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walls, at every opportunity, with people on the outside to help them.—Let those calculate who may think it worth their while.
In all this there are no figures—why? because nothing turns upon figures. Figures might shew what the incomes of your colonists amount to; and what the incomes of your colonists amount to is nothing to you, for they are their incomes and not your's.—Figures might shew the amount of your imports from your colonies; and it makes nothing to the question, for they do not sell it you without being paid for it, and they would not be the less glad to be paid for it for being free.—Figures might shew the produce of your taxes on those imports; and it makes nothing to the question, for you might get it equally whether the producers of those articles were dependent or independent, and it is your own people at home that pay it. Figures might shew, what you sold in the way of exports to your colonists in this and that shape: and it makes nothing to the question; for consumption not sale is the final use of production, and if you did not sell it in that shape, you would sell it or consume it in another. Figures might shew
