The government of England perhaps the only one, except Holland, wherein the legislature has not force enough to execute the laws without the good-will of the people. This is an irregular kind of check upon the legislature.
Men have much oftener erred from too great respect to government than from too little.
The French sugar colonies supplied entirely with provisions from our northern colonies.
Hogsheads of tobacco exported to France at £20 a hogshead; at £5.
The gross produce of the English customs £3,000,000 a-year; the neat produce £1,800,000.
In all the British Leeward Islands, the muster-roll exceeded not two thousand five hundred men a few years ago, and yet there are twenty thousand blacks in Antigua alone.
The French fish on the coasts of Newfoundland in the winter, which gives them an advantage above us.
Our bustle about the Ostend company, the cause of the great progress of the French company.
The East India Company have desired to have China raw silk put upon the same footing as to duty with the Italian, but have been refused.