England, ftate of the commerce with America in 1771, 2, 3, and 1784, 167. fuffered no lofs from the independence of America, 167-8 derives many benefits from the independence of America, 167-173. chronological table of the commerce of, from the Restora tion to 1793, 234. eftimate of the trade of, in 1694, 5, 6, according to Sir Philip Meadows' calculation, compared with the ledger of the Inspector General, 239. -Ler state at different periods, Ded. ix-xvi-xviii. Exchequer, income of, in 1691, £.4,249,757, 64. compared to the human heart, 192. -revenue of, in 1783, 1784, and 1785, 192. Fisheries, encouraged in 1381, 24. Ford, keeps population full, and accumulates numbers, 2. 171. Funding, the fyftem of, its history, Ded, lxxii—lxxx. Gardening, little understood before the time of Henry VIII. Gee, Jof. his mifreprefentations of trade, 105. George I. little folicitous about his crown, 97. foreign difputes, during his reign, 97. the profperity of the nation, 98. the national debt at his acceffion and demife, 99-101, the taxes, during his reign, 101-2. the ftate of his navy, 103, the ftate of trade and shipping, 104-5. the falutary laws made during his reign, 107, George II. the fate of the nation at his acceffion, 110-11. the increase of trade and shipping during the first ten years of his reign, 112.-A ftatement of, 112.-Complaints of their decline, 112-13. the ftrenth of Britain at the commencement of the war of 1739, 114-16. the loffes of trade from that war, 117. the profperity of the nation fubfequent to the peace in 1748, 118-20. George George II, additional encouragements given, 123. the refources of Britain when it began, 127-8. the groundless complaints of Hume and Blackstone, 1 32-3 George III. the state of the nation at his accession, 131-36 the importance of his first recommendations to Parliament, 144. agriculture encouraged, 144. the making of roads promoted, 146, the gold coin reformed, 151. the number of laws for making local improvements, 275. the colonial revolt, 154. the state of the nation at that epoch, 155-8. the loffes of trade from the war of the colonies, 160. the revival of trade on the peace, 163—4 the national debt, 176-8.. the new finking fund established, 180. --the numbers of people during his reign, 220. the coinage, trade, and fhipping of his reign, 234-the chronological table. the numbers of ships within the British dominions, 1791, 92, 93, 286, the profperity of Britain from 1783 to 1793, 269-82. a new war begins, 283. the state of the nation, 284–7. the losses of trade, 288, the people being more enlightened, more induftrious, and more opulent, are more able to bear the misfortunes of bu finefs and war, 288. Greenland Fishery, ftate of, in 1772-5, compared with 1782-5, 169. Hale, Lord Chief Juice, fuppofed man urged to procreation by instinct, 1-2. Hale Eale, Lord Chief Justice, fuppofed England to contain two n il lions of inhabitants at the Conquest, 4. his opinion in favour of a progreffive population, 50. his favourable judgment of the parish registers, 51. Hearth-Tax, of 1696, account of, 196. -- Gregory King's calculation of, with obfervations, 197Henry IV. his magnanimity quoted, Dedic. cii. Hemy V. King, the want of inhabitants in his reign, occafioned by the wars and by the plague, 18-19. Henry VII. King, drew over woollen manufacturers from the Netherlands, 26. Henry VIII. King, agriculture and gardening much improved in his reign, 28. intereft of money at 10 per cent. 29. Highways, the first act for their repair in the time of Queen turnpikes established in the reign of Charles II. the progrefs of, 146-7. 