Note 9 — SECT. V. Of the IMPEDIMENTS which will oppose European Settlements on the Coast of Guinea.

That it is necessary for a free, commercial, and laborious nation to look out for foreign settlements, when population and manufactured products encrease in a similar proportion, is a truth as evident as that without enlarging space for the former, and seeking for an emporium for the latter, the progress of population and commerce must necessarily and of course cease. Hence sound policy dictates that the government of such a nation should with the affectionate care of a provident father, prepare proper places for receiving the superabundance of population and products—a principle which few mother countries seem to have observed in the settlement of colonies. In a future treatise the author will endeavour to shew, that this fundamental mistake is the true cause of the ruinous and unsupportable expence in which all the European colonies have involved their respective mother countries. He will propose a plan, the adoption of which he is of opinion would effectually prevent such ruinous consequences in any settlement that may hereafter be established by the Europeans. He will also enumerate the productions of the coast of Guinea, and the European commodities preferred by the inhabitants, adding some directions and cautions proper to be observed in trading and conversing with them, together with several other interesting particulars.