And thus I have run through the Foreign 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 amongst our selves, so much less is our Advantage by the Trade we drive with them; especially if those Manufactures interfere with our own, and are purchased with Bullion. Therefore I think the _East-India_ Trade to be unprofitable to us, hindering by its Silks, Muslins, and Callicoes, the Consumption of more of our Manufactures in _Europe_, than it doth take from us. The _Spanish_, _Turkey_, and _Portugal_ Trades, are very advantageous, as they vend great Quantities of our Manufactures, and furnish us with Materials to be wrought up here, and disperse our Commodities to other Places, where we could not so well send them our selves; This _Spain_ doth to its Settlements in _America_; _Turkey_ to all its Territories, both in _Europe_ and _Asia_, and also to _Persia_; _Portugal_ doth the same to _Brazil_. The _Dutch_, _Hamburgh_, and _Dantzick_ Trades are very useful, as they supply _Germany_, _Poland_, and some Parts of _Russia_, with our Manufactures, and little interfere with us in theirs. _Sweden_ and _Denmark_ are profitable, both in what they take from us, and in what we have from them again. _Italy_ takes off much of our Worsted Manufactures, and sends us little of its own, save wrought Silks, whereof we shall every Year import less, as we increase that Manufacture at home; But above all I esteem the _African_ and _West-India_ Trades to be most profitable to the Nation, as they imploy more of our People at home, and give greater Incouragement to our Navigation by their Product; But the _French_ Trade is certainly our Loss, _France_ being like a Tavern, with whom we spend what we get by other Nations; and ’tis strange we should be so bewitcht to that People, as to take off their Growth, which consists chiefly of things for Luxury, and receive a Value only for the Esteem we put on them, whilst at the same time they prohibit our Manufactures, in order to set up the like among themselves, which we Encourage, by furnishing them with Wool. [Sidenote: The Ballance of each Trade.]