The Substance of the Evidence on the Petition Presented by the West-India Planters and Merchants to the Hon. House of Commons: As it was Introduc'd at the Bar, and Summ'd Up by Mr. Glover on Thursday the 16th of March, 1775H.S. Woodfall, 1775 - 47 من الصفحات On the question of commercial relations between the British West Indies and the thirteen colonies. |
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الصفحة 2 - India islands amounts to upwards of 30 millions sterling ; and that a further property of many millions is employed in the commerce created by the said islands, a commerce comprehending Africa, the...
الصفحة 7 - In all time of our tribulation; in all time of our wealth ; in the hour of death, and in the day of judgment, Good Lord, deliver us.
الصفحة 47 - Sacheverell infatuated a nation, renown'd above all others for folid fenfe, and depth of thought. To conclude : if, Sir, in any future operation this honourable Houfe may condefcend to a moment's remembrance of us, our appearance may prove not altogether in vain. Although there is ftill much remaining to offer, permit us now to withdraw, unreprov'd, we hope, by you ; but furely fo by our own confciencious feelings in thus attempting our difcharge of a duty to the public — Over the afts already...
الصفحة 19 - A flight matter this to the great queltion before you, fays the general voice without doors, and readily admitted without the ceremony of proof. This I mention by way of preparation...
الصفحة 37 - ... of number, animation and manners, their lawyers and clergy blowing the trumpet, are we to encounter with a handful of men sent three thousand miles over the ocean to seek such adversaries on their own paternal ground.
الصفحة 21 - Add two millions more, exported of all kinds from England to her principal colony, Ireland, and both to the former five millions and a half; your whole colony branch will then exceed the half of your whole export in the proportion of eight and a half to sixteen.
الصفحة 3 - ... ftate of thofe iflands, and that are likely to arife from their future improvement, in a great meafure depend on a free and reciprocal intercourfe between them and the feveral provinces of North- America, from whence they are fnrniftied with provifions and other fupplies, abfolutely neceflary for their fupport and the maintenance of their plantations.
الصفحة 2 - ... and stocks invested in the West India islands amounts to upwards of thirty millions sterling. That a farther property of many millions is employed in the commerce, created by the said islands ; a commerce comprehending Africa, the East-Indies, and Europe. That the whole profits and produce of these capitals ultimately center in Great-Britain, and add to the national wealth ; while the navigation, necessary to all its branches, establishes a strength which wealth can neither purchase nor balance....
الصفحة 18 - I am convinced, that the fame number of hands at lead is devoted to agriculture here, and that the earth at a medium of years hath yielded the fame increafe ; as we have been difpofed to confume it all among ourfelves, or as our prefumption may impute the fcarcity to Providence, reftraining the fertility of our foil for ten years paft, in either cafe we could not I'pare, as heretofore, our grain to the foreigner , a reduction in our exports.
الصفحة 2 - Acts and the parts of the Acts of the British parliament therein mentioned, are not repealed, they would not directly or indirectly, export any merchandize or commodity whatsoever to the West Indies ; and representing to the House that the British property in the West India islands amounts to upwards of...