Excerpt from The Consequences of Trade, as to the Wealth and Strength of Any Nation: Of the Woollen Trade in Particular, and the Great Superiority of It Over All Other Branches of Trade; The Present State of It in England and France, With an Account of Our Loss, and Their Gains Ruin. Under this dreadful Apprehenfion, but tdo well grounded, I do molt earneftly befeech your Lordihips to eitamine particularly into the State of the Woollen Trade, and to employ your Wifdom in finding out fome effectual Method to recover ir. Very certainl am, that unlefs you do, his Majefty will not long continue to be Our King, nor we continue to be a Free People. We fhall unavoidably fall a Sa crifice, to the Ambition of France; and our Deltruc tion will as necefl'arily be followed by that of Europe. I do humbly conceive that the Scheme which Mr. Webber has offer'd to the Publick will prove an ef feetual one, and that the Charter which his Majefty was plea'fed to grant him, will be highly beneficial to' the Nation. He has clearly convinced my Judg ment, and I will make as little doubt but that he will eafily convince your Lordfhips, whenever he fhall be honoured with an Opportunity to explain himfelf. But, be that as it will, this melancholy Truth I mull: repeat to your Lordlhips; unlefs the Exporintz'on of our'wool be flopp'd by fome Means or another, the Nation muf't be ruin'd and I molt heartily beg of God to direct your Counfels to the belt Meafures for our Prefervation. 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.