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we observ'd in Republics, Commercial enterprises are kept very distinct from those of the State, & that by a constant distrust in the minds of the Merchants, who may in such cases be totaly undone, without any probability of profitting even by the Success that may befal him.

Violence & oppression has generaly given birth to these oeconomical Commercial States, Tyre, Venice, & Holland were thus founded, unhappy people fled from tyrrany to marshes Islands & even rocks, such places afforded no Subsistence, but industry supply'd what nature refus'd, by that these poor fugitives obtained the