it; Thus the Grazier fats Cattle, and the Butcher kills them for the Market; Thus the Shepherd shears his Wool, the Spinster makes it into Yarn, the Weavet into Cloth, and the Merchant exports it, and every one lives by each other: Thus the Country supplies the City with Provisions, and that the Country with Manufactures; Now to advise a Government to monopolize, and consequently to lessen this Trade, by confining it to a limited Stock, is the same as to advise the People of _Egypt_ to raise high Banks to confine the River _Nilus_ from overflowing, lest it should thereby fertilize their Lands, or the King of _Spain_ to shut up his Mines, lest he should fill his Kingdom too full of Silver; This Trade indeed is our Silver Mines, for by the Overplus of _Negroes_ above what will serve our Plantations we draw great Quantities thereof from the _Spaniard_; a Trade we are lately fallen into by a Compact of the two Natious, for which a Factory or _Assiento_ is settled by them at _Jamaica_, where what their Agent buys is paid for in Pieces of _Eight_, besides oftentimes Thirty _per Cent_ Cambio for running the risque to the Continent, all discharged in the same specie with great Punctuality. Nor is this all the advantage the Nation reaps thereby, it hath introduced another sort of Commerce, and given us Opportunities of selling our Manufactures to that People, with whom we now grow into some sort of Familiarity, and may be a means in time to make way for a larger Acquaintance, whereby we may reap the best part of the Treasure of those Mines, _Jamaica_ being now become a Magazine of Trade to _New-Spain_ and the _Terra Firma_, from whence we have yearly vast Quantities of Bullion imported to this Kingdom both for the _Negroes_ and Manufactures we send them, which as it was opened for the sake of their having the former, so when that supply ceases, it will be removed to some other place, and our industrious Neighbours are ready to receive it, who would perhaps take more care to encourage it than we have done; for by the slow steps of the _African_ Company, and the Hardships they have put on the Interlopers or private Traders, the number of _Negroes_ imported thither hath been so small, and so much below our promises and the _Spaniards_ Expectations, that this profitable _Assiento_ or Factory hath for some time stood on Tiptoe, ready to waft it self to another Island, as it certainly had done long since if the Interlopers had not given a better Supply than the Company. We will now inquire what Reasons should perswade any Government to monopolize or limit this Trade, and what have been the Consequences thereof?