Candid and Impartial Considerations on the Nature of the Sugar Trade e-bog

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. There cannot be any thing more worthy of a good citizen in a free state than to study public affairs with candour and assiduity. It is his privilege, it is his birthright to apply himself to the knowledge of those things, which as they belong to all, ought to be the care of all, and in order to this all ought to understand them. In a free country every man who is properly qualified may be called to take a part in government, and therefore every man who finds he has talents requisite to such inquiries should pursue them, that whenever occasion offers, or his duty requires, he may be in a capacity to serve his country, that is, to serve it effectually, with utility to the common-weal, and with honour to himself.