On the other side if the Trade to these Plantations is driven by an _English_ Corporation, the _Scotch_ indeed will get Imployments for their Saylors, but all the Product will be other Men's, who will take care for their own advantage to keep the Planters poor abroad, and the Inhabitants from inspecting into it at home. Besides, that Kingdom being now supplied from _England_ with _West-India_ Commodities at cheaper Rates than they can expect to raise them, will want vent for their new Product when brought Home, unless absolutely prohibited to be imported thither from hence, which will be a new Tax on the Spender, paid only to a Foreign Monopoly; neither can they Export them to sell on equal Terms with the English; so that on the whole I cannot see what advantage the _Scotch_ can make at this time of day by setling Plantations, which if they do attempt, we must besure to take care of _Ireland_, and by reducing it to the terms of a Colony prevent their selling the Product there, which I am apt to think is the main thing they aim at. [Sidenote: Canarys.] The _Canary_ Trade brings us nothing but what we consume, and takes from us little of our Product or Manufactures, we chiefly purchase those Wines for Money therefore if it was reduced to the same Terms I have proposed for _Maderas_ it would do very well: By this means we should at least buy _Wines_ cheaper there, and then their Prices must be limited at Home, both on the Importer and Retailer; 'twill be convenient to regulate this Trade, but not to discourage it, for since we must drink Wines, 'twere better we had them from the _Spaniard_ than the _French_, the first takes off much of our Manufactures, the other little, and tho' perhaps the _Canary_ Islands may not, yet I am apt to think those Wines are paid for out of what we send to the Continent of _Spain_. [Sidenote: Spain.] This brings me to the _Spanish_ Trade, which I take to be very profitable to this Kingdom, as it vents much of our Product and Manufactures, and supplies us with many things necessary to be used in making the latter; I shall divide it into three parts, _Spain_, _Biscay_, and _Flanders_. To begin with _Spain_; by which I mean that part from the _Bay of Cadiz_ Eastward into the Streights of _Gibralter_; whither we send all sorts of Woollen Manufactures, Lead, Fish, Tin, Silk and Worsted Stockings, Butter, Tobacco, Ginger, Leather, Bees-Wax; and in Returns we have some things fit only for Consumption, such as are Fruit and Wines; others for our Manufactures, such as are Oyl, Cochineal, Indigo, Anato, Barilia; with some Salt; but the greatest part is made in Bullion, both Gold and Silver, with which this part of the Kingdom abounds, being supplied therewith from their large Empires on the Main of _America_, whither they again Export much of the Goods we carry thither.