_Paper-Mills_ are a Benefit to the Nation, as they make that Commodity from things of themselves worth little; so are are _Powder-Mills_; also Artificers, who bring advantage to the Nation by supplying it with things which must otherwise be had from abroad for its own use, as also with others proper to be sent thither for Sales, and when Exported are more or less profitable as the labour of the Subject adds to their value; In like manner things are cheaper to us when we pay only for the first Materials whereof they are made, the rest being work done at home is divided amongst our selves, so that on the whole it appears to be the great Interest of _England_ to advance its Manufactures, and this I humbly conceive may be done these several ways. [Sidenote: By imploying the Poor.] 1. By providing Work-houses for the Poor, and making good Laws both to force and encourage them to work; but designing to speak larger to this before I close this Tract shall referr the Reader to it. [Sidenote: By freeing the Manufactures from Customs.] 2. By discharging all Customs payable on them at their Exportation, and also on the Materials used in making them at their Importation; for as the one would encourage the Merchant to send more abroad, so the other would enable the Manufacturers to afford them cheaper at home, and 'tis strange that a Nation whose Wealth depends on Manufactures, and whose Interest it is to outdo all others (especially in the Woollen) by underselling them in Foreign Markets, should load either with Taxes. [Sidenote: Logwood.] [Sidenote: Dying and dressing our Woollen Manufactures at home.] Here I cannot but mention that of _Logwood_, a Commodity much used in _Dying_, which pays Five Pounds _per Tun_ Custom in, and draws back Three Pounds Fifteen Shillings when shipt out, by which means the _Dyers_ in _Holland_ use it so much cheaper than ours; now if it was Imported Custom Free, and paid Twenty five Shillings _per Tun_ at its Export, the _Dyers_ there would use it so much dearer than ours here, and I think it would be well worth Inquiry, whither a Prohibition either total or in part of Shipping out our Manufactures thither and to the Northern Kingdoms undyed or undrest might not be made, I am sure it would be of great Advantage to this Kingdom if it might be done without running into greater Inconveniencies, which for my part I do not foresee, the _Dutch_ discourage their being brought in dyed or drest, that they may thereby give Employments to their own People, and increase their Navigation by the consumption of great quantities of Dye-stuff, and the same reasons should prevail with us to dye and dress them here, But this deserves the consideration of a Committee of Parliament to hear what may be said both for and against it. [Sidenote: By not importing things manufactur'd.]