1821-04-05 00:00:00

it is a perfect system) but as our burthehs are greater than, thole
of our neighbours, we are ejected froth the general circle. But
the protection aforesaid will restore the extraneous .parts and
cause a perfect circle of industry to be formed, thus placing•us
in that situation, relatively to other Governments, in which we
should be, if the world were controuled by. one Government as
aforesaid ; when what is exacted from the people in the shape
of Revenue, &..c. for the State will be expended within our own
circle of industry, and be restored with profit through an in-
creaseoftleinand, and an increase of price for industry, like
the water evaporated by the rays of the sun from 'the ocean,
after it has performed its f4rtilizing, functions to the land, is
restored with en increased wealth to the place whence it camel
whereas the intervention of foreigners within our circle of in-
dustry, acts like a river that never restores what it takes from
the country through which it runs. If your reasons prevail
,against Reason, and against practical experience of its-inutility,
the best expedient will be, to assist you in your measures, in
orler•the.sooner to cause the. evil to work its own cure,' with
a view of being relieved from. our present crippled state, and
of recovering our wonted energies. For no thinking practical
Englishman can calculate the practice of your theory for ten
years,without contemplating; at the end of that period, that Eng-
land will be bereft of her Colcinics, and herself become a Province.
.to our wise,. protecting, powerful neighbours the French.—lf
the Shipping Interest have taken an erroneous view of its own.
case, as connected with its root, agriculture, whenteit:reCelVs-
,its. vital.sape that is no more than almost: every other interest
of the.Empire:lies:done, but the duty of a stateeMaii preveno
him from taking advantage 91 such errors, and causes him to
respect propertyn only.• according ;. to its value to the State.
Re takes .fqr his guide the quantum of profitable em-
ployment, health, and defence, which such 'property gives,
to the People and the State, as these, pay and defend our
Church, King, and Poore (and. without them we can do no
thing.) The branches and twigs of our industry; itlintelligent,.
would ask protection for the root which gives theM theii,ajn
and the root, (Agriculture) in return, would ask protection for
its branches and twigs ;. and such must be our'conduct,
would prevent the consequences of our misfortunes falling on:the
Landed Interest throUgh the Poor• Rates. If the Represente7
:tins of the Shipping and Colonial Interest had followed my
advice, and; in lieu of asking, protection for themselves sepa-
rately, had asked it for every Property of the British Empire,
in the ratio of its value to the State, they would be entitled to
£3O per cent. more, on the general distribution of protection than
they have now asked for, and *ould have received the assist-
ance of nearly eliery other interest in the Empire, without any
rational opposition. Your foreignpolicy mak'es our 98 per cent.
domestic and colonial industry' subServient to our 2 per cent. fo-
'reign trade:• Property is valuable to a state in the ratio of the
;machinery which,it puts lit ptofitablemotion, and not as it may
I sell in a market to individtals •

77.,; II am, Sir,-with-great respect,
Your vary obedientlutnble Servant.,
• JOSEPH PINSENT.

London,. April 4, 1821. --