The Massachusetts spy, or, Thomas's Boston journal. [volume] (Boston [Mass.]) 1772-1775, 1773-05-20
From the DAILY ADVERTISER, Mareb L.
To the P Rim TER.

|IT COOKING over your file Of papers,
\ IL took notice Of paragraph refpeGine
the Americans going to petition to make
tteei, and the consequences, your paragraph
writer iupPofes, would naturally follow He
tells you, they having had leave to make
iron, they manufacture mott of their iron
uteniils they wanted, which you mutt fup.
pofe, MIR. Editor, to be edged with feel,
or they are good for nothing; bu, in the
next breath, be tells you, they cannot now
make one kind Of edge tools for want Of
iteel TO edge them with. What can be fup-
Pofed to be done with the great quantities
of German feel Cent more or lels by every
ihip to America J Perhaps reconverted to
bar-iron 10 Manufacture uteniis which they
wanted. What think you, Sir, if the Anne
ricans were obliged to iend over or
500, 600 plows, and other utenGls, that are
always edged with aee, perhaps twice a
year, to be new edged, or every time they
broke, and the fhips fhould be LOFT going or
returning, or perhaps detained by contrary
winds, and 70 long paaage, and the feafon
paif for blowing and towing their grain, what
would become of the Americans the follow
ing year, Why, iend to Great Britain to
buy corn, to be lure, or ellie to Egypt
Think you can perfuade four or FIVE million
of people to run the riR of fuch an expert
ment, that your edge tool maker may get
Cd. piece for mending; for fuch fuppole
your author to be, but giving them liber-
~ to make feel, and there is no doubt
{" but they will manufacture il as mofl con.
!" veniept to their own purpofes." Mr.
! Editor, | cannot tell the intention of your
author, but to found an alarm, where there
IS no occaGon for il: have ieen the psti.
ton, aud 70 far is the petitioner, or his CO.
partners, (who by the way are III propelled
to be refdents in Great BTitain) their in
tentlon in manufacturing their feel in Amel
RIGA; they beg leave to import the fame in
TO Great Britain, in like manner as iron
may be imported from America. Is this
too much for the petitioners, and our own
countymen, TO ak, who have been 70
lucky as 10 dlcover an ore void of mineral
acid, that grows only in water at the bot
tom of lake or pond, that will make feel
on the frit futon in common forge fire !
Surely no Why hould not the American.
have the fame liberty as foreigners, sfpeci.
ally when they take off 70 much of our ma.
nufadures infead of 70 much cafh The
fact is, that Great Britain takes great GUAM
titles of feel 10 bars yearly from Germany.
and the petitioners want nearly TO fupply
from America, what the mother country
takes from the foreigners, and that no other
wife manufactured than in bars which will
be faying of an inmenle FUN yearly to the
nother-country. Yes; but your author
will fay, ifthey make feel, they will ma
nuiaefure our Sheffield ard Birmingham
hard-wares. Why do not they then from
what Englilh and German feel that is an.
nually Ient them from London, Buiol.
Liverpool, Hull, sc. I Every ooe knows who
ms ever travelled in America, fuch attempts
would be frui,leis, as az every Gea. pert there,
you may p.Tchaie by retail thofe hard wares
as cheap as a. mof retail lhops in London.
Bot Mr.. Edgc.tool Maker, while your hand
IS in, what u you were to piopoGe an aG to
curb ihoie inlolent Americans, who dare
make hUfbaDdry zoos, feel horfe. flioes,
SSc. /! And will p;oPoic another, for build
Jog bridge hom America to Great Brian,
70 bling their cattle and tools ever TO .
feeled and men6ed, that they may be al
more certainty about their piow ieafcas, than
,o,ua he ri9 Of ia carriage.