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manufacture of our own, it is proper to lay a dutyon the fame manufacture imported. To encouragethe art of throwing filk, the duty on raw filk im-ported is reduced , and that on thrown filk isheightened. But fuch a meafure ought to,]be takenwith precaution, left it recoil againft ourfelves.The Swedes, fome years ago, intent on railingmanufactures at home, prohibited at once foreignmanufactures, without due preparation. Smug-gling enfued; for people muft import what theycannot find at home; and the home manufactureswere not benefited. But the confequences wereftill more fevere. Foreign manufactures were for-merly purchafed with their copper, iron, timber,pitch, tar, &c. : but now, as foreigners cannotprocure thefe commodities but with ready money,they refort to Ruflia and Norway , where com-modities of the fame kind are procured by barter.The Swedifh government, perceiving their error,permit feveral foreign manufactures to be impor-ted as formerly. But it is now too late; for thetrade flows into another channel: and at prefent,the Swedifti copper and iron works are far fromflourifhing as they once did. In the year 1768,an ordinance^ was , iffued by the court of Spain ,prohibiting printed or painted linen and cotton tobe imported; intended for encouraging a manu-facture of printed cottons projected in Catalonia and Arragon. The Spanilh miniftry have beenever Angularly unlucky in their commercial regu-lations. It is eafy to forefee, that fuch a prohi-bition \yill have no effect, but to raife the price