THE COMMERCIAL WORKS Of that celebrated Writer TRADE and REVENUE of ENGLAND, The PLANTATION TRADE, The EAST-INDIA TRADE, And AFRICAN TRADE. Collected and revised by Printed for R. HORSFIELD in Ludgate Street, T. BECKET MDCCLXXI. A INTRODUCTION. LL governments well and wifely constituted, as foon as they began to form themselves into a politick exiftence, have feparated from private ufe a certain proportion of their wealth, and affigned it to the ufes of the publick: and this has not only been thought a point of wifdom by particular nations, but confederated cities and ftates have done the fame; for the Grecians had a common treasury kept in the Temple of Apollo Delphicus, ready at all times to fupply fuch affairs as they managed with united councils. It is fo neceffary to particular nations, that there never was a commonwealth without a publick ftock, which was either great or little; fometimes according as the state continued in peace, or was harraffed VOL. III. B with |