| Description | (The arguments for and against are arranged in two columns. The word Copper is represented throughout by a symbol.)
Arguments
In fav[ou]r of open Exportation & Importation
We may receive Copper from all the World or from such parts as can render it cheaper than the Copper of this Country.
Arguments
Against Exportation & Importation
It would be less difficult for that power which has raisd the price of Copper in this Country to raise it in Sweden & Germany inasmuch as the quantity is less than in Engld.
If Nature has given our Manufactures the advantages of plenty of Copper dont let us give those advantages to foreign Manufactures. Other Countries in Europe put a duty upon the Exportation of Copper & We shall be upon a worse footing than they are unless we also put a duty upon the Exportation of our Copper. If Copper is freely Exported the foreign Navys & Manufactures will receive all those advantages wch. England now possesses in a superior degree. I am therefore of opineon that ye Export & Import of Copper should be governd by Laws similar in principles to those of ye Corn Trade Even if the lin of price be ever so high.
Copper was prohibited by an Act 33d Heny 8th because this Country was like to lack & Brass although in an advanced State of Manufactury is now absolutely prohibited from Exportation. |