It was so argued by a few at the time. Andrew Fletcher responded - TopicsExpress



          

It was so argued by a few at the time. Andrew Fletcher responded to the argument in An Account of a Conversation. He pointed out that Wales had been united to England for three or four hundred years, was closer then Scotland to the English market, had one of the best ports in the island, but still had no considerable commerce: ‘A sufficient demonstration that trade is not a necessary consequence of a Union’.7 The Convention of Royal Burghs, which represented the trading interest, petitioned against the Treaty precisely on the grounds that it would harm Scottish trade by the imposition of English taxes ‘which is a certain unsupportable burden’.8 They were right; the immediate effect of the Union was to depress the Scottish economy for several decades. Adam Smith in a letter of 4th April 1760 explained the reason:
Posted on: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 20:07:42 +0000

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