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Rh  of commodities acroſs the Atlantic will be made up in happineſs and permanence of government. The mobs of great cities add juſt as much to the ſupport of pure government, as ſores do to the ſtrength of the human body. It is the manners and ſpirit of the people which preſerve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in theſe is a canker which ſoon eats to the heart of its laws and conſtitution.

 

NOTICE of the commerce productions particular to the ſtate, and of thoſe objects which the inhabitants are obliged to get from Europe and from other parts of the world?

Before the preſent war we exported, communibus annis, according to the beſt information I can get, nearly as follows: 