_Britain_, Great, evidences that labour is sufficiently paid for
there, 30. The price of provisions nearly the same in most places,
31. Great variations in the price of labour, ib. Vegetables
imported from Flanders in the last century, 32. Historical account
of the alterations interest of money has undergone, 37. Double
interest deemed a reasonable mercantile profit, 40. In what
respects the carrying trade is advantageous to, 152, 153. Appears
to enjoy more of the carrying trade of Europe than it really has,
153. It is the only country of Europe in which the obligation of
purveyance is abolished, 161. Its funds for the support of foreign
wars inquired into, 178, 179. Why never likely to be much affected
by the free importation of Irish cattle, 186. Nor salt provisions,
ib. Could be little affected by the importation of foreign corn,
187. The policy of the commercial restraints on the trade with
France examined, 192. The trade with France might be more
advantageous to each country than that with any other, 202. Why one
of the richest countries in Europe, while Spain and Portugal are
among the poorest, 221. Review of her American colonies, 234. The
trade of her colonies, how regulated, 236. Distinction between
enumerated and non-enumerated commodities explained, 237. Restrains
manufactures in America, 238, 239. Indulgences granted to the
colonists, 239. Constitutional freedom of her colony government,
240. The sugar colonies of, worse governed than those of France,
241. Disadvantages resulting from retaining the exclusive trade of
tobacco with Maryland and Virginia, 244, 245. The navigation act
has increased the colony trade, at the expense of many other
branches of foreign trade, 245. The advantage of the colony trade
estimated, 247. A gradual relaxation of the exclusive trade
recommended, 250. Events which have concurred to prevent the ill
effects of the loss of the colony trade, ib. The natural good
effects of the colony trade more than counterbalance the bad
effects of the monopoly, 251. To maintain a monopoly, the principal
end of the dominion assumed over the colonies, 254. Has derived
nothing but loss from this dominion, ib. Is perhaps the only state
which has only increased its expenses by extending its empire, 256.
The constitution of, would have been completed by admitting of
American representation, 258. Review of the administration of the
East India Company, 264, 265. The interest of the consumer
sacrificed to that of the producer in raising an empire in America,
274. The annual revenue of, compared with its annual rents and
interest of capital stock, 345, 346. The land-tax of, considered,
348. Tithes, 352. Window-tax, 357. Stamp-duties, 363, 365.
Poll-taxes in the reign of William III., 367. The uniformity of
taxation in, favourable to internal trade, 382. The system of
taxation in, compared with that in France, 384. Account of the
unfunded debt of, 387. Funded debt, 388. Aggregate and general
funds, ib. Sinking fund, 389. Annuities for terms of years and for
lives, ib. Perpetual annuities the best transferable stock, 391.
The reduction of the public debts during peace bears no proportion
to their accumulation during war, 392. The trade with the tobacco
colonies, how carried on, without the intervention of specie, 401.
The trade with the sugar colonies explained, ib. Ireland and
America ought in justice to contribute towards the discharge of her
public debts, 402. How the territorial acquisitions of the East
India Company might be rendered a source of revenue, 403. If no
such assistance can be obtained, her only resource pointed out, ib.