Excerpt from A Commercio-Political Essay, on the Nature of the Balance of Foreign Trade, as It Respects a Commercial Intercourse Between Great-Britain and France, and Between Great-Britain and Other Nations If the increafe of foreign commerce is a thing defirable, it'appears to me that the Commercial Treaty has a tendency to occa fion. Fuch an increafe. I hope we are not (0 felfifh as to defire all the advantages of it to be on our fide; and I cannot prefume to think the'french minif'rry fo unwife, as not to have the interei't of France in View, in framing the different articles of the treaty, as well as the Englifh minifiry had the iii tercil' of great-britain. How! Can the treaty be both beneficial to us, and to the french.p And why not? Even on the fuppo fition of the annual balance of trade between the two nations, being perfeetly equal, the commercial intercourfe between them may neverthelefs be greatly beneficial to both. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.