The Wealth of Nations_ Books 4-5 - Adam Smith [349]
Danube, the navigation of that river why of little use to the interior parts of the country from whence it flows, 125.
Davenant, Dr, his objections to the transferring the duties on beer to the malt, considered, 488.
Dearths, never caused by combinations among the dealers in corn, but by some general calamity, 105. The free exercise of the corn trade the best palliative against the inconveniences of a dearth, 112. Corn dealers the best friends to the people at such seasons, 113. Debts, public, the origin of, traced, 509. Are accelerated by the expenses attending war, ib. Account of the unfunded debt of great britain, 511. The funded debt, 512. Aggregate and general funds, ib. Sinking fund, ib, 516. Annuities for terms of years, and for lives, ib. The reduction of, during peace, bears no proportion to its accumulation during war, 522. The plea of the interest being no burden to the nation, considered, 528. Are seldom fairly paid when accumulated to a certain degree, 531. Might easily discharged, by extending the British system of taxation over all the provinces of the empire, 535. Ireland and America ought to contribute to discharge the public debts of Britain, 547.
Decker, Sir Matthew, his observation on the accumulation of taxes, 468. His proposal for transferring all taxes to the consumer, by annual payments, considered, 472.
Demand, though the increase of, may at first raise the price of goods, it never fails to reduce it afterward, 337. Denmark, account of the settlements of, in the West Indies, 151. Diamonds, the mines of, not always worth working, 277. Discipline, the great importance of, in war, 288–9. Instances, ib. Diversions, public, their political use, 384.
Domingo, St, mistaken by Columbus for a part of the East Indies, 140. Its principal productions, 141. The natives soon stripped of all their gold, 142. Historical view of the French colony there, 152.
Doomsday book, the intention of that compilation, 425.
Dorians, ancient, where the colonies of, settled, 136.
Dramatic exhibitions, the political use of, 384. Drawbacks, in commerce, explained, 28. The motives to, and tendency of, explained 77. On wines, currants, and wrought silks, ib. On tobacco and sugar, 79. On wines, particularly considered, ib. Were originally granted to encourage the carrying trade, 81. The revenue of the customs increased by them, ib.
Drawbacks allowed in favour of the colonies, 165.
Drugs, regulations of their importation and exportation, 241.
Drunkenness, the motive to this vice inquired into, 70–71.
Dutch, their settlements in America slow in improvement because under the government of an exclusive company, 151. Their East India trade checked by monopoly, 216. Measures taken by, to secure the monopoly of the spice trade, 220. See Holland.
East India, representation of the miserable state of the provinces of, under the English settlement there, 176. Historical view of the European trade with those countries, 309. Rice countries more populous and rich than corn countries, 310. The real price of labour lower in China and Indostan, than in the greater part of Europe, 311. Gold and silver the most profitable commodities to carry thither, ib. The proportional value of gold to silver, how rated there, 316. Great extension of foreign commerce by the discovery of a passage to, round the Cape of Good Hope, 25. Historical review of the intercourse with, 26. Effect of the annual exportation of silver to, from Europe, ib. The trade with, chiefly carried on by exclusive companies, 215. Tendency of their monopolies, ib. Company, a monopoly against the very nation in which it is erected, 215. The operation of such a company in a poor, and in a rich country, compared, 216. That country whose capital is not large enough to tend to such a distant trade ought not to engage in it, 219. The mercantile habits of trading companies render them incapable of consulting their true interests when they become sovereigns, 221–2. The genius of the administration of the English company, 223. Subordinate practices of their agents