Financial Reconstruction in England, 1815-1822P. S. King & Son Limited, 1925 - 150 pagina's |
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actually adopted agricultural amount Annual Register Attwood Austria Bank Directors Bank of England Bank's Blackwood's Magazine Bullion Report burden Capital Levy cash payments Castlereagh charge circulating medium coin Commissioners Committees on Resumption considerable Corn Law Country Bank currency Debs debt-redemption deflation discounts distress Duty on Malt Edinburgh Monthly Review Edinburgh Review EDWIN CANNAN effect England notes estimated exchanges Exports favourable figures foreign forgery France Funded Debt gold standard Government Heathfield Ibid imports income and expenditure increase Indemnity Index Number Ingot Plan interest issues labour Letter to Grenville Letters to Trower Liverpool loans Lord Liverpool McCulloch ment million francs Monetary Policy National Debt owing paid paper pound Parliament peace period Pitt's Sinking Fund principle Property Tax proposed Public Income redeemed reduction relief Ricardo scheme tion took trade Unfunded Debt Vansittart Vide Appendix Vide Parl wages XXXIII
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Pagina 35 - ... man's appetite and the drug that restores him to health ; on the ermine which decorates the judge and the rope which hangs the criminal ; on the poor man's salt and the rich man's spice ; on the brass nails of the coffin and the ribands of the bride ; at bed or board, couchant or levant, we must pay.
Pagina 36 - ... paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately taxed from 2 to 10 per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel ; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble; and he is then gathered to his fathers, — to be taxed no more.
Pagina 35 - TAXES upon every article which enters into the mouth, or covers the back, or is placed under the foot — taxes upon everything which it is pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell, or taste — taxes upon warmth, light, and locomotion — taxes on everything on earth, and the waters under the earth...
Pagina 35 - The schoolboy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse, with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road ; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid...
Pagina 35 - Taxes on everything on earth, and the waters under the earth ; on everything that comes from abroad, or is grown at home. Taxes on the raw material ; taxes on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man. Taxes on the sauce which pampers man's appetite, and the drug that restores him to health ; on the ermine which decorates the judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal ; on the poor man's salt, and the rich man's spice; on the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribands of the...
Pagina 93 - The introduction of the precious metals for the purposes of money may with truth be considered as one of the most important steps towards the improvement of commerce and the arts of civilized life ; but it is no less true, that, with the advancement of knowledge and science, we discover that it would be another improvement to banish them again from the employment to which, during a less enlightened period, they had been so advantageously applied.
Pagina 117 - I am certain that the great body of the manufacturing populace are not merely discontented with the Government, but absolutely abhor it with a deadly hatred, and that in the metropolis this temper is so prevalent that if the fear of the military were withdrawn, four and twenty hours would not elapse before the tricoloured flag would be planted upon Carlton House.
Pagina 79 - mystery of our financial system no longer deceives anyone in the money market ; selling exchequer bills daily to redeem funded debt daily, then funding those exchequer bills once a year, or once in two years, in order to go over the same ground again ; whilst the very air of mystery, and the anomaly of large annual or biennial loans in times of profound peace, create uneasiness out of the market, and in foreign countries an impression unfavourable with respect to the solidity of our resources. In...