And in consequence of the bounty on the exportation of, 299. Tendency of the bounty examined, 301. Chronological table of the prices of, 359–67. The least profitable article of growth in the British West Indian colonies, 489. The restraints formerly laid upon the trade of, unfavourable to the cultivation of land, 405. The free importation of, could little affect the farmers of Great Britain, 36. The policy of the bounty on the exportation of, examined, 83. The reduction in the price of corn, not produced by the bounty, 85. Tillage not encouraged by the bounty, 85– 6. The money price of, regulates that of all other home-made commodities, 87. Illustrations, 88. Ill effects of the bounty, 91–2. Motives of the country gentlemen in granting the bounty, 93. The natural value of corn not to be altered by altering the money price, ib. The four several branches of the corn trade specified, 102. The inland dealer, for his own interest will not raise the price of corn higher than the scarcity of the season requires, ib. Corn a commodity the least liable to be monopolized, 102–3. The inland dealers in corn too numerous and dispersed to form a general combination, 104. Dearths never artificial, but when government interferes improperly to prevent them, ib. The freedom of the corn trade, the best security against a famine, 106. Old English statute to prohibit the corn trade, 107. Consequences of farmers being forced to become corn dealers, 108. The use of corn dealers to the farmers, 111. The prohibitory statute against the corn trade softened, 112. But still under the influence of popular prejudices, 113. The average quantity of all corn imported and exported, compared with the consumption and annual produce, 114. Tendency of a free importation of corn, 115. the home market the most important one for corn, 116. Duties payable on The importation of grain, before 13 geo. iii., ib, note. the impropriety of the statute 22 car. II. For regulating the importation of wheat, confessed by the suspension of its execution, by temporary statutes, 116. The home-market indirectly supplied by the exportation of corn, 117. How a liberal system of free exportation and importation, among all nations, would operate, 118. The laws concerning corn, similar to those relating to religion, 119. The home market supplied by the carrying trade, ib. The system of laws connected with the establishment of the bounty, undeserving of praise, 120. Remarks on the statute 13Geo. III., 121.
Corporations, tendency of the exclusive privileges of, on trade, 164. By what authority erected, 222. The advantages corporations derive from the surrounding country, 228. Check the operations of competition, 230. Their internal regulations, combinations against the public, 232. Are injurious, even to the members of them, 233. The laws of, obstruct the free circulation of labour, from one employment to another, 240. The origin of, 498. Are exempted by their privileges from the power of the feudal barons, ib. The European East India Companies disavantageous to the eastern commerce, 25–6. The exclusive privileges of corporations ought to be destroyed, 48.
Cottagers, in Scotland, their situation described, 220. Are cheap manufacturers of stockings, ib. The diminution of, in England, considered, 331. Coward, character of, 375. Credit. See Paper-money.
Crusades to the Holy Land, favourable to the revival of commerce, 503.
Currency of states, remarks on, 56. Customs, the motives and tendency of
drawbacks from the duties of, 76.
The revenue of the customs increased, by drawbacks, 82. Occasion of first imposing the duties of, 321. Origin of those duties, 473. Three ancient branches of, 474. Drawbacks of, 475. Are regulated according to the mercantile system, 476. Frauds practised to obtain drawbacks and bounties, 477. The duties of, in many instances uncertain, ib. Improvement of, suggested, ib. Computation of the expense of collecting them, 493.
Dairy, the business of, generally carried on as a save-all, 332. Circumstances which impede or promote the attention to it, ib. English and