2. That the Methods which may be used to render it more serviceable to the Interest of this Nation will also render it more serviceable to its own. These are plain Propositions, understood by every Man, and I hope to make them out with the same plainness. 1. As to the first, that _Ireland_ is now destructive to the Interest of _England_, I think it will admit of little Dispute; for as long as that People enjoy so free and open a Trade to Foreign Parts, and thereby are encouraged to advance in their Woollen Manufactures, they must consequently lessen ours, than which they cannot do us a greater Mischief, being the Tools whereon we Trade, when they sink our Navigation sinks with them. Now the Advantage _Ireland_ hath above _England_ in making the Woollen Manufactures will soon give them opportunities of outdoing us therein, first as it produces as good or rather better Wool, and next as it furnishes all Provisions cheaper to the Workmen, which renders them able to live on easier terms than ours can here, and this will in short time give Invitation for many more to remove thither. 2. But 'tis the second Proposition which will not be so easily allowed; how the true Interest of _Ireland_ will be advanced by such means as shall be used to promote that of _England_. Here we must consider, what is the true Interest of _Ireland_, and wherein it doth consist? Whither in Trade and Manufactures, or in Improvement of its Lands by a good Settlement? And I doubt not but on a strict Scrutiny it will appear to be the latter; for indeed till that is made, no Trade can be serviceable to any People farther than it doth help towards it; Nor is it the Advantage of an ill-peopled Colony whose Riches are to be the Fruits of the Earth to divert any number of the Inhabitants from its Cultivation, whilst they can find Vent for their Product, and be supply'd with conveniencies another way; had our _American_ Plantations done so, they had never been well setled, but much more of their Lands at this time unimproved; and this I take to be one great Reason why the _English_ in _Ireland_ have always lain open to the Insults of the Natives there, the Country being slenderly peopled in the more Inland Parts; if so, then certainly whatever hinders the Peopling, and consequently the cultivating and improving the Lands of _Ireland_, doth so far hinder the advancing its true Interest. Now nothing doth this more than Trade Abroad, and Manufactures at Home. 1. As they divert great Numbers of People which cannot be spared from Husbandry. 2. As they so far lessen the Strength and Security of that Island.