Though I think it mean in any man to live upon the public, the vice originates in the government; and so general is it become, that whether the parties are in the ministry or in the opposition, it makes no difference: they are sure of the guarantee of each other.] [Footnote 25: In America the increase of commerce is greater in proportion than in England.

It is, at this time, at least one half more than at any period prior to the revolution.

The greatest number of vessels cleared out of the port of Philadelphia, before the commencement of the war, was between eight and nine hundred.

In the year 1788, the number was upwards of twelve hundred.

As the State of Pennsylvania is estimated at an eighth part of the United States in population, the whole number of vessels must now be nearly ten thousand.] [Footnote 26: When I saw Mr.Pitt's mode of estimating the balance of trade, in one of his parliamentary speeches, he appeared to me to know nothing of the nature and interest of commerce; and no man has more wantonly tortured it than himself.