Excerpt from The Trade and Navigation of Great-Britain Considered: Shewing, That the Surest Way for a Nation to Increase in Riches, Is to Prevent the Importation of Such Foreign Commodities as May Be Raised at Home Where they will find fome Mena tion made of the chief Heads of what is more particularly treated in the refpeetive Chap ters; and alfo the Arret of the Franc! King of the 27th of january 1 726, by which they will {be the Care that Nation takes to improve their Com merce: And it was upon the Sight, of that Arret, which was; publiflzied in the Daily Couranfi; that (come Merchants, and other Gentlemen, perfuaded' me to print fome Papers. Which I had1 formerly written on the Subjeft of Trade, to try whether this Example of the French might; not excite fome publick Spirits to enter into the Confideratiom of the many Advantages. Which mightfine Preface. 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.