33 greatly Improved fince the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, 147. Houfes in England, the number returned to the tax-office at different periods, from 1750 to 1794, 216. number of houfes chargeable in 1756 and 1794, 214. the number of houfes charged to taxes in each county, in England and Wales, in 1690, 1708, 1750, and 1781, 216 Hume (Mr. David) his opinion on population, 2—15. his opinion on government, 7. his perplexity about the populoufnefs of Elizabeth's reign, 38.. his declamations on the national debt, 132. the state of England, when he wrote, Ded. ix. his narrow views of the fubject, Ded. x. James I. King, his reign aufpicious to prosperity and populoúf. neis, 411 falutary laws pafied in his reign, 41. James II. King, his annual income, £.2,061,856. 75. gid. 63--80. Telojes, proclamations againft, as injurious to husbandry, 32. Inclofures, Inclofures, progress of, from the time of Q, Anne, 94. Infurances, the price of, to different countries, Ded. xxxiv. in 1651, reduced to 6 per cent. 45. of the national debt, reduced to 4 per cent. in 1727, 110, 120. Judges, advantages from the increase of their falaries, 144. King, Gregory, fuppofed England to contain two million of inha bitants at the conqueft, 4. -extracts from his calculations on population, 52-4 5-6. Knowledge, whether the progrefs of, be happy for mankind, Ded. ii-iii. Labourers, Statute of, temp. E. III. account of it, 8-22. - other regulations in the fame reign, 9. the ftatutes being confirmed by Rich. II. cause the rebelJion of Tyler and Straw, 10. revised in the reign of Eliz. 35-6. Linen Manufactory, the quantity of linens ftamped for fale in ftate of, in Scotland, in 1728 and 1775, 224-31. of Scotland, in 1772, 3, 4, compared with 1782, 3, 4, 231. Liverpool, between August 26, 1778, and April 17, 1779, fitted out 120 privateers, of 30,787 tons, 1,986 guns, and 8,754 men, 40. the hiftory of her population, trade and fhipping, Dedic. x.-cviii. her commercial diftrefs from the bankruptcies of 1793, ibid. lx. measures for her relief, ibid. 1—liii. London, her trade and fhipping in 1789 to 1793, Dedic. cixxi-Eft. 41-69. Lyttleton Lord, in 1738, wrote factioufly on the state of England, 112. Magna Charta, added fecurity to the free, but little freedom to the flave, 7. Malt, P Malt. comparifen of the quantity confumed in 1773, 4, 5, with 1780, 1, 2, 191. Milton, quoted, Dedic. xxxviii. Manufacturers, Walloon manufacturers come to England, 21. ➖➖ came over from the Netherlands, 21-22—25. England over-run with foreign manufacturers, 25-26. Manjadures, the great encouragement given to them, 148. - value of the exports (exclufive of the woollen) in 1699, 1700, 1701 compared with 1769, 70, 71, 209. (British) the value of, exported before the American war, and fince, Dedic. xxi. the increase thereof, Ded. xxiii. the value exported to all countries, Dedic. xxvi. the value of exports loft by the American war, Dedic. xxxiii. Mary, Queen, in her reign the first act for repair of highways, 33 Molefworth, Lord, his declamations, 108-9. Money, intereft 10 per cent. in the time of Henry VIII. 29. fubftance of a parliamentary debate on circulation in the reign of Henry VIII. 29-30. the intereft reduced, in 1623, from 10 to 8 per cent. 43. in 1651, reduced to 6 per cent. 45. in circulation, according to Davenant, £. 18,500,000— according to King, £.11,500,000, 63. L.3,400,000 brought into commerce by fuppreffing of hammered money 1697, 84. 84. borrowed by government, in 1702, at 5 and 6 per cent, intereft fixed at 5 per cent. in 1714, 98. intereft, in the reign of Geo. I. 3 per cent, 98, falutary effects of reforming the coin, 151. advantages of an increafing circulation, 187. - evils of an obftructed circulation, 189. advantages of a well-regulated coinage, 259. value of, coined by Q. Eliz. to 25 Mar. 1793, 261. quantity in circulation at various periods, 262-5. intereft of, a criterion of the plenty or fcarcity, 264. Afere (Sir Thomas) his remarkable speech, 29-30. National |