The present state of Great Britain and North America, [electronic resource] : with regard to Agriculture, Population, Trade, and Manufactures, impartially considered: Containing a particular Account of The death and scarcity of the necessaries of life in England; the want of staple commodities in the Colonies; the decline of their trade; increase of people; and necessity of manufactures, as well as of a trade in them hereafter. In which The causes and consequences of these growing evils, and methods of preventing them, are suggested; The proper Regulations for the Colonies, and the taxes imposed upon them, are considered, and compared with their condition and circumstances.