Next by their being brought home unmanufactured they would give great Imployments here; _Cotten Wool_ by being spun up and made into several sorts of pretty things; _Tobacco_ by Cutting and Rowling; and _Sugar_ by refining; for I would have no _Tobacco_ brought home save in Leaf, nor _Sugar_ above _Muscovado_; the last would imploy abundance of Sugar-Houses in _England_ to clay and refine it, not only for a home Expence, but to be transported to Foreign Markets; a Trade we have been lately beat out of by the Industry of the _Dutch_ helpt on by our own Imprudence, for no wise Nation would have given such an advantage to a Rival Trader as by Law to put their Refiners on terms of working _Sugars_ Three Shillings _per Cent_ cheaper than our own, therefore when the thing comes to be well weighed, I believe 'twill be found the Interest of this Nation to suffer all those Commodities to be Imported Custom Free, and to lay a Duty on what is Exported again unwrought, (I mean all _West-India_ Commodities) and to raise an Excise on what is spent at Home, for which easie and practicable Methods may be proposed; and this would salve all those Disputes about running _Tobacco_, or drawing back Debentures after relanded; which Duty might be collected with few Officers, and little Charge, and the King might have an Account of every particular Parcel how it was transferred from Man to Man till 'twas paid. [Sidenote: Africa.] But if the _Planter_ should complain at his being denied to Import wrought _Sugars_, it would be abundantly made up to him by opening the _African_ Trade, that so he might be supplied with _Negroes_ both in greater Numbers and at cheaper Rates than now he is; a Trade of the most Advantage to this Kingdom of any we drive, and as it were all Profit, the first Cost being little more than small Matters of our own Manufactures, for which we have in Return, _Gold_, _Teeth_, _Wax_, and _Negroes_, the last whereof is much better than the first, being indeed the best Trassick the Kingdom hath, as it doth occasionally give so vast an Imployment to our People both by Sea and Land; These are the Hands whereby our Plantations are improved, and 'tis by their Labours such great Quantities of _Sugar_, _Tobacco_, _Cotten_, _Ginger_, and _Indigo_, are raised, which being bulky Commodities imploy great Numbers of our Ships for their transporting hither, and the greater number of Ships imploys the greater number of Handecraft Trades at home, spends more of our Product and Manufactures, and makes more Saylors, who are maintained by a separate Imploy; for if every One raised the Provisions he eat, or made the Manufactures he wore, Trade would cease, Traffique being a variety of Imployments Men have set themselves on adapted to their particular Genius's, whereby one is serviceable to another without invading each others Province; thus the Husbandman raises Corn, the Millard grinds it, the Baker makes it into Bread, and the Citizen eats