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 is to come from, ſure no-body knows. And what would ſatisfy the inſatiable Avarice of the French and Spaniards is ſtill as inconceivable. But ſurely as the Author of the foreſaid Addreſs ſays, it would be no unreaſonable Demand in the King of Spain to ſeek back the important Fortreſſes of Gibraltar and Mahon, ſeeing they were both taken from thoſe who have all alongſt been aſſiſting the Pretender, and are preſently aiding him in the Recovery of his ſuppoſed juſt Right: It were therefore very ungrateful, if when he comes to the Throne he ſhall detain theſe, ſeeing he can pretend no Right to them, either by Gift, Treaty or Conqueſt. And if he ſhould give them up, which he can ſcarce refuſe a Conſiſtency with his reckoning the Government who took them Uſurpers, then our Trade to the Mediterranean were either at a Period, or dependent upon the Pleaſure of Spain. The ſame Reaſon holds with reſpect to the delivering up of Cape Briton to the French, tho' the taking thereof alſo promiſes great Advantages to us. Nor is it to be expected that France, upon whom eſpecially the Pretender has all alongſt depended, and upon whom he muſt ſtill have a Dependence, would be content with our gym up of Cape Britons: But conſidering that the Duties of French Wines, Brandy, Cambrick and other Commodities, are (on account of the French being moſtly furniſhed with them by their own Colonies, capable of underſelling us, and that they take little elſe but Caſh in lieu thereof) much higher than the Duties on the like Commodities of other Nations, as Portugal, &c. with whom we are in uſe to trade by excambing of Goods for Goods; therefore the Pretender behoved to make the French Commodities brought in to his Dominions liable only to the like Duties as the ſame Commodities from other Nations are liable to wherethro' our Trade with Portugal and our own Manufactures were almoſt ruined, our Species carried to France, and the Conſumpt of our home-brewed Spirits as good as given up, which were an immenſe Loſs to us. And