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OF THE DUTCH COLONIES &c. 197
The Company has reserved to itself the right of regulating
our commerce sor the mutual advantage of the Parentcountry
and Colonies ; but in exercif ng this right they have been
particularly attentive to the interresb os the latter, as they
are sensble that colonization can only be promoted by
indulgence; and though we are obliged to trantmit our
Sugar, Cofsee, Cotton, Cocao, &c. to the Province of^An;;/,
yet we have liberty to export Rum, MelaOes, Timber, &c.
to soreign countries, and to import from them all commodities
which we want, without distin&ion, and uncharged with
duties.
LETTERS. *)
Co Crowing/
T have been sowell sinished with the country ever s nee I iaw
* you, that I have not once thought of the town, or
inquired of any one in it besdesMr. Wicherley andyourselfi
And srom him I underhand os your journey thissummerwto
Leicesterihire ; Rom whence I guessyou are returned by this
time, to vour old apartment inthewidow's corner, to your
old bus nets of comparing critics, and to your old diversons
os lohng a game at piquet with the ladies, and hals a play,
or a quarter of a play, at the theatre: where you are none
os the malicious audience, but the chief ofamorousspeAators;.
and for the infirmity of one sense **), which there sor the
inoR part, could only ferve to disguft you, enjoy the vigour
of another which ravilhes you. So you have the advantage
of being entertained with all the beauty of the boxes, without
being troubled with any os the dulness os the Rage. You are
so good a critic, thatitisthegreateR happinessos the modern
poets that you do not hear their works, and next, that you.
are not lo arrant a critic, as to damn them (like the rest)
without hearing.
I have an hundred things to sry to you, which shall be
deserred till I have the happiness of seeing you in town; for
the seafon now draws on, that invites every body thither.
Some os them I had communicated to you by letters besore
N 3 this,
Alex. Pope's Works. Lond. iy$2. 9 Vol. g. &c.
-**) His hearing.
The Company has reserved to itself the right of regulating
our commerce sor the mutual advantage of the Parentcountry
and Colonies ; but in exercif ng this right they have been
particularly attentive to the interresb os the latter, as they
are sensble that colonization can only be promoted by
indulgence; and though we are obliged to trantmit our
Sugar, Cofsee, Cotton, Cocao, &c. to the Province of^An;;/,
yet we have liberty to export Rum, MelaOes, Timber, &c.
to soreign countries, and to import from them all commodities
which we want, without distin&ion, and uncharged with
duties.
LETTERS. *)
Co Crowing/
T have been sowell sinished with the country ever s nee I iaw
* you, that I have not once thought of the town, or
inquired of any one in it besdesMr. Wicherley andyourselfi
And srom him I underhand os your journey thissummerwto
Leicesterihire ; Rom whence I guessyou are returned by this
time, to vour old apartment inthewidow's corner, to your
old bus nets of comparing critics, and to your old diversons
os lohng a game at piquet with the ladies, and hals a play,
or a quarter of a play, at the theatre: where you are none
os the malicious audience, but the chief ofamorousspeAators;.
and for the infirmity of one sense **), which there sor the
inoR part, could only ferve to disguft you, enjoy the vigour
of another which ravilhes you. So you have the advantage
of being entertained with all the beauty of the boxes, without
being troubled with any os the dulness os the Rage. You are
so good a critic, thatitisthegreateR happinessos the modern
poets that you do not hear their works, and next, that you.
are not lo arrant a critic, as to damn them (like the rest)
without hearing.
I have an hundred things to sry to you, which shall be
deserred till I have the happiness of seeing you in town; for
the seafon now draws on, that invites every body thither.
Some os them I had communicated to you by letters besore
N 3 this,
Alex. Pope's Works. Lond. iy$2. 9 Vol. g. &c.
-**) His hearing.