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Page 85 - To THE HONOURABLE THE COMMONS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED.
Page 420 - That the maxim of buying in the cheapest market, and selling in the dearest, which regulates every merchant in his individual dealings, is strictly applicable as the best rule for the trade of the whole nation.
Page 227 - The major part of the proposition was, that her Majesty's Ministers do not sufficiently possess the confidence of the House of Commons to enable them to carry through the House measures which they deem of essential importance to the public welfare, and the minor portion of the proposition was, that their continuance in office, under such circumstances, was at variance with the spirit of the constitution.
Page 420 - That, unfortunately, a policy, the very reverse of this, has been, and is more or less adopted and acted upon by the government of this and...
Page 257 - You may further examine whether the principle of protection, upon which others of these Duties are founded, be not carried to an extent injurious alike to the income of the State and the interests of the People. " Her Majesty is desirous that you should consider the Laws which regulate the Trade in Corn. It will be for...
Page 257 - It will be for you to consider whether some of these duties are not so trifling in amount as to be unproductive to the revenue, while they are vexatious to commerce. You may further examine whether the principle of protection upon which others of these duties are founded, be not carried to an extent injurious alike to the income of the state and the interests of the people. "Her Majesty is desirous that you should consider the laws which regulate the trade in corn. It will be for you...
Page 420 - But it is against every restrictive regulation of trade, not essential to the revenue — against all duties merely protective from foreign competition — and against the excess of such duties as are partly for the purpose of revenue, and part!-, for that of protection — that the prayer of the present petition is respectfully submitted to the wisdom of parliament.
Page 257 - Her Majesty is desirous that you should consider the Laws which regulate the Trade in Corn. It will be for you to determine whether these Laws do not aggravate the natural fluctuations of supply ; whether they do not embarrass Trade, derange the Currency, and by their operation diminish the comfort, and increase the privations, of the great body of the community.
Page 76 - For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn? But corn, like every mortal thing, must fall, Kings, conquerors, and markets most of all. And must ye fall with every ear of grain? Why would you trouble Buonaparte's reign? He was your great Triptolemus; his vices...
Page 420 - ... protective duties, should exclude us from foreign trade, might be brought forward to justify the re-enactment of restrictions upon the interchange of productions (unconnected with public revenue) among the kingdoms composing the Union, or among the counties of the same kingdom. That an investigation of the effects of the restrictive system, at this time, is peculiarly called for, as it may, in the opinion of your Petitioners, lead to a strong presumption, that the distress which now so generally...