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An Humble Address and Earnest Appeal to Those Respectable Personages in Great-Britain and Ireland, Who, by Their Great and Permanent Interest in Landed Property, Their Liberal Education, Elevated Rank, and Enlarged Views, Are the Ablest to Judge, and the Fittest to Decide, Whether a Connection with, Or a Separation from the Continental Colonies of America, Be Most for the National Advantage, and the Lasting Benefit of These Kingdoms — John Shaqi

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An Humble Address and Earnest Appeal to Those Respectable Personages in Great-Britain and Ireland, Who, by Their Great and Permanent Interest in Landed Property, Their Liberal Education, Elevated Rank, and Enlarged Views, Are the Ablest to Judge, and the Fittest to Decide, Whether a Connection with, Or a Separation from the Continental Colonies of America, Be Most for the National Advantage, and the Lasting Benefit of These Kingdoms

Name: An Humble Address and Earnest Appeal to Those Respectable Personages in Great-Britain and Ireland, Who, by Their Great and Permanent Interest in Landed Property, Their Liberal Education, Elevated Rank, and Enlarged Views, Are the Ablest to Judge, and the Fittest to Decide, Whether a Connection with, Or a Separation from the Continental Colonies of America, Be Most for the National Advantage, and the Lasting Benefit of These Kingdoms
Author: Tucker, Josiah

Tucker, Josiah

Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- Early works to 1800; United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783

|       1772.       |     Totals.
                            +-------------------+-------------------
                            |_Value of Exports._|_Value of Exports._
                            +-------------------+-------------------
                            | £.          s.  d.
                            | 1,354,181   6   6 | 14,233,183  13   9
                            | 1,997,815   1   4 | 16,060,942  17   6
                                                  ------------------
                        Total of both Countries   30,294,126  11   3
                                                  ------------------
                            |   449,610   2   2 |  2,782,865   7   7
                            |   824,830   8   9 |  4,993,980  13   0
                            |   343,970  19   9 |  3,677,986  15   8
                            |   507,909  14   0 |  3,501,259  10   0
                            |   793,910  13   2 |  5,104,930  17   5
                                                 -------------------
  Totals of the revolted Provinces                20,061,023   3   8
                                                 -------------------
  Superiority of the Value of the Exports
  to _Holland_ and _Germany_ over the
  Exports to the revolted Provinces of
  _America_                                  £.   10,233,103   7   7


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REMARK I.


According to the above State of the Account, the Sum Total of the Value of
the Exports to _Holland_ and _Germany_ alone, during a Period of nine
Years, exceeded that to all the [present revolted] Provinces of _North
America_, by no less than 10,234,103_l._ 7_s._ 7_d._ which is more than
ONE-THIRD of the Whole. And yet this very Period was more favourable to
_American_ Exports than any other: 1st. Because during this Period, there
was the greatest Emigration from _Europe_ to _America_, and particularly
from _Holland_ and _Germany_, that can be remembered; and each Emigrant,
if a Customer to _England_, whilst resident in _Europe_, not only swells
the _American_ Account by his Removal, but also sinks the _European_: So
that he acts in a double Capacity, by adding Weight to one Scale, and by
substracting, at least an equal, if not a greater, from the other:--2dly,
Because During this Period, the Colonists, and more especially the four
_New-England_ Governments, were preparing for a _Non-Importation_ System;
and therefore were storing their Magazines with great Quantities of Goods
to serve for many Years. This Circumstance appears on the very Face of
the Account:--And 3dly, Because the Business of Commercial PUFFING, during
this Period, was carried, by the Partizans of _America_, to a greater
Height than ever, in order to make the _American_ Trade appear to be of
much more Consequence to this Nation, than it really is.--To explain this
Artifice of Commercial _Puffing_, to such Persons, who are not conversant

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