The _French_ Trade hath every age grown less and less profitable to our Woollen Manufactures, not only as the Inhabitants make wherewith to supply themselves, but also other Nations, which they could not do were they not furnished with Wool from hence and _Ireland_, their own being unfit to work by it self; if the latter were reduced to the Terms of a Colony it would put a stop to it there, and then ways might be found out to prevent it here; nor doth _France_ spend much of our other Manufactures, or of the growth of this Kingdom, or Product of our Plantations, some Tobacco it doth, also Coals, Butter, Calve-Skins, Bottles, and a few other things; it also furnishes us with nothing to be manufactured here; so that the Trade we drive thither turns rather to their Advantage than ours, which being generally for things consumed amongst us, and our Imports exceeding our Exports, must needs be loss to this Kingdom; But if Linnen Manufactures can be setled in _Scotland_ and _Ireland_, Distilling, Paper, and Silk Manufactures, encouraged here, the Ballance will soon be altered, especially if the _Portuguese_ make Improvements in their Wines, for which they now receive great Encouragement, the People of _England_ being not so fond of the _French_ as they were. [Sidenote: What Foreign Trades are profitable, and what are not to our Manufactures.] And thus I have run thro' most of the Trades driven from this Kingdom, and shew'd how they advance its Interest by taking off our Product and Manufactures, and supplying us with Materials to be manufactured again, wherein `tis a certain Rule that so far as any Nation furnishes us with things already manufactured, or only to be spent among our selves, so much less is our Advantage by the Trade we drive thither, especially if those Manufactures interfere with our own; therefore I think the _East-India_ Trade to be unprofitable to us, hindring by its Silks and Calicoes the Consumption of more of our Manufactures in _Europe_ than it doth take from us; the _Spanish_, _Turky_, and _Portugal_ Trades are very advantageous, as they vend great Quantities of our Product and Manufactures, and furnish us with Materials to be wrought up here, and disperse our Commodities to other places where we could not so conveniently send them our selves; This _Spain_ doth to all parts of its Settlements in _America_, _Turkey_ to the _Black Sea_, _Persia_, and all its Territories both in _Europe_ and _Asia_; _Portugal_ doth the same to _Brazile_; the _Dutch_, _Hamburgh_, and _Dantzick_ Trades are very useful, as they supply _Germany_, _Poland_ and _Russia_, with our Manufactures, and little interfere with us therein; _Sweden_ and _Denmark_ are profitable, both in what they take from us, and what they supply us with again; _Ireland_ as now managed is destructive to us; _Scotland_, for want of Stock is not capable of making any Advance either in Manufactures or Plantations to our Prejudice; _Italy_ takes off great