196.  Qu.  Whether the running of wool from Ireland can so effectually be prevented as by encouraging other business and manufactures among our people?

197.  Qu.  Whatever commodities Great Britain importeth which we might supply, whether it be not her real interest to import them from us rather than from any other people?

198.  Qu.  Whether the apprehension of many among us (who for that very reason stick to their wool), that England may hereafter prohibit, limit, or discourage our linen trade, when it hath been once, with great pains and expense, thoroughly introduced and settled in this land, be not altogether groundless and unjust?

199.  Qu.  Whether it is possible for this country, which hath neither mines of gold nor a free trade, to support for any time the sending out of specie?

200.  Qu.  Whether in fact our payments are not made by bills?  And whether our foreign credit doth not depend on our domestic industry, and our bills on that credit?

201.  Qu.  Whether, in order to mend it, we ought not first to know the peculiar wretchedness of our state?  And whether there be any knowing of this but by comparison?

202.  Qu.  Whether there are not single market towns in England that turn more money in buying and selling than whole counties (perhaps provinces) with us?

203.  Qu.  Whether the small town of Birmingham alone doth not, upon an average, circulate every week, one way or other, to the value of fifty thousand pounds?  But whether the same crown may not be often paid?

204.  Qu.  Whether there be any woollen manufacture in Birmingham?

205.  Qu.  Whether bad management may not be worse than slavery?  And whether any part of Christendom be in a more languishing condition than this kingdom?

206.  Qu.  Whether any kingdom in Europe be so good a customer at Bordeaux as Ireland?

207.  Qu.  Whether the police and economy of France be not governed by wise councils?  And whether any one from this country, who sees their towns, and manufactures, and commerce, will not wonder what our senators have been doing?

208.  Qu.  What variety and number of excellent manufactures are to be met with throughout the whole kingdom of France?

209.  Qu.  Whether there are not everywhere some or other mills for many uses, forges and furnaces for iron-work, looms for tapestry, glass-houses, and so forth?

210.  Qu.  What quantities of paper, stockings, hats; what manufactures of wool, silk, linen, hemp, leather, wax, earthenware, brass, lead, tin, &c?

211.  Qu.  Whether the manufactures and commerce of the single town of Lyons do not amount to a greater value than all the manufactures and all the trade of this kingdom taken together?

212.  Qu.  Whether it be not true, that within the compass of one year there flowed from the South Sea, when that commerce was open, into the single town of St. Malo’s, a sum in gold and silver equal to four times the whole specie of this kingdom?  And whether that same part of France doth not at present draw from Cadiz, upwards of two hundred thousand pounds per annum?