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S Trade enrich'd the Citizens in England, o it contributed to their Freedom, and this Freedom on the other Side extended their Commerce, whence aroe the Grandeur of the State. Trade rais'd by inenible Degrees the naval Power, whfch gives the Englih a Superiority over the Seas, and they now are Maters of very near two hundred Ships of War. Poterity will very poibly be urpriz'd to hear that an Iland whoe only Produce is a little Lead, Tin, Fuller's Earth, and coare Wool, hould become o powerful by its Commerce, as to be able to end in 1723, three Rh