Besides, for argument’s sake, let us suppose we had kept _Martinico_, _Guadaloupe_, _St. Lucia_, _Marigalante_ and _Deserade_, it would have been highly disadvantageous to the _British planters_, and must prejudice them much in their circumstances, so as in a short time to reduce the old _British_ sugar islands, now so populous and flourishing, to such a state, that it made us tremble to think of it; because the British _African_ traders would supply those islands taken from the French with Negroes, in preference to the old _British_ colonies; which fully appears by the number they have been supplied with already; and as those islands are now ceded to France, will be of great advantage to the planters therein, by their having been in our possession, on account of the Negroes they have purchased to cultivate their plantations. And had we kept said islands, as soon as they had been sufficiently stock’d, they would have carried on a trade for the redundant Negroes with their countrymen at _St. Domingo_. Hence it appears, that great care must be taken to prevent their having it in their power so to do after those islands are restored to France; as we do not in the least doubt, but from the intercourse our countrymen have had with them for the sake of profit, contracts will be made for such anti-national purpose. And such a commerce would enable them and the planters of _St. Domingo_ to cultivate sugar and other plantation-produce sufficient to supply all Europe; and by such means prevent Great Britain’s reaping the advantage that she derives from the exportation of the produce of her colonies: which is so essential a benefit to her, and is one of the first causes of our receiving a balance of trade from foreign countries, and in which the landed interest, merchants and manufacturers of _Great Britain_ and _Ireland_, as also the _planters_ and _merchants_ in our _colonies_, are so materially concerned and interested. For the lands in Britain must always rise and fall in proportion as our manufactures and navigation prosper or decline, and the national revenue encrease or diminish, as the trade of our colonies is in a more or less flourishing way. Therefore is it not evident, that there is not a man in this kingdom, who, in proportion to his possession and property in the community, does not partake of the benefits and advantages accruing from the _African_, _North American_, and _West Indian_ trades; and who would not be a sufferer in proportion to his situation in life, should they diminish, by falling into the hands of people belonging to any other nation? where, supposing it to be the case, the profit of those valuable trades must consequently center.