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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1787. Excerpt: ... are exported over land to Francfort, Leipsig, &c. and to all the north, and to France and Italy. But Bavaria should not yet think of any foreign commerce, as the rules of prudence require that the ministers should see what is to be saved, before they consider what is to be gained. Whatever is saved is gain, and the securest gain. How much gold does this country annually fend away for cloth, stuffs, linen, flax, and rape feed, oil, tobacco, leather, and a variety of other articles, the materials for furnishing of which, it has within itself. But both court and people appear to be struck blind to their true interest. You know that for many years past, there has been a great outcry through Germany, and very properly, for population, manufactures, and industry. It reached the ears of this court, who immediately, as was natural, began to imitate what was going forward. But without consulting nature for her advice, without inquiring what productions of art would prove of most general use, and serve the most to keep the gold in the country, it thought only of those which would make the greatest shew, and stood high in the list of luxuries. Would you think it? in this unspeakable want of many necessaries, they applied themselves to manufacture porcelain, which could only only.be managed by artificial means, of which the most honourable was a small lottery. They established manufactures of tapestry, rich stuffs, and silks. They saved, indeed, by this manœuvre, the money exported to purchase the priests robes and ladies Gala dresses, but the citizens and peasants were obliged to wear foreign clothes. custom-house books as Austria does, as indications of what manufactures are to be encouraged, that the money paid for them may be kept in the country, the financi...
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