France as it is, not lady Morgan's France, Volume 2C. Chapple, 1820 - France |
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... amount nearly to a prohibition . And , as an equal fear is entertained of foreign competition for manu- factured goods , they are all loaded with enormous duties likewise * . This is an anticommercial system , that is very * The great ...
... amount nearly to a prohibition . And , as an equal fear is entertained of foreign competition for manu- factured goods , they are all loaded with enormous duties likewise * . This is an anticommercial system , that is very * The great ...
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... amount to two millions . Her commerce and manufactures have both suffer- ed , for the population of the West - Indies is supplied with most of what it wants from Europe , and con- sequently each country supplies its own islands . The ...
... amount to two millions . Her commerce and manufactures have both suffer- ed , for the population of the West - Indies is supplied with most of what it wants from Europe , and con- sequently each country supplies its own islands . The ...
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... amount of assignats — Return to metalic money — Gold and silver coined from 1804 to 1817 - Of the manner money circulates in France - Great effect of short credit in France on the price of necessaries of life - Calculation of the effect ...
... amount of assignats — Return to metalic money — Gold and silver coined from 1804 to 1817 - Of the manner money circulates in France - Great effect of short credit in France on the price of necessaries of life - Calculation of the effect ...
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... amount at first of 400 millions . The whole of the national debt was estimated in 1790 , and it was found to amount to 4,633,800,000 livres , bearing an interest of 283,700,000 . The assignats being once created , and supplying the ...
... amount at first of 400 millions . The whole of the national debt was estimated in 1790 , and it was found to amount to 4,633,800,000 livres , bearing an interest of 283,700,000 . The assignats being once created , and supplying the ...
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... adopted , and thus rose up that grand - livre in which the rentes of French creditors are inscribed to the present day . At this time there had been created assignats to the amount of 15 milliards , but they at the 22 FRANCE AS IT IS ,
... adopted , and thus rose up that grand - livre in which the rentes of French creditors are inscribed to the present day . At this time there had been created assignats to the amount of 15 milliards , but they at the 22 FRANCE AS IT IS ,
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Page 253 - that he thinks he is warranted in saying, that if 20 millions, besides what remained in the Bank, was necessary for the scale of expenditure before the Restriction Act, it is taking it moderately to contend that as much would be necessary now.
Page 284 - They could not have been better planned than they are, and no river like the Thames, where there is much trade, can have its borders laid out in a manner that will please the eye so well. The islands in the...
Page 255 - ... which regulate the mint, conceiving it desirable to retain, as a check upon any undue contraction of the issues of the Bank, the power which individuals at present possess of receiving coin from the mint in exchange for bullion, without loss or deduction, at the rate oft!/.
Page 66 - Indeed, with those few exceptions, which must be every where found to arise out of the peculiar circumstances of individual misfortune, the French cottage always indicates the dwelling of a thriving and prosperous population. I have often heard it remarked by English travellers, who had visited France before the revolution, that the peasantry were at that period, as dishonest as they were necessitous, and yielded to temptations of theft the more readily, as the severity of the punishment universally...
Page 252 - ... accurate estimate of the amount of gold in circulation previously to the year 1797; and conjectures with respect to that which will hereafter be required, must necessarily be more vague and unsatisfactory. In the communication made to the committee by the court of directors of the bank, on the 25th...
Page 115 - ... countries where many of them are now never seen. All are arranged by the hands of Cuvier himself, who has placed them in that order in which they are described in his late work. All parts of the world have contributed to this collection. Among other wonders, are the fragments of an elephant's tusk, which when complete, must have been at least eight feet in length. Several cases are filled with the bones of the Siberian Mammoth, or Elephant, and the American Mammoth, or Mastodonton. There is a...
Page 254 - ... less than two, nor more than three years, from the 1st of May 1821; and that at the end of that period cash payments shall be resumed. " That on a day to be fixed by parliament, not later than the 1st of February 1820, the bank shall be required to deliver gold, of standard fineness, assayed and stamped as before mentioned, in exchange for their notes (an amount of not less than sixty ounces of gold being demanded) at £\ -. Is. per ounce, that being nearly the market price of standard gold in...
Page 255 - That by requiring the presentation of a large amountof notes in demand for gold, it gives to the possessor of notes to that amount, an accommodation which the holder of a smaller quantity will not possess. On the first of these objections, your Committee observe, that it is scarcely possible to calculate on a resumption of specie payments, accompanied with the total exclusion of the...
Page 116 - Peru, an enormous whale (the sgualus maximus), taken on the coast of France, Roman cattle, elks, dromedaries, &c. Many specimens were presented by the late Empress Josephine. There is a regular arrangement of the whole, which adds considerably to their interest and value. In different parts of the gallery appear busts of Tournefort, Linnaeus, Adanson, Daubenton, and Fourcroy.