If, from internal causes, as well as the consequence of hostilities, the tide ebbed in 1793, it rushed back again with a bore in the following year, and from that time has continued to swell and run every successive year higher and higher into all our ports.
Burke notes the recovery of trade following a downturn in 1793, indicating resilience.
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